Boring Can Be Good

I want to be bored.
I want to have nothing to do.
No where to go.
Nada.

I want to sit in my chaise with the sun on my face and read a book.  No one needs to go for a walk.  No one making me talk to customers or answer phones.  Nothing needs laundered, painted, swept, cleaned, or cooked.  Just a day of nothing.

When you're a kid being bored is the most horrible thought.
Now I long to be bored.  Although truth be told I can't imagine ever being bored.
I like doing nothing. I love to lay in my hammock at the lake and read, fall asleep or stare at the sky and tree tops. That isn't boring to me. To me that is just something to do.

I was talking to the spousal unit last night about how everything I hated as a kid I love now.  I never wanted to nap.  I long to be able to nap now.  I never wanted to bathe.  I love to have a long hot shower. I hated to be bored. I now long for a day of pure boredom if there is such a thing. I always wanted to talk on the phone, now I let it go to voicemail because after dealing with customers on the phone all day the last thing I want is to talk at night. I loved to go out all the time.  Today I would prefer to stay home with friends.  Is this a big sign of getting old or is it matruity?  Is there a difference?

The only thing that I loved as a child that I still love today is books.  I am so behind in my reading.  I am just getting to Eat, Pray, Love which everyone else in the world read a few years ago.  Hubby bought me a gift card for books for my birthday and I finally picked out my 3 and they arrived yesterday.  I am dreaming of being able to sit and read without interruption this weekend.  I don't think it will happen but I am sure going to try.

We are planning on getting to our lake home in 2 weeks.  It's been all closed up since Thanksgiving. And that too means work. Opening up the house that has been vacant for the winter. The cleaning inside.  The yard maintenance.  The deck needs restaining. The mulch.  You know...work, work, work.  We made a pact last night that we would go down there for a couple of days and  1-1/2  days of work and the last 1 1/2 of enjoyment and whatever that means to us.  We decided that this year we weren't going to feel like we had to get it all done at once. After last years fiasco of company from hell all season long we are learning to say NO when people invite themselves and we are not inviting anyone other than those we look forward to coming....those standard yearly folks who come the same time each year.  No more entertaining all summer long and working instead of enjoying.  We are going to enjoy this place for as long as we have it.  With the business being slower this year, who knows we may have to sell our piece of nirvana. So we decided that we are going to seriously carve out the time we can to simply enjoy and all that means to us.

In the mean time I have to work today, grocery shop, mop floors, and do laundry to name a few.  But I'm going to be dreaming of boredom.  It's a land I so want to visit.