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Dhfan4life, Honey Bun
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Feb 23, 2013 03:57PM
This will be our thread to chit-chat about what other hobbies or skills we get into when not reading.
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I'll start off by saying I'm also a computer gamer. Nothing particularly fancy but I love the Sims games. I haven't done it in ages but I'm also into pottery. And would love to take up glass blowing and yoga. Heck even Zumba. What about you guys?
Haha, awesome. Do you take a class or you have it on a game console? I've seen some classes in bigger metero areas of where I am. But none where I currently live.
I take classes a couple times a week although I have to switch up instructors sometimes because some are more popular than others
oh im a boss on all dance games especially michael jackson on wii
Haha nice. I have to admit to having no rhythm whatsoever, lol. Hence I've never been real big on dance classes and the like But I do want to try something more out of my shell.
lol don't worry I'm not all that smooth. I'm a bit stiff but I make up for it with loads of enthusiasm and energy. :-)
when everybody is having a good time, nobody really notices
Too true. Just need to find someone to go with is the thing. I may have the balls to do most things. But joining most new things totally get me anxious. Particularly when it's not my usual thing to do.
I hear ya. I'm too shy to start new things by myself. I get flustered and anxious as well. Ya gotta get a partner in crime.
Exactly. That way you can laugh at yourselves and go out for some cupcakes or something. I'd totally love to take a cooking class with a friend or two as well. Would be cool.
ooooo zumba and cupcakes!!!! That would be cool. :-) You cant go wrong with dancing and sweets
I'm too scared to take a cooking class. :-( I distract too easily
I've taken like one way back in high school for credit. And I wasn't distracted really. But it was more so the fact that when the teacher would ask me to taste the food my group was making and ask me if it needed more salt or something. I honestly couldn't tell at all. As I usually eat a good portion of stuff as is (my mom usually cooks with seasonings anyway, so never really need to add anything after the fact), so I had no clue what the hell to say to her lol.
I'd love to know how chefs know that kinda stuff. Taste the food and can tell what it needs and what shouldn't be in it. The fact that they can tell you whats in it at all is cool
Oh I know. That would definitely be a interesting skill to have. I can't even tell when something needs hot sauce, lol.
lol glad I'm not alone on that.Oh snap does anybody play any instruments or use to and wish they kept up with it?
I did used to play trombone in the school band. But I hated it. Would love to learn how to play the piano though.
I used to play the guitar. i would love to get back into it someday.
Oh cool. Did you ever do it formally like with a group or just a solo chicka doing her own thing?
My high school offered as a class. they did stick is in the most awkward rooms like the school hall (imagine a big hall with a stage and steps wide as the stage) , a lecture room. (this room was tiered but only had those desk and chairs that are joined. Useless to sit in in if your playing the guitar). I still remember bits like plucking patterns and a chord or two. i did this 22-23 years ago.
Cool, your school actually offered guitar classes? What kind of guitars? Acoustic?
I like trying all kinds of hobbies. I tried papercrafts, sewing plushies, and cross stitching. Baking actually relaxes me (here are some of the foodstuffs i like to bake). When I still had my other laptop with me and I had lots of free time, I like to tinker with photoshop. (some of my coloring)What I really want to try is pole dancing. I heard it's fun but could really get painful in the beginning.
Wow, that is awesome Julie. May not sound like the most ideal set up with the chairs like that. But really seemed like they were willing to make the effort at least. When I was in high school it was simply the Choir, Orchestra, and Band. Your 3 musical options. Beyond that you had to pick up other stuff on your own time.Oh awesome Arianne. You soooo get my vote. Not only on the baking (which I so applaud you for doing amazing stuff with Banana bread, I absolutely love the stuff and at the most my mom has only ever made it in cupcake tins instead of a regular loaf. So mad props on the fudge and other yumminess there), but for the fact that you are a deviant artist! I love going on that site and checking out the stuff people do there. I for the life of me can't draw a straight line or even have close to any of those fancy paint programs most do to do all that coloring stuff. But I definitely have a creator's soul (mostly writing a bit and not too bad with pottery when have some access to some clay) and can appreciate other's work. Truly awesome stuff you have there. Particularly the sailor moon girls. :)
I can't stress how much I wished to be good in traditional drawing. I have days where I can't believe I was able to draw a decent human figure, but most days i feel like I have claws instead of hands! So thanks people from adobe for coming up with a wicked program like PSD. I'm a really good follower. I get really fixated in following rules and steps that's why I think baking is a good hobby for me. I'd love to try pottery. I wanted to try some small projects (like polymer clay earrings) but I haven't the budget right now to buy materials.
