On the other side ...
The ‘New Normal’ thread made me think.
Once this pandemic is over and we are safe to socialise again, what will you do differently?
I’m taking this hiatus as an opportunity to review how I use my time. Some things come to mind immediately, others I’ll need to give some thought.
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Once this pandemic is over and we are safe to socialise again, what will you do differently?
I’m taking this hiatus as an opportunity to review how I use my time. Some things come to mind immediately, others I’ll need to give some thought.
🤔
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I’ve really missed them, the planning, organising the raffle, advertising, the event itself - I’ve missed it all.
So I’m going to have one on the first Saturday of every month that we are in England.
I’ll bake cakes, as before, but without going OTT as I used to. Three cakes plus biscuits, first here get the best cakes! I have a lovely bean-to-cup coffee machine so my coffee is always popular and I can ask for donations for the chocolate raffle instead of building it up myself.
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Off to think more about the question...
Oh, that’s a good question! I’ll have to give it serious thought.
I've found a lot more time for writing (mostly fan fiction, which has been great fun) and crafting.
I am going to (try to) set myself up in a completely different career that I think I'll enjoy considerably more. If it all works, I am going to be self-employed and work from my own apartment. Another thing I learned from lockdown - and I realise this is far from everyone's revelation - is that I really rather like my home.
I’ve worked from home for 13 years, my job consists of teaching online and we are busier than ever. I have mild social anxiety so I’m quite happy at home though I look forward to the other occupants returning to their workplaces 😉
I would like to continue working partly from home too, if possible. I’m enjoying not spending two hours of commuting every day.
Work has been more teamy, and I would like that to continue - though it’s not in my gift.
I'll probably go back to Zumba classes once it's safe to do so.
It seems that one sibling and I chat of a weekend, while the other prefers a midweek catch up.
Zoom leaves me a juddering wreck, but pre recorded chats sent on a regular day work for some grandchildren
So overall?
Hopefully I will be far more intentional
But mostly I miss my close friends, and hope to be more intentional about seeing them when I can. And I miss my alone time, as both Husband and I are working from home and that man is an extrovert.
The local Piskie church is right across the road from my new flat, and I have a couple of friends in the congregation, so I really haven't any excuse.
I think the "little people" of whom you speak might be pixies.
As in peskypiskie pesternomi (if you know your Harry Potter)
My 'do differently' is to move, as well. I have the best neighbours I could wish for, but family members are many hours away. So 'on the other side' I intend to go back to my pre-Covid hours on Church technology, so that I can use the time to declutter and organise for selling, buying and starting anew (in between visiting all the babies in the family born since March - and there's a good number of those!).
I find the ear-masks very uncomfortable, so all mine have elastic around the back of the head. I don't find glasses comfortable either, although I need them for close work these days.
Part of me can't imagine what life will be like, but I also think that we will get over it fairly quickly.
* not all at once - if we were all together there would be 13 adults, four littlies and two dogs, and my flat just doesn't have that kind of space - but I'm looking forward to having them round in relays.