What Do You Miss Doing During The Pandemic ?

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What do you miss doing during the pandemic which you usually enjoy doing ?

For me it's my weekly visits to the indoor swimming center where I normally enjoy a nice and long sauna session. I begin by sitting inside the main sauna for 10 to 15 minutes before taking a cooling shower, then enter the sauna again for a shorter session. After another shower I will then sit in the "warm room" between the actual sauna and the showers, where the temperature is a very pleasant 40 degrees compared to 80 - 85 inside the sauna. Here I can sit for half an hour or more and just enjoy relaxing.
Being lpsg.com, I'll admit missing the many looks at my dick from other patrons as well. That for me, is part of the enjoyment.
 

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Honestly, nothing. My social life actually didn't change whatsoever.

I don't go to concerts anymore, but I stopped going years ago. My guy and I don't eat at restaurants much anyway, we usually make our own food at home. I don't have friends I spend time with, my parents live next door so we can just sit outside meters apart and talk.

I don't go to the gym because I work out at home too. I've avoided crowds for Years before this happened. If I went shopping and saw too many cars in the parking lot I'd go home and wait till it wasn't so busy.

Being an essential worker who can't work from home I still see my coworkers 5 days a week.

I'm in the minority, I'm sure. But really... Not much changed in my daily life at all at this point. Other than the mask, gloves, and having to sanitize more than usual my day is the same as it was before all this. I consider myself extremely lucky so far.
 

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Nice thread!

I miss being in the gym and working out with my personal trainer.

I miss eating in a restaurant.

I miss in-student school being in session.

I miss visiting with friends.

I miss the spontaneity of my life pre-Covid-19.

All that said, I still am willing to endure taking necessary precautions because I've seen what this disease can do to otherwise healthy people who are not in the risk groups.

We have a friend who is still hospitalized since March 29; he's off to rehab in the next week or two to relearn life's basics, like caring for and feeding himself. How to walk by himself. He is very lucky to be alive! It's been humbling.

I am very thankful that everyone in my house has been safe and healthy. That's why we will continue to do what will keep us safe and healthy. For however long it may take.
 

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I do miss going in to the office. I have a really great office. I share one giant room with my boss, we each have our own corner with drafting table, computer station, bookcase. My area faces the natural light. I have knickknacks and art everywhere.

We have a kitchen off the main big room, as well as another bank of rooms with a photo studio, a darkroom, and a production room (2 large format printers, vinyl, giant work table). It's a ginormous space with lots of cool art and neat things. One wall in the kitchen is painted a dark eggplant color, one wall in main room lime green, and one wall in production room is a soft yellow.

Oh, I think I have some pictures! A picture. This is my skeleton candy dish. We don't have that brick red color anymore and I moved him to the main room entrance.

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God i miss my office. I hate working from my kitchen island. All I'm doing is electronic files. It's boring af.
 

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Since I already touched on the difficulties of being with family more in another thread, I'll say instead one of the biggest things I've missed, that some have had a hard time understanding, is going to the gym to work out.

I've been very dedicated towards fitness, particularly bodybuilding, over the past few years and have made, what I and others have considered, some significant gains. Not only has this made me feel good physically, but has made an enormous impact on my sense of accomplishment and image perception. I have struggled most of my life with low-level dysthymia and slight body dysmorphia which I found working out and changing my appearance has helped enormously at times to lessen. Having positive comments from both my wife and the women I have been with when we were into swinging as well as those who could, even when I wear clothes, tell I take care of myself has been an ego and mental boost.

Now going past the second month, I can see, whether real or self-perceived, my gains being pissed away and it has driven me at times into more depressive periods. While I've tried to maintain what I can at home, with my limited set of weights and no provision for sufficient cardio, it has been a struggle and it has not been anywhere near my previous routine. There have been days where I haven't even felt like bothering or logging my food. I've even stopped looking at myself in the mirror without a shirt on. Compounding that is the feeling that others I know, including at times even my wife, does not understand what I'm going through as fitness is not a priority for them.

I know that there's a good chance I'll be back to where I was once I can get back to my routine, but the longer it takes, the longer it will be to achieve it as well as bringing down me down deeper into the rabbit hole of moodiness.
 
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Traveling.

I had to cancel a trip already and will probably cancel my next one, too.
 

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Curb Shopping.

Second Ownership is a powerful belief of mine. Why a something of use ends up in a landfill is needlessly wasteful and terrible shortsighted.

If I can't rehome a something with use still in it the curb treasure gets taken to local donation centers. Donation centers/second hand shops are closed.

With The Rona? Mother fucking cooties!! On everything!!! There will never be enough disinfectant.

The scrappers are still out roaming. Go, scrappers, go!

Also. Used book stores. The Library. Visiting Animal Shelters to play with critters.
 
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I miss hugging people when we met, hanging out together with family, rarely hung out with friends so that’s not so different, I miss being able to roam freely and many other things.


Good thread :)
 

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I miss hugging people when we met, hanging out together with family, rarely hung out with friends so that’s not so different, I miss being able to roam freely and many other things.


Good thread :)

I miss not hanging out with my family :confused:
 

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Browsing, anywhere. All trips out are furtive missions of cootie avoidance and not running into covidiots. I live in Florida, covdiot is the dominate species.... for now.

Not having sanitizer hands. Though the excruciating burn helps minimize face touching.
 
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I miss friends especially the old gang and game nights at sports bars with the other gang watching college & pro games.

I miss lovers with whom I met regularly. We stay in touch. I wonder if we'll ever meet again.
 

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I miss visiting with my friends over drinks and, on occasion, in-person teaching. I'd add hooking up, but I do that when I travel for business. That said, I work out at home with a workout partner whose as isolated as I am. It also feels nice to be selective with social time. The people I were tight with before the pandemic remain close; more casual relationships have just dwindled away.
 
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Browsing, anywhere. All trips out are furtive missions of cootie avoidance and not running into covidiots. I live in Florida, covdiot is the dominate species.... for now.

Not having sanitizer hands. Though the excruciating burn helps minimize face touching.

I do think we should nominate the Covidiot as the official symbol of Florida (or maybe a traffic cone) since there is an overabundance of either. Of course it doesn't help that this limp-dick shaped state is run by a little troll who doesn't believe in any effort to prevent the spread of the virus beyond the vaccine "Hope is on the way" talking point, which at the rate it's been going most of the state will get it by Labor Day if we'll really lucky. Which only means almost a whole nother year of avoiding the in-your-face mask-less super-spreaders.

But hell, forget getting sanitizer on your face, I just won't miss it on the hands since it has a habit of finding the smallest breaks in the skin. I think getting my finger crushed in an industrial sized spring once was less painful than Purell in a papercut :scream:.
 
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What I really miss and also one of the biggest changes since the beginning of this viral shit-show has been face-time and embraces with extended family.

Seeing parents has been limited to all-to-brief outside visits with contact-less Goodbyes. Not being able to hug them has felt heart-ripping and I've had the most difficulty accepting this without feeling a mixture of depression and even anger at times. While I'm grateful they have at least been able to put their minds somewhat more at ease by getting the shot, but they still won't be totally comfortable doing normal things with us again till we can get it as well. This state really needs to speed up and expand this vaccine since my biggest fear is something happening to them without me ever being able to hug or spend extended time with them again before it does.