Sunday, July 4, 2010
I am bored bored.
I need a hobby and I can't think of anything.
By hobby, I mean something that I find somewhat enjoyable, but not completely unproductive, since unproductivity is currently my past-time.
Things that don't count:
- Reading - I already do that for at least 1.5 hours a day on my commute, more if the book I'm reading is really good, or I'm really bored
- Baking - I'm good at it but I'm already fat and my husband, though he likes my baking, isn't super keen on sweets, I'm not good enough at it to sell my wares
- Watching tv or movies - I do this entirely too much already, and really, should this be considered a hobby or just laziness?
- Home renos/interior design - something I do on and off on a fairly regular basis. If I had minions and millions, my house would be in constant design mode, alas I do not have minions or millions, and the projects I have on the go are work, not hobby.
- Sewing - My talent seems to be only curtains, tablecloths and placemats (read: nice tidy square items), at various points in my life I have tried and failed at clothing or other non-square items. I would love to be able to sew because I love fabric, sometimes I obsess over fabric, but how many curtains does one house need?
- Crochet - tried this last year and failed miserably, I made exactly 1 "bookmark"
- Knitting - see crochet failure above
- Pottery - tried in my youth, I am not good
- Drawing and/or painting - tried in my youth, even then anything I produced looked like the work of a 3 year old, I am certain I have not magically gotten better with old age
- Furniture design - if I could draw, I would draw furniture, alas, I cannot. Also, my designs would be sad, lonely and unproduced since I certainly cannot make furniture.
- Jewelry design - see above.
- Writing (meaning fiction), I used to write, I used to be kind of good. It seems I have no muse, or my muse gets caught up in my day to day mind/life and cannot break free. It's like I grew up and life became real and I can't make shit up anymore. Oh to be Peter Pan.
- Family Tree - Been there done that. I did ours earlier this year and went as far as I could with the information available to me. So, now all that's left is for babies to be born or people to die.
- Scrapbooking - my husband did some years ago and was far better than me, so I gave away most of my materials. Though paper has been an obsession of mine from time to time. I could do electronic scrapbooking and get Apple to print stuff for me.....
- Quilting - no idea how to do this, nor does my mom, though it would tie in nicely with my obsession with fabric (where are the minions when I need them?)
- Specifics
- Databases
- Mining information
- Working with deadlines
- Books
- Dogs
- Telling others what to do / teaching others
- Theatre
- Earth-friendly products
- Spending money
- Zombies, werewolves, vampires
- Spending loads of time outside
- Cleaning
- Meeting new people / making friends
- Small talk
- I do not have steady hands / my hands are not very dexterous
- Keeping my facial expressions in check when morons speak
- Organizing (I organize in the electronic world, but feel no need to organize actual stuff, I thrive in my organized chaos, those piles on my desk mean something to me)
- Working without deadlines, if there is no deadline for something, I tend to start and never finish, either because I discovered my suckery or just got lazy
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2 comments:
I know what you mean, I was finding myself bored quite a lot and I am busy so I didn't really understand why. I have wanted to take up writing again but I found myself very cynical after my divorce and getting older and I can't make it happen the way I used to.
This year I took up skiing, it is really fun but I have to wait until winter to go again. For now I am focusing on fitness and health as my "hobby" of sorts. It is also not as easy to do now that I am older.
Good luck on picking something!
I think you should find a hobby that revolves around bossing people around. How much fun would that be? I don't know what this hobby would be, but I'm pondering. I'll let you know what I come up with.
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