TheBanyanTree: The Schizophrenia Diaries - from the other side of ennui

[Wolfie]

Here, the danger is boredom.  The bored, affluent, what-the-hell-are-we-
gonna-do-today lifestyle.  Well, maybe not affluent, since we are 
always living right at the end of our rope, but just how many *things* 
does one family need, I ask you!

We have done absolutely nothing the entire day.  All four of us have 
been wandering around saying, "I'm bored." to each other.  Not a single 
suggestion has met any approval, not even baking cookies (which none of 
us need any more of), or going to the store (where there is nothing we 
need), or taking the dogs for a walk (which they don't need either, not 
with our big yard to run in).

The PlayStation 2 is probably on fire by now - the kids have been 
playing off and on all day.  Now the spousal unit has kicked the kids 
off and is racing cars.  I've done 5 loads of laundry, but really, how 
hard is that with the modern machinery doing most of the work?  Heck, 
the kids even carry it down the stairs dirty, and haul it back up 
clean.  All I have to do is put it in and take it out.

I've played a couple of computer games, but I just keep falling asleep 
and missing important clues.  

The spouse came in a while ago to where I was reading (sleeping) in the 
computer chair, and said, "I'm bored."  Being supremely bored with 
hearing "I'm bored", I replied that being bored was a good thing, at 
least we're not fighting earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, wars, or some 
other disaster, either natural or man-made.  He just blinked at me, 
said, "Sheesh", and headed back down the hall into the bedroom.

Tomorrow, we're going to go *somewhere* and do *something*, even if I 
have to drag the lot of them, screaming and kicking, the whole way!

So there you have it.  Lifestyles of the middle-class and not-anywhere-
near-famous.

Wolfie
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