What do you do in your spare time?
 

When you are not working, what do you do with your time? Lately I haven't been feeling very motivated to do much and need some ideas to get me away from reading or watching movies everynight.

I probably won't be much help considering I spend all my free time playing video games or watching movies. That's pretty much all I do :D

I usually workout an hour a day. When I joined my gym back in 2002, they told me, "After you start exercising regularly and lifting, you'll find that you have more energy than you know what to do with AND you'll get better sleep!" Err.. I'm still kinda waiting for that :P (and I eat *VERY* clean), so I'm in the same boat as you.

I just started a 6 week course in Calc I at my college, so that eats up about 3-4 hours per night of my time.

I watch DVDs from netflix, read books, and watch tv. With the warmer weather I will be adding biking and hiking to that list.

play with my son, hang out with the Mr., watch Friends, work online/at the puter, sit and think.....

When I really have nothing better to do, I'll just go outside and start running. Almost like a Forrest Gump type deal.

Sit at the computer, watch the tv. Hell, I'm a boring person.

In the winter, when I am home, bake bread or invent new soup recipes.

Otherwise, I'll do beading (jewelry making), paper crafts (I make greeting cards), draw (there's always pencils and a pad in my suitcase so I do that when travelling to), when I am in a hotel and can't sleep, I'll often get dressed, and head out to the street and take pictures.

I'm usually here. Sad huh? Otherwise I bake or sew stuff.

Drink.

Yoga,read,surf the web,smoke pot,touch myself,listen to music,dance,bitch,and talk to strangers. ?!?

I just finished a rather geeky project... it took me about a week. I built a couple of temperature probes that plug into my computer, and I wrote some software to chart the temperature inside and outside my house during the day. It even posts the info to my internet account every half hour so that I can check it from work or if I'm away for the weekend.

Now that the weather is nice, I have to spend all my free time doing gardening. It looks like regrowing grass on my front lawn is going to be a major project this summer.

Stompy: As for the exercise, are you sure you are doing it right? :) I found when I worked out regularly I did feel better during the day. I'm not sure that I slept better, unless I got a LOT of exercise during the day. For example, I just golfed 18 holes and I'm sure I'll sleep like a baby tonight.

what is this free time you speak of?

I read online writing. Do work and last but not least I fap.

I have no spare time, this past year. I'm in an accelerated master's degree program, student-teaching full-time, and looking for work. I'm constantly looking over my shoulder to see what might be gaining on me.

When I did have free time, I liked to work out at the gym, ride a bike around town, walk, read, and tear up the garden.

spend 3 weeks researching about them, then go out and buy yourself a fish tank.
within 6 months you'll have decided you want an even bigger one, then 6 months after that an ever bigger one than the new one.

keeps you occupied on a long term scale :)

I do not have much spare time, but when I do, I either grab my camera and go take pictures of stuff, grab my megatar and annoy the neighbors with my complete lack of musical prowess, or work on my website. On the weekends I go rollerblading or extended photo shoots (this weekend I'm thinking of going to the zoo to try out my new zoom lens :D)

You need to pick up a hobby - something you enjoy doing "just because".

I will recommend the thing I am most familiar with: photography. Got a digicam? Great! Don't have one? Buy a Canon film SLR that accepts EF lenses. They are relatively cheap, and will get you off to a good start incase you get GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome :D) and feel like buying a DSLR. Its a very rewarding experience.

Lose weight, buy cool clothes, go clubbing, get a gf, get laid, get dumped, eat a lot of junk food, repeat.

Spend time with the lil one and the boss, watch movies, and my computer.

personally to pass the hours of nothingness, i masturbate, then sleep. i wake up and eat, and re-whack. i then go fishing. and then go home. good times

Gaming, reading, taking pictures, whacking, random internet surfing, and the never ending battle with my laundry pile pretty much occupy my time.
oh, that and finding new and painful ways to make my food spicier.

play online poker

spare time? eh... i'm probably right here mostly.

for a while i guess i thought all i had was spare time...
now i am running as fast as i can to catch up, so i am less online & working my tail off instead.

before the computer... i used to garden, do aerobics, take classes, crafts, paint, draw, snap photos, lots of things...

it's just there's so much one can do with a computer. i'm still trying to catch up, but i've reached a point where i'm needing some RL balance.

I surf the net. Go outside and do yard work, play with my kids, not much really I have a boring life.

Computer games, TV, reading, meditation, drinking alkeehawl, cooking (takes up a lot of time if you want it to).

edit: Psycho, how he works out would not affect whether or not he slept well. It might affect whether or not he builds muscle, etc, but using energy is using energy no matter the manner in which it is used.

spare time? what's that?

My first reaction, too.

Lesse...

Coach my daughter's softball team.

Meld with the computer - surfing the net, ripping CDs, tweaking Maya projects, etc.

Projects around the house - only ever finish about 90% of any given project, though.

Turn perfectly good pieces of wood into sawdust in my shop.

Play guitar.

Vedge in front of the TV.

I try to stay active in my spare time, after sitting at a desk all day I need to do something. Thank god I stopped eating chips at work!

I play hockey a few nights a week, go to yoga with the wife, play king of the monsters with my dogs, try to be a "handyman" around the house...this has been improving, thanks to the How To fourm :D That pretty much takes up my spare time these days.

surf on TFProject!?

Camp, ride ATV's, fish, take pics, drink, surf the internet, cook, rebuild snowblowers/lawn tractors, treadmill, work in the yard and listen to music. Sometimes 2 or more at the same time!

Mon-Fri. : work/workout/jiu jitsu

Weekends : Paint/ATV/snowboard/golf/clubs/work on the 58 Chevy/catch up on reading the boards...

I tend to sleep in my spare time. Or spend time here :)

I like geeky stuff, building and racing slotcars(fast ones) reading sci-fi, tabletennis and lately surfing tfp. Mostly slotcars though.

Me too :)
I really like to excercise so that'd probally be on my list of favorite things to do when I'm bored.

I also clean allot when I have nothing to do, or am trying to put off the studying I know I should be doing.


This thread reminds me of an away message a friend of mine puts up often:

"Idle hands spend time at the genitals, and you know how much God hates that."

must be some american thing... cuz i'm confused as to what 'spare time' is.. :confused::confused::confused:

ahh. the life of a procrastinating student before exams!

Hmm, let's see, when I'm not doing necessary stuff like drawing, talking to a certain girl on the phone, or surfing the net, I occasionally spend my free-time going to class or sleeping.

What's sad is, I really view things this way...which is probably why my grades suffer so. :)