Hobbies? Let me think about this.

On Monday morning, the alarm rings at 5 am. I drag my resistant body out from the warm blanket around 5:15 or so, and do some yoga stretches, to manage some back problems. Sufficiently limber (or as limber as I get), I make coffee, feed the pets, and scribble my morning pages. It’s a creativity tool discussed in Julia Cameron’s the Artist Way.  Once the coffee’s been mainlined, I write until its time to wake my daughter, then go into the make breakfast, lunch and get her out the door to the bus routine. I walk the dog and head to work, writing some more on the metro.  After work, I come home, make dinner, spend some time with kid before she retreats into the bedroom, do some social media, maybe a blog post, put kid to bed. Read a chapter in whatever book I’m reading, play a few rounds of words with friends.  A glass red wine. Collapse.

Tuesday through Friday, rinse, repeat.

Weekends, the chauffeuring begins — drum lessons, sunday school, food shopping, and any errands that need doing. I do sneak in more time to write, in between laundry, catching up on blogging and personal emails. Maybe at night I’ll grab a movie.  Repeat a favorite (Star Trek into Darkness), on demand or Netflix. With a glass of red wine.

I’ve just used an awful lot of works (I am a writer) to simply say, I don’t have time for hobbies. A book, a film, coffee or wine. Those are my pleasures, because they can be snuck into the crevices of my life.

The main time allocation outside family and work is my writing.

So hobbies, nope.

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6 Replies to “Hobbies? I wish. #MFRWauthor #amwriting”

  • The time you sneak to read could be considered a hobby. 🙂 Doesn’t have to be anything major that takes up a lot of your time. Life is busy, gotta take the little pleasures we can get when they come.

    • Yes, it could and often have in the past. But at this point in my life, its not something I do as an escape, but rather a habit I developed young and kept all my life (reading before I go to sleep). Given that, I struggle to identify it as my go to thing when I need an escape.

    • Very, very real. When I can, I turn to a book, but my time for that feels slippery all too often. Thanks for dropping by.

  • I don’t write on weekends, or at night, because I’d never switch off. I try to do a little bit of social media every day – spread out the commitment into easily manageable chunks.

    • I have to put in some time on the weekend or I won’t move the writing fast enough. Its not always a lot, often in the mornings when I am the only one awake.

      Thanks for dropping by.

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