Fighting Boredom...

Quick blog post...I know it's been awhile but I am still amidst the adventures of having an all-season boyfriend.  I have learned a lot - patience is NOT my virtue - but it does come in handy more often than not.

Now I'm dealing with the "boredom" issue.  I seek advice from those frequent boyfrienders or (ACK!) married people.

The boy is now quite comfortable being around me and we still chat periodically and generally have a great time.  Lately, though, I have been competing for attention with the iphone that he has.  He mentions that it is nothing important that keeps him on the couch and speechless for over an hour when he comes to visit.  He says that he's just reading up on interesting topics when he sits in the car for hours on end waiting for me to come home.  He sits here now while I do my blog, on the phone reading.

How do you confront this?  How do you deal with the missed questions, the glazed look in his eye, the "I know you'll be there when I finish reading whatever the heck I'm reading on my phone" attitude?  He's not texting so it's not a person I'm competing with.  He will, at rare times, squeal about some random fact that he found out about financial upgrades or whoever took over some soccer club in Europe or Brazil.  I've done my best circus performance but I'm not as young as I used to be and I'm quite used to being ignored so I tend to just stop trying and go do something that was on my list for the day.

Today, though, it occurred to me that this may be how you lose someone and perhaps I should try harder instead of resorting to my "Winter Boyfriend" ways...lol!  So, I ask, if there is any solution at all, I should try to learn it and apply it.  He sits in silence next to me, staring at the every interesting iphone, and I think he mentioned something about Johnny Depp so I can only assume it's about a movie.  I'm tempted to go shave my legs.  But instead, I believe I'll try once more.