what are your hobbies / how do you keep yourself entertained

RebekahR

Internet - forums, matched betting, poker, facebook. Knitting, cross stitch, jewlerry (never can spell that) making, beading, card making, magazines, books, cake baking and other cooking, films and tv. Gardening, yoga, hmmm what else! Me and hubby tend to do jigsaws together as part of a random date night.

vintagebrighton

RebekahR wrote: »

Internet - forums, matched betting, poker, facebook. Knitting, cross stitch, jewlerry (never can spell that) making, beading, card making, magazines, books, cake baking and other cooking, films and tv. Gardening, yoga, hmmm what else! Me and hubby tend to do jigsaws together as part of a random date night.

Oooh scrabble - forgot that one. I got sooo excited when I got a new scrabble dictionary

euronorris

Let's see, I do lots of different things because I get bored of doing the same thing all the time, so variety helps:

Baking
Cooking
Surfing the net
TV
Films
Knitting
Playing WoW (online game)
Making cards
Cleaning the apartment (work full time, so don't have much time other than evenings and weekends)
Dutch language study
Model building
Bike riding
Qi Kwan Do
Swimming

There's probably others too, that I haven't done for a while.

mummyroysof3

when imnotcooking,cleaning,school runs, washing, playing with kids i can be found browsing the internet, reading my kindle,watching tv or studying

j.e.j.

I guess I'm fairly boring, - I'm not much of a 'joiner' and don't belong to any clubs or societies. I like listening to the radio (find it much better than tv!), and sewing, drawing, reading.. and I love scrabble and backgammon. Would also love to learn Mah-Jongg, but can't find anywhere nearby that teaches it! Then there's my internet habit which keeps me occupied for too much of the time.. :cool:

pineapple

I've been retired for a year and don't know how I managed when I worked! I have never once been bored - honestly. Time goes by too quickly. It tends to get taken up by ordinary things - dog walking, decorating, gardening etc etc. Last year I grew my first potatoes, started making yoghurt and baking bread.
I do spend too much time on the internet though
But I try to do something new each week. It could be as simple as a new food or a new walk/drive.
Lazyness is creeping in so this year I'm registering me and the dog for the Pets as Therapy visiting scheme and I'm looking at buddhism classes and taking advantage of the local Passport to Leisure pensioner discount. :T

AllyS

I am a loner, but can entertain myself comes from having older brothers that never really want anything to do with you (love em to bits tho) I can easily fill a day, in fact work really gets in the way! I walk, jog, attend dancing classes, study, read, make cards, play on xbox, play with kids, watch tv, films, I desperately want to do horse riding too but can't afford it. I am hopefully volunteering soon too. I never get bored, because if there really is nothing to do I just sleep, I love sleeping haha.

Easily pleased me

heretolearn_2

I love being bored - those times when there's nothing to do and you end up watching Jeremy Kyle or Police chase or some rubbish on tv with your feet up and your brain off. Don't get enough time doing nothing, me.

anyway as well as working then, I read (a lot); use internet (a lot); studying with OU; me and OH are working our way through various old TV series courtesy of Lovefilm at a rate of a couple of episodes a week, currently enjoying the 70s Survivors and when that's finished we are planning on Life on Mars; trying to increase exercise so in gym classes two evenings a week and country walk one day a week; I volunteer at something in the summer that also takes up prep time the rest of the year and I'm in touch with a lot of the other regular volunteers on this; every couple of months have a girls night in with best mate; me and OH try to go out a couple of nights a month (god that sounds pathetic); also trying to keep up my creative writing but that's the one thing that is losing out...wish I could do more.

Would also like to do loads of other things I don't have time for. I don't understand those lottery winners who carry on working...

RandomDan

I am also a loner but never get bored as I like my own company and have a rich imagination. I could be locked in an empty room for a week and not be bored (ok, I'll be dead from hunger and dehyration but not bored!) as I would just play out fantasy scenarios in my head. One time I imagined I went back to 1999 and relived my life from that point with the knowledge I have now and the resulting moral dilemmas that entailed. This is usually before I go to sleep and my mind frees up. That one took ages to finish so I barely slept at all that night.

When I am not being mental in my own head I read a lot (yay for Kindle at Xmas); net faff, computer games, watch TV/Movies, sporadically try to learn Spanish, experiment with cooking and home brewing and when I am being social I love board / word and card games.

The best part is that pretty much all of that is free.

Edited to add: Agree with AllyS, work really gets in the way and in the workplace is the only time I get close to bored.

Tish_P

I have hobbies to keep myself sane - it's not that I would get bored otherwise, it's that I would do nothing but work, and then forget that anything except work existed, and end up as a brain in a jar or something.

My only hobby that needs timetabling is singing with a choir. I thoroughly recommend this to anyone who likes to sing in the bath - it's sociable and fun, and very few choirs insist on you being able to read music! I also run, read, knit and bake. I'm considering taking up weight training, but am not sure how I'd fit it in.