NBR: What are your hobbies/passions?

pink100 · October 2011

While we are all baby-obsessed, I wanted to take us off track for a second and find out what everyone's hobbies/passions are! What do you do for fun, or to relax, or to unwind, or just because?

For me, I love to read - anything and everything - the internet, books, magazines. I'm def on information overload. I will pick up a book before I turn on the TV. TV? I'm obsessed with the news. LOL. Its like all I watch! I also like to scrapbook. I've made some really cute ones for friends (but none for me! go figure!). I want to add cooking b/c before getting pregnant, I cooked ALL the time. I host Thanksgiving every year and I truly enjoy it. (BUT haven't been cooking all that much lately - our gas bill is WAY down Yes ).

I also love girly stuff, like manicures and facials and getting my hair highlighted.

Your turn!

MrsMincks · October 2011

I'm an actor and a playwright, and I loooooove to cook. My dream is to someday own a wine bar/tapas restaurant that has a performance space.

LizzyBlueEyes · October 2011

I love reading also, and will read anything, even the back of bottles and things if I am sitting somewhere bored! I also love doing crafts, scrapbooking,crocheting, and I just learned to knit. I also love to bake! It is such a great stress relief too for me. Cleaning is like that also, yes I love cleaning! To relax I enjoy watching movies, getting massages, and playing board games with my DH.

LizzyBlueEyes · October 2011

MrsMincks:
I'm an actor and a playwright, and I loooooove to cook. My dream is to someday own a wine bar/tapas restaurant that has a performance space.

What a neat idea! I used to act, now I just teach it at a school. I would so go to a place that was like this!!

MelBell829 · October 2011

In my spare time, I like to write. I am in the middle of writing a book right now which I will hopefully try to sell before the baby gets here. It's in the final stages of edits so we'll see if I can get it together in the next few months.

I also love to read - mostly Young adult but I'll also read mostly anything. I just picked up the biography on Steve Jobs because he really fascinates me and it's very interesting so far.

I used to love to cook, but it's taken a back seat lately because I'm just too tired to do it when I get home. I have about 20 cookbooks and am trying to work my way through them.

salt78 · October 2011

I am also a reader...so much more now that I have a Kindle!

When I'm at home, I love to do crafty things like make jewelry and hair accessories and things. I also collect Blythe dolls (SO glad I'm having a daughter so that I can pass them on to her) and more than half of them were customized by me. Currently I'm working on re-rooting a doll scalp and then I'll have to sand and repaint her face. (I just finished carving her mouth a few weeks ago.)

One of my biggest passions is yoga though and it's killing me that I can't do most of the things that I used to do pre-pregnancy (I can do a lot of crazy arm balances and stuff and I just hope I can remember how to do all it later). I also miss hot yoga so much and plan on doing a 30 day Bikram challenge as soon as I can after B arrives to help with losing the baby weight! Right now I'm sticking with prenatal though.

And I'm totally getting B this onesie.

twentyeightlegs · October 2011

Sheep herding. I'm a total dog-nerd and love dog sports of all kinds but sheep herding is my #1 passion. I just love the communication, the skill of the dog and the naturalness of it. I love being outside and I love livestock and I love how a good dog can make a livestock operation, cleaner, faster and kinder.

I'm going to have to give it up though b/c it costs a fortune right now and, as we all know, babies are expensive so I'm a little sad, but I knew I would have to. I'll pick it back up in a few years and hopefully get a new, working bred dog. My lifetime goal is to run a dog in the border collie nationals.

reneenearl · October 2011

I Love to read, go for walks, and I love to run! I stopped running not long into this pregnancy, I was running 7 miles a day and training for my first 15 K during the spring and summer. Def slowed down a lot since being pregnant, so I can't wait to start training again next spring!

Sara1373 · October 2011

I am a big reader, I always have my Nook Color attached to me. I am also a distance runner, there is nothing like tackling a 20+ mile run or a marathon to get me excited. I am still running 4x a week, but not the long distances, so I cannot wait to strap Ashton into a jogging stroller and take him for a run!!

MrsMincks · October 2011

LizzyBlueEyes:
MrsMincks:
I'm an actor and a playwright, and I loooooove to cook. My dream is to someday own a wine bar/tapas restaurant that has a performance space.
What a neat idea! I used to act, now I just teach it at a school. I would so go to a place that was like this!!

