Posted by Dinah on September 23, 2008, at 12:36:34
In reply to What are your interests?, posted by Cass on September 22, 2008, at 16:29:31
Hi Cass.
Interests... Hmmm... I probably spend too much time on the internet. :)
Work or trying to work takes up a lot of my energy.
I enjoy spending time with my son. Lately we've been watching "The Young Indiana Jones". You have to admire a series that has him enjoying the educational special features, at least some of the time. They also show an amazing amount of moral complexity in some of the episodes, and we get to tease apart the strands of that.
I've currently got four dogs. There's my constant companion and darling baby. My enormously obese sweetie with the unflappable personality that seems to steady the others. My sweet and gentle and dainty, yet lively working dog who has a strong dense streak when it comes to figuring out that words have a postural meaning (sit, down) even while she understands seemingly without my even training her that words have a relational meaning (stay, come, pupperoni, outside, leash), and who loves to nip at my clothes. And Daddy's Little Princess, who has some pretty serious problems, but who has kept her good spirits and good nature and winds her way to her mommy and beloved daddy (although it takes her a few tries to figure out they aren't five steps to the left). My husband has never had a dog who chose him before. He's so besotted that he (a clean freak by nature) overlooks the fact that she sometimes isn't as pleasing to the nose as we might wish, and always remembers to tuck her into her proper place between us at night.
I read all the time, although not so much lately I must confess. I like mystery novels and historical novels, and nonfiction about psychology, or theology, or various and sundry passing fancies. I'm currently laughing my head off at "Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon". Admittedly that's a audiobook. I discovered them a few years ago, and now I enjoy getting stuck in traffic. I recently finished "Write it When I'm Gone ", and am sorry I didn't get to know more about Gerald Ford than the casual exposure through Chevy Chase on Saturday Night Live.
I love TV. I'd never even want to try to live without it. I consider it more an active hobby than a passive experience. I have pretty much quit watching the networks. I have no taste for reality TV. Other than local news, I rarely get my news from TV. I tend to either ignore it or immerse myself in it. But Tivo lets me watch what I want when I want to. Looove Tivo.
I'm just starting cooking again. I've done it since I was ten at my parent's house. But my parents *liked* what I cooked. My husband and I don't really share the same tastes in food. And my son hates everything that isn't standard kid food. So I'd fallen into the habit of just rotating a few easy to put together meals. I've been surprised that it doesn't take that much longer to put together a reasonably healthy meal than it does to go through a drivethru or warm up junk. The time goes in on the preparation side. I have to know what I plan to cook, and arrange the buying of ingredients, etc. I'm currently looking at a way to make that part of my life so we can eat healthier. Not traditionally perhaps, but healthier. Since my son is so picky, I have to sneak those vitamins into him. Apples instead of peas. If he won't eat broccoli, we have cantaloupe instead. That sort of thing. Our meals must look silly.
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