Hobbies

I'm not sure if I should mark off #40 or not. I haven't tried to find a new hobby in years. Back when I was younger, I'd do something once and then not pick it up again.

- Sportswise, I tried softball, basketball, archery, and tennis. I loved tennis, but the court we played on closed, and no other local court had the same kind of court (clay, not concrete) and I couldn't get used to the concrete court.

- Musically, I tried keyboard, recorder, and chorus. Chorus stuck until several accidents in middle school had me pulled out of chorus and put into shop class. Shop was safer.

- Artistically, I wrote, drew, acted and tried knitting. I acted, wrote, and drew until college, at which point acting got too competitive, and my workload got too busy for me to draw and write like I used to.

- Nerdily, I read, played computer, video, and role-playing games, designed webpages, read comics, and tried collecting bugs, coins and antique books. I still enjoy games, web design, and comics, and I have a small antique book collection I add to on occasion.

Basically, I left all the hobbies I loved behind for one reason or another. Some of my goals are meant to get me back into some of them, mainly the drawing and writing, which were my loves through my entire teenage life, and for some reason, I gave them up because of college and falling in love. If I'd actually HAD to give them up for those, I would have, but I didn't need to. I just let them fall to the wayside. This were the entire inspiration of the name of this blog: to find the me I didn't mean to leave behind when I gave up those hobbies.

When I decided to find a new one, I thought: what haven't I tried yet? Will I build a model? Paint? Photography? What's left for me? And then I realized - there's something I've started recently that I really and truly enjoy doing, and I'm doing it often since I started. Can you guess?

I love blogging.

I used to have a livejournal, but that was to keep up with my friends and take silly quizzes. I never did it for people I didn't know, and never put it out there. It was "Hey guys, I need my friend's support for this rough patch I'm going through, and look at what Pirates of the Caribbean character I am!" I'd post a lot at first, then would slowly stop checking it until suddenly it was 3 years old and untouched for 2 years. I also disliked the term "Blogging." And then I started this one. It's different, it has a purpose and a goal. I enjoy keeping up with it. And then I made another, one for anyone to read telling stories and giving advice related to my RPG hobby (http://www.girlsrolling20s.blogspot.com if it's something you're interested in). I wonder how far I can take all this? I think I'm going to wait to mark "Find a new hobby" off though. Make sure I can keep up with this and that it doesn't get tossed aside like the journals I used to keep.