It's probably good to let those stories rest for a while. My advise is to give them a few months then look back on them again with fresh eyes. There must have been a spark that had gotten you going in the first place - maybe TOT (tincture of time) is a good choice.

There's really nothing too ordinary that can't be written about - maybe take a break and check out some stories by award winning authors Ali Smith, Zadie Smith (just won the Orange Award for On Beauty, or Anne Tyler. Ali Smith's stories are just full of atmosphere, but don't seem to follow any of the rules. Zadie Smith writes about ordinary life with cross-cultural twists. And Anne Tyler's stories revolve around Baltimore - in her latest work, Digging to America, the outside world - Korean orphans and Iranian refugees - converge on a neighborhood in suburbia.