Ladies, what are your hobbies?

I’m more into drawing than painting, though I have been reading painting books lately. I think I may want to stick with dry medium like colored pencils and maybe pastels. Some coloring medium that goes good with charcoal drawings would be my absolute jam. The quest continues.

I also like ink as a medium, especially for more design-y and internet-y things. I think I just need a coloring medium that works, or some research into color theory.

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To be honest, I have the same problem with a long list of hobbies. I have my old friend Trauma to thank for that. In addition to its addition of Toxic Hobbies that make me miserable, it has blurred the line between Hobby and Work, trying anything and everything to escape my situation or otherwise survive. Now my Hobbies are in a state of transition.

Needless to say, I’m ready to end my icky relationship with Sewing and it’s attendant Machine Repair obligations, and move on to something more enjoyable. Probably I would enjoy weaving better, on a small loom size. I also want to try to learn some dance. As a child I really liked that, so maybe taking that up again would be suitable. The drawing I mentioned above I would like to continue to expand.

At the same time I would benefit from calling Woodworking, Gardening, and Machine Repair Work, for that is what they are, and pay myself accordingly. Probably the same for gaming of various kinds, because I get paid for doing it, even though I enjoy it. I don’t do it unless there is some monetary or spiritual benefit involved.

Then there is Poetry and Programming Technology, which I suppose are abandoned Career pathways that basically function as Hobbies now until I can get back to monetizing them. I don’t think broke people really have hobbies, if you’re broke, everything is either monetizable or a mental health treatment to cope with your life, not a hobby. But what I’ve described above is the closest I’ve got.