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Kaili

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 09:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I know this thread must have existed at one time.. If not, and I honestly can't remember, it would be a good one to have. It fits into the getting to know you, introduce yourself kind of thing.

I really don't have many hobbies, but I know some of you must! What are they???

Here are a few things that I do/am interested in...

I have fish- not sure if I would call them a hobby but taking care of them is something I do- I just got a bigger tank so I have to figure out how exactly i want to go about moving them since I plan on using the same stand. They're just plain old tropical fish- the whole saltwater thing seems to complicated for me.

My mom has 3 horses so I like riding but I don't do any fancy jumping or anything like that. They aren't used to saddles so I stick with stuff that won't make me go flying.

So I guess animals big and small are a sort of hobby/something I enjoy.

I don't know if anyone has ever heard of "geocaching" but if you have a GPS it's sort of a fun thing to do. You go to the geocaching website and search for caches in your area. What it is, is people take little containers and hide them all over in forests, parks, etc and it's sort of a scavenger hunt. You get the coordinates for them on the website, then you go and look for them. When you find one, you put something in it and take something from it. People leave all kinds of little things in them- then there's usually a little notebook where you can sign in and say what you took and left (if anything)- people write about the walk to find it, the weather that day, how easy or hard it was to find, etc.

I like wine tasting but I don't go to wineries and swish and spit. Wisconsin wineries are basically fruit wines that I don't like. So instead I just buy different kinds and keep track of all the ones I have tried and whether I liked them or not. Along the same line, I like trying different beers and micro-breweries too.

I wish I could call travel a hobby, but I don't have the time or money to take a lot of trips so it's a hobby/interest I wish I had :) When I do have vacation though, I cannot stand to stay at home!

I like photography- mostly nature stuff. I look for weird insects, pretty flowers and go for close up shots, but I also like wide angle scenic shots. I wish I had a dark room so I could develop my own stuff and play around with it, but that's just not to be in an apartment!

Oh! I'm a houseplant freak too! I want my apartment to look like a jungle so I have plant stands and shelves all over. I love getting my hands all muddy and dirty, so transplanting and new plant time is my favorite. Probably why I have so many- I buy new plants just to have that pleasure. I wish I could do more flowers and vegetables, but again apartment living doesn't really make that happen very easily!

I like kayaking- but I'm scared of river/whitewater kayaking cause I get visions of my head meeting up with rocks. I would rather paddle around on a flat lake or calm river.

I don't have any collections of anything though.

Anyway- any hobbies or interests anyone else has to share?

Sweetbabygirl

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 10:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hmmmm, interests/hobbies....I have a few.

First, my family and friends can tell you that I am obsessed with Lucille Ball; I have been since childhood. I have seen all the shows (including that God-awful last one, Life With Lucy....WTF did she do that for?!). Anyhew, I have Lucy stuff at my desk; a mousepad, photo, 3-D card. I also have a keychain and pocketbook, plus a doll, magnets, videos, books and figurines at home. Now that my boyfriend has the Lucy-Desi Museum catalog, I'm sure I will be getting some goodies on my birthday/Christmas, WOO-HOO!! I also love anything Sammy Davis, Jr. and Janis Joplin, but it isn't as bad as my Lucy worship.

I love to cook....I could watch someone prepare a meal and remember how to cook it. I can also cook by taste; for example, I'll look at the ingredients while I'm eating a meal and then try to make it myself....it usually comes out right, if not better.

I like to collect lingerie....however, my current financial status denies me the pleasure of buying great outfits :(

I like to sing, even though my cats may cringe at my melodius sounds. I used to take singing lessons, but I wouldn't say I'm ready for my closeup.

Can't wait to read all the other responses!!

Marysafan

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 10:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Great idea Kaili!

As far as hobbies go, I am first and fore most an avid reader. Historical fiction is probably my favorite genre, but I also read a lot of biographies. In the last few years, I have made myself read more fiction and try to expand my reading out of my usual rut. I have read about half of Oprah's list and have found some treasures via garage sales that have lead me to explore other authors. I am currently on a Nelson Demille kick and am in the middle of "Charm School" which is so intense...I had to put it down for awhile as it was totally stressing me out.

