What's your hobby???

[shortysweetp]

I personally have many hobbies and was wondering what some of yours are. I love to quilt, sew, cook, read (of course), and a few other little crafts like making dreamcatchers.

[kilted exile]

Hobbies. Well reading (not for any literary examination really, only enjoyment of a good story); I play a wide number of sports (and watch even more); Waste Management Practices (yeah, I am that dull) & I like to build things (my current project is a otterman)

[Beaumains]

I read a lot obviously, but I do a lot of different sports as well. I debate matters of political importance with my friends frequently too. Besides that, I just do whatever I am inclined to do.

[imthefoolonthehill]

my newest hobby: i'm writing a day calendar.

I'm about half way through.

Other than that, I write poetry and books (i'm working on my second)... mostly for my own enjoyment/release... i've only shown them to three or four people.

Aside from that, I love the outdoors, used to go camping once a month, every month of the year.

I also like to read (duh) and I love to learn. I've read most of the articles on my Encarta '97 program.

[mono]

I think I have more hobbies than I would like, as too many result in distracting me from things like college.
Most of the time, I read (of course), write a lot (poetry, plays, and music), do a lot of walking in natural scenic areas, play chess (face-to-face or on Yahoo Games), cook, chit-chat with some of my good friends and family, attend concerts, watch movies, and, though it never sounds fun to others, study much on the subjects of human anatomy and physiology, microbiology, organic chemistry, and French.
I wish I could commit more to visual arts (sculpting, painting, sketching, etc.), but can never quite develop the talent. :p

[Koa]

I sometimes think I have too many different interests which make me too scatterbrained (I love this word) but yesterday my brother said it doesnt look like I'm really interesting so I've started to wonder...(but he seems not to understand that I study languages and literatures cos I like them, not just as a career choice).
Well I like to read, to listen to music, to learn language even if I can't put myself to do it as a hobby cos if I have no lessons I just avoid studying...though I love to translate (especially songs) when I have time... Well I like to chat, online but not only... and learn things about other cultures...but I guess that travelling doesnt count as a hobby...
I don't really have any 'manual' hobbies as I really lack patience and I'm really clumsy anyway... so everytime I've really made something, it was never as I wanted it to be :S

[Bianca Fransen]

This is nice to read! Though I must admit I do not have as much to contribute :bawling:. Haha.
I love reading and watching all the detectives and CSI-like television shows. I write whenever I can. Besides that I spent almost all my evenings with friends or my sisters. With my sisters I talk and talk and talk and... With friends I go to the movies, play games (Scrabble, Rummikub, Colonist of Catan, card games) or talk about literature. Oh, and I dance.. I don't do it well.. but love to go to the dancing school and have been going there for nearly 10 years. Classical dances: tango, quickstep, chachacha, stuff like that. Ehm, and lately I have become addicted to coming to forums. Quite bad for me :crash: :D

[Bongitybongbong]

hmmmm.................reading (what a shocker!), occasionally writing, basketball, American football, football, wrestling, building models of cars and other moving things, and just creating the most insane thoughts that are story-like.

[ihrocks]

I used to have lots of hobbies, then I became a Mom. :cool:

But now that the little one is a little older, I've been able to re-gain some hobby time. Naturally, reading is a big one, and writing when the muse is upon me (which hasn't been for quite awhile). After those two, are cooking and attempting to maintain some kind of garden in this desert climate that's disguised as a suburb. My final hobby, is maybe best called a collection of hobbies, or what I call my "projects." These frequently have to do with the little one, but not always. They can be anything from organizing a scavenger hunt, to sending a plastic troll on a trip around the world, to learning to make ceramics so I can teach my daughter to make ceramics, "kitchen science" (like growing crystals using laundry bluing and charcoal), and recycling old stuff with no purpose into new stuff with a new purpose.

And I waste a lot of time on the internet.

[Mark F.]

music, reading, drawing, cinema, drinking...

