BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff

Subject: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 10:39 AM

I often get quite a giggle when I see a Mudcat wrangle descend to the "you must not have a life" thing; all the Mudcatters I know have quite a life, and quite a lot of fun in it, too.

So I was thinking that a fun thread might be just giving a very short textual snapshot of something fun in your day coming up, or lately-- the Glam Mudcatting thread is a such a hoot partly because of the brevity of the wacky images it evokes.

So I'll go first:

Gospel Morris Liturgical Dancing

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 11:26 AM

Church/housegroups....... Taking daughter and grandsons to school and collecting them later....Overland trips to Romania with Humanitarian aid........charity shop work.......Folk Clubs 2-3 times a week.....Carboot trips to hunt for antiques/collectables......Ebay to buy and sell.....Visiting friends...being visited by friends....washing/ ironing...cleaning...sometimes wonder how I find the time for it all...... guess I have a life.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Wesley S
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 11:33 AM

My six year olds OT and speech therapy takes up most of my day away from the office - but I've got a rehearsal tonight.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 11:53 AM

Classical and music hall choral singing, tits, pussies and sewing.

You asked!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: beardedbruce
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 11:55 AM

Rocket scientist.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Scrump
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 12:08 PM

Much to Mrs Scrump's chagrin, I seem to spend a lot of my spare time (ha!) rehearsing (band practice or practicing songs on my own, etc.), gigging, or attending other people's gigs in folk clubs or festivals, or singarounds/sessions, etc. Sometimes I go a whole week without a night in. She enjoys it too (although she's not a performer herself) really, but she regrets that I don't seem to get much else done around the house or garden anymore.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Alec
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 12:16 PM

Above and beyond Mudcat,there's Cinema & Theatre visits,maintaining friendships,voluntary work,literature & philosophy,our cats,planning & implementing trips abroad,instrument practice (AKA "Bedroom Busking")voluntary work,consultancy,domestic responsibilites,Art Gallery & Museum visits.That sort of thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: mg
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 12:17 PM

work, sleep, nordic track. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Zaba
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 12:17 PM

I'm a mother of three children who studies psychology at university, is interested in self-defence training, dances Square Dance, rides horses, prepares summer camps for adults, writes lyrics (sometimes these are a little bit ticklish (?)). And every summer I pack my backpack and for a week I go to wander with my friends (and without children, of course) as troupers (?). I think I really HAVE a life...

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: GUEST, Grimmy
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 12:21 PM

Sitting quietly in a corner.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: kendall
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 12:51 PM

Restoring a 1930 Ford automobile.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: MMario
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 12:53 PM

?? This is where I come to *have* a life.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 12:55 PM

Spying on the neighbours.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 12:59 PM

Okay...running a public library in a town of 53,000+, fencing, working around the house and yard, building a .54 caliber flintlock Jaeger rifle, sorting out and working on family photos going back before 1900, visiting local and nearby attractions (like Yellowstone National Park), playing the trumpet and trying to re-learn the keyboard, paying bills, trying with vague success to get and keep fit, going to physical therapy for my left ankle, being a member of the local American Legion & Model Railroad & Shooting & Archery clubs, fighting with the VA, cooking and today I'm going to join the now-forming food co-op.

That's all that comes to mind right now.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Charmion
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 01:18 PM

Apart from work there's at least three and sometimes as many as six 90-minute visits to the gym each week, laundry and tidying at home, grocery shopping, occasional adventures in hyper-culinary entertainment (i.e., dinner parties), church, my fortnightly mandolin lesson, and in my copious free time I read newspapers and novels, practise the mandolin, two kinds of banjo and the guitar, and sleep.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Mooh
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 01:23 PM

In any one week, teaching guitar/bass/mandolin to folks aged 8 to retirement (it's the full-time job), church choir, woodworking, reading, walking, listening to music, recording, band practice, paid gigs, volunteer gigs at a nursing home, instrument repair, fishing, keeping up with the bride's and kids' activities, household repairs and upkeep...in summer maybe canoeing, hiking, used to do archery until the local club folded, camping...

If there were twice as many hours in a day I'd do more of everything and photography, bird watching, travel, model railroading...

You can't beat fun for a good time.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 01:29 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 01:39 PM

One of the things I do is voluntary work with young offenders.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 01:50 PM

right now....learning snow shoveling shanties (say THAT 3 times fast!)

Most days & weeks....woodturning till I'm tired, then surfing the WWW for 'important' stuff, like my family tree on GBNF, or following the exploits of our illustrious legislators on C-SPAN, or following the history of the universe on The Discovery Channel...or pretending to throw out one more layer of the junk uhhh, interesting stuff we have accumulated in 25 years, or finding new ways to access & play the 10,000 various music files I have acquired in 2 years... (so there's this combo CD/MP3 player that, with a plug-in gadget, can broadcast into the car stereo...)....


hey...no wonder I'm tired!

