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1<\/div>

You take time out every evening to decide which pyjamas you’re going to wear the next day.<\/p>

2<\/div>

You’ve gone from being the friend who cuts calls and says ‘please text me I can’t talk right now’ to the one who proactively sends texts saying ‘why haven’t you called me, it’s been two hours?’.<\/p>

3<\/div>

You’ve stopped feeling guilty for not baking bread or cooking elaborate meals, and have fully accepted that Maggi is a legitimate dinner choice.<\/p>

\"What<\/a><\/div>
4<\/div>

The number of game apps you’ve downloaded on your phone makes it bear an uncanny resemblance to your 12-year old cousin’s.<\/p>

Related articles: A new work from home dictionary<\/strong><\/a><\/p>

5<\/div>

Once you realised you can mute your annoying co-workers during zoom calls, meetings have become a lot more manageable.<\/p>

6<\/div>

You’re not excited about Friday evenings anymore, but that’s okay, because you don’t have Monday morning blues either.<\/p>

\"Penny-Big-Bang<\/p>

7<\/div>

You are surprisingly zen about not being able to eat out, because you’ve decided to do the cleanse you have been promising yourself for three years.<\/p>

\"donate<\/a><\/div>
8<\/div>

Your pets are used to you being home all the time, and don’t bat an eye when you leave the room anymore.<\/p>

9<\/div>

Your laundry basket still has clothes from pre-lockdown in it. (Because when will you need office shirts again?).<\/p>

10<\/div>

You and your friends have stopped asking each other, “What did you do today?” because nobody is doing anything different.<\/p>

11<\/div>

You’ve made peace with the fact that your office plants have probably died (at least this time it’s not your fault).<\/p>

12<\/div>

You’ve finally stopped making post-lockdown plans.<\/p>\n

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