“acting” not attacking
good god
its 3am, forgive me
Oh, man, I love to swing! Everytime I go on a date with someone (it’s been a few years now, though) I take them to a school playground around 11 at night and we swing and talk. It’s a great way to get to know someone, plus it’s not your typical ‘sitting in a diner’ date. Fortunately my SO also enjoys swinging, so on summer nights we sometimes sneak out to playgrounds and have a swing.
I also like to color. I watch anime, and play video games, and I love to play dress-up. When I’m feeling sad and my self-esteem is low, sometimes iIdress up in my best 1940’s gear, a cute little black dress, strappy shoes, back-seam pantyhose. I do my hair up, and do the make-up, and then I run errands and pretend I’m secretly Lana Turner. It’s fun. I also love stuffed animals; they’re the perfect gift for me. But I only like the obscure ones, likes badgers and octopi. (If you love weird stuffed animals too, check out this place. They have the coolest stuffed animals, and the proceeds go to a good cause.)
I talk to my animals in silly voices; I sing to them. When I go hiking with my dogs, I pretend we’re a wolf pack seeking new territory. I live a sort of ‘Walter Mitty’-style existence. Bored? Sick of waiting in lines or traffic? Fantasize!
I write letters to people with quill pens and seal them with sealing wax. I love Halloween. I eat whatever I want whenever I want. I stay up late and play loud music. Being an adult is so much fun! Now if only there were some way I could get around this whole “working for a living” thing, it’d be perfect!
I do silly dances and make up silly songs. My SO is the king of silly songs. He makes up the most bizarre songs about football, eggs, penguins, me, cups of tea, shitting and boats.
He and I play barefoot indoor soccer with a tennis ball sometimes.
I love swinging. Haven’t been on a swing in a while, though.
I LOVE settlers! I used to go on binges with my friends and play that game for huge blocks of time, laughing at the same stupid wood/sheep jokes over and over again. Ah, I miss that.
Play computer and XBox games, play D&D and other RPGs, paint miniatures (just ordered $60 worth of minis yesterday; my husband ordered another $45), build fantasy buildings with my Castlemold bricks; I have a set of K’Nex and some Legos; I understand what belladonna means about the thrill of coloring in a coloring book. Now that I’m an adult, I buy the BIG box of crayons. No more 24-count boxes for me. I love to visit toy stores, and I especially love the Barbie doll aisle. The majority of my hobbies are especially popular with boys in the 11-14 age group.
I, too, love being an adult and getting to do what I want. I don’t look back on much of my childhood fondly.
I love swings, but sadly most of the parks around here have kid-size swings - too low to the ground, and designed for kids’ bums.
I loooove going to the zoo. I love baking cookies and cupcakes. At Christmas time I make gingerbread houses, and I make my own cards and gifts for most of my friends and family. I eat too much chocolate. I love soft toys, and still sleep with my teddy bear when I’m unwell or feeling down. I do the Freddo Frog dance. I bounce when I’m excited. I can’t eat pasta without spilling some on my shirt. I have conversations with my dogs.
I think childhood is wasted on kids. I never realised how much fun kids’ stuff is til I grew up 
Mrs. Z and I love to ride carousels.
When I’m walking and I pass by some sort of picket type fence I love (have) to stick my hand out and drag along all the posts.
Farting!!!
Oh, I know we all do it. But, I’m talking about the lifting of the cheek after letting it store up for a while and applying just the right amount of pressure to produce the desired effect.
By myself or, as I just did yesterday, on a barstool with friend in public.
Is ther ANYTHING funnier or more infantile than a well executed Fart?
Oh yea, also, I’ll admit to doing that move where you scoop up the “bad” air with your cupped hand and waft it toward your nose just to see what it smells like upon initial execution.
C’mon, you know you do it. Just admit it.
Also, just last weekend I took my two sons (5 1/2 and 2 1/2) to lunch at Johnny Rockets. We had burgers and vanilla shakes. As I unsheethed my straw, it struck me. At 40 years old, I rediscovered and executed a nice spit-ball right at by 5 1/2 year old’s chest.
