Are you happy?

[wakka]

Well done Wools. It’s nice to hear that

Yeah, management pulls you away from the stuff you actually want to do. You can end up effectively working to enable other people to do the thing you want to do, rather than doing it. Good that you’ve managed to slip out of that.

[Neon Ignition]

Cheers d00ds

He literally left sorting anything till the day it happened. 4 days before she passed he went up to visit her in hospital and was there for 5 minutes, apparently once she came around enough to realise he was there she lost it and became distressed so the nurses had to escort him out which shows the extent of how bad things got between them and he still doesn't recognise anything as a failing of his own. Their landlord has said he can stay there if he can maintain payments (apparently he's legally forced to offer this) so it's a race against time for him to sort something out.

The missus is okay, not always great but better than she was and her Mum hasn't repeated anything since then. That's both a source of relief and frustration because her Mum's been on multiple holidays, living it up happy as larry and giving very little thought to the impact it all made on others. Still better than the alternative though so glass half full

[charlesr]

How's everyone doing?

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[teddymeow]

Overwhelmed is probably the best way to describe it.

At least at work I can do things at my own pace and know what I'm doing.

Trying to keep my sanity, deal with a screaming 2 1/2 year old and homeschool an almost 5 year old is taking a real toll on my mental stability.

I've tried to keep active and get stuff done in the house (see lockdown thread) but that was over the Easter holidays when the kids could run wild in the garden.

Youngest is still waking up 4 or 5 times a night just because. She gets out of bed, opens her door, asks for a cuddle then goes back to sleep. This then means she gets tired just after lunch but refuses to nap so turns into a uncontrollable monster for a couple of hours.

So, yeah. Overwhelmed.

[Neon Ignition]

Bizarrely - okay

We're all kind of getting into a groove now and for the most part my weekly routine is much like it was before and as much as the kids are off the wall all the time we're getting into a bit of a system with them where we'll be fine as long as schools are able to reopen in September when no.3 is born.

[JazzFunk]

How's everyone doing?

Also paging [MENTION=6476]JazzFunk[/MENTION]

Don't worry, I haven't left or succumbed to the Covid, just been stressing about going back to work the last few weeks, I've been off seven months and I'm going straight onto gruelling 12hr bin shifts where I'm mainly shifting coronavirus waste right about now.

Went back yesterday, done two full 12hr shifts already. And it's gone great, it's a good crew and everybody seems so ****ing happy to see me, for some reason. It's decent. Knackering and sweaty but the constant physicality is great for staving off useless patterns of overthought. And I can proper bosh, bash n' bang the bins around, it's like smashing a mini-tank about.

All I've been doing the last few weeks is pure gameage with no distractions to keep my mind in as Zen-like a state as is possible before I went back.

I was initially gonna get my post on tonight under the influence of wine but I'm just so knacked I can't feel my legs and what I CAN feel is just hurting, aching and tired. Need my bed!

Will likely be 'back' tomoz!

[eastyy]

Happyish, wish i had time off work lol but still working every other day is grand though they are long days.

Wife is going mad though at home not being able to go anywhere....and when i get home she drives me mad as i just want to play games lol

[wakka]

OK...ish. I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum to people trapped in the house with frustrated kids. I'm rattling around a flat on my own.

Which is fine and probably sounds like a very enviable position to some! I have video calls for work and with friends and that's nice, but the only actual humans I see are delivery people disappearing down the stairwell after dropping something at my front door. Which is a bit weird after a while - obviously it's been 5 weeks of that now.

Generally OK though. I don't feel I can complain too much as I'm working, etc.

[Team Andromeda]

Went back yesterday, done two full 12hr shifts already. And it's gone great, it's a good crew and everybody seems so ****ing happy to see me, for some reason. It's decent. Knackering and sweaty but the constant physicality is great for staving off useless patterns of overthought.

. It's horrible. I always feel sick with the thought of going into work, the night before or even more horrible Is the wait in the afternoon before you go into a nightshift with all this going on. It's straight mind because when you get into work, there's a strange sense of normality then.

And I also gave all the girls a good laugh in work yesterday What with me falling asleep drunk out the back on Sunday (after a few swift half's of Stellar) and started to cook. The girls reckon I was glowing in work . Two more shifts left this week and shall look forward to being back out the back Sunday on the good sun.

Just watch when all this is over. GOD will quite literally take the pee and it will rain for weeks on end when the lockdown is lifted

[Hirst]

Bad sleep, otherwise OK.

[Dogg Thang]

Yeah, I'm not sleeping well either. I'm at a point where I'm counting my blessings generally but starting to feel a bit low. Just feeling a little stuck in a sort of limbo and not really able to focus on things I need to focus on. I think I need more work to take up my brain space.

[Cassius_Smoke]

These days are starting to drag now. I don't feel low, I just feel frustrated? It's not really boredom, it's something else.

[Hirst]

Not knowing a date of when the lockdown ends is immensely frustrating for me. I suspect the main thing keeping most prisoners sane is having a release date. Daft as it sounds, I wish they'd just set a date far into the future and then say "actually we can do it earlier than that now" if needs be. Not knowing bothers me a lot more than knowing it might be ages.

[Dogg Thang]

Yes, I totally agree with that. We’re not great with unknowns. At least having a firm date far away that sounds realistic would be something we could process and deal with.

[Team Andromeda]

Not knowing a date of when the lockdown ends is immensely frustrating for me. I suspect the main thing keeping most prisoners sane is having a release date. Daft as it sounds, I wish they'd just set a date far into the future and then say "actually we can do it earlier than that now" if needs be. Not knowing bothers me a lot more than knowing it might be ages.

That's one of the worst parts , is there is no end date and one can't even go on Holiday for a week or two, to get away from it all (it's always nice in work to have a break or Holiday to look forward too) Never mind seeing mum, from behind her house window is horrid (same for my partners parents)

Also fear for the economic meltdown that will happen. It's not just be businesses going to the wall, but I can see community and local football, rugby clubs all going the wall, maybe even teams as high up , in league 1 or 2

Never mind family members and good friends might not have a job to go back too, if this goes on, past the summer