Snowboarding!

The hobby this week was snowboarding. According to wikipedia.com, “the development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, surfing, and skiing." I have enjoyed the activities that inspired snowboarding so I figured I would enjoy it as well.
This is a hobby that I could only do in the winter, but I thought it might be nice to have something to look forward to when it started to snow. Well we had a couple of passes to The Canyons in Park City so we drove up for a day of snowboarding. Needless to say, I think we went up a little too late in the season because the snow was slushy, and I was sweating the whole time. Other than the heat and the slushy snow, I thought snowboarding had the potential of being pretty fun. After this first experience I don't know that this would be something to look forward to every winter, but I am definitely going to give it another try. Next time I will go earlier in the season, when the snow is fresh and it's not quite as warm.

Origami or "paper folding"

This week I had a harder time deciding what I wanted to try for a hobby. I kept thinking that I should do origami, but then would try to think of something else because origami sounded like a strange hobby. Regardless of what I thought before I actually found origami to be quite fun, although I'm not sure of its practicality. I had no idea what was involved in origami other than a square piece of paper. So I found a square piece of scrap book paper and then looked on the web for an origami "how to." After looking around at a few different options, I thought that the crane looked like a neat origami design. I then found a video on youtube.com* that took me through step by step instructions. After watching and rewinding the video I successfully completed my project. As strange as it may seem I found origami to be quite relaxing and satisfying. I don't know that it is something I would do all of the time, but it is definitely something to add to my hobby list.

*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSijU52XJ7w

Time for a treat!

This week I decided it was time for a hobby that would really help me enjoy life. After deciding this, the first thing that came to mind was cookies. After looking online at various hobbies I found that cooking is a hobby and so I decided cooking cookies would also fit. Then came the hard part, deciding which cookie I wanted to make. After looking over various recipes I found a recipe for homemade Oreo cookies. These sounded delicious, and I also had all of the ingredients necessary to make them. I found the recipe below on cooks.com:

Homemade Oreo Cookies

1 devil's food cake mix
1/2 c. shortening
2 eggs

Mix the above ingredients together. Roll the dough into dime-sized balls and place on a cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes. Cool cookies.

Frosting

8 oz. cream cheese
1/2 square butter
2 tsp. vanilla
2 to 4 c. powdered sugar

Mix all of frosting ingredients until smooth. Frost BACKS of cookies and place together to make sandwich cookie.

After just a short time the cookies were out of the oven, the frosting was ready, and I was excited to give them a try. I then took the cookies and smeared frosting on the inside and put them together like a sandwich. Once I was done I relaxed, enjoyed quite a few cookies, and thought of how this is a hobby that I can really enjoy regardless of how the weather may be.