[OrwinClayhammer]

I haven’t seen this type of thread and I’m curious if I’m the only oddball here that likes to read mythology and ancient manuscripts for fun, and get lost in Wikipedia for hours reading about the etymology of names in mythology.

Anyone else have an oddball hobby like that you could never figure out how to turn into a career? I also like reading about numbers and their qualitative meanings relative to cultures and people. I also have strange fascinations with symbols and dreams.

If anything…just list some of your hobbies so I can get a glimpse into your life and not feel like such a creep.

Thanks…IT will help us study.

I passed reg with an 88 so don’t tell me to be an archaeologist or that I’m in the wrong field….everyone knows that accountants can be well read or have asbergian tendencies. It’s not a hindrance to be a nerd fig.

[Quinacridone]

@SamdiegoCPA

I never thought of travel as a hobby, but you're right that it fits here. Every year I travel abroad. I've already been to all the major European countries, so this year I'm so excited to be going some place a little more remote: the Dalmatian Coast (Croatia and Montenegro) and ending up in Venice (which I have not been to before). I have heard the Dalmatian Coast is exceptionally beautiful, but I have not had any time to look into what my “must-dos” need to be. I'm going in May right after I take my next CPA exam (either FAR (if I failed my take from this past Thursday) or Audit).

REG - Nov 4, 2013: 88
FAR - Feb 27, 2014: 86
AUD - April 5, 2014: 91
BEC - May 6, 2014: 83

Florida CPA 24 July 2014
(Done in seven months - thank you Jesus!!)

[Quinacridone]

@SamdiegoCPA

I never thought of travel as a hobby, but you're right that it fits here. Every year I travel abroad. I've already been to all the major European countries, so this year I'm so excited to be going some place a little more remote: the Dalmatian Coast (Croatia and Montenegro) and ending up in Venice (which I have not been to before). I have heard the Dalmatian Coast is exceptionally beautiful, but I have not had any time to look into what my “must-dos” need to be. I'm going in May right after I take my next CPA exam (either FAR (if I failed my take from this past Thursday) or Audit).

REG - Nov 4, 2013: 88
FAR - Feb 27, 2014: 86
AUD - April 5, 2014: 91
BEC - May 6, 2014: 83

Florida CPA 24 July 2014
(Done in seven months - thank you Jesus!!)

[Study Monk]

@ Quinacridone

I did the Dalmatian Coast last year, and it was a great trip. The towns and walled cities are very beautiful, but the landscape around them was a lot more barren than I anticipated. I would plan on spending most of your time in the walled cities and if you can make it to pitvice lakes national park, which is the only part of the landscape that is truly majestic. The highlights of the trip were Hvar, Dubrovnick, Motovun and Rovinj as far as the towns go. All of the cities are small and can be thoroughly enjoyed in a day or two.

I spoke to an ancient wise man who sent me on a mushroom induced journey through an ancient forest to find the key to passing the CPA exam. A talking spider monkey told me to throw the last of my drinking water in the dirt to find what I was looking for. So I followed his instructions and the following message appeared in the soil:

"Do 5000 multiple choice questions for each section"

[Study Monk]

@ Quinacridone

I did the Dalmatian Coast last year, and it was a great trip. The towns and walled cities are very beautiful, but the landscape around them was a lot more barren than I anticipated. I would plan on spending most of your time in the walled cities and if you can make it to pitvice lakes national park, which is the only part of the landscape that is truly majestic. The highlights of the trip were Hvar, Dubrovnick, Motovun and Rovinj as far as the towns go. All of the cities are small and can be thoroughly enjoyed in a day or two.

I spoke to an ancient wise man who sent me on a mushroom induced journey through an ancient forest to find the key to passing the CPA exam. A talking spider monkey told me to throw the last of my drinking water in the dirt to find what I was looking for. So I followed his instructions and the following message appeared in the soil:

"Do 5000 multiple choice questions for each section"

[Quinacridone]

Thank you Study Monk! My boyfriend and I are both history junkies (he moreso than I; I just love the art and architectural history). Did you do a guided tour or just go on your own? We are doing a tour through one of the major tour companies (I can't remember if its trafalgar or go-ahead). They tend to structure most of the tour time, but we like to step away from the tour and hit our own spots. Once we get to Venice, we will be on our own – hoping to go to Ravenna for a day to see the mosaics. I will keep the highlights you've listed in mind. Sad to hear you say the landscapes are barren as that is a part of traveling that I truly enjoy seeing.

REG - Nov 4, 2013: 88
FAR - Feb 27, 2014: 86
AUD - April 5, 2014: 91
BEC - May 6, 2014: 83

Florida CPA 24 July 2014
(Done in seven months - thank you Jesus!!)

