Fixing Life's Little Problems 1 Laugh At A Time

Does your significant other get uber pissed off at you for hobby bouncing?  Mine does, but I can’t stop.  A girl has to stretch her mind. Allow me to enlighten you about my hobby-load.

I like to paint. I’ve been painting lately quite a bit. Currently, I’m working on a painting of two of my friends from their wedding. This one is pretty big – 36×24 inches.  Love that.

I got a guitar. It’s a Fender. And it’s cool. And I WANT to play it. In reality, I play 3 chords (well, thank you very much).  Truthfully – I want to play, but don’t have time to play and my plan to buy online lessons for 20 bucks a month to keep me motivated has backfired since I’m still paying and not playing.

I bought 180 bucks worth of photoshop books. The proof of that pudding is above in the header. Oh yeah. (HA.) I’m that good.

I decided to be a MPMRPG’r  for a while and played Final Fantasy XI online. That introduced my husband to it (damnit). I quit, he played for 4 years at a minimum of 4 hours/day.

I went through a saltwater fish hobby. That was cool. Until my filtration system ate my goby and 3 clown fish.  Not so cool after the 3 year old screamed “OH MY GOD! WHAT HAPPENED TO NEMO!?!”

I love my animals. A lot. That’s a hobby – sortof.  I like to teach my animals stuff.  Molly, for instance, I addicted to skateboards as a wee pup. Now, she’s a hound with her skateboard. She goes through about one a month. She rides it AND she eats it.  See the videos below – one of her pissed because boards don’t roll in the snow, and the other of her actually riding it.

Reading has always been a hobby. I’m a book whore. Looking around my livingroom, I see easily 500 titles of my favorite authors.  I buy books to have them. I buy books because they’re pretty. I buy books because they are a direct window into the soul of the person who’s pen graced their pages. I love books.

Anyway – hobbies. I have a lot. I want to organize, clean, decorate, lose weight, travel, laugh, write. I want to take ballroom dancing (ala DWTS). I want to run a marathon. I want to accomplish a vast, unique, long, crazy, fun bucket list that would put any movie to shame.  That’s why I’m good with his incessant whining about my hobby load. He sees dollars spent – I see checkmarks on my list.

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