[scruffy_danny]

Aswell as reading, I have an obsession with drumming. I wonder if there are any other members in this forum that are drummers... (pm me if you are).

[baddad]

.....I'm drumming my fingers right now as I try to figure out if any of the miriad of activities I perform can be considered hobbies........


......I'm the type of person that bores rather quickly after I attain a level of profeciency at something......skydiving, motorcycles, whitewater rafting, whatever. I tend to change my hobbies quite frequently..............like now I've stopped drumming my fingers and have begun to tap my foot........

[papayahed]

I have a suspicion that i'd be a really good drummer.

[GruesomeBugman]

I have a lot of hobbies, but the ones I practice most often would be collecting beetles, reading, writing, drawing, and of course, enjoying good music.

[RococoLocket]

Hmm .. i'll try list a few.

Horse riding, baking, reading [obviously], fashion [this includes reading fashion magazines such as Vogue & Harpers & Queen, researching fashion of bygone & much lovelier eras, my favorite being Rococo, shopping even if it's just window-shopping, thinking up new outfits that i'll love & my Boyfriends aunty will tell me she hates :p etc], theatre [i'm an actress with a Youth Theatre but I consider acting my vocation rather than a hobby], collecting G1 [1980s] My Little Ponies, I can play a few instuments but I want to return to violin, learn piano & my Bf is currently teaching me guitar, I also wish to learn many languages, photography [I photograph myself because i've not been spotted by a professional photgrapher yet :p ], attending gigs [i'm an alt. music fan, metal etc], watching films & documentaries, visiting museums & art galleries, and i'd like to consider travelling a hobby too, although I can't afford it right now.

That's all I can think of at this present moment in time :)

[JaynaLove]

I used to have lots of hobbies, then I became a Mom.

That's like the hobby of the century!
And lets see I have lots of hobbies! First I like reading! I used to read all the time. In fact I read so much I was shy......wow. But than I discovered....the internet! Than my life changed. I stopped reading and my life became the computer. It still is actually. But now I've been getting more and more into reading.
Than I have Anime/Manga. My life source. My dream honestly is to become a manga artist and move to Japan, making drawing another of my hobbies. Perhaps sometime I can post a few pictures.
Anything else. Oh yes. Danny Phantom. I haven't been so obsessed with an American cartoon since I was a baby wondering how the people got into the tv! ^^

[underground]

i have no hobbies except for reading. well there are actually a million things i want to do, such as listening to music, learning to make music, playing the piano, learning to play the guitar, learning to play the drus, revisiting my violin case, taking a walk, riding my bike, going to the beach, hiking, going to the museums, learning about philosophy, learning about history, learning about every single subject you can think of, traveling to europe, traveling in asia, sketching, drawing, writing, observing nature, watching all the old movies, watching all the good movies, watching all the bad movies for the fun of it, learning how to use the computer, etc. etc.

but alas, i have no time. which is why i can only settle with reading. books are my friends.

[simon]

People watching, a usefull and meditative pastime often used by people suffering from boredom or with overly creative minds.

[applepie]

This may be a thread already, but what are your hobbies? We all know that we all like to read and maybe even write, but what else to you like to do in your free time?

For me it is cooking. I know this is a daily chore in most houses, but I love to cook. I'll sometimes spend hours making an elabrate meal. I have also been trying to cook and bake with my son. Making meatloaf is great fun when you are 4, and we're hoping to make bat sugar cookies for Halloween. I also love to quilt and crochet. Crocheting keeps me seated and satifies my need to fidget, and I just love the end result of quilting. Whenever I finally finish my daughter's quilt I'll post a picture.

