What do you do for fun & hobbies?

Knitting
Sewing
Cooking
Decorating cakes
Canning
Gardening
Woodworking
Reading
SKIING
Backpacking
Camping
Hiking
Sailing
Watching my kid play football
Going to sporting events with my kids
ham radios
 
Live roleplay
Tabletop roleplay
Playing guitar
Watching movies
Cooking
Painting toy soldiers
Real ale
Procrastinating
Worrying
 
I just saw this thread

My list looks like this..

Running, (every morning) followed by something sweat and big coffee.

Soccer, at least 2 games during the week and on Sunday mornings.

Class, the longer I am in college the better I am enjoying my classes.

Cooking, it feel like cooking is a survival skill and everyone should learn.

Books, I love the idea of books but I don't get to read for fun that often.

My Journal, when I first moved in Renee had me keep one. I have leaned so much for it.

Parenting, I know I am not the boys Mother or Father but I do play a critical part in their lives and its important that I do things the right way, and help raise them to be caring and thoughtful people.

That's just a few..
 
There's not a lot of time for hobbies which take us away from the kids and we home educate so the kids are always around.
I crochet and read when they're occupied and they've recently started indoor climbing lessons so while they're busy with the instructor my husband and I can climb together.
Otherwise we have to pay expensive babysitting rates to get out to do anything.
 
Re (from OP):
"What sort of fun things do all of you do for hobbies when you're not posting here?"

Oh crap, that eliminates my #1 hobby.

Well, sometimes I read, or do other computer stuff (e.g. Facebook, a thorn in my side). I suppose most of all I dig watching movies, also cool TV series such as Law & Order, Breaking Bad, the X Files ... you get the idea.

I used to have other hobbies like playing piano, composing songs for the piano ... for some reason I've lost interest in that though.

Re:
"How did you get into doing whatever it is you do?"

I like movies and TV shows (provided they're decent), I always have. I like rewatching stuff that's really good.

Heh; sex is pretty cool too.
 
write on my blog
cook
hunt down awesome sci-fi (usually space) movies that I haven't seen before
sex
try to find my physical problem and get better



Back before I started having chronic pain and some weird not-yet-diagnosed health problem, I used to do a lot of physical things. I swam, and did ugly mudders and climbing. Now going to doctors and trying different types of physical therapy, occupational therapy, and kinetics is practically a hobby. Hopefully someday I'll get back to the sports.
 
I guess travel would be my #1 hobby. I love adventure and seeing new places or experiencing new things. Road trips are the best!!

Writing is my passion. I love to read as well, but don't find as much time for it as I should.

The internet is definitely a hobby for me. I spend quite a bit of time enjoying it. I love research, socializing and exploring.

My kitchen is one of my favorite hobbies. I love cooking, planning, organizing, cleaning and just generally being in the kitchen.
 
I love to cook, especially homey, peasanty, Mediterranean-style foods. I also love eating out. Just food in general. :rolleyes:

I love travel. Fly and I did a lot of international travel, and I absolutely would move to southern France, Barcelona, or Argentina in a heartbeat. Moonlight and I do more domestic travel, local weekend road trips or Hawaii.

I read constantly, and I'll read almost anything. I enjoy movies, but don't watch them much. The only TV I'm into is Jeopardy, Grey's Anatomy, and football.

I really enjoy gardening, and am very into urban homesteading. This was easier when I lived with Fly, who has a house with a big, southern-exposed backyard (and a chicken coop!). I was over there to pick up kiddo the other day, and the columnar apple trees I planted two years ago have blossoms for the first time. It made me sad to leave all that behind. My apartment now has very little space and very little sun, but I still have a bunch of herbs, a little dwarf raspberry, and a potted olive tree.

I like going to performances, like ballet or theatrical productions. I have a special place in my heart for musicals. :)
 
Some people would say writing (I write romance books under one pen name, and teen fiction under another) is my hobby, but I don't consider it such. Six or so years ago, it was. I wrote just for fun, and pretty much no one read my stuff. But now I'm multi-published, and writing is my only source of income, so it's a career, no longer a hobby.

Last fall, I realized that since writing made that transition in my life, I didn't *have* a hobby, though a friend of mine who's also polyamorous said that in her opinion, juggling my kids, my household, and my relationships with Hubby and S2 was enough of a hobby... I talked to S2 about feeling like I needed something to do to take my focus off writing and give me a mental break.

He handed me his spare bass guitar (because who doesn't have more than one of those lying around) and said, "Here, learn how to play this."

Six months later, I'm competent with playing bass on a few classic rock songs, have composed three songs of my own plus the bass line for one or two of S2's original songs, and we're working on a set list that we plan to perform live--with additional musicians--starting about a year from now.

So I guess music is my hobby...
 
Music
Playing things with strings (guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo)
Cooking
Football (soccer)
Ballroom and Latin Dancing
Gardening and
Growing vegetables

Oh and sex :)
 
I feel that I don't really have hobbies as such, I do different things and don't really focus on one, but I do enjoy;
sex
reading
travel/visiting new places
camping
whatever sport is convenient, currently bikes and yoga, I want to put tennis but that is like once every few months.
mostly i want to spend my free time having very fun active sex.
 
Fun, my favorite subject! :)

My favorite activities are:

Music, playing and listening
Hiking
swimming
street motorcycle riding
dirt motorcycle riding
camping (trailer. I like hairdryers :p )
Traveling

I am lucky to get to do all these things frequently. I don't know how I got started. Music has been a part of my life since I can remember, motorcycling started at 13 when I sold my soul for my first bike and everything else just kind of happened, I guess.
 
  • Trap people in deep pits
  • Feed them flat, dried up roadkill on a string
  • Occasionally throw in a live rat for a treat and a bit of exercise from having to fight it to the death
  • Stamp collecting
 
You know I've always had a thing for deep-pit trapping myself. :) What are the odds, eh?
 
Remind me not to accept a dinner invitation from either of you...

:p
 
Don't worry, I wouldn't make you sit in the booby-trapped seat. Honest, you can trust me! :cool:
 
That's not camping, that's RVing. A perfectly respectable hobby in its own right, but not camping. ;)

Well we also set tents up.... and occasionally sleep in them ourselves. It is usually the kids in the tents though, because the memory foam bed in the trailer is more comfortable for some reason. lol! Up until a few months ago we were lifelong tent campers, but then I got old, or soft, weak? So yeah, true. :D
 
Well we also set tents up.... and occasionally sleep in them ourselves. It is usually the kids in the tents though, because the memory foam bed in the trailer is more comfortable for some reason. lol! Up until a few months ago we were lifelong tent campers, but then I got old, or soft, weak? So yeah, true. :D

Fair enough. I guess the definition of camping is allowed to change a little bit as the body ages :)
 
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