Lockdown/Covid Check In
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@canefan said in Lockdown Check In:
Terrible mate, you just can't catch a break
my post is just dripping in self pity. But really, it highlights how much my shit doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. At least i can say with a reasonable level of certainty my family will still be here for 2021.
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@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@canefan said in Lockdown Check In:
Terrible mate, you just can't catch a break
my post is just dripping in self pity. But really, it highlights how much my shit doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. At least i can say with a reasonable level of certainty my family will still be here for 2021.
Sometimes you just need a place to scream out your frustrations. Even if it's a virtual one with virtual mates
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@canefan said in Lockdown Check In:
@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@canefan said in Lockdown Check In:
Terrible mate, you just can't catch a break
my post is just dripping in self pity. But really, it highlights how much my shit doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. At least i can say with a reasonable level of certainty my family will still be here for 2021.
Sometimes you just need a place to scream out your frustrations. Even if it's a virtual one with virtual mates
if my mates keep moving South this might be my only outlet!!!!
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@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
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2020 can get absolutely fucked. What a shitcunt of a year.
First the bushfires, and then an unprecedented global health crisis has fucked the industry i work in, and brought the company i have worked at for 14 years to the brink of collapse. And there are still no guarantees going forward.
Family dream holiday to Europe gone.
My favorite events, the things i look forward to every year, gone
Now, in the last couple of weeks i find out my best mate from up here is moving to Brisbane, which all pales in comparison to
finding out a friend of ours has a fucking brain tumour, and has between 2 months and 2 years of life left.Get fucked 2020. You horrible shitstain.
Cancer sucks. A mate of mine that @Crucial might know has bone marrow cancer.
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@antipodean said in Lockdown Check In:
@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
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2020 can get absolutely fucked. What a shitcunt of a year.
First the bushfires, and then an unprecedented global health crisis has fucked the industry i work in, and brought the company i have worked at for 14 years to the brink of collapse. And there are still no guarantees going forward.
Family dream holiday to Europe gone.
My favorite events, the things i look forward to every year, gone
Now, in the last couple of weeks i find out my best mate from up here is moving to Brisbane, which all pales in comparison to
finding out a friend of ours has a fucking brain tumour, and has between 2 months and 2 years of life left.Get fucked 2020. You horrible shitstain.
Cancer sucks. A mate of mine that @Crucial might know has bone marrow cancer.
that's shit too.
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also, apologies, i have really bummed out a thread that was starting to get very optimistic
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@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
also, apologies, i have really bummed out a thread that was starting to get very optimistic
Nha - it's good to vent.
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@mariner4life nah mate that's what this was for...talking about where you are at and things that affect you.
It is so easy in life to become blinkered in our own lives it is as easy to forget how lucky we might have it compared to some.
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@antipodean said in Lockdown Check In:
@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
vent post:
2020 can get absolutely fucked. What a shitcunt of a year.
First the bushfires, and then an unprecedented global health crisis has fucked the industry i work in, and brought the company i have worked at for 14 years to the brink of collapse. And there are still no guarantees going forward.
Family dream holiday to Europe gone.
My favorite events, the things i look forward to every year, gone
Now, in the last couple of weeks i find out my best mate from up here is moving to Brisbane, which all pales in comparison to
finding out a friend of ours has a fucking brain tumour, and has between 2 months and 2 years of life left.Get fucked 2020. You horrible shitstain.
Cancer sucks. A mate of mine that @Crucial might know has bone marrow cancer.
Someone from Vets? PM me if you like.
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@mariner4life shithouse bro, have some feels. One of the funniest fluffybunnies I know, an old workmate dropped dead of a heart attack while out running a couple of weeks ago. The kind of super fit bastard whose holidays are fitness camps. Fuck you 2020.
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@mariner4life 2020 certainly needs to do one. Sorry to hear about your mate. What a year 😔
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@mariner4life just saw these posts, sorry to hear mate. Has been a shit year for sure, even worse went illness strikes like that.
Vent all you like.
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change in topic
Remember back at the start of this, when we got all optimistic about how this might change our lifestyles?
Driving home last night i realised it took precisely 8 working days back in the office to return to old ways. Leave home at 7.30, home at 6? check. Bike rides with the kids? nil. Evening strolls with the wife? nil. Running? next to non existent.
The only difference now is, i am not yet running the kids to sports. And i can't go for a cheeky schooner. And a restaurant booking is for 90 mins max. And pre/post drinks won't happen.
This bit might actually be worse than being "trapped" at home.
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@mariner4life we have changed our spending habits, we saved money during lockdown (I was lucky enough to keep working, full pay including KPIs etc) and it made us realise we waste money.
As to lifestyle, yeah, slotted back to 'normal' although I keep thinking about doing more of the stuff we did, but weather had finally turned up here and rain un-enthuses me to do stuff outside.
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@mariner4life Been thinking much the same. Takes 28 days they say to break a bad habit and three days to pick it back up again.
I lost 7 kgs over lockdown because I ate and drank better. Plus saved some money which as I am on a 20% salary sacrifice is a good thing. Within a couple of weeks I'm eating poorly, going to the pub too often (sorry bout that mate - I'll have one for you later) back in the office for 13 hour days and spending money I can't afford to.
Oh and agonising about it all the way to the boozer ….
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@taniwharugby I too have saved lots of money over this period, but I don't know WTF I usually spend my money on. I don't go on drinking binges, I don't gamble, I'm like a bloody Lutheran pastor, yet somehow when Covid isn't on I piss away my money.
TBF, I'm not complaining, and I've got refunds for flights and music festivals to come back in soon too so it's nice to have a lot more spare cash for when we can do stuff again.
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Was having beers on the street with a few neighbours and we all realised the same thing. At the moment we have nothing short to medium-term to look forward to. No holidays, no big spends - what we've got now, is what we've got. For the foreseeable future. Don't get me wrong, we are pretty fortunate to live where we do and there are loads of natural activities around and great things to do, but the usual life cycle of holidays, events, etc just isn't there. Kind of depressing.
Managed to get out on the golf course yesterday and boy did I suck shit. Couldn't hit a cows arse with banjo, think I put 3 balls all day on the fairway and averaged around 3 putts per green. Average. Had a 2 though, so there is that.
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@MajorRage said in Lockdown Check In:
Was having beers on the street with a few neighbours and we all realised the same thing. At the moment we have nothing short to medium-term to look forward to. No holidays, no big spends - what we've got now, is what we've got. For the foreseeable future. Don't get me wrong, we are pretty fortunate to live where we do and there are loads of natural activities around and great things to do, but the usual life cycle of holidays, events, etc just isn't there. Kind of depressing.
Managed to get out on the golf course yesterday and boy did I suck shit. Couldn't hit a cows arse with banjo, think I put 3 balls all day on the fairway and averaged around 3 putts per green. Average. Had a 2 though, so there is that.
the "nothing to look forward to" thing is really tough. Mrs Mariner and i head off for things all the time. Now? Nothing.
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Yeah, it’s not so much not going to the pub, it’s knowing you can’t go for the foreseeable future. It’s a bastard.
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@MajorRage said in Lockdown Check In:
hit a cows arse with banjo
Golf just got way more interesting.