Hobbies, yeah I keep telling my wife she needs a good one: one that actually consumes time, one that she can enjoy alone and doesn't consist of buying stuff only...
Last year she came up with Hul-la dancing: kept her busy for an hour or 2 once a week, with nice fees to pay for each course, the fitting garderobe (no coco-nut bra's and hay skirts apparently). She gave up when the teacher wanted her to do a public performance, wherefor she'd need to buy a new wardrobe and share in renting the place, sound and light installation, for a 5 minutes dance and no cut in the income.
Thank god sense kicked in just in time.
It's getting better though:
Now she's taking kimono classes and luckily her mom is into this too: I can get away with what she picks up from second-hand shops while her mom buys the new stuff. you'd go pale comparing our prices to kimono-stuff.
The big improvement though is, while the course is still only once a week and only 2hours she did make some friends there and stays out for half a day.
Beside that she likes to sleep late, watches a lot of japanese television; which I'm usually allowed to not-watch (yeay!) and the doggy we got last year keeps her busy at least a couple hours a day too. And she does cook and some cleaning
She also started spending more time on the pc and a japanese kind of forum which is good since she was still kinda stuck in dos-like stage, hating pc's.
The only thing I would really whish we wouldn't have to do in my free-time is grocery shopping
It's the most awfull thing having to do rather than going to the LHS or track or just tool around.
