The "B" word.

Friends, I have a confession.

I'm bored. And it's driving me crazy. I don't know what to do with myself.

I have always always always been a busy person.

In high school, I took dance, played softball all year, was in the youth band at church, and was hardly ever found with my bum on the couch.

In college, there were parties every weekend, I was in a service sorority, I had a job, and then the obvious: classes, duh.

My graduation day, AJ proposed. I immediately went from college to working a new full-time job and planning a wedding.

Then we got married and we were busy with the whole first-year-of-marriage thing on top of remodeling our house. Then I switched jobs and had a whole new set of skills to learn.

But, now, I'm bored. I've been at my job long enough that I hardly ever find myself stressed. Our house is finished (or close) and the remodel project is over. I play softball and I love love love it, but it's one hour, twice a week.

The next obvious phase in our lives is to jump on the baby train. Which we are very much not ready for. If it happened, we'd be ready, but right now we have a whole list of reasons that we'd like to wait a bit longer.

So that leaves us (well, me, at least) very very bored.

I've never had so much free time. And I hate it. I'm pretty sure I've been one heck of a Debbie Downer the last couple of months, and I can't believe AJ has put up with me.

I'm even bored with this blog post. It's that bad.

I get bored watching TV. I get bored reading a book. I get bored sitting outside in the hammock. I know I should be enjoying this time to just relax, but I don't think I have it in me.

I know my friends are getting irritated with me. I keep blowing up their phones with text messages just to have something to do!

So tell me, do you have a cure for the boredom? Are you a busybody like I am? Have you ever suffered from a severe case of boredom? What if it's down time for me for the rest of my life!? How do you handle the down times?