[SleepyWitch]

aw, cooking must be such a nice hobby. i wish my dad would teach me how to do it.

my main hobbies apart from reading are swimming, running a group for kids (8-12 y/o) with my best friend+ going on a camp with those brats once a year, going out with my best friend (Starbucks, restaurants, windowshopping) and watching films in English.
I like lots of other things, too, but I won't list them all here. :yawnb: zzzZZZZ

[Pensive]

One hobby? Oh, I have too many. And they are all listed on my profile page. :D

[CdnReader]

When I'm not reading or studying, I like to watch films or sci-fi programs, or just relax and listen to music. I also love cross-stitching, but I haven't been able to do that for awhile. My "eyepower" is all used up in reading. :p

[BulletproofDork]

writing, but who doesn't like it?

[higley]

Word to Bulletproof. ;)

My hobbies are: collecting autographs (from athletes, authors etc), following my various sports teams, biking when time permits, dodging library fines, drawing dumb things when I should be drawing homework, my mission to know every word to every Dean Martin song and watching all his movies, and knowing everything possible about dolphins and species of. Smaller satellite hobbies are Sherlock Holmes, dinosaurs, and John Wayne's cowboy movies.

[andave_ya]

Music! Non-mainstream.

[Mortis Anarchy]

Painting/Drawing, listening to music...researching stuff and movies!! I love going to see movies in theater. Renting movies is fun as well. Lately whenever I have free time I just vegetate because I'm so tired from studying or applying to schools. But now I have some art projects I have to do so yay! But I'm constantly listening to music. :D

I like to cook, but prefer baking...but I don't anymore. I made a huge mess and lets just say the Madre was not to happy!

[Themis]

Writing - always and forever.

And cooking, of course. Mostly desserts - I'm a typically girl in that aspect. ;)

[Granny5]

When I have time, Counted cross stitch, knitting, but mostly genealogy research. I love researching our family tree and trying to find out who we were and where we've been.

[Nossa]

Learning and playing the Violin...I really like knitting as well, but not so good at it to be honest..lol

[Granny5]

I taught myself to knit and can only knit flat things, baby blankets, afagans, and scarves.

[Nossa]

I love crochet...and I tried learning how to do scarves, but I failed. I do smaller things, I'm still trying..lol

[Granny5]

I love crochet...and I tried learning how to do scarves, but I failed. I do smaller things, I'm still trying..lol

I know how to crochet, know all the stitches and how to read the patterns, but I can not keep the tension right. I start off with a right, but if a square is supposed to be 6 inches, it ends up 2!! I've tried everything but I hold my yarn too tight or something. I gave up several years ago on crochet.

[Nossa]

It is a bit hard, I first learned it at school, then I stopped practising when I entered university, but now I'm trying to remember what I learned before, it's quite hard, that I'm thinking about trying to find one of those teach-yourself websites, or maybe try and find someone who can teach me.

[Bakiryu]

My hobby is also my job. I'm a writer, I write everywhere but I haven't actually finished or published anything yet.

I also like reading and am learning how to sew. Art is my hobby too.

[blazeofglory]

If you really ask me what I like most is reading poems and theologies. The reason, one and only is life is a mystery, in fact a riddle and no books go deeper and deeper into some unknown realms than books of poems and theologies. When n I read Dante, or any other Sufi poems or Gibran or the Mahabharata or the Veda I find something that changes me, and of course they widened the horizon of thinking indeed.

If I have time to spare it is indeed to do some other things of creativeness. That is gardening. I have a great passion for traveling, and indeed it costs so much and not easily affordable I have deferred it at the moment.

[Dori]

In my spare time I usually engage in some sort of physical activity, whether it be a simple bike ride or a more elaborate event such as soccer or ice hockey. I also spend a good deal of time on the internet. However, I contribute most of my efforts towards my education, at least at this point.

[LadyWentworth]

I love researching our family tree and trying to find out who we were and where we've been.

I always try to begin that but I never have much luck. It is like my family never existed. I have such a hard time finding the necessary records and information. How do you go about your research?


