Do you get bored?

[arewethereyet]

I think I was sort of trained not to get bored. As a kid/teen I spent a lot of my life grounded. This was in the days of us having one phone in the house, which was for dad's business, we could get three TV stations till PBS came along, and there were certainly no electronics. Not quite the days of needing an abacus, but close.

I had a transistor radio and a small record player (it claimed to be stereo, but not so much). I read a lot, even flipping through the encyclopedia when I ran out of other books. I put together jigsaw puzzles sometimes so often that I would flip them upside down and put them together that way. When a young teen I was given an embroidery kit and that got me hand sewing. I later moved on to machine sewing.

Now I go through phases too. I will find a series that draws me in and will do a binge. I have been sewing again after years away from it. Lately I have been listening to a lot of audiobooks on medicine from the old days.

I don't get bored really. Sometimes I get restless. Since my age, not great health, and the pandemic pretty much grounded me again I was ready...more ready than most people, I suppose. There will be days when I pace from one thing to another...just burning off excess energy. I also work part time though it seems I am on call full time. The pets always seem to be needing attention of some kind.