Bored Hungry

I eat when I'm bored. I've done it for years. Got nothing better to do? Why not eat something delicious. Usually I make the delicious thing first and then eat it, but if I don't have time to make something delicious, just eating something delicious will do just fine.

Most of the time this isn't a problem. I happen to suffer from chronic over-scheduling. I can't help myself. You give me 24 hours a day, I'll pack it with enough stuff to take at least 28. It's what I do. Occasionally I'll end up with more time than I thought I would have, but I rarely spend my extra time sitting around being bored. Over-scheduling yourself like I do tends to put you behind on, well, just about everything. A little bit of extra time? It turns out to not be extra at all because I spend it getting to something I had meant to get to a while ago. Or I spend it doing the things that I love doing but don't leave much time for

There are, however, a couple of occasions when boredom is expected:

1.  I don't want to do what I need to do, but I won't let myself do any of the things that I would like to do because I really need to do what I need to do, so I end up doing nothing. Yay for eating!
2.  I'm required to be doing something or to be somewhere, but there isn't much there for me to do so I'm stuck with nothing to do really but I have to stay there anyway. (Think public school.) Yay for eating!

Recently at work there hasn't always been quite enough work to keep us all busy.

me at work = me being bored
me being bored = me being hungry

But not real hungry; just bored hungry. Bad news, folks. Bad news.

Today was a boring day. I spent most of it wanting to snack. Love snacking. But I resisted the urge. I did some research instead. I found a handy, dandy list of things to do instead of eating. Several of them involved being active, but there were plenty that didn't. Needless to say, my favorite ones didn't.

Here are some of the gems:
•  Scream!
•  Listen to your inner conversations
•  Write in your awesomeness journal
•  Send a birthday card
•  Plan a romantic encounter

If you start receiving random birthday cards not on your birthday, are worrying about my sanity because I am either screaming my head of or concentrating very hard on something that nobody seems to be able to hear, or catch me making eyes at various, random strangers, everything is fine. I'm just busy working through my bored hunger.

PS Does anyone know where I might acquire an awesomeness journal? This is definitely something I want in on.