That's cool. I think once I get into the routine of doing something, I can get pretty good at it. But never throw something at me on the fly. Hence my fear of ever having to try and cook a turkey or something from scratch one day. As I do well with ordered instructions as well. But a holiday meal? No can do. Oh cool. I've never even considered that form of jewelry. Heard about and seen quite a bit of work on wire jewelry lately that has intrigued me a bit. Maybe even do some work on with choker necklaces would be fascinating. Just with that, is trying to keep up the creative vision of it all. I mean I can have plenty of ideas on something in my head. But when it comes to putting them in practice they never come out quite to my satisfaction and I'd be so bummed that nobody else would like em either.
Shari-amor wrote: "Cool, your school actually offered guitar classes? What kind of guitars? Acoustic?"yeh , they were acoustic guitars.
Thats mad cool. Yeah like Dhfan my school only offered orchestra, band, and chorus. I played the violin for years before I decided to give it up. I do really miss it though
my band and choir were extra curricular activities. Unfortunately most girls ( i went to an all girl catholic school) thought they were for losers but I didn't care and did the choir for 5 years of my secondary schooling.
Can anybody do anything crazy with their body? Like I can pop my left hip and shoulder out their sockets and back in.
Oh wow. I used to have a friend that could do that with his wrist. But nope not in my skill set to do stuff like that.
what about line dancing? Does anybody line dance or have tried it?
Would like to try it. Never done it though.
I only asked cause I went to a bar last night that does country line dancing and its really fun and not all that different than the urban line dancing that I'm use to, you're just dancing to a different genre of music and more than likely are dancing with a partner
I like it when it's fast paced. Although knowing me my legs would be flying every which way, lol. But would still like to try it.Btw, what exactly is urban line dancing? I always thought there was just the country western approach to doing it.
when I went to a night club in Sydney (like centuries ago) in the 90ies they were all dancing individual but then "the time warp" came on and like these public dance things all of the sudden everyone moved with the same steps and in the same directions. It was so weird (I had never seen such a thing before) but it was so exhilarating and beautiful to watch. To bad I didn't know the steps then I would have felt more integrated.
lol manuela I found out people have classes to teach you different dances. They have YouTube videos too. lol I found that out after going to some of these places a few times. It drove me crazy trying to figure out how everybody knew all these different moves.Oh its just dancing to rnb/hip hop music instead of country.
Oh ok. And that is interesting then. Could inspire a mob situation then if enough people watch the same clip from youtube. Would be really cool to be part of that.
If it was the TIme Warp they were probably doing the dance from the Rocky Horror Picture show. And that is probably different than most other types of line dancing. As someone who can't dance very well, I can't say much. Tried Line Dancing and wasn't bad.
A friend tried to teach me to long board (skateboarding with a bigger board) a couple weeks ago. I suck at it but I kinda liked it. Does anybody skateboard or have tried it?
Hmmm. My fav things to do are ghost hunting, singing, and shouting hello to strangers like I know them.
Wow really? How do you get started into ghost hunting exactly? My cousin says he has a friend that is into that paranormal investigation stuff too but when they show it on tv, I totally get mental re-runs of blair witch and am not interested. Maybe I'm missing something.
ok see this is an explain of reading too fast. I clearly missed that whole ghost hunting bit when I first read it! That sounds cool and very interesting. How do you get involved with something like that and how long have you been doing so!?
I just started doing it with my friends. We don't use fancy equipment. I'm a sensitive and another sees ghosts. (I know some people don't believe in it) we usually just go through homes of friends and family or in fields and old buildings.
Uh I am a believer of ghosts. You are damn brave to go looking for em. This girl would be freaked smooth out.
Lol oh I'm scared. We don't do it often. Because that stuff can attach
Thats the part I'd be afraid of. Going home with a new friend!
I pray and protect myself. I do what I can to keep it from happening.
Did you have experiences with ghosts as a kid!?
