Hi there readers!
Today i get to tell you all about my hobbies! I hope you're prepared to be blown away by how exciting my life is.
Hobby 1: Pretend I know how to knit
This is a very important hobby, since Dina taught me how to do this. She, unlike me, can actually knit. So while she whips out beautiful scarves, socks and dishtowels (waiting on my weasley sweater), I'm dropping stitches and cursing the god of yarn. For those of you who don't knit, dropping a stitch means I missed a loop and thus left a hole. I am really good at making holes. Perhaps I'll use that to my advantage if I ever pick up my "scarf" again.
Hobby 2: Reading fanfiction
It's a tough job, wading through the internet in search of acceptable (read: well written and developed) fanfiction. What's fanfiction, you ask? Well, for those of you who don't know, fanfiction is a story written using characters from a book/movie/tv show/anime/whatever and writing your own story with them. I read a lot of Harry Potter fanfiction. I feel no shame in admitting this, since it's likely that whoever is reading this already knows that. That, and we all know I have an unhealthy love for the Harry Potter universe and it only makes sense that I spend my time reading made up stories using the characters JK has provided. Anyway, I do a lot of this reading. I used to write fanfic, and dabble from time to time (meaning i write a sentence or two and then realize that what I thought of has already been done 100 times). Mostly I beta fanfiction, or at least I did until one author's e-mail account got hacked and she fell off the face of the planet and the other one doesn't respond to my e-mails. Bah, anyway, I like fanfiction. I am a humongous nerd.
Hobby 3: Playing video games
Unlike most people who would say this is their hobby I do not a) own an xbox b) play World of Warcraft or c) like Farmville/Zynga games. I play Harvest Moon (lately) and other games on my DS. I also like to play SNES, N64 and Wii games. I BET YOU CAN GUESS WHAT COMPANY I LOVE (that would be Nintendo). I also really like Mahjong, Free Cell, King's Quest and Machinarium (sometimes i like World of Goo but it depends on how patient I am feeling that day). I would say I'm pretty good at this hobby.
Hobby 4: Surfing the Interweb
Tied into hobby number 2, hobby number 4 is something I spend a lot of time doing. I have a lot of websites I like to visit (regretsy, poorly dressed, dlisted, all the blogs i mentioned in that post from weeks ago, people of walmart and facebook to name a few). Once I'm employed the time I spend doing this will probably be cut way down :(
So, my life is, as you can see, incredibly exciting. Oh, I forgot that I like doing Henna. I am not any good at it, but I enjoy trying. Anyway, I'm most excited about employment because then I will have something to occupy the bulk of my days and will not feel so lame when I have to write posts about my hobbies because I really don't think any of these (with the exception of henna and knitting poorly) count.
<3 Til Tomorrow,
MeggyB