Next comes counted cross stitching. I picked it up in the mid-eighties. I always say that life drives me crazy, but stitching helps keep me sane. There is an artist named Paula Vaughan who has had many of her pieces made into cross stitch patterns. They are mostly of scenes with quilts, flowers, and antiques. I have stitched many of her pieces and will continue to stitch many more. My stash of charts has reached SABLE which means Stash Above and Beyond Life Expectancy...so I have enought to keep me stitching for years to come.

My two passions in life are hockey and NASCAR racing. I am availble for discussion on either subject anytime of the day or night. I am a hockey fan first and a Red Wings fan second. In NASCAR, I don't have one favorite driver to root for since Davey Allison died back in 1993. I have several favorites...and a couple not so favorite...but I love racing and love NASCAR truck racing the best.

Other than that tv, and the internet keep me entertained.

Bigd

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 10:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I play tennis, usually 3 - 4 times a week. I play competitively and take it rather serious but still have a great time.

I love to cook and I am rather like Sweetbabygirl in that aspect.

I also love to sing and play the piano. I work as music director at a church. I often play and sometimes sing at weddings and funerals.

I am also an avid reader....mostly suspense/mystery type stuff.

Jagger

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 10:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't have too many hobbies, but the ones I do have keep me busy.

I love to fish, but don't own a boat so I need to rely on others to get me out in the lake.

I like to do landscaping, growing both flowers and vegtables. This spring I built 2 new raised flower beds and transplanted about 200 flowers, now I am out of room so I need to redesign my yard again so I can build some more beds.

I also spend time playing with and walking my dog. In the winter time I really don't do much other than watch TV and play on the internet.

Kaili I like the idea of the scavanger hunt, sounds like a lot of fun.

Squaredsc

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 10:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
tvch is my hobby.

Wargod

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 10:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, I need Jagger to come help with some landscaping, Kaili to come help with the houseplants, and SBG and Mary to come do the cooking.

Hate to cook, but clean like a maniac. I have actually turned cleaning into an organized hobby and when I feel like it, I can find anything to do!

Reading is a big past time. I love Sci-fi/fantasy and horror, but will read anything I can get my hands on, down to junk mail just for something to do.

With the exception of sewing, knitting, and crotcheing, I have tried most arts and crafts. I can cross stitch, paint, draw, do stained glass, make beaded jewelry, painting little figurines, wood carving and burning, and probably a ton of stuff I'm forgetting right now, LOL. I'm not neccessarily great at any of it, but I can do it, LOL.

Other hobbies are the computer, playing and spending time with my kids and pets, and spending as much time as I can with my neices and nephews just because they are fun. (Edited to add...yup, TVCH too, thanks Square!)

Ladytex

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 10:44 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Lets see ...
I love stamping, I make my own cards and postcards for my girls at church. I'm a paper freak and love to collect scraps of paper to make things.

I enjoy Gallery Glass. I've painted my kitchen window, the kids bathroom window, the Texas-shaped mirror in my son's room and my backdoor. I've also done some suncatchers.

I like to read. I read almost anything and everything. Right now historicals and mysteries are my favorites, but that may change by tomorrow, lol.

I'm a soccermom, a basketball mom, football mom, etc ... you get the picture. All of my kids are very athletic and participate in multiple sports.

I collect unicorns and angels.

I love teenagers and love to be around them, at least most of the time.

I'm a reality tv addict, as are many of us here, and also computers are an interest, too.

Sheesh, I'm tired just thinking about this ...

Sweetbabygirl

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 10:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
War, if you clean my house, I guarantee you one helluva meal!

Dopey me, I forgot to mention that TVCH and Soapzone are also interests.

Jagger

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 10:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'll second what SBG said, War if you come clean my house I'll come over and do some landscaping for you. I dispice housecleaning, especially the bathroom.

Wargod

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 10:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, deal!

