Actually...I DID take up golf! And could kick myself for not doing it sooner!

I'm laughing - I play golf, too. But I don't think that's really what you're looking for... I think it's about doing something out of your comfort-zone, so that you know that life doesn't have to be as routine as it might feel (wonder if I am projecting much??...) so, maybe volunteering, taking a dance class, cooking class, or... taking a different way to get to work?

Short term: if I am at crossroads (tm Britney Spears) during the day, I jump in the shower. If I cannot make a decision about something - the shower always helps. That plus I am a rabid leg shaver.

Long term: I color my hair, get some bangs cut or tell myself that yes! you will scrapbook your wedding (5 years ago)/vacation to LA/Vegas/Iowa et al, and so forth. I will then proceed to buy $30 worth of scrapbooking supplies and tuck it away. Ha. Never producing a book. So OMG why am I even telling you this? I am a mess!

Ha! I love your blog - the banner graphic is the best!

Rearrange the furniture and/or paint a wall. Other than that, you've got all mine covered, right down to the tongue ring and law school.

You could also start training for a half-marathon, which is my current plan once the weather is no longer deadly. Thirteen miles sounds much friendlier than 26, I think, but is still quite an accomplishment.

TRAVEL, baby! Go on a big trip. Or apply to go into the Peace Corps.

Rearrange all the furniture in my place. Then I can pretend that I'm living in a new place. It's a little trickier in my current place so I painted a room instead.

I have gotten a henna tattoo. That way it's gone in a couple of weeks.

The nose piercing was feeling pretty satisfying a few weeks ago but now I'm itching for something else. I think I'm going to try to head up to Bodega sometime this week.

Travel to Australia and experience a week on the piss with a monkey and his crazed friends?

When I am restless within my soul, I lean towards the creative. Write a song, a poem, make a pretty picture (i like pretty)...

Music is by far the single most important method of keeping sanity I've come across. When you start playing a song you like, or writing one, everything else seems to disappear from your mind... caught in the moment and the sounds. It's a form of meditation.

Do you play an instrument? If you don't - this could be a good thing to do. A skill you'll enjoy just as much when you're 70 as you do now.

COME TO CHICAGO FOR LOLLAPALOOZA.

ginger is coming. you've met her!

feelin' a little drastic myself. apartment swap? :) ha ha ha just kidding.

de-lurking to say i'm in the same rut, so i'm thinking of trying out for a roller derby team! i hear they're huge in the States...

i put on my red and black cowboy boots, by $100 worth of bubble bath, and drive with the radio blaring and all the windows down.

seriously.

i'm not normal!

I wait till the feeling goes away or something drastic is decided for me, but I wouldn't advocate that approach. In fact, I could learn a lot from your track record!

Whatever you do, DO NOT take up printmaking.

(over here via CAP's site, lurking, etc, but had to speak up...Also you said 'whatevs', which is my new fave slang. Annyywaaayy.). I recently wrote about similar issues...blue, lack of focus, etc etc. A friend wisely attributed it to our late 20s. Not helpful. But I think possibly true. Yet when I tried to get "over it" about a month ago, I got salmonella. So hoping that's not a sign.