Anyway, I have just too many hobbies for a sane person to have (at least semi-sane person :) ). Other than reading, I am really into films (I am a serious buff - I am talking all genres and all decades!). I am just as much into theater. I watch so much television that I guess you could practically consider it a hobby. :) I like to participate in Civil War reenacting. I just joined a dance troupe for 18th century dancing. I am a dancer (ballet, jazz, tap, bellydance and a little ballroom), but I guess I take that a little too seriously to consider it just a hobby. I collect a lot of stuff. My collections vary too much to list here. It varies from Coca-Cola memorabilia to Civil War stuff to Milwaukee Brewers memorabilia to Walt Disney Classics figurines ("Beauty and the Beast", to be specific), and so on. I love to color. Some people seem to find that silly. I guess become I am not a kid, but I absolutely love it!! I have an absolutely crazy hobby of making clothing from different time periods. I honestly don't know why I do this, but I do. For some reason I consider this enjoyable! I also like to do needlepoint, crosstitch and crochet. I think that is about it! :)

[Xcape]

I've taken on a new hobby. It's called a degree in English Literature at University.

I'm so excited I can hardly contain myself. :D

[RoCKiTcZa]

writing, definitely. And reading as well. I'm quite an excellent speed-reader ;) i play guitar, piano, and the bamboo flute, and I really loooove to sing (in fact I've already recorded a few songs for a singer-friend's album, and for a movie as well): I surf the net a lot (litnet is my main addiction) and have plans of making a better blog.:cool: My friends say that I have this strange determination in me that makes me capable of doing almost everything, save perhaps dancing.

[SleepyWitch]

I love to color. Some people seem to find that silly. I guess become I am not a kid, but I absolutely love it!!
you mean colouring like those colouring books for kids? heehee, I've thought about buying myself some of those, but so far I haven't been able to sum up the courage :)

[aabbcc]

This will sound like typical Mediterranean/Balcans young person's answer, but I love spending time in caffés and pubs with my friends.
There is probably little in this world [aside reading :lol:] which I thoroughly enjoy to that extent - coming to caffé, always meeting somebody there, sitting with them whilst staring at their faces through the clouds of smoke around us, ordering a cup of tea (tea drinker amongst coffee addicts :)), chatting, waiting for somebody to pull out cards, then playing cards; waiting for somebody to come with guitar, often the waitor himself if there are not many people in the pub, reading there, discussing just about everything - from world politics to literature - and meeting many new interesting people. It has become nearly a routine, before or after (or during :lol:) school going to caffé or pub, and hanging there. Sometimes even doing nothing, each lost in their drink and cigarette, contemplating life. I love it.
I usually combine it with going to library.

Another of my hobbies is walking. Instead of using public transport, I often walk wherever I need to go and let my thoughts settle down whilst I walk.
I also enjoy yoga (which is, since I stopped dancing when I was 14, about the only physical activity I have got in my life).

And there is, of course, reading, needless to mention. :) Reading, spending time in library and second-hand bookshops, everything of the kind.

[LadyWentworth]

you mean colouring like those colouring books for kids? heehee, I've thought about buying myself some of those, but so far I haven't been able to sum up the courage :)

Yes, I am talking about that kind. :) I like different kinds, though. Occasionally I like the ones that are pretty little kid-like (characters from cartoons and such). For those I like to use crayons. Otherwise I prefer ones like fashions from the Colonial period or scenes from Dickens' novels and other stuff that are not "traditional" coloring books. For these I use colored pencils. The paper is sturdier and pencils work good on that. Also, I like pencils because you can do more with shading and blending. This is a place where I like to get a lot of those types of coloring books:
http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-children-coloring-books.html

Go ahead, be brave and get some. I am telling you it is fun!!! Kind of therapeutic in a way, too! :D

[Granny5]

I always try to begin that but I never have much luck. It is like my family never existed. I have such a hard time finding the necessary records and information. How do you go about your research?


