Just Wondering

What do people without hobbies do? I know they exist; as far as I can tell in just about any workplace the vast majority of the people there just don't have any real interests or activities they participate in outside of their job. So.... what do they do with their time?

I've got a half-day today. I spent the morning shopping for ingredients for recipes to try at this weekend's SCA Cook's Guild meeting and starting preparatory cooking for that; while the eggs were boiling I worked on translating the next part of a period Italian cookbook. Now I'm going to work on writing up part of a period dance manual; if that gets boring I have a shawl I'm crocheting that I can work on. Tonight I'm having friends over for a gaming session. Last night was dance practice, this weekend is Cook's Guild, the weekend after that is a gaming convention.

If I didn't have any outside interests, I think I'd end up just growing into the sofa. I can't fathom that lifestyle.

On The Other Hand

Of course, now hearing that apparently most normal people are busy enough with life that they maybe don't so much have time for hobbies, I wonder what I'm neglecting that puts me in a different situation.

I'm working full-time - five days a week usually, six days every third week, plus on-call time. I still cook for myself and my sweetie. Not necessarily gourmet meals every day, but dinner for both of us usually, and breakfast and lunch for myself. Sometimes we get behind on washing dishes, and the house may be a bit cluttered, but we do enough housekeeping together that our home is neither a wreck nor a toxic waste dump. And we don't have children, but there are pets to take care of.

And yet somehow I spend half of my time wandering around feeling like I have nothing to do, that I haven't accomplished enough with my day, and that there are huge stretches of time that need to be filled.

What am I forgetting?