Question #8

[fbhjr]

This is in answer to the frozendoll meme I started earlier.

#8) Your oldest hobby
Does watching Star Trek count? I’ve been doing that since the second season of the original show.
I’d say “building models from kits” but it’s been a few years since I last put one together, so I’m not sure I count as still doing it.
But, I started doing that around 3rd grade. I used to have a very large collection of models of the space program. I used them at every science fair my school did.
My mother wouldn’t let me paint them as I might get high on the paint. But, I guess the glue was fine, even though I had heard of people sniffing it when I was in grade school. (I never did it.)
I’ve given up most of the other things I did when I was young.

Comments

[evrgreen.livejournal.com]

Ah, but did you ever play "Robin Hood" with sticks in the haunted forest as a kid?

I also used to have ALOT of models - I think that I began at about the same age as you. My parents let me paint them - of course I had to buy all of my things from my allowance, which required alot of careful saving back in those days. I made some fairly impressive-looking dioramas with them for art class in junior high school. There are only a few still sitting back in my old room at my mother's house. I had a really great-looking model of JFK's PT109 torpedo boat from WWII, but it suffered several shelf collapses at home when my nephews were playin, and it is far, far from seaworthy now. Alot of the airplane and several of the rocket & starships were subjected to "firecracker testing" at the end of high school. Too bad, but I guess it was part of my "kicking off the apron strings", as it were..

[cissa.livejournal.com]

For me, it'd be embroidery... though I haven't done any for 5 years at least!