JFF - What Are Your Hobbies?

Traveling with my only daughter but starting a new job in April had cramped that a bit. I had five weeks vacation and twelve holidays previously and this job takes up waaaay too much time (and she just started college). Love to read, kickbox, do pilates, go to Disneyland, Sea World and the beach. Oh, forgot I'm guilty of some trashy reality shows.

Reading.

Daydreaming (I can do this while doing other things, so I don't focus on it completely).

Running (this is a new hobby for me, and I don't really LOVE running, but it is addicting).

Former hobbies (before kids and work and when I had time and someday hope to find the time again): Sketching, photography, hiking/backpacking, collecting odd things on walks (sticks, rocks, leaves, critters), hunting, fishing, baking, and wandering in used book stores and antique stores.

Lol... I clean my house. I know you are all probably thinking this womans a nutbag! But I actually like to clean ( but only my own home)

I scrapbook but not the usual way. I like pictures but not all that junk people put all over the page. My 4.5 year old son has TEN scrapbooks. Yup, he's an only child...

I use to love scrapbooking. My girls are now 7 and 8 and I just don't have the time or urge to do it anymore but feel like I can't just drop it. I've always done my own pages, lots of detail, but am considering never printing pics again and just ordering photo books now and then through sites like kodakgallery.

I love reading but I've had a hard time finding a series (or any single book for that matter) that I enjoyed even half as much as The Twilight Series. Pathetic, I know!!! :)

I love to bake, but only keep small quantities in the house....send most to my hubby's work with him!

I can be quite a couch potato...I'm a lover if reality tv shows (survivor, biggest loser, amazing race, idol, big brother). That's my wind down time after the girls have gone to bed. Thank goodness for DVR (or TiVo)!

I was in to yoga for a while...but like ANY exercise that enters my life, it's exit is eminent! I'd love to give zumba a try though, that looks like fun. But who am I kidding...I'll get 2 wks into it and walk away.

Huh. I sound pretty boring!! Luckily....I'm not bored. :)

I like fitness and cooking......they are oddly combative!. I also really enjoy scrap booking, painting, remodeling, art, bargain hunting and once upon a time i liked racquetball(until they closed the center)

yoga is my new passion, its like meditating and working out at the same time, when im done i feel like a very relaxed version of gumby

Reading -- true crime and books on angels (I know, does that even make sense?). But those 2 things I enjoy reading.

Making beaded jewelry for myself and formerly to sell.

Collecting & trying new recipes.

I love seeing all the things people do, it gives me ideas of things I'd lime to try. I love reading, running (recently started ), hula hooping ( also recently started, sounds kind if silly but it's actually really fun and a great way to de-stress, added bonus that kids like it too), and baking.

Reading science fiction and fantasy novels, writing, watching TV, playing video games, sculpting clay, painting with watercolor and figuring out ways to patch up all the stuff that keeps falling apart in this house.

I have always loved to read! I also Snowmobile in the mountains. I enjoy weightlifting and like to be in a routine, but am seriously side-lined by an injury (neck) right now.

I am very involved in my local childcare community and serve on the Executive board for an association I helped start a few years ago. I enjoy it and it also keeps me busy!

Sewing, soapmaking, gardening, ceramics, cooking and traveling. Sometimes they go in cycles but I usually return to sewing as my source of relaxation.

The other S.

PS Where else can you go and make something that no one else has?

crosstitch, playing games, reading, beading

Reading magazines at the gym, creating art--drawing/painting/clay sculptures, mamapedia :) internet browsing.

Making stained glass windows, mosaics, and glass beads
Dance, Dance Revolution
Reading
Shopping for girls clothes
Photographing my daughters / making photo albums

I scrapbook, garden, craft and play video games.

Reading, video games, and I also paint miniatures figures.

- Breaking myself (I'm currently have a shoulder on week 3 of a 6mo surgery rehab, and 2 knees that need replacing, one of which is currently so swollen I can't bend it. Makes walking challenging, and driving impossible, hopefully the swelling will go down by tomorrow. My meniscus is torn in 3 places -has been for 20 years- and it occasionally starts "leaking" and forming Bakers cysts. So. Much. Fun.)

- Reading

- Writing

- Photography

- Sports (a bunch of 'em; swimming, diving, martial arts, shooting, horseback riding, rowing/crew, snowboarding. There are a bunch I can't do, because they aren't availble locally; surfing, polo, etc. ).

((These are NOT how I do #1 on the list. I accomplish breaking myself usually by tripping over dust motes in my living room, or walking into a null gravity zone on the sidewalk, or testing the tensile strength of my stairs walking up them. ))

- Feeding the elephant's child

A week and a half ago they were, Drawing, ballet and educating myself on Politics.

Now it is Occupy 99/Tacoma, drawing, ballet and the educating myself has moved to the front because it is what I am doing with the Occupy group.

I love that I have been able to live and breathe my hobbies.

Before the movement started I was loving getting to be an artist, drawing childrens books illustration...so it is keeping me fresh!!

Hot Rods
Vintage and Antique shopping
Photography
Baking
=)
Fun question

I watch tv or read romance novels (used to read mysteries and sci-fi). Sudoku puzzles(used to do crosswords and jigsaw puzzles) And almost any type of arts and crafts- origami, tatting, inkle weaving, sewing, and stained glass.

Health and fitness.
Art and Free hand engraving.
Reading
New York Times crossword puzzles
Sudoku puzzles

Reading - fiction and non-fiction
Karate - just earned my 1st degree black belt in August, working on 2nd degree
Running - not far or fast but regularly for 27 years
Biking - not for speed but for fun on the miles of bike trails right out my front door
Doing all the above with my 9 year-old daughter!

In the past, gardening, but have a real small garden space right now. Cooking, but it's only the two of us, so not so much right now.

reading
shopping
blogging
being a mommy
cooking
golfing
fishing
biking
writing stories

reading, sewing, making bows, talking about tv shows

Movies - can movies be a hobby?
Reading, when I can focus.
Exercising, not hardcore just something I do for me a couple times a week.

Mama to 7 yo twins

couponing
reading (when I find time)
cooking/baking
I like to do little decorating projects but since my LO came 3 years ago they have become pretty minimal
I LOVE party planning so my kids' birthdays can be a little over the top!

Want to learn to knit but I'm a lefty and it seems no one can teach me!

twirling baton, sewing, plastic canvas, and anything crafty, oh and cooking