Get a hobby, Find a date
The very wise Lou Holtz once said, “If you’re bored with life — you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goals.” I happen to agree with him.
I remember my Dad would say that you can actually tell a lot about a man by where he spends most of his time and money. So if he has some over the top obsession or massive porn collection, you might want to pay attention to his habits, including their hobbies.
What kind of hobbies are you in to? How did you get started with it? (No, dating should NOT be considered a hobby!) What do you think your habits and/or hobbies say about you?
Our friends over at The Frisky listed some hobbies that can make one appealing to the opposite sex. I am not in favor of picking up a hobby solely to snag a mate, but I definitely love the idea of having/finding a passion for something. If you happen to meet someone, then it’s time well spent and personal growth. Can’t beat that!
What hobbies would make you sit up and take notice and why?
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Mo (aka Moeisha)
October 27th, 2009
2:53 pm
czBrat – whilst evil eyeing you, Im gonna let you slide chica. HOWEVER, you must promise to at least err now and then sport another do’. LOL!
Ms. Main
October 27th, 2009
2:53 pm
Raqi…nope. She has very very short hair but wears a mane. She puts in and layers and wears full of curls so, no. When it’s first done, it looks good and honestly if you ain’t primed for looking you wouldn’t know. She does a good job.
czBrat
October 27th, 2009
2:58 pm
sorry Truth (was at lunch … trying to catch up). Yes. He trained his first presa with K-9. i do recall meeting Marisha but not Jeff (or I just can’t put a face to that name).
s/o’s cousin is a breeder out of jax, so the next will either be another presa or a bulldog.
czBrat
October 27th, 2009
3:02 pm
Mo problem is nothing lasts. I get it all hooked up and the cut/style grows out in a couple weeks. so, unless i’m going to commit to the standing bi-weekly appointment, i’m right back to my faithful ponytail. that and the fact that i change my mind every other month whether i want it long, short, straight, curly, black, brown, red …. so it’s best to just let it be. it’s happy!
Raqi
October 27th, 2009
3:05 pm
There are few ladies here that wear them, black and white, but it is not hard to tell. Especially the two with braids. One lady goes back and forth between natural and extenions on any given day.
For your sister put them in herself and no one can tell, she must be really good.
Angie aka Beautiful
October 27th, 2009
3:07 pm
@Wise
Tough Love!!! i missed him. happy they gave him another season. i am and will always be his #1 fan. hehe.
Ms. Main
October 27th, 2009
3:10 pm
Yep, she does a good job I must say so myself. I can pretty much tell usually but I think because it’s full and curly, if you’re not just “looking” you could easily miss. I don’t ever recall having a salon put them in.
I can’t tell with white.
Professor
October 27th, 2009
3:12 pm
…stepping in.
Are we still on hair and music?
Page1908
October 27th, 2009
3:13 pm
Hi Angie.
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October 27th, 2009
3:13 pm
Prof – Mopped my kitchen over the weekend. Thought about you. *lol*
Professor
October 27th, 2009
3:14 pm
@Ms. Main for some reason I can tell with white it looks too shiny and the texture/color is not always a match
Professor
October 27th, 2009
3:16 pm
I hate mopping!…lol I need to start asking dudes if they can mop when I meet them, because my next guy need to mop.
czBrat
October 27th, 2009
3:16 pm
it looks too shiny and the texture/color is not always a match
well, if the chick on RHOA is any indication ……
Angie aka Beautiful
October 27th, 2009
3:16 pm
@Page
i wish we can chat.
see y’all later.
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October 27th, 2009
3:17 pm
Besides the AWW’s hair is not that thick or does not have that much body.
Page1908
October 27th, 2009
3:19 pm
@ Angie, what’s wrong with you?
Dream_n
October 27th, 2009
3:19 pm
Ms. Main
Me and your sis would be BFF’s.
Professor…
I’m going to send your butt a mop for christmas!!!
Professor
October 27th, 2009
3:24 pm
Dream,
LOL you better send some helping hands to use that mop! I am always buying mops that are suppose to make the job easier…wasting money
MsM
October 27th, 2009
3:24 pm
Turned onto weave 4 years ago, now its an addiction. I’ve been doing it myself after the first time or two, and I’ve perfected it.
When I met S/O 3 years ago he’d say (and still does) you have the prettiest hair… I didn’t say a word for months, then one day he complimented me again and I said “now come on man, you don’t know?”
I realized he touched the hair and rubbed it, but never really tried to run his fingers through. I would tell a really funny story, but I’m afraid he may one day trip over it here on the blog and I’d be busted.
Mo (aka Moeisha)
October 27th, 2009
3:24 pm
czBrat – I feel your pain! I think I have had what seems like most hair colors on the market and I have gone from as short Jada Pinkett Smith in Low Down Dirty Shame to half way down my back (that was recent til I cut it). I cut my hair in June and already it feels like its almost back to my shoulders! And I am thinking of yet another color. I am always on the lookout for something new with my hair though
Ms. Main
October 27th, 2009
3:26 pm
CZBra/Professor, yeah the check on RHOA hair looks stiff and like the hair sewn in Barbie’s head.
Dream_n lol
Ms. Main
October 27th, 2009
3:27 pm
Yep, MsM…my sister’s looks good and if you ain’t just really tryna see, you really wouldn’t know….and she’s perfected as well.
