i'm forever blowing bubbles

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Goodness, I didn't realise I'd been gone for so long! I have been SO busy. I've been to so many places, had many new experiences and socialised morning, noon and night. Of course, I may be telling a fib or two. Is it just me, or are we living in a computer simulated world? There's a kid out there somewhere, maybe on a planet called Covida in the Galaxy of Snickers, who controls my avatar in a game called Planet Earth. At the moment he's stuck on Pandemic level and he can't work out if survival is down to disbelief and conspiracies or buckle up, baby ... you've seen nothing yet! I currently do not have a 'bubble'. Are they calling them bubbles in other countries? The only person I've been within two feet of since March is Husband. Oh, and some random strays in the supermarket who didn't understand personal space even before Corona danced into our global lives. I'm not even sure that most people understand what the bubble is {it being a group of people outside your household who you come into contact with; the bubble shouldn't include anybody else and you should only have social contact with the people in one bubble. You can't belong to two bubbles because that defeats the object}. Take SiL & BiL. They have seen their bbfs {a couple, with two children}, her parents, her sibling and his wife, and they've been away for a few days. Now, if that was all, I'd be happy. But, I don't know who her brother and his wife have been in contact with, or their bbfs. The bubble is too big and potentially too Venn diagrammy. When shielding was paused by the government {with effect from 1st August} they were keen to see us. I am missing Niece and Nephew SO MUCH. But, the virus hasn't disappeared. I have told her we're taking baby steps, which isn't a lie. I'm just not going to go into the whys and wherefores of it being them who are making me feel uneasy. We do have plans; we have tickets booked for the cinema {back row, *wink*} at the end of this month, Husband returned to work onsite on a part-office/part-home basis this week, I go back next week {still not sure what's going on there though} and we've been brave and booked a couple of nights away during October half-term, just up the coast. I have constant conversations with myself, partly to fight the badly toned tunes in my ears {both of them now}, but mostly because I am so confused. I berate myself for being a coward and believing all the possibly inflated hype, and then I roll my eyes at some of the stuff people post on Facebook and Reddit and wonder why they're so keen to risk - if not their own lives - the lives of other people. So conflicted! But, hey! Hi! How've you been? *smile*