I don't know if its me or what, but for the last two days I've been bored out of my bird....Can't seem to settle down and find something positive to do..Love to read, so took a ride to Barnes & Noble and found nothing that caught my eye...All those books and I all I got was a cup of coffee....Then went to the Mall, and all I saw that bought a smile to my face was the"Easter Bunny"...I'm not a television watcher, except for sports, it's dreary out so I can't even take a walk...I've been on UM more than usual Even my grandchildren are pains in the butts today..... Oh yesterday, I was productive...I made chocolate bird's nests and decorated them for pre-school...The highlight of my day.... I'm thinking that maybe because I'm usually so active that I don't know how to handle my time to myself...I'm not depressed, just friggin BORED...So if any of you guys have any suggestions let me know o.k....This will probably pass in about an hour....

Wow, the timing of this couldn't have been more appropriate. I've been bored all day with not much work going on. Going back and forth between the same few online games I'm not blocked from and UM. Just came back here, ready to hang myself out of sheer boredom to find this thread that captured my sentiments exactly.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*runs around in circles a few times*

Phew, ok I'll get ahold of myself

(sorry goalie, no suggestions)

Wanna hang out, I can teach you how to make chocolate birds nests..

when i get so bored, i ride bicycle around rice field, steal some watermelon, and lay under trees..

or just beating those highschool teenagers near my house. those emo always need corporal punishment

I sleep when I get bored.

You sound creative. I turn to my art. I do pastels and acrylic's... ((nothing to be truly awe inspiring but it's mine and I like it)). Also watercolors are good. Oh, I do have one of my own paintings hanging in my house but other than that... NADA.
I also like to fix things. I make an area of stuff that needs to be fixed and I go at it.
Also, making your own cards is fun; even scrap booking I heard but I don't do that. Hmmm. I re-arrange my house lmao...
I'm also in the process of fixing old damaged ancestorial pic's... I guess anything to do with art or my hands is good for me.

Oh yeah that's when I'm past the point of poetry or writing...

I meditate. If not, i'll go to the chatroom. Provided there is anyone.
The link is at the bottom.

i usually dont get bored.. have far too much stuff to do to get bored.
but trying to unwind after a long day at work is the killer. after a 15 + hour day i cant turn my head off and usually dont sleep well

im constantly bored.
i have a boring job, where i work in the evenings so im home alone all day
plus i dont sleep well so im always too tired to do something productive

http://www.freetetris.org/

Never look back.

Hi guys, thanks for all your comments...

She-ra, I wish I could be as creative as you...The only thing I did this winter was scrap booking...My grandson had alot of media attention in High School ice hockey, so I just finished his third scrapbook...That was the extent of my creativeness

Tigger I'm like you on the unwinding...When I had my dance studio, I would sometimes get in 10:30 at night, and it would take me 2 more hours for my body to relax...It was a bummer...

Electrokinesis...Great idea on Meditation..Haven't tried that yet...

Kenshinx...Well we have the watermelon and trees here, but no rice fields

Nativechick...I hear you on the sleeping...I also eat more than usual when I'm bored...

Omerta...You sound like me on being bored..I'm always looking for different things to do, but the past few days my mind has been blank....

Affliction...Thanks for the link...

I'm never bored (ok, rarely bored).

Why you say; I'll list the reasons

1) I work in a library (enough said there).

2) I have two collie dogs (walk anyone?).

3) I have kids (not to be recommended for the faint at heart).

4) I always have UM at my finger tips!

at the same time some of my least boring times in my life were hell. Sometimes bordom is a blessing.

I usual get off the computer & go watch t.v. until I'm no longer bored. Or watch/listen to the t.v & play my DS. XP Third choice, I take a nap if I need it.

That's all I do.

Wow I'm getting bored just reading about that routine moon


I wasn't bored a couple weeks ago when I had 3 final projects due in the same week. But that's because I was working on those literally every waking moment.... now that was a stressful week.

Hmmm... a happy medium here would be nice.

So goalie, whats the first step on the birds nest?

