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[verbena]

Weightlifting, row-crop agriculture, and philately.

That's ridiculous. Tractors don't know from stamps.

Try again, O Virid One.  I'll tete-beche your semipostal any day.

Such private overprints in public!  <swoon>

[wanna_writemore]

I cook and bake, too.  I have a pretty large collection of cookbooks and baking books (including at least 4 on cookies alone).  One of my favorite times of the week is sitting down on Saturday morning with my coffee and gathering cookbooks to make a menu for the week.  Or (as I did yesterday), buying something I don't make very often (lamb), and searching through several cookbooks to find the ideal recipe.

I also take an exercise class a few times a week, read lots of novels, read a few personal finance blogs, and watch various TV shows, when I'm not working or on the fora.  Husband and I took a dance class (waltz, etc) a few years ago and I think we're going to try it again this spring.

[epistephiliac]

Watching TV should count as a hobby.

(watching Sissi l'imperatrice at the moment - it's amazing how well they spoke French at the Austrian court... ;-)

Oh, I used to love watching the Sissi movies! And marveling at how Italian seemed to be the lingua franca of Austria. ;)

Quite the polyglot, Sissi.

[hestia]

I have many things that I enjoy doing, but very little time to do them.  I do find that I start becoming morose if I don't have some sort of creative outlet, whether writing or painting or cooking or refinishing furniture or even sewing a duvet cover.  Of course, I have blank canvases and washed fabrics staring at me reproachfully even as I type.

I have a theory that there are bakers and there are cooks, but they are seldom the same people. My mother, for example, is a cook, but she seldom baked when I was growing up and probably hasn't baked at all in the past 20 years.

I have always thought so too.  I love to cook, but bake only for company.  One can always fix mistakes while cooking, but it's not until your guest grimaces that you discover that you have accidentally omitted the sugar in your cake.  My daughter, however, loves to bake.

[verbena]

I have a theory that there are bakers and there are cooks, but they are seldom the same people. My mother, for example, is a cook, but she seldom baked when I was growing up and probably hasn't baked at all in the past 20 years.

I have always thought so too.  I love to cook, but bake only for company.  One can always fix mistakes while cooking, but it's not until your guest grimaces that you discover that you have accidentally omitted the sugar in your cake.  My daughter, however, loves to bake.

Yup, there are bakers and there are cooks, but there are also lots of us who love to do both.

[neutralname]

I'm sorry.  Cooking is not a hobby.  Here's the list. 

[notaprof]

I'm sorry.  Cooking is not a hobby.  Here's the list. 

Well, I am okay, all of mine made the list.  What the heck is warm glass as a hobby?

[sciencephd]

I'm sorry.  Cooking is not a hobby.  Here's the list. 

Well, I am okay, all of mine made the list.  What the heck is warm glass as a hobby?

Oh, it's a first cousin of fusing and slumping.

[entwife]

The list inclides dumpster diving! (under "collecting"). Never knew that was a hobby when I did that in grad school. Might pick that one up again if economy and my uni financial situation continue on the current track.
Under normal circumstances, I like swimming, photography, jewlery making and travel. I would dumpster dive to afford travel!

[strix]

Funny, I was also recently told that I need a hobby.  I'm sure I do, but I can't quite work up the motivation and desire.   As someone else on the thread mentioned though, I think you can't just tell yourself to "do" a hobby that you aren't genuinely into just because you feel like it's something you "should" do.


Hobbies I use to have, but have fallen by the wayside for some circumstance or other:

*Photography -- use to be my day job long ago. My real love was printing in the darkroom, and that is all but obsolete now.  I haven't made the jump to digital, and can't afford to now.  But I have been kind of wanting to get back into it.

*Scuba diving -- ex-husband was an instructor, free trips. That ended with the divorce eight years ago, not surprisingly.  Sold my gear to help put food in my mouth during grad school. No more diving.

*Gardening -- I really love plants and working in the out-of-doors, with my hands in the dirt.  Lost the yard with the divorce.  In former aprtment in Home City, had a nice area for herb and other container gardening.  Not here.

Hobbies I sort of still enjoy, or try to:
I do enjoy yoga, although I am a novice.  I have gone to a couple of classes here in New City over the holiday break, but won't be able to once the semester starts, due to schedule conflicts.  But I try to keep up a home practice several days a week. 

I have always enjoyed cooking and baking. I don't bake much anymore because I don't have anyone to bake for.  I'm famous for my cookies and many varieties of brownies, but always made them for others, not for myself.  I wish I got as much pleasure out of cooking for myself as much as I once did, but through all of the life changes over the past year, I've been in kind of a funk.   

I love walking in the woods, or even a pretty wooded park (New City doesn't have any of those), and I do like hiking.  I'm thinking of maybe taking a day-hike somewhere before the term starts.  The murder of a young women hiking alone in a state park about, no -- exactly a year ago spooked me a little. 

Not a hobby of mine, but I've always been intrigued by falconry.  I think that would be a cool hobby.  I love raptors, and had face-to-face experience with one about a year ago that was just wonderful.

[entwife]

I hear you!

*Photography -- use to be my day job long ago. My real love was printing in the darkroom, and that is all but obsolete now.  I haven't made the jump to digital, and can't afford to now.  But I have been kind of wanting to get back into it.

*Gardening -- I really love plants and working in the out-of-doors, with my hands in the dirt.  Lost the yard with the divorce.  In former aprtment in Home City, had a nice area for herb and other container gardening.  Not here.

I made a jump to digital just a couple of years ago - it can be as addictive as the dark room!

I feel for you re gardening. Lost the yard when moved for a job. Tried friend's garden and containers, but that just was not the same - painful, actually. The downside of real hobbies - it hurts like h*** when you can't do it any more. I picked up flower arranging instead, seems to work pretty well for me.

Can't find a substitute for sceninc drives though, here in the land of freeways. :(.

[verbena]

I'm sorry.  Cooking is not a hobby.  Here's the list. 

Apparently it is if you use a grill!

Lemme guess: when men cook on the grill in the backyard, it counts as a hobby; when women make dinner every night, it's work?

[neutralname]

I'm sorry.  Cooking is not a hobby.  Here's the list. 

Apparently it is if you use a grill!

Lemme guess: when men cook on the grill in the backyard, it counts as a hobby; when women make dinner every night, it's work?

That's so sexist of the Wiki.  Men's labor is going undervalued. 

[petersturo]

I think reading can be a hobby, but it is good to develop different hobbies so to broaden yourself. I like playing tennis, aquatic sports, singing, etc.

When you are trying something new, you will learn something and that may help your work (can be efficiency, creativity, and many others). When you are really good at one of your hobby, it will bring you a different level of confidence. Needless to say, they bring you more subjects to talk with and can improve your social network.

Indeed, I like reading a lot, but it occupies quite a lot of my time too. Thus, I learned speed reading so to spare more time for other of my hobbies ^_^

[octoprof]

Photography, quiltmaking, watercolour, cycling, swimming, running (not necessarily in that order).

I'm sorry.  Cooking is not a hobby.  Here's the list. 

Apparently it is if you use a grill!

Lemme guess: when men cook on the grill in the backyard, it counts as a hobby; when women make dinner every night, it's work?

That's so sexist of the Wiki.  Men's labor is going undervalued. 

Generally speaking, the person who does something for fun, not remuneration, is called an amateur (or hobbyist), as distinct from a professional [source].