Business partners? Haha.

I really am looking into this as a possible career choice for me down the road. I just love intimate performance spaces...especially where there's alcohol.

starswinger · October 2011

MelBell829:
In my spare time, I like to write. I am in the middle of writing a book right now which I will hopefully try to sell before the baby gets here. It's in the final stages of edits so we'll see if I can get it together in the next few months.

If you need a book reviewer, let me know! I am a technical writer/editor so I do manuscript editing and reviewing all the time.

For fun, I love to watch movies with the hubby and work on craft projects. I also love to play with my dog and hang out with my friends.

jules121606 · October 2011

I also love, love, love reading---especially historical fiction. I'm also working on a novel (though it has been put on the back burner for a little because the baby seems to be sucking up all my creative juices!!).

kasslynne · October 2011

I crochet baby/toddler hats! I have an Etsy store and a FB page and I am swamped and loving it right now: ) 30 orders on my plate and loving it!!!

ibnagy99 · October 2011

Well my hobby/passion before getting pregnant was playing ice hockey with my husband. I was the captain of my men's league team, but since getting pregnant that has taken a back seat and the team has disbanded. We'll see what happens next fall when I can play again. My other passion is cross stitching and quilting. I am currently making my little girl to be a monkey blanket for her nursery. I also love to bake, I usually make all the deserts for our Thanksgiving meal, so we'll see if I still feel up to it this year after our 24 hour drive to Texas for Thanksgiving.

MelBell829 · October 2011

starswinger:
MelBell829:

In my spare time, I like to write. I am in the middle of writing a book right now which I will hopefully try to sell before the baby gets here. It's in the final stages of edits so we'll see if I can get it together in the next few months.

If you need a book reviewer, let me know! I am a technical writer/editor so I do manuscript editing and reviewing all the time.

For fun, I love to watch movies with the hubby and work on craft projects. I also love to play with my dog and hang out with my friends.

ooh. thanks for the offer! I'll most likely be looking for beta readers/reviewers outside my critique partners in December/January if all goes to plan!

blaharn · October 2011

Th hobby I am most passionate about is making jewelry. It has suffered for the past year or two with getting married and moving a couple of times and now the baby, but I hope to pick it back up soon now that we have the space. I used to sell it, but haven't had the time to keep up with an inventory. I want to learn to knit this winter, too!

I also love to cook (when I'm not exhausted). DH and I love to travel as well.

Mrs_MBed · October 2011

I love to read, knit and watch movies ) Which are the perfect activities for me to do if I end up on bed rest (please no!). Those are the things I do just for me, when I need to have my sanity returned. Otherwise I like playing with my girls, going on family hikes, and eating whatever yummy stuff DH cooks. He cooks and I eat - its a beautiful balance :0)

AnessaDaneen · October 2011

I like me time when I can find some. Running (can still do up to 5 miles!), reading a good book, car ride with good music, knitting . . . really anything that I can do by myself. I love my husband and family but alone time always seems to make me relaxed and happy.

kiarstin · October 2011

I love running, its so relaxing and I always feel so much better afterwards. My passion is definitely my family, we go to a lot of lengths to be sure we see my family and my husbands as much as possible as well as do things with out fur family. Walks, play time, anything that makes them happy campers.

MamaValley · October 2011

Like a lot of you, I am also a big reader. I rarely watch TV, and would so much rather pick up a good book and check out for awhile. Besides that, I've always been a big gym rat - nothing relaxes me more than a good workout. I've had a hard time keeping up because i'm choosing rest over the gym when I've been tired, and I'm noticing it definitely affects my moods when I'm not active. I've gotten a lot of my energy back in the past week, though, so I'm taking advantage and have been kicking booty again!!!

MTAtlanta · October 2011

salt78:

One of my biggest passions is yoga though and it's killing me that I can't do most of the things that I used to do pre-pregnancy (I can do a lot of crazy arm balances and stuff and I just hope I can remember how to do all it later). I also miss hot yoga so much and plan on doing a 30 day Bikram challenge as soon as I can after B arrives to help with losing the baby weight! Right now I'm sticking with prenatal though.

And I'm totally getting B this onesie.

OMG I miss Bikram so much!!!!!! Good idea about a 30 day post PG blast - hadn't thought of that!

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