What happened to your rolling post

Hi Lilly...Library work is wonderful...I'd be reading more than working.

I have a 165 lb. Rottie, who walks me...So we usually spend time in the backyard ...

I have 7, plus one coming, grandchildren, 5 of who live within two blocks of me...My heart still faints...

Last, but not least, thank goodness for UM...

Yes, I noticed that it must've rolled off the thread...

So, without further adieu, here is how to roll a blueberry crepe into a wonderful breakfast assortment:
8 oz. cream cheese
8 oz. sour cream
1/4 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. lemon peel
4 c. blueberries
2/3 c. sugar
1 1/3 c. water
2 tbsp. cornstarch
2 tsp. lemon juice
16 basic dessert crepes
For filling: Blend cream cheese, sour cream, sugar, vanilla and lemon peel until smooth.

To assemble: Spoon filling in center of unbrowned side of crepe. Fold crepe in half and roll. Place blueberries in electric skillet, blend sugar, water, cornstarch and lemon juice and add to blueberries. Cook on low heat until sauce is thickened. Add filled crepes. Spoon sauce over and heat thoroughly. Makes 8 servings.

Can this be substitued with anything else...

Well, personally, I prefer a different filling

Get your oil painting equipments...

Close your eyes, and then draw what you see without opening your eyes

See what happen

That's a nice concept, but when I close my eyes for longer than a minute I fall asleep.. Do you do this when your bored, paint, not go to sleep....

If you are bored then, you are boring lol
I like to read ALOT so I dont get bored too much. But, when I do get bored I try to do something productive or constructive like, tinkering on my car or cleaning house

Read sum books. Which not enough people do anymore.

Nope, can't say I'm a boring person at all... Nothing wrong with my truck and my house is clean...Call it a two day slump...

Also I'll go outside on my swing for a while. Until I get tired of my swing. =/

Ya i used to have a great Dane...we went for morning drags..coz u dont walk a Great Dane u sort of drag behind it lol

Years ago, we had a brindle great dane and he ate my coffee table.......

You wouldn't have had that problem if there had been some blueberry crepes laying around goalie

Awwww i'm so sorry to hear you've been in such a slump, however temporary goalie! I know your usually on the go-go-go and have trouble finding a momment to yourself! As you know i'm not one who gets out much anymore due to bad health, which really sucks because before it got bad you couldn't pin me down for 5 minutes, i was always out hiking, biking, swimming, running, and exercising, etc... which was quite an addiction for me for a time! And my daughter always had a bunch of her friends over, and they kept me hopping, and laughing! But thats all gone now and so mabey i've just gotten used to having not much to do! However i have hubby underfoot almost all day everyday, ( Ahh but i love it!) and i like to read, do some writing, and if i can't feel the insperation to write anything good i write down idea's for future attempts when i'm feeling creative! As well my mother enjoys yip-yapping for hours on the phone about everything and anything! Yesterday we talked for 5 hours, and she only lives a 15 minute drive from me! Yet we still talk for hours , and 5 hours is nothing! We once had a talk on the phone that lasted over 24 hours! And we never talk less than an hour a day! I also love to read alot, but havn't been into it for a month or so now. And when hubby first dragged me to the computer and assured me that i couldn't blow it up by touching a few buttons, i got comfortable with it by playing alot of those flash games, and a few others like scrabble, and even monopoly that i downloaded, and there's always a bunch of different solitare games i play when i can't sleep either! But i too am greatful for UM! Even when i'm not logged in i still like to read all the different stuff on here! And this apt. always has something going on in it to drive me nuts or needs fixing, and getting the landlord to do anything has become almost a career for me, or a game of stubborn wills at any rate! I wish i could have a pet here, i've never lived my life without a beloved cat, dog, bird or some little friendly darlin for this long in my whole life, and so i often go to look at everyone elses pets who post pictures of them here on UM, and they always make me smile! If i could i would cook, and bake up all kinds of things, but hubby has to watch what he eats due to his diabetes, and i can't eat much of anything without it affecting me badly so it would all go to waste making that rather pointless! But i used to love taking drives by myself, put on some great tunes and just go all over finding super little places to take pictures or sit and think in some pretty spot by a lake, and walk the beach along the ocean! Well i don't know if i helped in giving you any idea's, and i'm almost positive your life will be as hectic as usual in a day or so! Which i know you'll be happy about, so hang in there my good friend! Oh great now i feel like breaking into song about ( The sun will come out tommorrow!) like Annie!

