OT-Fighting boredom/what do you do? | Arthritis Information

Hi all, honestly it is 'fall' here our glorious summer is over, the trees are turning from green to yellow, drying up and falling off (this is california), the oaks just sort of drop their dead leaves but still have green ones. I took a hike yesterday, but today is a bore. What are you doing that is fun? What's happening this weekend?

LyndaThis weekend my husband and I are going to be phoning in our participation
in the september 15th Iraq War Moritorium March in Washington DC. Along
with 1000's of others, we will engage in mass emailings and faxings and
voice mails to members of congress in support of the demonstration and
demanding an end to the idiocy in Iraq. Hope you can all join in.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/9735I am cleaning a bedroom with Nevie...it's her bedroom, no chance of getting bored there, not with a five year old.

Honestly I don't get bored much, but I do get restless, discontent...where I don't quite know what to do with myself because I am in a waiting situation or limbo or things are just quiet and I can't settle to stuff.

I wonder if how that is how you are feeling?

Otherwise I would suggest some quiet time in nature or doing something you enjoy or something that is relaxing.

Painting the house. Doing laundry. Painting the kitchen. More laundry. Grading papers.

Loads of fun, the non-stop variety.

I like to contemplate all the home improvement projects I would like to do but never get started. We played Uno last night!! It was SO fun. I think we might try scrabble tonight, or scatergories. We LOVE games together. :)

Hi Lynda, I don't get bored, but sometimes I get an unsettled feeling and I usually head out by myself to the library, or to the volunteer center to help out, or just a little shopping. I'M EASILY AMUSED. In the evenings we usually play games together. Scrabble, Cribbage, Yahtzee, Chess. Sometimes we watch movies. I read a lot, design jewelry and bead, paint, and am trying to figure out Photo Shop.

This weekend we're packing up the house that we've been renting. Putting everything in storage and getting our RV ready to take off. For us it's going to be a busy 2 weeks. Then we're off to the RV golf resort where I'll have the pool, exercise room, library, and golfing to keep me busy. Also, will be meeting a group of new people. I'm looking forward to being in a community setting again and interacting with people. For the last 4 months it's been just been Stan and I. Our friends are all traveling and we're sitting here while I recover from my knee replacement.

What do you like to do? I know you golf, take care of the birds, and hike. Lindy

I am still mainly confined to home, recovering from extensive (bionic) foot surgery. I have some books, a phone, my laptop and 2 cocker pups to keep me company. Then there is whatever I can do from a wheelchair. I am going to work on the photo albums, that I have put off for years. We had our first grandchild last year and daddy wanted photos of himself at the same age, so that got my rear unstuck and I starting scanning and sorting old photos.

Lynne- Down, but clawing my way up.

I will be resting. I also have a flower bed to weed, and a couple of projects to put the grass to bed for the winter. I need to clean my bathroom(main bathroom shared by hubby and son...ewwww!). Idk how much I will get done...I am in a HUGE amt of pain.

[QUOTE=Linncn]Well, tonight I'm stuffing envelopes for the GOP. That'll keep me busy for awhile. Especially here in MI which is traditionally a dem state.

Well I come here of courseI read or sew.

Well, I'm doing genealogy - what else is new. I am addicted. I can't stop. I keep making connections with new cousins and working on their lines to add into mine and to share my research with them. So basically I create homework for myself and then rush to get it completed by the date that I promised it, LOL! But the good news is I LOVE it. My database is up to almost 5,000 people and I am still going full steam ahead!

I was supposed to be having a yard sale today, but the stars were not properly aligned. I pulled out all this stuff yesterday and cleaned it, getting ready. But hubby forgot about the plans for the sale and scheduled crews to come and build a set for the next show in our studio theatre, so he can't be here. Oldest son had to go to work, and youngest son got sick (nasty cold). And if that weren't enough it rained all morning. So I surrendered and cancelled the sale.

Oh well, back to genealogy!

Well all my kids have gone out to a birthday, we( hubby and I) arent going cause of my pleurisy so we have just ordered chinese and watching X-Factor. Have to pick up youngest daughter at 10pm and son and other daughter will be in by 11.30pm. My sister and her grandaughter who is 8 months came to visit, we sat outside in the sun most of the afternoon. I dont get very bored but I sometimes want to something completly different from normal. I just havent decided what yet

This weekend I'm going to start Christmas shopping on the computer. Getting the stocking stuffer presents are the most tedious for me, so I'm going to start with those. Four presents each x 18 kids and grandkids = yikes!

Kathy

Hot air ballooning, whale watching, San Diego weekend museum trip or zoo or animal park, volunteering at the senior center. Believe me that can get exciting. Have had to break up a fight over the rights to sit in a certain chair. Take several days and start collecting material for your dream trip, next year or 3 or 5 years from now. Day dreaming and just the act of collecting the data and material are exciting, at least to me they are. We have several dream trips we're hoping to take. Drive up to Monterey to the aquarium, take the whale watching trip, eat at any of John Pisto's restaurants. Rent 2 ATV's and just take off on BLM land and discover secret places.

My sense of adventure may be different than yours, but all of these things excite me and after writing it out I'm ready to take off and go do any one of them. And if they all fail there's always sex on the beach. Lindy

Good to see someone else from my part of the country!

Hugs, Nini

life is too short to be bothered by sand, lol. I live for the beach.

I'm bored though....11:00, I'm wide awake and bored. Gotta love the damn prednisone. Oh, perhaps I should go get a snack, lol

Hi Nini, I lived in San Franciso for 20 years, until 1996 and then moved to Nevada. Still go to all my old haunts at least once every couple of years. Right now, we're retired and traveling and get to San Diego or Newport once or twice a year. I'd live there again but I think I'd have a hard time getting hubby back to Califo. Lindy

So after I whined about being bored I:

Read 2 books (One published in 1918, about a soldier in WWI,Dere Mable, love letters for a rookie, by E streeter., and Weedflower, by Cynthia Kadohata about a Japanese girl who was sent to an internment camp in Arizona as a child, and starting on my third book In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith who wrote #1 ladies detective agency.

Peeled a million apples and made a pie, and have 'sauce' forever.

Took a walk through our pigmy oaks state park, 3 miles.

Practiced golf,

went to the farmer's market, and got some fresh strawberries,

took my elderly neighbor to lunch.

did loads and loads of laundry.

helped wash the car,

talked to my son in Reno, who took his daughter to the Air races,

watched Tiger Woods 'cream' the rest of the golfing field

and walked the beach.

I just get these weird 'bored' feelings sometimes. Thanks for the suggestions, sky diving?? I don't know I'm afraid of carnival rides!, I'd love to try genealogy, wonder which parental side to study?