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You Might Want to Shove a Pencil in Your Eye

I’m staring at this picture of a lab student with geeky protective eye wear.

He’s on my ink cartridge box. HP 35 something or other. Maybe you’ve seen him?

After staring all day I’ve concluded he’s sort of cute. Well, sans the goofy eye wear of course.

Yes, my friends, it’s been another boring day in Kuwait. I won’t complain, though. It was pandemonium for a long time. The break has been much welcomed.

I’ve visted every single site I can think of (twice), and figured there’s no better way to kill time than to post! If I’m bored, well, you all have to be bored too.

Being bored is a funny thing. I plays tricks on my mind. It makes me “hungry.” It makes me “tired.” It makes me “homesick (AHH! It’s attack of the quotation marks!!!).” The “ “ use is due to the fact that I’m really not any of those things (well… except homesick). Being bored just magnifies the need for me to think I am all of those things. Especially hungry. Then again, I always think I’m hungry. I don’t have to be bored for that one at all.

I think I’ve gone to the bathroom 11 times today. Again with the mind tricks.

“Hmm. I’ve got nothing to do.... I know! I’ll go pee!” Because that’s what everyone does when they’re bored, right?

Probably not.

Most people become creative geniuses when they’re bored. Do you think Beethoven was a busy guy!? Ha- think again. I think I read somewhere that he spent 22 hours a day staring into space. Okay, that’s a lie- but I’m trying to convey that most people channel their boredom into masterpieces. I’ve yet to steer my boredom towards creative wonder. I can blame this on the fact that this job is rarely boring- or the truth, which is that I’m not good with creative wonder.

Wow. I have to pee again. Or at least I think I do.

Hoping your day is a little more eventful than mine…

OK, so I am not the only one that goes to the bathroom when bored!  I guess it just makes me feel productive!

Posted by Jenny  on  06/11  at  05:06 AM

Last night, I was bored and I actually prayed and asked God to bless me with Direct TV...there has seriously got to be something wrong with that…

Posted by Jacqueline  on  06/11  at  05:29 AM

Usually when I get bored, I feel guilty. I don’t know why, but I always feel like I have to be multitasking or at least accomplishing something that’s worth mentioning for me to not feel that way....yes, I know it’s crazy. Hope your day is better. .Thanks for the comment, MIL was the only one to come over and her stay was a total of like 10 minutes due to the fact that she was just over to pick up the power washer we borrowed. We don’t know about the job yet, Gary’s having second thoughts. . .

Posted by Beth G  on  06/11  at  07:10 AM

Today has been pretty boring here too.  I realized that I do a lot of housecleaning just because I’m here.  That’s pretty sad.  And I spent 15 minutes looking for the cat, only to find out that I’d accidentally locked him in the bathroom.  Which is completely dumb of me, because we keep the bathroom doors closed here so the cat stays OUT of there.

BTW, you still have to manually add me as a sparkpeople friend.  It doesn’t update both pages like on myspace.

Posted by Ann M.  on  06/11  at  08:23 AM

I eat when I’m bored too. It’s bad because I’m bored a lot!

Posted by  on  06/11  at  08:28 AM

Who knows? Your blog could be that very masterpiece that will awed and fawned over in future years just as much as Beethoven’s 5th is now. Being bored sure does make us do the craziest things, huh? I remember dancing around in my office to some music one time when I was bored - jumping jacks soon followed the dancing because the movement made me remember I hadn’t yet exercised that week.

I’m glad no one else was in the office that day...haha

Posted by Sarah R  on  06/11  at  09:20 AM

I eat when I’m bored as well.  And, sadly, I’ve been bored a LOT lately - yikes!
I feel like I *should* be doing something, but, really, I’m just not motivated - so I check blogs 3 times a day and then I usually just stare - haha!

Posted by Angela  on  06/11  at  11:21 AM

I’m the same way with the peeing thing! LOL I swear, when I worked at jobs where I was actually busy the whole time, I would go to the bathroom maybe once.  Since I’ve been here, there are days that I swear my boss has to wonder if I have the smallest bladder ever! LOL But then I just realized that I was talking about peeing.  Ugh!  Sorry! :p

Posted by  on  06/11  at  01:30 PM

I’m so glad to see I’m not the only one that goes pee when I’m bored!!

Posted by  on  06/11  at  02:36 PM

Okay, so yesterday, I was so bored I baked a cake.  This was bad for two reasons.  One, I was alone, which means either I eat the whole thing, or throw some of it away.  And second, I was still bored, and I eat when I’m bored.  So far, I have not eated all of the cake, which is good because my diet may kill me if I do.

I hope you found a way to be unbored!

Kelley

Posted by Kelley  on  06/11  at  04:40 PM

so often i find myself thinking this way...and wander aimlessly around the internet...do you ever feel as if you have “run out of places to go”? i know thats not possible but sometimes with my limited knowledge of sites that entertain me, thats exactly how i end up feeling.

i’ve been peeing a lot too...in the way that throwing back a gallon a water a day will do to ya...its very annoying. literally every 30 minutes to an hour i am jumping outta my chair trying to get to the bathroom....its near emergency each and every time....its sooo tiring.

Posted by LadyT  on  06/12  at  04:57 AM

I find that when I get bored, I actually get less creative. But when I’m too busy, I also lose creativity. So there’s some magical happy place between bored and frantic where my creativity hides. Suffice it to say, I don’t believe I’ll be composing any symphonies soon.

Posted by  on  06/12  at  11:04 AM

Sorry things are so slow today!!! I always seem to get into trouble while I am bored! The guy on your HP printer sounds like my DH. Of course he doesn’t wear his protective eye gear even when he is in the lab, but he is kind of cute!! smile Hope things pick up soon!!!

Posted by  on  06/12  at  12:57 PM

Oh yeah, bored = all sort of things.

I feel you on the peeing, though mostly I just DO have to pee.  smile

Posted by JessPond  on  06/12  at  08:59 PM

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brittny I'm B-Love. I've just returned to America after spending three years in Kuwait with my husband Mr. B-Love and our two maltese, Boz and Lucy. We recently added two more doggies to our family, Rocky and Teddy. I love weight training, OU football, and lazy weekends. Buckle up and get ready for my constant embarrassing moments, continual madness at a new job, and my daily effort to rely on Christ while adjusting to life back in the real world.


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