Bored: An Ephinany

“I’m bored”

She looked around the room. Okay, she thought, that’s plausible. One would only have to get tired of 24 plush Disney characters, play every bored game known to man, ruin the hair of 17 fashion dolls and 10 actual barbies, exhaust every possible building construction for a collection of approximately 500,000 Legos... She was beginning to hate Santa Clause.

“MOOOOMMM!”

“What?!”

“I’m BORED!”

She thought of dinner not made, and the fact that she had probably 2 hours worth of dishes to do before she could start. She thought of bed clothes not changed in a quarter of a year, and the quarter inch of dust on the cluttered mantel. She thought of the movie she’d wanted to see two years ago, that she hasn’t even seen via netflix because the children won’t let her watch anything unanimated.

“MOM?”

“Oh. Right. Bored.”

They looked at her, expectation rolling off of them in high crested waves, threatening to drown her.

“Well, why don’t you start in the kitchen?” 

Written for Trifecta

EXHAUST (transitive verb)
1a : to consume entirely : use up <exhausted our funds in a week>
  b : to tire extremely or completely <exhausted by overwork>
  c : to deprive of a valuable quality or constituent <exhaust a photographic developer>
2a : to draw off or let out completely
  b : to empty by drawing off the contents; specifically : to create a vacuum in
3a : to consider or discuss (a subject) thoroughly or completely  

  b : to try out the whole number of <exhausted all the possibilities>

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This week's word is: exhaust.