It's pretty easy now with the internet. Before, it was leg work and took forever to find something. Anything I find on the net, I try to confirm with records from courthouses, the State, census records, and family Bibles. But it makes it so much easier to get a start. I started with me, my parents, their parents, their parents, etc. I've go a massive file of all branches of my family tree. It's fun and I find all kinds of neat information. No horse thiefs so far. (Everyone seems to love finding a horse thief in their family tree.:lol: ) But I have a Revolutionary War Veteran as a great X 5 grandfather. There's a hugh marker at an old cemetary that I had seem since I was a kid, but I didn't know he was related until about 10 years ago.

[packersfan]

I love reading and writing (especcially poems)
and random art and piano

but the thing about me is i try and make a new hobby, but i quit after one day, but not because i cant do it, but because i get bored easily

[LadyWentworth]

It's pretty easy now with the internet.

You know, there is only ONE website that I have found with information. This is my mother's mother's side of the family. There is NO doubt that it is my family. It is a tree that someone else has created. I have been thinking of asking this guy for all the information that he could possibly give me. In return, I would correct the info that he has down there about my family. After all, I am directly related. So, I am able to give him correct names (he has a couple of names mixed up) and dates. So, I will give him my info if he gives me his! Kind of sounds like an odd sort of blackmail, doesn't it? :p

I can't find any info on my mother's father's family, but I, at least, have the mother's side.

As for my father's family, they never existed! It is crazy. I can't even find out any information on them coming over to America! There has to be SOME record somewhere! I figure that will help me start on his relatives in Europe.


I have a Revolutionary War Veteran as a great X 5 grandfather. There's a hugh marker at an old cemetary that I had seem since I was a kid, but I didn't know he was related until about 10 years ago.

That is SO neat!!! I would absolutely LOVE to discover something like that!! :)

[SleepyWitch]

Otherwise I prefer ones like fashions from the Colonial period or scenes from Dickens' novels and other stuff that are not "traditional" coloring books.

cool, i don't think we have this kind over here, but I'll keep an eye open for them. maybe we've got similar ones at museum souvenir shops.
it would give me something nice to do during lectures ;)

[RobinHood3000]

Archery (duh), for starters.

[Lily Adams]

Archery (duh), for starters.

Ha ha, of course.

For me...being an all around loser.

[Stanislaw]

My hobbies:

Fishing and Hunting
WWII history
Old Horror Movies (all the b-grade fun)
Model Railroading
Model building
Garden landscaping
Woodworking
Collecting Mini classic cars
Collecting WWII mini vehicles
Podcasting (I'm working on an Old Time radio show we are in preproduction now, but we are hoping to have episode 1 out by christmas)
Blogging (spooksofyore.blogspot.com) - this has been sadly neglected, but I'm working on it ;)

its amazing I actually have time to go to work, I have so many hobbies I should be retired!

[browneyedbailey]

I read, draw, paint, sing, babysit, help(that can be a hobbie right?), and post here.:p

[Virgil]

Great hobbies Bailey. Do you sing in choir?

[Granny5]

Bailey sings in choir AND she sings solo in the choir and in the annual talent show. She really has a good voice...ok, I might be a little biased.

[Virgil]

Bailey sings in choir AND she sings solo in the choir and in the annual talent show. She really has a good voice...ok, I might be a little biased.

Oh if she was selected for solo than I'm sure she's got a great voice.

[Granny5]

They sing popular songs for the Spring Sing. Last year she did something from Kim Possible and was great.

[BlueSkyGB]

Being an ex-music major from college years ago...
I collect music....took me years to finally get rid of my albums..after I replaced them with CD's....:)
Have 2 computers full of music...plus two 2 gig portable hard drives filled up.
Mostly old blues and jazz....Coltrane, Elmore James..etc...
Also have almost every live performance of the Allman Brothers with Duane...:lol:
And too many to count live shows of the Grateful Dead.

