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Covid-19 and Good Vibes

The covid-19 experience mainly has been stressful, and scary. However, through managing a team of 8 and trying to stay focus on positive things and good vibes. I know some good has come from it as well.

A co-worker of mine who worked two jobs and now is working from home finally got to catch up with her teen daughters and realized how much they are growing up.

For me what keeps me going is trusting that this will one day get better. Using my lunch to spend time with my pups, catch up on household chores, and the lunch that i sometime get with my husband.

What have you had positive come from this? Do you know a positive story?
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Glad to read about the positives coming from this hard time. The families coming together at home. The money saved.

I thought of another as well. Slowly i think this will make my husband more aware of how important time with family is. He likes being alone or just me and him. I know that it is taking a toll on him though. He talks about missing our family. Hopefully after all this is over it leads to more time together.
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134578 tn?1693250592
Thought of another one. My son dislikes gym class (the kids bump, hit and bully each other), and since he wasn't scheduled for one last term, he was required to, this term. He got let out of school as of March 13 and the school is now all online. Voila! No more running around the track with a bunch of 7th graders who make it a point to throw things at each other and knock each other down when the teacher can't see! I assume the teacher will assign individual exercise, which he loves to do. Lucky kid. We couldn't have gotten him out of gym class if we had tried.
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We only have 4 legitimate reasons we can leave our homes over here in OZ and one reason is 'exercise' so now when we walk our dog or do our nightly 3-5 kg walk, day or night rain or shine, people are everywhere walking, riding or running and being more involved with each other :D
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134578 tn?1693250592
Oh, yeah, financial situation. Despite the constant need to be buying something online, such as groceries, things for my son's online schooling, and stuff for projects around the house (the other day I needed to buy some Spackle), I think we are spending less money. When we're out, we spend, and at least some of it is impulse stuff.
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Also saving on gas, cleaning, and (I think) in general not wanting or needing any new clothes. I don't buy tons of clothing anyway, but when I'm out and being seen, I try to look put together. Now I don't give much of a hoot. lol
973741 tn?1342342773
I will tell you that our family is well rested.  Our family is having a nice dinner together every night instead of running 13 different directions.  The pressure of being a teen and 'fitting in' is lifted. I have found I don't look 'that' bad as a brunette, ha ha.  We play cards as a family.  We entertain ourselves.  I've watched a lot of excellent movies I never made time for before.  I connected with an old friend because we finally had time to 'talk'.  There is a good part of all of this too.  Oh, and it made me rethink my financial situation and make some changes.  I see that as a big positive!
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134578 tn?1693250592
Fewer cars, clearer air. I also like getting some sleep.
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There are fewer contractors running power equipment every day on perfectly fine yards and homes owned by people who seem to just have too much money to spend.  My neighborhood used to nice and quiet until the County decided it should be a much wealthier neighborhood and allowed developers free rein to tear down perfectly fine small house and build massive houses that took all the lovingly raised foliage people had planted over many many years and tore it down.  The people who moved in are constantly hiring people with the loudest imaginable equipment to work on them and that has been cut down considerably due to social distancing, so there's one positive story for me at least.
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