Twiggyish

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 11:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I collect old and first edition books. I'm also an avid reader (when I have the time) Other interests.. camping, the environment and computers. I also love history and historical places..usually vacations include at least one historical place. (If possible)..another interest is genealogy.

Kaili

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 11:04 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ooooh- I hate cleaning bathrooms too! I cleaned mine at my old apartment the other day- you know, the kind of cleaning you don't otherwise do- I had a chemical headache for hours from the cleaners. But I have to say, it looks good! I do like to vacuum though...

I read like crazy too- I've been reading those "girl" books a lot lately- the ones taht are pretty much always either based in NYC or England, like the Shopaholic series. They're pretty funny :)

Jagger- check the site out http://www.geocaching.com/

You really need a GPS for it, but you end up finding some pretty nice walking trails because if it. People also make comments on the website about the caches they have found.

Kaili

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 11:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I love camping too, but I don't get around to it very often. When I was younger we used to camp in National Forests where it's free and more camping-ish. You know- gather your own wood, create your own fire pit with rocks laying around. I miss those days...

I got so used to it (my mom had us living in a tent for a summer when I was about 4) that now when I go, I hate going to camp sites where you have to pay and are 10 feet from the next set of campers on every side of you.

Not1worry

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 11:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Reading and more reading. I usually have at least 2 fiction books going and 4 or more non-fiction. My favorite are well-written Christian fiction, but those are difficult to find. I'll read almost anything except sci/fi and fantasy (Wargod, it sounds like our libraries would be totally opposite!)

I used to cross-stitch all the time. Then I made a huge wedding one for my brother and paid a ton to have it beautifully framed and he was divorced in less than 2 years. Not to minimize the whole divorce thing, but I worked hard on that! I was at least hoping he'd give it back so I could salvage the frame. I want to stitch some more, but the framing cost kills me. Clearly I need to take up framing as a hobby.

I have a dedicated jigsaw puzzle table in my bedroom. As soon as I put the last piece in one, I take it apart and begin another. It kept me sane while my husband was in Afghanistan. Sometimes I do 4 or 5 a week.

The computer is a hobby, I suppose. I spend enough time on it.

Don't care too much for cooking, cleaning, or yard work. Only do it when I have to.

Wargod

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 11:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Not, I wonder if we might not have two books in our collections that would be the same. They're novels by Frank E. Peretti, the first one is called This Present Darkness. Haven't read it in forever, and can't recall what the second was called, but they are Christian fiction.

Not1worry

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 02:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wargod, you're right! I did read all his novels some time ago. I really enjoyed them, they were very different type novels. One I read was definitely on the gory side.

Now I feel like re-reading Present Darkness. Off to the library!

Wargod

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 02:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, I used that book for a book report in high school. So did a friend, and after my presentation, I sat down and he leaned over and whispered, "Is that really what the book was about? Shoot, I'm going to fail."

I've got the first one, I also have the second one (and still can't remember the title,) but not sure if he did anymore along those lines.

Sage

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 02:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'd say my number one hobby right now is reading. Right now I'm into historical romance and sci-fi/fantasy. Its the kind of books that help me keep my sanity - pure escapism.

I love to paint. I've done oils on canvas but right now I'm mainly painting with acrylics on rocks. I've been spending about 4 to 5 hours a day painting.

I've also done a little photography, crocheting, and beading. I spent about a year and a half doing nothing but beading. That was like an addiction!

Then I got hooked on the computer and spent hours doing digital art. 4 years ago, I discovered TVCH, and well that was/is a huge addiction along with chat. I don't spend as much time on the computer as I used to though.

Another passion I have is music. I don't play it, but I listen to it. I love going to mp3.com and finding new and unknown artists and listening and downloading their stuff, then making CD's. I am also researching and discovering bands that make the music I'm currently enthralled with - rock, hard rock, metal, some heavy metal.

Cooking is okay, I'm pretty good at it, but don't love to do it. I hate housework, but hate a messy house even more.

