Needing a Hobby

Well, it has clearly been much too long since I have last posted. In fact, I am somewhat ashamed about how long it has been especially given the insane amount of things that have happened the last 6+ months. So here is a quick listed re-cap...

1. New Job - I am not the Director of Development at the Utah Association of Public Charter Schools
2. Legislative Session - we dominated, Union: 1 Children: 12
3. Dating (takes so much time, but worth it)
4. Spontaneous weekend in Disneyland
5. Visit family in Detroit
6. Re-brand UAPCS
7. Complete (still putting up content) rebuild of UAPCS Website
8. Plan and held UAPCS Annual Conference - huge success
9. Weekend in San Antonio for Jessica's (friend from DC) wedding
10.. Kids arrive home for 6 weeks (were down to only about 2 weeks left)
11. Heidi comes back from Detroit

I likely missed a few things in there, but I believe that covers the highlights. If I regret anything it is not taking more pictures - I am so terrible at that! I am hoping to get a new camera soon (crossing fingers) and I think that will make me more motivated to take some good pictures, regularly.

It has been great to have the kids home - I miss them a lot. And while the house stays cleaner, I get more sleep and can stick to a routine when they are not here, it is worth all the chaos to have them!

So moving on from the very brief summary of what has happened over the last 6+ months I have determined recently that I need a hobby - I don't have one. I mean I like to read, shop, run, and...I am sure there is something else.  But for the most part I am just a work-a-holic. I am up early in the morning, when I go to the gym I read my scriptures and then do email. Then I get ready and go to the office all day. I leave typically around 6 and then I go to Ben's or Ben comes to my house and we hang out and then it off to bed between 10-11pm and it starts all over again. Ben and I have things we do together, but nothing that you could really consider a hobby of sorts - as I have never and will never consider watching movies, TV, or sports as a hobby (I am sure there are people that do consider this a hobby and they likely could quote movies and shows for days, however I find this to be mostly a complete waste of time and energy).

So, I need a hobby - but here are the conditions of this hobby. I am not creative or crafty - so stamping, scrap booking, and anything that would require similar abilities are simply not feasible as they stress me out more than I enjoy them ( I should note there that I am no longer a craft virgin - my aunt KAren has been very patient with me as I have made 3 different bridal shower invitation with her. Which has been a very fun experience, but that is due to good company and someone I can follow the lead of. For me to take that type oft ask up on my own would be way too much). Next, the hobby cannot be something that takes a long time to do and likely can be quit at any given moment. My life is fast paced and busy I can't go hiking regularly where it would take me 10-20 minuted to drive to the trail head and then spend a few hours going up and then come down, my schedule is quite full and to fit in any activity that takes a significant amount of time out of a given day would be very difficult and I could not do it.

I do want the hobby to be fun, easy, enjoyable, helps me to relax and focus on something other than work. I suppose I am looking for suggestions...