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Jeanie
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 01:53 PM

You asked for the "fun stuff": well, last week, once nightly, you could have seen me wearing bowler hat, tweed jacket, cravatte, long black skirt, brandishing a riding whip, prancing about (with several others) on an imaginary horse, to music. That was my fun highlight of last week.

This week I have taken children to the moon and another lot on an extremely spooky ghost train to a place where they built weather-making machines.

Didn't get paid for prancing with the whip (the pleasure was enough !) - but will get paid for the other stuff.

All true.

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Amos
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 03:40 PM

I know of some people who would gladly pay you for prancing about with a whip, Jeannie.

I took my first flying lesson last week, actually dipping and curving among the winds at 4500 feet along the shore line of the Pacific at sunset. Breathtaking.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Amergin
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 03:50 PM

Cool deal, Amos, my brother when he was able to, took flying lessons for a while. He loved it.

I have been writing.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: jeffp
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 04:14 PM

Fencing, sailing, fishing, contra dancing, playing music, audio and video production. I'm also dating a wonderful woman.

That's enough. My cats miss me enough as it is.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: mrdux
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 04:19 PM

Well, it looks like a busy weekend upcoming. My former next door neighbor -- we lived next door to each other for almost 20 years before I upped and moved across town when I got married -- and I have been woefully out of touch recently, and my wife invited him over for dinner Saturday, so I'm making a cassoulet and opening an old bottle of wine or two. Sunday morning, the plan is reading the Sunday Times (starting with the Magazine and crossword puzzle) and a cup of tea and listening to some newly acquired recordings of French song (Faure). Later, hopefully, a hike with the dogs, maybe along the slough to see what waterfowl have started passing through. I've also been slacking on a photo project that a friend and I have been working on, and the hike may be a good opportunity to get back on track with it -- if I can get my wife to hold the dogs' leashes (she's usually pretty good about that). Don't know what else.

I'll also probably have to put in a couple hours of work-related writing, which isn't exactly what I'd call "fun stuff."

michael

PS to Amos -- Sounds great. A good friend of mine, the husband of one of my business partners, is just now learning to fly and he's become completely enraptured by it.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: ranger1
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 04:26 PM

Playing video games, walking the dogs, bird watching, poking around in tide pools, hiking, teaching myself HTML, sudoku, reading, shopping expeditions with SINSULL and Jacqui.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 05:37 PM

Well, WYSuszie, you've seen fir yerself what me and the P-Vine is into: music and gardenin' 'er if you were to ask her gardenin' and music... LOL...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 05:44 PM

Amos, I took flying lessons once upon a time. It was great, really thrilling, but my arms got tired and I hit the ground. Hard.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: skipy
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 06:06 PM

Ebay! I am folkdlg
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 06:13 PM

I retired exactly a month ago!

So my life now is based around the Wednesday Craft group, & lunch on Thursdays with former collegues.

On other days I do fun things like shop (6 CDs last week, tho 2 came from a birthdy gift voucher), head to the local pool for a bit of hydrotheraphy (walking around in the moving water for an hour), visit the library & my physio & doctors & buy groceries in the middle of the week, rather than before work, or on weekends.

I haven't got round to the equally fun Spend Time with Retired Friends & Friends Who Work Part-time yet, give me time!

In a couple of weeks I'm going ot the National Folk Festival for the first time ever without applying for leave!

sandra

since you asked, they are 3 Mudcatter CDs from Chantyranger & Radriano, and Gregorian Chant, Hildergrd of Bingen, Benjamin Britten's War Requium

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: RangerSteve
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 08:59 PM

Now that I'm retired, I have less time to do what I want. I don't know how that works. Anyway, I have found time to try recipes that I didn't have time for when I worked. When the weather gets nicer I'll get back to my main hobby of driving to places I haven't been and going down rural roads away from the main routes to see what's there.
I also get together with my band once a week to jam, and we have a once-a-month gig that doesn't pay, but we do it for fun. I'm also trying to teach myself new instruments. I'm also renting a lot of DVD's of TV shows that I didn't have time for back when I was working different shifts - Northern Exposure; Upstairs, Downstairs; The Pretender; Quantum Leap - the list is endless.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Joe_F
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 09:31 PM

Copyediting _Opt. Eng._ etc. etc.
Caltech alumni lunches.
FSSGB trad sings.
Getting set up to label the jewel boxes for all the CDs my buddy Jim is going to make of my LPs.
Bi brunches & dinners.
Mailing lists, newsgroups, blogs.
Walks in Fellsmere Park, with ducks, geese, swans, cormorants, squirrels, chipmunks, ice, human beings, etc.
Corresponding with a Pole about my father's ancestors.
Getting laid.
Listening to songs while washing the dishes & mending my bedspread.
Reading the Washington Post Weekly, Harvard, Engineering & Science, the New York Review of Books, & the odd book.
Drinking, farting, masturbating.
Cooking & eating.
Having fantasies of being rude to people.
Singing.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Janie
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 09:57 PM

Up to my knees and elbows in the good earth, surrounded by plants, earthworms and the birds.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 10:33 PM

Well, apparently Joe F. is the only one of all of us getting laid.

