How has COVID-19 effected me as of now?

Last year I wrote a blog post called How has COVID-19 effected me so far?, I thought I would do a bit of an update on how COVID-19 has effected me as of now.

Still every where you look it is COVID-19 this and coronavirus that and people are still sick of it. I am 25 years old still living with my parents and paying board, it has gone up to £150 a month and again I know that is cheap.

I am so glad I am back working in the office, socialising at work with other people and being able to hear new stories and other peoples opinions apart from my family's. I have realised I am getting more and more paranoid, as my mum works for the NHS and my siblings are at school they have to do regular COVID tests and I am just paranoid that it will come back positive and I have to work from home. My mental health isn't stable enough to be locked in again.

England have been in and out of lockdown, we are now going through a roadmap so currently we can go shopping (with masks on), the pub gardens are open but otherwise that is pretty much it. We don't have to queue outside for ages to go into supermarkets which is good.

Some of you may or may not know that I have an online business called Maude & Noah, selling homemade vegan candles and wax tarts plus greeting cards has started picking up but still don't have stockists currently because of the uneven times. Plus I have missed out on many events due to them being canceled. I still have put some launches on hold and I can't wait for us to get back to some form of normality.

I still feel like I am trapped in a bubble because all I seem to do is get up and work however I have a few dates in the diary to do things like going to Zip World, Otley Run and also a pub trip. I am hoping to get to Leicester in the summer to see family and friends plus a trip to either Oslo or Zürich or Copenhagen for my birthday in November.

I have still been down and have cried a lot but I don't know if this is just the idea of being restricted or if I am just down. I am so happy that the gyms are back open, I think losing weight and getting more active I will boost my emotions.