Ms. Main
October 27th, 2009
3:28 pm
Jada is one that can do almost any do. I haven’t seen one yet that didn’t wear well.
Ms. Main
October 27th, 2009
3:30 pm
synthetic
czBrat
October 27th, 2009
3:30 pm
ahhh. but clearly you’re willing to put the time into it. like i said, i’m lazy
letting it grow down my back and coraling it with a band is about all the effort i care to expend. i’m not proud of that, mind you, just being honest. i am proud to say i no longer do scrunchies!
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October 27th, 2009
3:32 pm
SCool – Got it, thanks!!!
Dream_n
October 27th, 2009
3:33 pm
synthetic
BLasphemy!!!!!
Mo (aka Moeisha)
October 27th, 2009
3:34 pm
czBrat – Girl Im gonna keep working on you! LOL! Luckily I am one who doesnt fear a new cut or whatever. Even with color Im pretty confident. And kudos for no scrunchies!!
Ms Main – yeah Jada looks good in all her hair styles, she can rock long or short well
Professor
October 27th, 2009
3:35 pm
Synthetic hair = abomination
czBrat
October 27th, 2009
3:35 pm
synthetic
so i guess there’s no third world country donating white hair to their gods?
Professor
October 27th, 2009
3:36 pm
@cz they have to find that stuff and fuse it in the best way they can. However all jokes aside the ones that are spending $$$ buy Russian hair
kinderbabe
October 27th, 2009
3:39 pm
hey mo.:)
Grammar King
October 27th, 2009
3:39 pm
I’ve apparently missed alot of the conversations today (I am a powerful lurker), but I feel like I need to point out something from the 10:00 time frame:
“The dark/victorian/shakespeare era” is a pretty mixed up statement.
The Dark Ages, or the Middle Ages, ranges from about the 8th century (a little before, a little after, depending on which historian you refer to) until the 13th/14th centuries.
Shakespeare lived and wrote in the 16th century.
The Victorian age, named for Queen Victoria (1830s-19teens) is generally used to describe the 19th century and the 20th century up until the Great War (WWI).
Thanks.
Professor
October 27th, 2009
3:42 pm
So Grammar,
Is it correct to conclude that one cannot like three different time periods? I think most people with the IQ of a beetle can decipher that statement without becoming “mixed up.”
Mo (aka Moeisha)
October 27th, 2009
3:42 pm
Hey Kinderbabe! How are you?
Dream_n
October 27th, 2009
3:43 pm
Grammar King
If you go back and read your English book, you will see that they are all in succesion of one another……
Raqi
October 27th, 2009
3:43 pm
Traffic is getting bad in this rain. I can tell Mason is not feeling well because as we are getting on the highway is said “where in the hell are all these people going?” LOL We are part of those people.
I forgot to charge my phone…
Dream_n
October 27th, 2009
3:43 pm
Professor
Didn’t see that you had got him already!!
lol
Grammar King
October 27th, 2009
3:44 pm
I guess these comments should be directed towards Dan and Dream_n:
The Elizabethan era IS the Shakespearean era – they lived at the same time. (Shakespeare in Love, anyone?)
Dan, Luther’s 95 Theses are considered one of the pivotal turning points from the Dark/Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It’s a great period in history – alot of the ideas that spring up here in history have carried through to shape the world we live in today. It’s fascinating.
Dream_n: While you say it is a period in which Christianity thrived – some historians would disagree. It was a time in which Christianity was in great crisis, with the splintering of the Catholic Church and the rise of Protestantism (Luther, Calvin, Church of England, etc.)
Raqi
October 27th, 2009
3:45 pm
It’s cold out here too.
Grammar King
October 27th, 2009
3:45 pm
Dream_n: Precisely my poing: You can’t lump them all together as one “era.” They are hugely different and range nearly 1500 years!
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October 27th, 2009
3:46 pm
Maybe he took exception because there was no ‘S’ on the end of “era”?
Looking around wondering at the value of his point…
Grammar King
October 27th, 2009
3:46 pm
Professor: You can like different “eraS” but not the “dark/Shakespearean/Victorian era” as it is not one era.
Professor
October 27th, 2009
3:50 pm
Please raise your hand if you give a hot damn about what Grammar
Queenis sayingLil Dream I jumped in too quick…I know you can hold your own, though
Grammar King
October 27th, 2009
3:51 pm
I don’t know why everyone here is so quick to jump on me for trying to join a conversation. I wasn’t trying to be rude, but trying talk about a shared interest.
“Looking around wondering at the value of his point”? Awfully rude, I would say.
It would appear, as someone who frequently reads, but infrequently posts, that if I have not spent my entire day posting here for a few years, then all of my commentary is worthless.
abc
October 27th, 2009
3:54 pm
Poppa, there’s a very small community orchestra that’s all lawyers and legal workers, google “atlanta lawyer orchestra”, bet you’d get a hit.
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October 27th, 2009
3:55 pm
GrammarK – stow the tender feelings.
I don’t think anyone who was posting/reading/lurking earlier had any confusion about them being separate eraS.
However, as it is evident that you have achieved some education and a level of knowledge about literary eras and historical time periods, I stand on my desk and applaud you.
Ms. Main
October 27th, 2009
3:56 pm
dark/victorian/shakespeare era 101
Raqi
October 27th, 2009
3:57 pm
I forgot about my active hobby of gardening. How did I forget that?
Dream_n
October 27th, 2009
3:58 pm
yea…
what SexyCool said….