[Lily Adams]

Okay, seriously, now...

I

draw
play the keyboard/piano (mostly keyboard)
learn (learning is FUN!) or analyze
sail
read
sew (not very well, though, and I swe mostly period clothes)
fangirl
collect books, (classics) movies, and music
broaden my horizon (or I try to) in any aspect

oh and mutating. I like doing that.

I'd like to become a historical reenactor, as I've tried it before and I LOVED it.

[Bakiryu]

I play my guitar and write songs and poetry.
I sew and crochet (badly)
I draw and take photos
I hang out here

I hang out with my 1337 1-14[K3R buddies :D

I ponder philosophy, debate, annoy people, go to FCCLA, Drama and some other clubs.

I also sing in chorus (I'm a voiceless alto~ My voice is really deep though) and act. (I'm Mercutio!)

[Mortis Anarchy]

I...

-Watch Movies
-Paint/Draw/Photography
-Read
-Write
-Drive
-Music(Listen and play)

Yep...thats it for hobbies, for the most part.

[browneyedbailey]

I...

-Watch Movies
-Paint/Draw/Photography
-Read
-Write
-Drive
-Music(Listen and play)

Yep...thats it for hobbies, for the most part.

I do mostly the same things except for the driving.

[SleepyWitch]

I also sing in chorus (I'm a voiceless alto~ My voice is really deep though) and act. (I'm Mercutio!)
what's a voiceless alto?
hehe, Mercutio seems like the perfect part for you :) he's wacky and goes on long rambles/rants :)


erhem, are there any bird watchers in here :blush:
I've never done bird watching, but I like funny water birds

http://www.naturfoto-cz.de/bilder/vogel/haubentaucher-8723.jpg

[TEND]

I collect books and movies.
Cooking, love experimenting.
Planning travel destinations :D .
Writing travel journals.
Hmm, all I can come up with....
Ah, I've been reminded of some by others,
I am trying to learn as many languages as possible (I speak fluent english, almost fluent french, and basic italian, german and spanish.) Of course I plan to learn as many as I can as well as I can.
I play chess and study matches very thouroughly.
And finally, I play hockey, baseball and rugby at every available opportunity.

[Dori]

I enjoy reading anything and everything.
I enjoy participating in sports (track, hockey, soccer).
I collect books, classical music CDs, and Games Workshop models (which I paint).
I enjoy playing tabletop wargames (ie. Warhammer) with the aforementioned models.
I enjoy teaching myself new languages (I'm working on improving my french).
Last but not least, I enjoy the time I spend on LitNet :D .

[Bakiryu]

I write books and poems
I draw and sing
I was a classical dancer (when I was younger)
I fix electrical things my friends are stumped by
I enjoy listening to music and obsessing over anime
I enjoy playing chess and reading (duh!)
I guess that's all, except for the 'net surfing and trying to form a cul-...er, sisterhood :p

[TEND]

I enjoy teaching myself new languages (I'm working on improving my french).


What languages have you taught yourself? I've found it very difficult to learn alone so I'd actually be interested to know how well you've done.

[Dori]

What languages have you taught yourself? I've found it very difficult to learn alone so I'd actually be interested to know how well you've done.

Well, this is a new-found hobby of mine. Apart from my studies in French (which I study both at school and home) I can ramble off a few German phrases, and I'm currently trying to master the Russian alphabet---a very time absorbing task if you're trying to teach yourself. I own severel books which I use to study from and I own a Russian audio course. I'm somewhat relieved that my school is hosting a German foreign exchange student so I can perhaps accumulate a working knowledge of the German language with more ease.

[TEND]

Well thats fantastic. Having someone who speaks the language and being immersed is definitely the best way to learn a language, not only do you learn the structure of it but you learn how a native speaker actually speaks so you don't sound like a textbook. I found I learnt more Italian in 2 weeks over there than 3 months studying a book on my own.
Good luck with your studies :D .