I get out of the house so there's more "happening" to maybe catch my interest/end the boredom. I like "window shopping" in grocery stores; if you could only buy one item for yourself there, what would it be and why? Peruse the "international" aisle and wonder about what people in other countries really eat and/or pretend you are that nationality.

Just going for a walk in my neighborhood can get my mind moving and thinking up things; you notice a particular type of bird, or a rabbit/squirrel, or that house 3 looks like house 6 and that the houses were developed by pattern which you'd never noticed before and you compare the other ones to the one you live in and wonder would you like their pattern better :-) or you do a bit of looking in windows as you walk, noticing yards and landscaping and imagine being those people, living in those houses, etc.

Take the word "bored" and make an acrostic How to Write an Acrostic Poem :Poetry for Kids out of it with ideas of things to do:

Books
Origami
Ride around in the car/bus/etc. (have you ever toured your old neighborhoods?)
Edit and continue writing that story/article you started 4 months ago and then abandoned
Draw (http://asfgenglish12.wikispaces.com/...abetically.pdf)