[long thought]

Hm.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: JennieG
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 01:28 AM

I work part time so I have time for the more important things in my life.
Sewing....clothes, quilts
Reading
Working on a casual basis (in addition to above) for Down Under Quilts, an Aussie patchwork magazine, as a Project Editor - I have a title!
Eating
Keeping Himself in order
uummmmmm......will have to think a bit longer as my brain has turned to mush, it's Friday arvo and I have had a busy week.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 01:46 AM

Jennie - aren't your sons included in the fun part of your life?

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Alec
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 02:26 AM

Well,apparently Joe F. is the only one of all of us getting laid.
Would refer you back to no fewer than three seperate category headings on my first post:1)"Maintaining Friendships"
                         2)"Domestic Responsibilities"
                         3)"That Sort of Thing" ;0)
(Jeanie's 01:53PM post lends itself to imaginative interpretation as well)
Ahem,Moving on rapidly,having been an enthusiastic Snorkeller for many years,I finally tried SCUBA Diving for the first time on my last Holiday.I found it to be an exhilirating experience.
So much so that I have now booked lessons locally,which I shall be starting in the near future.
I'd like to be,under the Sea,in an Octopus's Garden,near a cave

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 02:33 AM

Well,apparently Joe F. is the only one of all of us getting laid

See where it actually comes in his order of importance...took jhim a while to think of it!

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: fat B****rd
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 04:18 AM

Reading all the above I've been thinking "S**t, I'm just a couch potato". Then I put my (Temporarily early retired) days together ; Treadmill at gym at least 3 times a week, playing guitar-not long enough, Grauniad X word (Araucaria-you old devil !), reading whatever I have from the library, the usual domestic stuff-go Joe !, watching TV - Master and Commander last night. And now, packing up to move to Scotland. Mustn't forget the fortnightly visits to the Job Centre and looking on the net etc. for (very) temporary work.
Gorra go soon. The shed needs sorting out into takes and leaves.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 05:15 AM

I too love the gym 4-5 times a week...especially being chatted to by the 'younger' female element that go.......gives me some self worth ( and confirms I still have an identity.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: sian, west wales
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 05:35 AM

Well, in an hour I'm rambling over to the county council offices and making their life hell over some planning shambles they're perpetuating ... and I intend to enjoy myself immensely.

Then a drive 'up country' to talk to some people about doing a project based on two source singers from their area - well, one singer and one collector, both passed on. After that, if I have the time, I'll call in on some great people, both of whom are writing books about Welsh trad music.

And then home for Friday evening (yea! Sleep in Saturday!)

sian

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Jeanie
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 05:54 AM

Alec: "imaginative interpretation" had been my intention in the way I described what I had been up to. This was legitimate theatre for a family audience, however ! (A lovely folkie play, "Candleford" - as in Albion Band: Larkrise).

Regrettably none of your "Items 1) 2) or 3)" for me, but we 'mature' ladies did get to see a couple of rather dashing young actors getting ready in the wings for The Bath Night Scene. A girl's got to get her thrills where she can...

- jeanie ;0)

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Alec
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 06:29 AM

Hmmm... When I was an enthusiastic young (Amateur) actor I regularly had to get ready in the wings.
Don't recall no appreciative Female audience though.
I was clearly in the wrong group! ;0)

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 06:59 AM

"From: beardedbruce
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 11:55 AM

Rocket scientist."

Must have bugger all to do, what with all the things that AREN'T rocket science.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: ranger1
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 11:15 AM

I forgot. I do a lot of cross stitch, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Schantieman
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 11:29 AM

Well, in between work 8-( I go sailing (although that's sometimes work as well) try and find a nice young lady and waste hours on the computer. Beer. And do puzzles, listen to the radio, see my daughter...oh, and sing! Beer.

I need to do some exercise I think.

S

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Midchuck
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 12:20 PM

H. Allen Smith had a great line about a guy about my age who was asked by an old friend who hadn't talked to him in some years: "And how do you spend your time these days?"

The reply was, "Peeing, and trying to remember the names of my friends."

Except for eating, sleeping, walking, X-C skiing, playing guitar, singing, reading, playing with cats, and hanging around on the internet, that about covers it.

Oh, yeah, I do go into the office - part-time now.

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Gulliver
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 04:59 PM

I seem to spend a disproportionate amount of my spare time (I work as an Inspector of Public Buildings) hanging around pubs of dubious reputation, my drinking being annoyingly interrupted by requests to sing a song or play a tune on the banjo. I'm sure that's not what my parents slaved to educate me for.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 10:08 AM

My God! You actually carry a banjo with you???? In public????

Have you no shame at all, man?

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Gulliver
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 06:01 PM

I get an obscene pleasure out of doing what's forbidden, Rapaire.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Life (Outside Mudcat):The Fun Stuff
From: Peace
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 06:26 PM

BUT, notice that Gulliver hasn't mentioned wearing a paper bag and so no one knows for sure WHO is carrying the banjo.