For today’s Top 5 Tuesday, Dana @ Supernanny Where Are You? wants to know, what are your Top 5 Hobbies/Things you like to do when you’re not blogging? This question was suggested by the brilliant Rachael @ Mommy Learns to Blog, so be sure to go and thank her for this weeks question! And as usual, be sure to check out all the other participants of Top 5 Tuesday, who are linked up over at the main post here.

So… what do I do when I’m not blogging? Let’s see…

1. Well you all know I love to read. Usually during MM’s nap I’m torn between the urge to hop into a good book or hop into bloggy land – which side wins usually depends on how much blogging I have to catch up with or how soon my current read is due back at the library. Right now I’m reading Pride and Prejudice for the 5 Minutes for Book’s Classics Book Club, and I am itching to get back to reading more…
2. I also love to peruse a good magazine. I have subscriptions to Parents magazine, Cookie, Family Circle and Real Simple and also like getting Rachel Ray’s magazine from time to time and a few other. Sometimes I feel like I have more magazines than I know what to do with – other times I feel bored with the rotation and want to try something new. Most of my subscriptions were paid for by lovely friends and family as a birthday or Christmas present and I think that’s pretty clever!
3. My hubby and I love to watch movies, and get most of them through Netflix or the Red Box in our local Stop & Shop (which is right next door to our apartment, conveniently). During the fall and spring we watch mostly tv at night but this Summer we’ve been renting a lot of new and old movies and we also love getting into new TV shows by renting seasons through Netflix and being able to watch several episodes at a time. That’s how we got into Grey’s Anatomy, Bones, Alias, Veronica Mars and a few others, too, I think.
4. We also love to play card games and a few board games. Favorites include rummy, Phase 10, Apples to Apples, Life (any version), Monopoly, Mastermind, Battleship, In a Pickle, Balderdash, Wise or Otherwise, and Password…. There are others I like, but those I’d say are my favorites. Like I said, we like playing games! 🙂
5. I love to travel. Obviously, for financial reasons, I don’t get to do this much, but I love getting out of town and exploring new places. I’m a huge nerd and love going to museums and historic sites, but also love just eating at a new place, sleeping somewhere else, far enough away to potentially forget about the day to day humdrums. And as I’ve mentioned several times, there is no end to my wanderlust. I want to see everything this world has to offer.

What do you like to do when you’re not blogging?