Whats Your Hobby?

[jeapea]

My first hobby would horses. Raising, training, riding, taking photos of them, then printing them at my shop. Which is my next hobby. Fine art and photo printing which started as an idea for me to print my own artwork to make a living from it, then I made it into a business to help anyone else who wants to do the same.

Working with my hands is a hobby. Whether it's playing music, painting or drawing, or crochet, quilting, cooking, building something. I like to build or create beautiful things out of whatever I get my hands on. Even stone.

My most recent 'hobby' is being allowed to be a grandma to my granddaughter.

Writing is a hobby I enjoy, but sometimes my thoughts aren't as organized as they should be. As in my first post to this. Sorry.

 

[Gunchief]

I told the doctor I am seeing about my hobbies and he told me I had probably found a great way to keep things level. I sit down and tie flies for fishing. Small ones and big ones doesn't matter. If they catch fish great. I just look out my window at the trees and wind material around a fish hook.
Fits well with my other hobby fly fishing.
Dave

Fin try to find one that fits you and you alone, you will know what it is.

 

[Broken_LCD]

My hobbies: Computers (building, repair, networking, etc.), I love technology, so I'm always tinkering with random gadgets. I also am very picky about my music collection on my computer. I have to have everything tagged correctly, no spelling errors, and with album art attached. Sounds simple but it gets time consuming. I have a 1TB external hard drive that is over half way filled. (One of the few things I always look at as being half full, lol)

I read online more than I read books lately, even though the stack on the side of my bed would like to say otherwise.

I have lots of posters and magazine cutouts covering my walls in my room. I love decorating the walls with my favorite images, people that make me happy or just band posters, cutouts from music magazines, etc...

I play Guitar Hero and Rockband, which can take up hours in the day without even realizing it. (For PS2)

I like to write, draw, and I have taken a liking to watercolors. I have stacks of notebooks from when I was 8 years old onwards. That is when I first started keeping a journal.

Not sure if this counts as a hobby but I do go off for hours at a time just on drives with no destination. I absolutely adore them.

I've had lots of passing hobbies, the one I want to get back into the most is building models.

Even with all this I still manage to be bored and lonely, even though strangely enough I don't really want to be around anyone anyway. Some days these things are more important to me than others so it's hard to say how it affects my day to day life. It doesn't make sense to me.

Most days lately it's just my laptop, my iPod and I in bed. I read and listen to music on my laptop.

 

[trapped]

I am trying to force myself to make time for a hobby again. I guess I do lots of things- running, drawing, photography, tho I never thought of them as "hobbies" for whatever reason. Right now without knowing if and when I'm going to go to a residential program, it's hard for me to plan and structure anything. I am still trying to though, I really want to start getting into gardening, but also do not want to start up a big garden here if I'm going to not be here next month. I really love trying new things and such, and think it would be good for me if at least once a week I could dedicate time to some type of hobby... I've been trying to look around the community and find groups, though it seems to be pretty quiet around here without too many groups that want to get together to do crafts or gardening or any other hobbies. :(

 

[Freddy_hiding_less]

anthony:To me renovating the way I understand you do also has this quality of caring and tending for a home and when it's a shared one it has a even deeper meaning. I still resist this.

Kayaking is my No 1 hobby, it started with a friend inviting me out when we went swimming one summer 8-10 years ago. I really liked it and he had an old kayak he didn’t use that he lent me for a year. From that day I have spent countless hours on the water. Being the one I am mostly alone and learning by exploring in exactly my own pace.

Nearly obsessed with going out when there is a lot of wind and waves on places with a lot of shelter so I could or can choose how much of the wild stuff I want to touch, even paddling in gently moving water makes me joyful. Also learning to Eskimo roll has been really great, first just being OK with tipping over and getting out and then extending the practice step by step. It’s been a more positive way to play with my anxiety also.

I wanted to learn to remain sitting upside down when water trickles into my nose and mouth but that still brings me to panic and I automatically rolls up or get out of my kayak. But it’s so much easier for me to deal with anxiety and panic in this setting then with people, and I basically do it because it’s great fun.
I also more recently have been starting to enjoy dinghy sailing and biking on trails. Having these activities that I can enjoy also alone and sometimes when it works with others have been so important for me.

Just lately I have had this wish to learn a little about how to serve like the pro's in table tennis so a plywood board on my massage bench and some VHS cassettes on top. Watching YouTube and then practicing. :smile: And i’m supposed to be 51 years old! /Freddy

 

[skyp56]

OK. This is a good question for me. I've been asking myself the same thing for months. I seem to (recently???) have lost interest (IF I ever had any?@!?!?!) in anything except my grandson. Sometimes I wonder if I've developed an unhealthy obsession with him, but it seems the only times I look forward to are times with him. My therapist says it's because the little girl in me (stuck at age 3, due to sexual abuse by unknown subject) can "feel safe" enough with him to "come out and play".

I do crochet, but only simple stuff like monochromatic afgans; don't have the motivation to stick to patterns.

I like to do word puzzles, like Fill-Ins, and something called Codewords.

I like to read, but seems like forever since I've been able to focus enough to do that.

And I love tv. Sorry, but I think I am the well-known example of a couch potato. I love to watch shows on paleontology, geology, archeology, folklore, sci-fi/fantasy movies, and apocalypse themes.

Maybe someone out there can tell me if there is something wrong? I seem to have no interest in anything. I will ask my therapist about this at next visit. I thought I was doing better, now I find I don't feel so much better. Is this normal--ups, then downs, during treatment for PTSD?

Thanks and best wishes
skyp

 

[LoveWins]

Nice positive thread

Im trying my best to keep busy and build up hobbies again. They all vanished for years unfortunately, and it got to a point where I forgot what I like to do...

Now Ive got to a point where I have a few hobbies back. My husband bought a sewing machine for christmas, and I just love sewing away, its so relaxing, a real help

I also have a mousery. I breed and rescue fancy mice, which are great little creatures, fun to watch when Im down

I read quite a bit, and have started writing again too

 

[Gunchief]

I have to ask what is a mousery?/