This month’s focus was determined to be about getting a hobby. After consideration, I’ve decided I don’t need to get a new, conventional, hobby; like photography or mountain biking. I am satisfied with my own spin on the hobby front.
My hobbies include, but are not limited to:
Reading. Nothing too serious. I mostly read Chick Lit. but in a generation that’s main reading material consists of FB status updates and tweets, I’m proud of it. I’m currently reading Stori Telling by Tori Spelling. I told you, nothing too intellectual but at least I’ve read more than my friend’s current locations via their check-ins.. just saying.
Writing this Blog. Duh. Who knows how many people actually read my rants? but I have the end goal of printing (and maybe laminating?) my 12 Months of Happiness in 2012 blog posts and neatly organizing them into special binders, then lovingly labeling them to give out as Christmas presents.* My family can’t wait.
Reading, stealing, or taking pictures of healthy recipes. Of course, I rarely attempt to cook these low-cal, veggie packed concoctions but that doesn’t phase me. I still get a rush when I see A Two Week Meal Plan in Women’s Health magazine. I’ll rip it out or snap a quick pic of it** and that’s usually where the process stops. Most likely, if I was a “normal” person, with “normal” hobbies, I would stay on the recipe adventure. I would actually go to the store to buy the ingredients (or as it plays out in my fantasy life, I would journey to my magical backyard, where I also do yoga 3x a week, and pick the ingredients out of my homegrown, organic garden). Then I would actually make/try the recipe! But cooking isn’t my hobby. Collecting healthy recipes and never doing anything with them is!
I also enjoy everything about my Planner. Most people rely on technology to help them keep track of their appointments, anniversaries and loved one’s birthdays. I do not. Literally one of my favorite things about a new year is a new Planner. (And yes, I keep them years after they’re out of rotation. I can tell you the exact date of my bi-annual dentist appointments in 2008). I love the blank pages waiting to be marked up with my black ink. My anticipation of organizing my coffee dates, parties, weekends away, and even work times, is abundant. I write everyone’s birthdays in colorful pens and special symbols on Holidays; Fireworks on 4th of July, a turkey on Thanksgiving, Christmas Trees and tiny Santa’s on Christmas eve/day, a little heart on every 30th of every month...*** And the excitement doesn’t end with the important dates written in and the prospect of future plans to be written out, it continues every day as I open my Planner to see how scheduled and busy and wonderful my daily life is. There are things crossed out, whited out, with happy faces or sad ones. There are arrows from one day to the next that represent my procrastinating tendencies and money signs for my weekly budgets. There are countdowns for weeks or days of school or interning left. There are goal workout counts written weekly and then slashed through.****I spend a solid chunk of the year with my cherished Planner. It’s a personal hobby to look through it, plan with it, and discuss it’s contents throughly, even if the conversations are only with myself.. in my own head.. ok, ok, sometimes out loud..........
Another hobby, or something I regularly enjoy to do, is giving people my opinions on shit that probably doesn't matter. I might actually listen to theirs, if I find them extra interesting, in which case I would say conversing may be a hobby, but it's rare that I'm not thinking of the next thing I'm going to say and just listening...
In my next post, I will creatively write about my opinions on marriage, tattoos, why I would want to live in a Zoo (if I were an animal), and possibly politics.. Bet you can hardly wait.
Stay tuned.. -a.
*Along with a 2013 custom made calendar of your truly.
**These pictures double as entertaining reading material later. Two hobbies, one stone.
***01/30 = my anniversary, 02/30.. doesn’t exist, 03/30 = 1 year, 2 months, etc..
****Just kidding, sometimes I actually do them and put a star instead of a slash.
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