Day 28 - Something that you miss.
I'm gonna give three short answers for this rather than one long one 'cos I can :)
Dancing
When I was a kid I did all sorts of dancing - ballet, tap, street, modern and irish - and as a grown up I briefly did a modern dance fitness hybrid thing. But now I don't do any, mainly because I can't really afford to. The fitness thing cost £6.50 a session, which could feed me for a couple of days!
I especially miss Irish Dancing. I used to love it. I did it from the age of maybe 10 to being a teenager. I went to festivals, and got good enough to compete (although I never did 'cos I wasn't bothered for it). Our dance school used to do shows, and I was given a duet with another girl, which was high praise. Then the school got crappy, so I found somewhere else. Which was great but then the teacher went back to uni and a bloke took over who was more concerned with numbers and exam passes than actually dancing for the love of it, and couldn't teach for toffee. So I started Youth Theatre instead. I'd go back to doing Irish Dancing if I could find a cheap class.
Drawing
I do still draw, but nowhere near as much as I'd like. I have a few sketch pads, but the inspiration doesn't come as easily. I blame the house I lived in in the second year of uni for this. The atmosphere was so toxic that I just couldn't do anything there, nevermind draw. A year of that and you get out of the habit. I have a canvas that I started three years ago sat in my living room that I keep thinking I should finish.
Luckily, I do have other creative outlets. I like sewing projects, and I've done a bit of pixel art recently, which is fun. But my aim for the new house will be to draw as much as possible when we first move in, then I can get back to it.
Hanging Out
Noone told me how little time you have as a grown up! In school I was forever doing things - Guides, youth theatre, dancing, kikcing a ball round the park, even just dossing down town with my friends. In uni I was constantly surrounded by the Tech Ninjas, as we spent loads of time spit balling ideas, working on course work, or sat eating hash brown and sausage sandwhiches in the SU. Then we'd go out drinking a few times a month (I wasn't a huge partier, but they were regular enough).
I don't get the chance to do any of that now. Yeah, I meet friends for cinema trips, or movie nights, or to grab a coffee, but it's not the same. I'm either working, volunteering, traveling, or at Ash's house. Plus nearly all my uni friends have moved away (or are planning to), and I live in a different town to my main friendship group. And there's the lack of funds.
So they're the main things I miss. And to end on a completely superfilous note, I miss my Mum's home cooking. Damn regular meals were good...
Ciao
~*Ruth*~
Dancing
When I was a kid I did all sorts of dancing - ballet, tap, street, modern and irish - and as a grown up I briefly did a modern dance fitness hybrid thing. But now I don't do any, mainly because I can't really afford to. The fitness thing cost £6.50 a session, which could feed me for a couple of days!
I especially miss Irish Dancing. I used to love it. I did it from the age of maybe 10 to being a teenager. I went to festivals, and got good enough to compete (although I never did 'cos I wasn't bothered for it). Our dance school used to do shows, and I was given a duet with another girl, which was high praise. Then the school got crappy, so I found somewhere else. Which was great but then the teacher went back to uni and a bloke took over who was more concerned with numbers and exam passes than actually dancing for the love of it, and couldn't teach for toffee. So I started Youth Theatre instead. I'd go back to doing Irish Dancing if I could find a cheap class.
Drawing
I do still draw, but nowhere near as much as I'd like. I have a few sketch pads, but the inspiration doesn't come as easily. I blame the house I lived in in the second year of uni for this. The atmosphere was so toxic that I just couldn't do anything there, nevermind draw. A year of that and you get out of the habit. I have a canvas that I started three years ago sat in my living room that I keep thinking I should finish.
Luckily, I do have other creative outlets. I like sewing projects, and I've done a bit of pixel art recently, which is fun. But my aim for the new house will be to draw as much as possible when we first move in, then I can get back to it.
Hanging Out
Noone told me how little time you have as a grown up! In school I was forever doing things - Guides, youth theatre, dancing, kikcing a ball round the park, even just dossing down town with my friends. In uni I was constantly surrounded by the Tech Ninjas, as we spent loads of time spit balling ideas, working on course work, or sat eating hash brown and sausage sandwhiches in the SU. Then we'd go out drinking a few times a month (I wasn't a huge partier, but they were regular enough).
I don't get the chance to do any of that now. Yeah, I meet friends for cinema trips, or movie nights, or to grab a coffee, but it's not the same. I'm either working, volunteering, traveling, or at Ash's house. Plus nearly all my uni friends have moved away (or are planning to), and I live in a different town to my main friendship group. And there's the lack of funds.
So they're the main things I miss. And to end on a completely superfilous note, I miss my Mum's home cooking. Damn regular meals were good...
Ciao
~*Ruth*~