Anyone else just "bored" ?

[Hunna]

I keep finding myself very bored.

Cant find anything interesting on tv, cant find anything interesting to read online, cant keep my attention on the cross stitch project enuff to make any progress, dont wanna clean house.

I just dont know what to do with myself these days. I am most likely not very fun to be around, as I tend to nit-pick just to have something to say.

Winter blahs? Maybe?

[Macawpower58]

Nope, not bored. But I am a procrastinator. So many things I really need to do, but I always put them off, opting for those things I like.

My poor house needs my attention.........and here I sit, chatting on the board!

[trip]

Yes, it seems to be a side effect of becoming an invalid college-level scholar who can't watch television, play most computer games, or read any higher level material.

And all my fun beforehand was from things like traveling and hiking. Indoor activities have never interested me.

[MandyPug]

I'm extremely bored... but i go through phases of boredom often. Well more like the feeling I'm stuck in a rut. However the quarter ended today and i have 2 diplomas to do next week and then I'm taking biology 30 again (cause last year i missed half the course, however still ended up with nearly an 80%) and social studies 30. Maybe I'll be less bored then.

[krazy4birds]

Yes, it seems to be a side effect of becoming an invalid college-level scholar who can't watch television, play most computer games, or read any higher level material.

And all my fun beforehand was from things like traveling and hiking. Indoor activities have never interested me.

Hi trip.....I guess I missed something when you became a member because I did not reconize your name. Your post was confusing to me also.......just wondering what has happened........if you do not want to address this issue to me...I understand.:)

[krazy4birds]

Becky.....sounds like you and I are pretty much alike.......I have tons of stuff to do that I would not be bored for ages but I have taken Ozzies attitude......."Eh??...I will move when I please if you do not mind" aaaaaaack!!!!

[special]

I am lucky that I never feel bored. Like Becky and Judy I could do the housework (or paperwork for work)but there's always something more interesting to do like: play with the cats, or read, or play with the cats, or go online, or play with the cats!

[Julia423]

Like a few of the others, I don't get bored. But I do get the winter blahs...sometimes it's pretty intense. When it gets colder and darker I find that I have to compensate by turning on more lights...keeping the house bright seems to help. I have too much to do to get too bored.
Now, stuck in a rut...that's more me at times! Same stuff over and over and over...yuk.

[tandy]

I am bored silly - suffer from cabin fever. Can't wait for Spring.

[Hunna]

I am bored silly - suffer from cabin fever. Can't wait for Spring.

Well, at least there is 2 of us then!

Since I've checked this forum like 20 times in the last 2 hours for interesting post, I think I am gonna curl up on the couch and watch reruns now....:rolleyes:

[Macawpower58]

Well, at least there is 2 of us then!

Since I've checked this forum like 20 times in the last 2 hours for interesting post, I think I am gonna curl up on the couch and watch reruns now....:rolleyes:

What I do when I feel like that, and the board has nothing to interest me, I do some computer graphics. I am now making friends bookmarks. They tell me something they like (one wants an angel), so I find an angel pic I like, and integrate it into a bookmark. I print it on sticker paper, and voila, personnal book mark.

[krazy4birds]

WOW Becky tht sounds pretty cool!!!! I am tending to a sore finger right now. I had let Louie and Spanky stay waaaaay past bedtime and I thought since they do not get free reign of the house like they used to I would let him play around by me here on the computer. Like RIGHT.......Opened his door and step up I said and he latched onto me like a Buzzard and I was road kill!!!!! I honestly thought he would never turn loose and then the bleeding started...on me not him mind you.....but now here he sits on a towel on my shoulder and guess what he is doing???? Hollering daaaaaddy....daaaaddy......~sigh~

[Catslave]

Well I'm bored and it's summer here and the weather is beautiful so what's my excuse.. I think we also get a little bit of a letdown after chrissie festivities sort of like christmas jetlag. Our winters are mild compared to some of yours so we can usually still do things even in the winter.

[Wiztherewoz]

When I'm online talking to you guys it's because I'm too physically exhausted to do anything else but just sit and do nothing. I run around after animals all day, and there's barely a quiet moment. But sometimes I do get bored of my same-every-day routine. Sometimes I wake up on a morning and think: "Oh, no! I have to do all that all over again? I just did that!" And I always feel like I've only been in bed two minutes before that evil alarm clock is blasting out.

It'd be so nice to just have a day of doing absolutely nothing but slobbing around watching TV and stuffing my face... (I'm a couch potato at heart.) I know you'll probably think that's boring. Sounds like bliss to me! :D

[special]

It'd be so nice to just have a day of doing absolutely nothing but slobbing around watching TV and stuffing my face... (I'm a couch potato at heart.) I know you'll probably think that's boring. Sounds like bliss to me! :D

That doesn't sound boring to me, it sounds heavenly. I do that whenever I can which isn't often. I rarely have a full day off to myself, but when I do....the pajamas stay on and the popcorn is popping!