You've been my laugh of the day....Now what was that recipe again

(((swtp))) aw, my friend you know me so well...And I know how you wish you could still to all those wonderful things...So here's the deal...You get better and when I come to Canada next year, we'll raise holy hell...Your so right, there's a million things I could be doing, just not used to any down time ..I have the ocean five minutes away, parks are nearby, making bird's nests for pre-schol so your right about having alot, just felt in a funk the past few days...Realized that from October to now, I was at the hockey rink from 1:30 to 4 every day, and then for the games...so that meant I was getting everything done in the morning, the afternoon was taken, then come home, cook and go on UM So I think that was the lull I was talking about..too much time on my hands...And before that it was cheer for the granddaugter...See I love doing things that include the kids, (surprise-surprise), so the past few days I said to myself, well you have extra time, now what and I came up blank But today it was running around, and I felt back to normal, whatever normal is to me...So thank you for your wonderful idea's...Feel better my friend

Nothing, absoloutely nothing, relieves bordom more than talking to people. I'm doing it just now...

That is so true, but the past few days, it seemed noone was around lol..UM friends make a big difference

I find that going for a walk always helps with the boredom, I also like to hit the local gym and do some exercises; that helps as well.

I do a lot of binge eating when I'm bored. Nothing like a big fat bean burrito to wash away that boredom.

And it wash's away a few other things too....

Indeed .

Aldous Huxley:
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Bert Leston Taylor:
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

Ellen Parr:
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Eric Hoffer:
When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

Fritz Redl:
Boredom will always remain the greatest enemy of school disciplines. If we remember that children are bored, not only when they don't happen to be interested in the subject or when the teacher doesn't make it interesting, but also when certain working conditions are out of focus with their basic needs, then we can realize what a great contributor to discipline problems boredom really is. Research has shown that boredom is closely related to frustration and that the effect of too much frustration is invariably irritability, withdrawal, rebellious opposition or aggressive rejection of the whole show

Leo Tolstoy:
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Anna Karenina

Lin Yutang:
Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

Saul Steinberg:
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Susan Sontag:
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.


Charlotte Whitton:
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.


Personally I would read a book, play a game, do a puzzle, go for a run, a swim or phone a friend.

Ohhh that sounds good to me, and you've got a deal my friend!

newyork, you must've been pretty bored to go find those quotes

I like the desire for desires one... short, sweet and spot on

In some cases boredom is nothing more than a temporary lack of appreciation for what you have.

Yes maybe the first sign of boredom is looking for quotes on the subject.

I honestly can rarely remember being bored, there are too many interesting things to fill ones time.

LOL. I put in Electrolytic Capacitor in backward, then turn on the power

I'm putting a reply here because of my boredom. Why does this strange sensation of there being "nothing to do" curse everyone now and again. Even when there is something to do, you feel as though its been done before and there's no point in doing it again. Having written this, some of my boredom has lifted, and I feel alittle better, but it never lasts.....

Hi Leon..I think everyone gets bored at some point in their life, but there were alot of good ideas thrown out here....I had that "nothing to do" feeling, and so I did 'nothing" for a few days, but I knew it would pass...I'm sure it will hit again in a few months LOL...Besides that, welcome to UM....

Awesome, someone quoted and responded to what I said for the first time on a topic I didn't start. TY And I believe boredom kills....

I'm one of those people that can actually sit and do absolutely nothing for hours if I have to. Mostly if I have some spare time (rare) I make jewelry. Or mindlessly surf for stuff I probably never needed to know about. It's causing me to turn into a "Cliff Claven" personality type. LOL

So you were one of those kids who weren't phased by getting put in timeout, eh?

Here's a second quote...I'm glad I made you happy...