Diamond painting. Houseplants. Jigsaw puzzles.

Reading (fantasy/autobiographical/historical fiction)
Sewing
Crafting
Starting to get into interior design

Planning my next trip(s)
Yoga
Learning Spanish

Anonymous wrote:Get involved in local politics, volunteer to campaign for some local candidate attend a protest rally
Learn to craft, etch wood, buy a rock tumbler, start making jewelry with beads, scrapbooking

I had to step away completely from politics. All of my energy locally is spent on pushing community gardens and the homeless. If I'm going to volunteer, which I always have done in my life, I'm not wasting another minute politically. Not until I trust the person I volunteer for.

Only on DCUM do posters nitpick other people’s hobbies, my goodness!

Mine:

Outdoor— Hiking, skiing, tennis, flyfishing
Indoors—Reading, Romance Languages, cooking (mostly sous chef)
Indoor/Outdoor—Travel

I run my own successful company and hobbies help me not work too much.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry I have a job that I’m succeeding at - don’t have time to knit

PP here, I'm the one who has 3 jobs. You're not the only successful person here

Yoga
Meditation

those have been life savers for me.

I do needlework--crewel, needlepoint, and cross-stitch. I learned when I was a kid from my mom, who was an avid needlepointer and quilter. I find it relaxing and rewarding. Have made a lot of nice wall-hangings and pillows over the years.

I play World of Warcraft. I started playing about 12 years ago so I would have something fun to do with my son. I also love to read and I build dollhouses. I also go to the gym regularly but I wouldn't call that a hobby.

Skiing
Bird Hunting
Running
Reading
Yard work
and I want to start mountain biking this summer.

This is a great thread! How did I just discover it!

Love being outside and staying active. Love playing sports but it's challenging find places to play that require others.

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Anonymous wrote:Glute training- butt got bigger 2 or 3 inches during this journey

Oooh, please tell me what your goto exercises have been?! Also, have your thighs gotten bigger as well?

Joining.

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Anonymous wrote:I have multiple hobbies. You don't have to "find one", just try to learn to do various things. Can't knit? Can't draw? Can't speak a foreign language? Can't play a musical instrument? Try them. That's how you get a hobby. You don't have to be good at them. You don't have to keep doing the same ones. You can try one, stop for a while, try something else. Eventually you get good at some of them. When those get boring, try something else. If they are still interesting, keep doing them.

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That’s what’s awesome about hobbies. You’re the boss. You can start, you can stop, you can change - it’s what you want to do.

Hobbies I have had over my lifetime:
Making miniature rooms - paint chips were the walls, I’d draw tiny windows, doors into other rooms, make furniture out of clay
Quilling
Ribbon embroidery
Freehand embroidery
I’d call it quilting, but that’s a bit grand.
Sewing clothing (I’ve never trusted myself with the swathes of fabric needed for home decor sewing. Good on the pp who does!)
Drawing floor plans for houses and apartment buildings, especially to replace crap I don’t like.
Making up imaginary cities
Foreign language learning
Perfume smelling
Drawing
Painting
Gardening
Collecting foreign coins

I mean you can be as into or out of a hobby as you like. It’s awesome.

I'm kind of intrigued as to how you make 'perfume smelling' into a hobby. I understand it is fleeting opportunistic interest if you are passing through a department store. What dos it comprise as a hobby?

Reading about perfume reviews, getting my hands on a sample (lots of places sell decants) and sniffing them over the course of a day, picking out notes and mentally writing a review (or in a notebook, I suppose). You can think about all the connections between different perfumes and how perfume has evolved over time (even over just a few years). Then there’s the acquisition of old scents from estate sales and the like. The top notes are gone, but the heart notes live on. Perfume, when you sit and think about it while actively smelling something, can really take you back. So it’s part time travel, too.

Lots and lots of department store perfumes are absolute dreck and I want nothing to do with them. I don’t love seriously weird and experimental perfumes, but I do love finding different things to smell. And if I had more money, I’d be buying an organ to teach my nose all the notes I don’t know.

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Anonymous wrote:Glute training- butt got bigger 2 or 3 inches during this journey

Oooh, please tell me what your goto exercises have been?! Also, have your thighs gotten bigger as well?

What worked for me are isolation exercises like hip thrusts, lunges, RDLs. I'm naturally skinny so thighs haven't gotten bigger but hamstrings has developed right where the hamstring ties in with the glutes area. I don't go too crazy on squats since it builds up my quads I'm quad-dominate. Pull throughs, kickbacks, single leg exercises are great.

Thank you! do you do weighted hip thrusts? Also, any squats?

Yes weighted and bodyweights (single leg). I use those mini bands around my thighs to add more resistance and where you position your feet makes a difference out of trial and error I found closer the feet more muscle recruitment.

Squats are great and any variations of it. It works so many muscles at a time it's a good overall exercise.

Thank you. Do you do anything else upper body or mainly focus on back/legs?