[krazy4birds]

Hmmmmmm......ok...it is all your fault, now I have to go find some popcorn hahahahaha

[trip]

Hi trip.....I guess I missed something when you became a member because I did not reconize your name. Your post was confusing to me also.......just wondering what has happened........if you do not want to address this issue to me...I understand.:)


Nothing happened. :(


Or rather the epilepsy i was told I had outgrown and had less than a .3% chance of ever returning, returned with a vengence last year. With more triggers than ever before, including new ones that are usually only present in children, very rare for them to begin in adulthood.

And now I meet the loose definition of medically intractable epilepsy - though I believe thats more because I'm allergic to most seizure medicines for my type of seizures than anything else. Out of the 7 choices, I'm allergic to 3, one is advised against because of other health problems, and 1 is advised against because of an allergy to another one in the same family. I start on my second medicine in February, but I'm not too optmistic. Its in the same family as keppra, so I shouldn't be allergic to it though. I'm bringing up getting an evaluation for brain surgery at my next appointment.

I thought it was going to be a relief when I finally got the epilepsy diagnosis - I saw doctors for 2 months before I found one that would believe I was actually having seizures (mine our of a type where I can have many that I can tell are happening but someone standing next to me can't). Yet the first thing the neurologist did after telling me I was having seizures was mention brain surgery and told me she couldn't believe I was able to carry on conversations when i had that much seizure activity going on- I thought it was going to be like last time. "take a pill, don't run for two weeks, be fine" Now I'm not allowed to hyperventilate or increase my heart rate for the rest of my life. Watching tv is probably out forever unless I get brain surgery too, though I don't know my chances of being allowed to do any of that after brain surgery. (the computer is fine so long as I have flash player turned off so I don't get the blinking/moving ads, or scroll down a page with a lot of contrasting colors)


I had constant seizure activity on my EEG in December - and that was after I was over the max limit on my medicine. The neuro put me 1,000 mgs higher than my max limit because I do so well with this medicine, and have such bad reactions to everything else

Interestingly enough this is the reason I found this forum. I was on a site getting info about epilepsy and someone mentioned a boy who was having cyclical seizures. I never heard of a boy having that, so I typed in cyclical seizures to google, and this was the first search result. And since I've so many cat stories I stayed around

[Llamalady]

I find myself also feeling rather complacent as of late... I just took it as grief but maybe it's this winter stuff? Although I hate summer... so that doesn't make sense... LOL

[krazy4birds]

WOW trip.:eek:......your name suits you well. I am so glad that they finally got it in their heads about the seizures but all of what you were telling me sounds so dangerous and life threatening that I feel it makes my health issues a stroll in the park.:( I am glad you hung around Petlovers.....love having you as a member and I am definatly interested in what all comes next. You will be in my thoughts and prayers and thank you so much for explaining it all to me. I knew from one of the posts you had that you must have terrible health issues but could not find out what.:)

[trip]

Yeah, and its hard to get alot of people who I knew before to believe it because I look just the same as I did when I wasn't having problems. And the timing didn't help masters - right when I was finishing my masters degree so everyone "knew" that my only problem was fear of graduating/working - which didn't make sense in the least becasue A) I'd been working in my major for a few years already and B) I was planning on 4 more years of school. The timing was most upsetting to me because I was planning on applying to the top PhD programs in the country and was a shoe-in for a teaching job that was opening this school year. Having my academic ability vanish right when I was beginning to study for the GRE was probably the hardest blow

Its really amazing how many people refuse to be educated on things like epilepsy. I can't count the number of people who have told me there is no way seizures can affect my behavior. And even some who try to be understanding refuse to accept that often times, I'll be normal for 5 or 6 hours before I get the weird behavior from the seizure. And try convincing someone that eating according to the US food pyramid guidelines will result in you being unable to sit up in bed, but eating a diet thats pretty much all fat, with no fruit, will enable you to walk around.

Aside from doing dangerous things as a result of post-ictal seizure behavior (ie trying to sleep outside on a snowy night), I believe the statistics I look up says I have a decent chance of living till mid-60s - which is roughly when most of my grandparents and great-grandparents died. I have about half the risk factors for sudden unexplained death in epilepsy, which is few enough that I don't fret about it.

Trip is short for a username I used to use, that everyone kept shortening into Trip. And it was relevent before I got sick, because I was constantly taking trips - actually I had saved up enough money last year, that my intention was to take the summer off fromw ork and travel around the east coast of the US.