Bored at Home? Fresh Ideas to Banish Boredom
Are People Dying of Boredom?
Due to Covid, we are (duh) spending a helluva lot more time at home.Surprise! Many people tell me they are dying of boredom.To put it bluntly, they are in a rut.
The Cambridge Dictionary
World-Weary
Someone who is world-weary is not enthusiastic about anything, often because they have had too much experience of a particular way of life.
Boredom is Dumb
What am I doing to pass the time? To keep intellectually stimulated, emotionally engaged and (more or less) awake?Oh, and not bored.A few examples:
- Installing a wine window in my home office. Salut!
- Experimenting with at-home mole removal. Ouch.
- Teaching my pet duck to straighten up and fly right. What can I say, he has issues.
- Tweaking that decadent rum cinnamon pecan caramel bun recipe. Practice makes perfect.
- Woo hoo! Going craft crazy. Etsy beware! Don't miss my elegant skeleton nipple jewelry and my one-of-a-kind pumpkin glitter art decoupage. Busy hands are happy hands.
- Giving Fitbit a run (actually a walk) for its money. Come all, join the Fitbit cult of Stepford spouses. Ho hum Step, Ho Hum Step, Ho Hum Step. Zzzz Step. Zzzz Step. Zzzz...
- Toilet training the cat. So what if he's nine years old? It's never too late to embrace baseless optimism.
You Can't be Bored While Laughing
- Immersing oneself in The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker Laughter rules!
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World Weary
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