List of Boring Things

Yes, sometimes I do find some things boring. I decided to make a list. What, if anything, do these items have in common? Hmm. 

• Making this list
• Listening to my relatives talk about sports
• Trying to figure out some weird physical ailment that nobody else thinks you have
• Keeping track of schedules and appointments
• Listening to similar complaints and deciding if it should be treated with ibuprofen or Tylenol
• Anything having to do with health insurance
• Finding a doctor
• Navigating online payment portals
• Painting a wall
• Folding laundry
• Putting away laundry
• Nitpicking
• Trying to figure out a bus or train schedule that doesn't make sense
• Waiting at a restaurant for them to bring you (and your five hungry kids) food
• Almost all cable television
• Driving across the state of Kansas
• Reading the plaques at the zoo
• A whiny 4 year old girl
• Trying to figure out investing
• Trying to figure out the equation for how to calculate the cheapest, best quality toilet paper (or paper towels)
• Clothes shopping for myself
• Clothes shopping for myself online, which is somehow even worse
• Being on hold on the phone for a long time
• Almost all radio
• Sanding anything
• Staining anything
• Coating what you sanded and stained in polyurethane
• Getting lost while driving, especially when there's a lot of traffic
• Trying to figure out how to get the stupid [insert electronic device] to work
• Many of the lengthy, repetitive passages about the destruction of Jerusalem in the Old Testament
• Almost all sacrament meetings with small children
• The first part of a lesson or a presentation when they list the desired outcomes of the lesson or presentation
• Scrubbing anything or anyone
• Basically, anything that you do every single day without any variety or change
• Forcing yourself to block out the fingers to a measure of a piano piece
• Waiting for people to be available for you
• Trying to fall asleep
• Swimming laps
• Listening to adults whining about their jobs
• Eating the same thing for breakfast, lunch, and dinner
• Painting, even though I like the end result
• Spending hours in the antiquities section of the art museum
• Putting away laundry
• Vacuuming
• Dusting
• Washing the dishes
• Trying to remember birthdays
• Planning vacations of any kind, including fun ones with a suitable budget
• Cleaning the kids' rooms
• Having small people whine and cry and pull on you
• Many of the GRE practice test reading sections