Sia

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 04:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Current interests/hobbies:
Accounting (for home budgeting; I keep all my receipts and log them in a journal, enter them in the computer and do reports when I have the time)
Amateur photography
Antique furniture
Cats (housecats, farm-cats, and collectibles)
Children (mine!)
Computer games (role-player games, puzzle games, etc.)
Crochet
Cro-knitting (a new skill for me)
Cross-stitch
Home decorating\home improvements (wish I had tons of $$$!!!)
Knitting
Music (piano and voice)
Painting (acrylics, oils, watercolors)
Quilting
Reading (lots of fiction, science fiction, some nonfiction; have read all but about six Oprah books--hated most of them!!)
Scrapbooking for my children
Sending greeting cards to sick friends/relatives, sending birthday cards and photos to family and friends
Sewing (embroidery, crewel embroidery, mending--I love any hand-sewing)
Soap operas (Y&R, DOOL, Passions)
Survivor, Big Brother, TAR
Thank-yous (I thank everyone in writing for EVERYTHING!!!)
Tropical fish (I have raised platys, which are live-bearers)
TVCH (I love posting graphics in others' folders)
Writing letters (with a pen on stationery or blank notecards)

Former hobbies I had to give up:
Chat-room participation, almost daily (I belonged to a TalkCity room devoted to "Days of Our Lives")
Foster parenting (something else I loved that I gave up when I got married)
Mice (I had to give up breeding mice when I got married!)
Public education (I left the field when my son was a baby, however)
Sewing clothing (I used to do a lot more than I have time for now)

Not1worry

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 05:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow...I could have a really long list of hobbies that I've given up due to marriage/kids. Exercise, sewing, writing, traveling.

Sia, my great-aunt would love you. She thinks thank-you notes are mandatory for any and everything. When I was about 11, I failed to thank her in writing for a Valentine's gift (probably 5 bucks). For Easter she pointedly sent my brother a gift and omitted me. Even now I get stressed if I haven't gotten a thank-you in the mail to her within 5 days.

Texasdeb

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 06:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My best ever hobby is happening right now: being the best Mamaw my adorable 3 grandsons could ever want. Ever heard of team Grandma - that's me! Football, Soccer, Basketball & Baseball. I myself usually do about 1/2 of all the baking for the fundraisers (and yes, I have my own stickers for which ever sport that says "Goodies from Mamaw's Kitchen"). Always have loved sports - actually only quit playing competitive Softball & Basketball 15 yrs ago. Was either team Mom or Coach for all three of my own children. I, too Love to cook (I admit - I need War to come clean up after me too). When I eat out @ a nice rest., I try to order something different - if I like it, I make mental notes all through dinner & then give it my all w/in a couple of days to try to duplicate it. Sometime I do really good and alot of times I waste food & time. Have lots of other interests but this post is too long already.

Kristylovesbb

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 06:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My hobbies include avid reading, cooking, sewing and most of all my parrots. My birds have two rooms in my home, one houses their cages and food bins, the other consists of ropes chains, trees, hanging toys and all sorts of stuff to play with. I have four large parrots, four cockatiels, and two finches. Each day the four large birds are taken out of their cages and allowed to play in their play room for two to three hours. During this time I teach them songs and tricks. When people come to my home they cannot believe the intelligence they posses and the tricks they perform, for instance, If they want a shower they tell me they want a shower, if they want water they say "want some water" and sure enough I look and their water bottle is empty. They all tell me they love me and ask for kisses. If I put on make-up, they say mamas got to go to work, I don't work outside the home but when I did they remember I put on make-up. You honestly would not believe some of the tricks they perform and the things they say. I love every minute I spend with these wonderful creatures and would not take a million dollars for them.

Ladytex

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 07:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That sounds so cool, Kristy! I'd love to hear more!

Not1worry

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 07:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kristy, my weldor husband just spent weeks custom building a birdcage for a guy with 2 macaws. It was 6 ft. wide, 10 ft. long and 7 ft. tall. Those are some spoiled birds! They things they say are wild, they crack me up.