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If times were normal, how would you spend the day?

26 replies

MagicSummer · 22/01/2021 08:57

I was just imagining what I would do. I'd go to the hairdresser and get my hair (roots) done, then go and do some completely unessential shopping for new clothes and make-up, have coffee and cake with a friend, meet DH for a drink (when he hadn't been working from home all day) in a smart pub with the dog, get changed into something a bit glamorous and go out for a lovely dinner at our favourite restaurant! Simple things, but oh how I wish I could! You?

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Waxonwaxoff0 · 22/01/2021 09:08

My weekdays are the same as normal as I work out of the home but oh I miss my weekends!

Friday night after school - go out for a meal with DS at our favourite restaurant. Saturday we would take the train somewhere for a day out - the aquarium, cinema or bowling. Coffee and cake at a coffee shop. Then I'd go and get my nails and hair done, head home and get dressed up for a night of cocktails and dancing with friends. Sunday head over to my mum's house for a roast dinner and family time.

I can't wait.

WiseUpJanetWeiss · 22/01/2021 09:08

We’re on annual leave today. We’ll have breakfast in a minute, go for a short local walk, come home for lunch, drive a couple of miles after lunch for another short local walk, calling at the Co-op for some shopping and to put some items in the charity clothes bank. Then home for nibbles tea and wine.

If, as we were supposed to be, we were in the Lake District today, we’d have breakfast, make a pack up lunch, go for a long walk with one or possibly two coffee shops along the way and have coffee and possibly cake. We would not have to pass strangers by with a wide berth at all. Then we’d go back to the cottage, shower up and go out to the local pub for a lovely meal with wine. There would probably be time for mooching around all the outdoor shops and trying on all the expensive gear, and probably buying some of it.

I’m not asking for much. SadGrin

frozendaisy · 22/01/2021 09:15

The first normal day back will be spent swimming and booking holidays.

SeldomFollowedIt · 22/01/2021 09:21

Would have just been working today on a weekday. I would have collected all of my children at the same time from school. They used to all line up in the playground, and they would run over to me. Oh how I miss those days. Even when they were back at school, I had half an hour to wait between all of their allotted times, and it has been so miserable with all the parents lined up. No chit chat.

At the weekends I would just chill with the kids.
My sons play Sunday league football so I would watch on the odd Sunday. Usually that time is spent with just me and my daughter at a coffee shop having a cake or something.

I just really miss simple things like that 😢

wendz86 · 22/01/2021 09:27

Fridays are my day off work. I would take kids to school, go to my gym class at the actual gym (doing it online today) then a wander round the shops. Then back home to do some cleaning . Pick kids up and take them to gymnastics and swimming .

Indecisive12 · 22/01/2021 09:31

I’d be going to work. After work I might be seeing friends or going out for a meal and a few drinks. Tomorrow we’d be running the kids around their activities and probably going to a cafe for lunch whilst doing errands. Sunday we’d go to church then meet family in the afternoon.

Mintjulia · 22/01/2021 09:33

Up at 6.30, get ds up and on the school bus by 7.45. Then work by 8.15. Collect ds off the bus, home, supervise homework, cook, eat, relax.

In lockdown, Up at 8, get ds into virtual registration at 8.45, then 6 hours job hunting.

Made redundant in September, but to be fair I was ready to leave. Having had a rest, I'm looking forward to go back to work either in lockdown or when ds goes back to school. I'm pretty lonely and there's only so much decorating anyone can do.

NotExactlyMrsCurrentAffairs · 22/01/2021 09:40

I'd do the school run, then go for a mooch around the charity shops and try to find a coat (the zip has gone on mine Sad). Then text our friends to see if they fancied coming over tonight or this weekend for food, drinks and board games (we're total geeks!). Tomorrow I'd nip up to my parents and take my parents shopping and to the cafe for a coffee and catch up.
Then Sunday I'd take my boys to the trampoline park and have a read of my book, with a coffee and a kitkat. Then on the way home pop and see my Brother and SIL as it's their anniversary and her birthday this weekend, then pop to the pub for a carvery on the way home

Anothermother3 · 22/01/2021 11:01

Don’t work on a Friday usually - off to a toddler group where I could happily commiserate about the tiredness over a cup of quite shitty tea or coffee and just have a chat with people and a change of scenery. Maybe have a wander to the shops and meet up with my friend down the road for a coffee or lunch together. Fetch the bigger kids. Maybe stop at the park. Nothing huge. It’s the little thins.

atomt · 22/01/2021 11:10

Depends if we're talking about an ordinary Friday or a scenario in which we can wave a magic wand and make covid and all the restrictions go away for one day?

