Like many people I feel the affects of boredom.

It is like a cold, it slowly creeps up on you when you least expect it and then spreads. Eventually not only you are feeling the affects of this debilitating illness but everyone around you. So I have compiled a list of things that you can do to defeat the affects of this illness:

* Find out how many licks it really does take to get to the center of a tootsie pop,

* Twiddle your "thumb,"

* Count the number of hairs on your head,

* Count the number of hairs in your hairbrush,

* Organize your closet by colors and season,

* Count the amount of cheerios in a box,

* Learn a foreign language from the back of a shampoo bottle,

* See how small you can scrunch your face,

* Go to McDonald's and pretend you can't speak English,

* Put instant concrete in someone's waterbed,

* Spend a few hours daydreaming that you had a trillion dollars,

* Memorize the periodic table,

* Give your cat a Mohawk,

* Ride your bike to the nearest graveyard with your eyes clothes,

* Learn to type with your toes,

* See how long you can stay awake,

* See how long you can sleep,

* Pretend you're blind,

* Annoy yourself,

* Get mad at yourself,

* Stop speaking to yourself,

* Memorize the dictionary,

* Stomp on grapes in the bathtub,

* Get a dog to chase your car,

* Form a political party,

* Grease the doorknobs,

* String up a room,

* Design a better toilet seat,

* Read tea leaves,

* Contribute to the population problem,

* Glue money to the floor and watch people try to pick it up,

* Dress in a black cape and mask and pretend to be the Phantom of the Opera, also good for most other musicals and superheroes as well (knowledge of theme songs are a great asset),

* Go to grocery store in a bathrobe, slippers, and a towel around your head; rubber ducky optional,

* Pretend to have a split personality, maybe even three. Talk to yourself,

* Laugh uncontrollably for about three minutes and then suddenly stop and look suspiciously at everyone who looks at you,

* Build a card house,

* Stick plungers on the wall,

* Find out how close you can get your elbow to your mouth,

* Take all the cushions off your couch and some blankets from your bed and build a fort,

* Talk to telemarketers,

* Spend hours looking for spelling mistakes on this site,

* Have a movie marathon. Watch all the Lord of the Rings movies, or all of the Star Wars films. Or the Indiana Jones movies ... you get the idea,

* Go dumpster diving and see what you can find,

* Make faces at strangers to make them laugh,

* Answer the phone in a funny accent, and

* Walk backwards for an entire day.

I know my list is silly, and there isn't a lot of seriousness behind it, but it gives you a few ideas about what to do when you have nothing else to do and it will cause some laughs.