[Quinacridone]

Thank you Study Monk! My boyfriend and I are both history junkies (he moreso than I; I just love the art and architectural history). Did you do a guided tour or just go on your own? We are doing a tour through one of the major tour companies (I can't remember if its trafalgar or go-ahead). They tend to structure most of the tour time, but we like to step away from the tour and hit our own spots. Once we get to Venice, we will be on our own – hoping to go to Ravenna for a day to see the mosaics. I will keep the highlights you've listed in mind. Sad to hear you say the landscapes are barren as that is a part of traveling that I truly enjoy seeing.

REG - Nov 4, 2013: 88
FAR - Feb 27, 2014: 86
AUD - April 5, 2014: 91
BEC - May 6, 2014: 83

Florida CPA 24 July 2014
(Done in seven months - thank you Jesus!!)

[Anonymous]

It's apparently been too long since I studied REG…what's the pun? I've seen this title several times and wondered what pun I was missing… 😛

I don't have much in the way of hobbies right now… I play computer games some with BF (games are really a great way to spend time together, don't care who you are 😛 ), but mostly spend free time talking to family or replying to forums and emails…and time that shouldn't be free (like when there's housework to do but I'm online instead 😛 ). There's other things that I have fun with, but rarely do, like creative sewing (just sewing following a pattern is boring; sewing with an idea in my mind and no idea how to get it into the fabric is far more exciting 😉 ) or other handwork. I read sometimes, but not a lot, because reading “fun” books (biographies or novels) tends to turn me into a b****, so I try to avoid it! I do have some books about home organization that I'm reading through, though…

Oh, and I guess that I budget enough that I should probably count it as a hobby! I can easily end up spending hours playing with our budget or manipulating amortization tables (for home mortgage and for car loan), etc., even though the income and expenses rarely change, so the ability to pay on the loans rarely changes either…but I can still contemplate and ponder and see when they'll each be paid off with different combinations of payments (like whether I focus on paying off the house sooner and just do minimum payments on the car, or focus the car first, etc., and then predict when we're likely to need to replace BF's car, and how much we could have saved up before needing to replace his car after paying off my car, etc. etc. – it's really quite easy to get wrapped up in and then look at the clock and realize it's been a couple hours….).

My BF has a much more interesting hobby that I help him out with – homebrewing. We're trying to see how cheaply we can make good homebrewed beer (which is legal in our state but not in all states, so if anyone's curious about it, look up your state's rules before getting involved in it). We had our first truly successful batch the other day, about $5 for a gallon, but have some supplies on the way to be able to do it more reliably.

[Anonymous]

It's apparently been too long since I studied REG…what's the pun? I've seen this title several times and wondered what pun I was missing… 😛

I don't have much in the way of hobbies right now… I play computer games some with BF (games are really a great way to spend time together, don't care who you are 😛 ), but mostly spend free time talking to family or replying to forums and emails…and time that shouldn't be free (like when there's housework to do but I'm online instead 😛 ). There's other things that I have fun with, but rarely do, like creative sewing (just sewing following a pattern is boring; sewing with an idea in my mind and no idea how to get it into the fabric is far more exciting 😉 ) or other handwork. I read sometimes, but not a lot, because reading “fun” books (biographies or novels) tends to turn me into a b****, so I try to avoid it! I do have some books about home organization that I'm reading through, though…

Oh, and I guess that I budget enough that I should probably count it as a hobby! I can easily end up spending hours playing with our budget or manipulating amortization tables (for home mortgage and for car loan), etc., even though the income and expenses rarely change, so the ability to pay on the loans rarely changes either…but I can still contemplate and ponder and see when they'll each be paid off with different combinations of payments (like whether I focus on paying off the house sooner and just do minimum payments on the car, or focus the car first, etc., and then predict when we're likely to need to replace BF's car, and how much we could have saved up before needing to replace his car after paying off my car, etc. etc. – it's really quite easy to get wrapped up in and then look at the clock and realize it's been a couple hours….).

My BF has a much more interesting hobby that I help him out with – homebrewing. We're trying to see how cheaply we can make good homebrewed beer (which is legal in our state but not in all states, so if anyone's curious about it, look up your state's rules before getting involved in it). We had our first truly successful batch the other day, about $5 for a gallon, but have some supplies on the way to be able to do it more reliably.

[Study Monk]

@ Quinacridone I usually just research the trips and do it myself, but tours often reveal interesting facts and sometimes show you hard to find places. I wish you luck!

I spoke to an ancient wise man who sent me on a mushroom induced journey through an ancient forest to find the key to passing the CPA exam. A talking spider monkey told me to throw the last of my drinking water in the dirt to find what I was looking for. So I followed his instructions and the following message appeared in the soil:

"Do 5000 multiple choice questions for each section"

[Study Monk]

@ Quinacridone I usually just research the trips and do it myself, but tours often reveal interesting facts and sometimes show you hard to find places. I wish you luck!

I spoke to an ancient wise man who sent me on a mushroom induced journey through an ancient forest to find the key to passing the CPA exam. A talking spider monkey told me to throw the last of my drinking water in the dirt to find what I was looking for. So I followed his instructions and the following message appeared in the soil:

"Do 5000 multiple choice questions for each section"

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