If an ordinary Friday then probably exactly as I am now. Working from home, with a video call team meeting later (always used to happen online as most of our team works remotely all the time). Need to do some housework and then will have a lazy evening in front of the TV probably. Maybe if it was 2019, I would pop into the local shops and pick up some nice food and/or cake from the cake shop and even have a wander around Poundland as a treat. Grin My life was really pretty boring pre-covid too!

huggzy · 22/01/2021 11:49

Friday was always the day I'd meet my friends for coffee at each others houses, or sometimes breakfast in a cafe. We would sit and chat for the morning, then I'd get the food shopping done and go home to do some housework before the school run.

DDIJ · 22/01/2021 11:52

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unmarkedbythat · 22/01/2021 11:53

The same as I do now- get up, get kids up, get us all ready for the day, go to work, work all day, come home, parent, sleep.

dazzlinghaze · 22/01/2021 11:58

It's my best friend's birthday today so I'd be doing all my pampering ahead of her night out. I'd probably be running a nice bubble bath just now! Then I would relax for a bit before getting myself dolled up to go out for drinks! I would kill for that!!

LH1987 · 22/01/2021 12:14

I really want to try baby groups or classes so I would probably do that followed by me and DD7months going to a cafe for lunch and popping into M&S for some luxury nonessential food items. Then I would book a plane ticket so my parents could meet the baby!

Soon though, I am very positive about how quickly the vaccine is rolling out!

Downriver · 22/01/2021 12:54

Same as what I am doing, but in my office. Boring, eh!

movingonup20 · 22/01/2021 13:25

Today I would like to go into the city with my dd and go for lunch and a museum/walk around the cathedral which she enjoys then my partner join us for drinks and dinner after work, she needs a pick me up.

movingonup20 · 22/01/2021 13:26

(Currently between jobs Grin)

HUCKMUCK · 22/01/2021 13:28

I have a few days off so I would go and visit my parents. See DD. Maybe wander round the charity shops and definitely eat out. Have a long leisurely lunch or brunch.

More than anything I’d like to go to London for a day and visit some galleries.

MsJaneAusten · 22/01/2021 13:31

Teach in a classroom. Be able to see immediately which kids ‘get it’ and which don’t. Have a cuppa with my colleagues at break. Mark actual books instead of possibly copied and pasted words on a screen. Eat in the school canteen (food someone else has prepared! choice! Noise!) Have a chat with my lovely y12 form - it’s a Friday so we’d probably rant; we love a rant on a Friday. Teach some more kids. Go to the pub with my colleagues.

Oh, it sounds bliss.

Laufeythejust · 22/01/2021 13:32

I’d go into the office- there was always a nice buzz about the place on a Friday. Id then go shopping and try on clothes, I have lost weight and have no idea what my size is in anything anymore. A new dress and a bra that fits would be a dream!
I’d then go out into town, have some nice food, good cocktails but not too many as I’d have a gym session booked for tomorrow with my PT. God I miss life as we once knew it.

whatswithtodaytoday · 22/01/2021 15:05

Lovely question! I often find myself wondering what I'd be doing in normal times.

Today is my day off work, so probably a toddler class with NCT friends or a long drive to visit my parents. Also the cleaner would have been yesterday, so the house would be lovely and sparkly rather than the pit that it is currently.

trilbydoll · 22/01/2021 15:08

It's my day off. Kids would be in school. I would have gone into town, run some errands, got my eyebrows done and sorted out the house. Might have managed a run or a bike ride.

Instead the kids are playing a game that involves pushing each other round on my office chair so we'll probably be in A&E soon Hmm

EileenGC · 22/01/2021 15:13

Fridays used to be great.

In the morning I would've still cleaned and done my online teaching as I used to do pre-pandemic.

I would go in to work a little earlier than usual and we'd hang out for a couple of hours, have some coffee and cake at the wonderful backstage cafe that's now closed. Or I would've planned lunch with some friends there and then we'd just sit and chat until cake time, or we would have some workshop that we could all go to together.

I would then get changed and we'd be on stage at 8pm sharp for Friday night performance. I used to love watching the hall fill up on a Friday night as people would dress a little fancier than the days before. You could feel it was the start of weekend (even though our weekend didn't start until Monday morning Grin).

Today I've cleaned, done my teaching, cleaned some more, done the shopping, and when I go to work this evening there will be no cake, no long chats, no audience. Still grateful we can perform twice a week and livestream each Saturday.

ConcernedAuntie · 22/01/2021 17:25

It's been a lovely day here after days of rain. We would have put the bikes in the back of the car and driven about 20 miles to the canal. We would have cycled along the canal (lovely and flat) about 5 miles to a lovely cafe where we would have had hot chocolate and cake watching the wildlife and then cycled back to the car. This evening it would have been lovely to stroll down to our village pub with our neighbours for a meal and a couple of glasses of wine. Seems like forever since we hae been able to do anything like this.

Instead I cleaned through and did the washing an ironing. And now I must go and decided what we are eating tonght.