I have gotten so used to, and I miss...

I actually tried to wear lip gloss to a baseball game the other day and it felt strange. I still wear other makeup every day but haven’t worn lip color for a long time.

I have gotten used to having DH work from home and I really like it. Due to commutes and opposite work schedules, we used to not see each other for days at a time.

I'll be really sad when he has to go back to the office full time.

I don't miss anything really, the things I like to do are still available and I see friends at work all the time.

I miss seeing people's faces.

Edited to add that I really dislike photos with masks on. I don't want to remember people this way. I want to see their whole face. 

I miss smiling at young kids in the checkout lines and having them smile back at me. Now I smile at kids and they turn away and I realize I’m just a creepy stranger in a mask staring at them.

I have gotten so used to shopping for everything online that I feel very out of sorts when I shop in person. I went to Home Depot yesterday to pick up some blinds I had ordered online and there were so many new things to pay attention to. Where to enter and exit and where to stand and my glasses were fogging up from my mask. Ugh. Then I popped into TJ Maxx for the first time since quarantine and it didn’t feel as leisurely and enjoyable as it used to feel. It’s like I’ve forgotten how to browse.

I miss lunch out with my friends from tennis. We just don’t have enough places with outdoor seating in the area, and I miss sitting and chatting over a long lunch.

It is awful to say and with the exception of all of the suffering and loss, I actually do not miss anything but the occasional lunch or dinner out and even that is not a big deal. I find this liberating. No social obligations, traffic, travel or having to be somewhere all the time. For the first time in my adult life I get to stay home without being sick. It is amazing.

I’ve gotten used to not wearing makeup on anything but my eyebrows and eyelashes. I’ve gotten used to not wearing jewelry. I don’t know that I actually miss those things though, so maybe THIS will be my new normal.

Honestly I am not missing anything. I am used to the restrictions now. They really doesn't impact my life negatively at all.

I miss competitive marching band. It is not happening .
I miss my children who don’t live at home.
I miss planning anything.

I miss wearing earrings, because they catch in my mask
I miss going to things...craft festivals, sport events, movies
I miss having stock/product in stores. Often things are from last season, or not there at all, and empty shelves
I just miss doing things.

I miss seeing the faces of my grandchildren as they compete in sports and perform in concerts and musicals. They are such hard workers and it bring them so much happiness. They will never be able to regain what they have lost. 

I feel like such a selfish bitch for what I'm about to say but I miss going to the opera and Disneyland Paris. 

I should be saying seeing friends, visiting my SO's family and such but really, the things I find myself complaining the most often about in my head are the opera and my silly Disneyland day trips. I didn't realise they were such barely significant but ever-present symbolic pillars of my year's rythm and progression. I can't find good enough substitutes à la Zoom for these outings. *sulks sans lipstick*

I miss being able to hug my students, especially when they are having a hard day. One my students needed one so much today but I couldn't comfort him. I miss Sunday morning breakfasts out with my husband. I miss my Dad and wonder when I will be able to see him again.

I've gotten used to working in a tee-shirt, shorts, and flip flops... and just going to work practically straight from bed. (I am not looking forward to the eventual 'get up two hours earlier to get ready for work and drive an hour to get there' switch!!)

at the same time, I miss being 'out of the house' on a daily basis. Every once in a while, I'll start feeling really blah and realize it's because I haven't even left the house / yard for any reason for a few days. I'll go to the grocery store for the regular shopping, but even more, it's just to get out of the house for a while.

I also miss wearing the little bit of jewelry that I would wear to work. I'll 'visit' my jewelry collection now and then (it all hangs in the bathroom)... lol.


^^^  In the before times, I used to go out every couple weekends and putz around at estate sales, thrift stores, etc. all day long.  I've done it once or twice since coronavirus, and it's just not the same.  I could easily spend 4-5 hours in Bookman's (entertainment exchange / used book store) but they don't have their bathrooms open to the public now!!  I'm not going to hang around a store for 4-5 hours if I can't even go to the bathroom if I need to.