My early sobriety i went to Prisons and hospitals and half way houses and dosh houses and did 12 step work wasnt any time to get bored just passing on the message giving back what i had got , today with the virus these things arnt possible but im sure there are plenty of new hobbies out there keep on trucking
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These are wonderful moments.
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My mum was the same!!! If ever I said I was bored she would shout,āonly small minded people get boredā! Lol. I also struggled though with filling my old drinking time with something new. The possibilities are endless once you get started and push yourself to try thingsā¦It took a few months for me to start and try things. Iām glad I did! Iāve taught myself all sorts of things!! Every days a school dayā¦(mum used to say this also). God bless em! 
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The time that I spent drinking and thinking about drinking and recovering from drinking was dead time. I accomplished nothing. Hungover, I would roll into the living room and zone out watching brainless crap on tv.
When I quit drinking, I no longer needed to recover from last nightās hangover. I was amazed at the additional hours in every day. At six months of sobriety during which I cocooned on my sofa, I started trying new actives on for size. It took a while before I was able to find things I really enjoy-- and for me, a lot of it was reclaiming what I loved from the time before I drank. Sobriety also helped me take an honest look around me: my apartment looked like shit. I started organizing and cleaning and painting and making it a home.
There was nothing more boring than sitting in a bar and drinking until I could barely walk or think. I drank because I was bored and because I thought thatās what people did to fill the time.
Sobriety is when I realized how amazingly boring my drinking life was.
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Really well said Allie; I bookmarked itā¦ 
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whew, there is so much to do in this life. the world is bursting with opportunities! seek them out. try envisioning yourself bored for the rest of your life, that might get you the motivation to get out and do some things. 
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Ok you win ill start cleaning and ill work out more
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Iāll give you my address. I can provide you with pizza and soda for your services.
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Coming off adderall and drinking pizza has become a crutch for meā:rofl:
This is a great thread. I agree with lots of the above. You make your own fun.
In my drunk days, I now realise that I wasted so much time, and cancelled fun things as the hangover never allowed it, or it involved me driving there, so I couldnāt drink. I used to get frustrated and angry that I never achieved any of the things I wanted to get done in my days.
Now in sobriety, I wake up excited by the day ahead, even if it entails work or cleaning the loo! My confidence and self esteem is improving, half of the reason I drank in the first place, and I realise I can be fun, outgoing and Iām present most of the time. My husband and I try to do something new every weekend, a walk to a new place, or to clear a cupboard of years of old toys. Itās a conscious decision, but it stops things including our relationship, becoming mundane, which I now realise it was. So fixing me, is fixing us.
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I FEEL YOU! God, I feel like nothing entertains me anymore. Itās been one of the biggest struggles for my sobriety. Even if I am doing something thats not boringā¦ Iām still bored. Itās like my brain only finds fun in being high. Itās annoying asf if I must be frank. We just have to try to do things differently than weāve done before. Easier said than done though. I havent done anything I said I was going to do. I just stay on social media all day or play games on my phone. Keeps me distracted but doesnāt take the boredom away.
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