NICE!!!
LOVE Sesame Street.
LOVE to color.
LOVE to swing.
Oh, and I STILL HATE TO CLEAN MY ROOM. My husband and I have separate rooms for this reason. We sleep in the same room at night, but we have rooms of our own so we can decorate them how we like, and be as messy or as clean as we like. haha
Also, he stays up until midnight every night so that he can watch GI Joe on Cartoon Network.
SHEESH. haha
:)
I love to color. My sister and I have Barbie coloring books and a huge box of crayons up at the office, and when we get majorly stressed out we shut the door and color! (Of course, we got caught once by the assistant dean, and that was none too fun.)
I also watch cartoons on Saturday mornings while I eat fruity pebbles or cocoa pebbles or some other intensely sweet crunchy cereal.
And I play with barbie dolls, too.
Oh yea, in keeping with a theme, I love to pick my nose and get a nice hard one and flick it!!!
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood! I like to:
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[li]Blow soap bubbles[/li][li]Build snowmen[/li][li]Go barefoot[/li][li]Make gingerbread in obscene shapes[/li][li]Climb trees[/li][li]Make sandcastles[/li][li]Dress up for Halloween[/li][/ul]
Well, I’m only 42.
My favorite Settlers quote:
I had a useless hand, as usual. In frustration, I plead “What can I make with two sheep and a wood?”
My boyfriend replied “Q-tips?”
I’ll be checking out Robo Rally, especially since I have the map pack for Campaign Cartographer II… Meanwhile, if you haven’t played Drakon, do so. Just be prepared to hate your friends for a while. It involves both trying to win, and trying to make sure nobody else does.
Hobbies also include:
Dancing with pit bulls
Watching Kim Possible and The Powerpuff girls
…and last night, after hearing some potentially scary news, my boyfriend and I walked down to the convenience store, and bought candy bars and chocolate milk. And yes, they did make us feel enormously better. That, and the kung-fu movie.
What a nice question! It made me smile to see what sorts of fun and silly things adults are doing. I say good for you – growing up is SO overrated!
I love to color, play Old School Nintendo, watch Disney’s cartoon Robin Hood and sing and dance with the radio cranked up in my family room. I also like to play tricks on people – especially my boyfriend.
I like to stay up REALLY late and just do whatever I want. It’s more the staying up late thing that’s the best part.
Also, I like to stick my tongue out at people to mess with them. Today, for example, a little kid in the parking lot of the grocery store slowed down, tagging behind mom and siblings, to stare at me. Kids just stare a lot, I guess.
So I crossed my eyes and stuck my tongue out at him. Heh, heh. 
I also like to jump in puddles.
When I see a bird, I say “bird,” like Bambi. I have lots of fun with this.
I am quite adept at “artificial fart under the arm.” I can entertain thousands with this.
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Waving at strangers just to see if they wave back is fun.
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I bought a PS2 to play GTA3 (I’m 32)
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Hi Opal!
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I have a mister potatohead on the top of my monitor.
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I always wanted a gumball machine when I was a kid, so I bought an actual vending-quality gumball machine from Sam’s Club. I justify having it by saying that it’s a good place to keep my laundry money.
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I’m 32, and own a moped. I always wanted one, and now I have one. However, it’s got a 70cc kit, a tuned exhaust with a glasspack muffler, a hopped up intake and carb, and flaming skulls on the tank (so I don’t take it too seriously)
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I always wanted a Venus Flytrap when I was a kid, and now I have several, along with other carnivorous plants. ( www.petflytrap.com is a great place to get plants and info)
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Nerf-Guns. I just love to buy them and then shoot them indoors. I haven’t the nerve to take them outside.
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Farting is funny.
Re: Adults: what childish things do you do for fun?
Well, Dave. And I say things like that.
I eat cookie dough right from the tube. I color—I can’t pass up a 64-box with a sharpener. I always wanted a buncha pets as a kid, and now I do…everything that my landlords will allow. I don’t make my bed. I eat olives and pickles and cereal for dinner. I skip. I play I’m going on a picnic and I spy. I blow the paper on my straws at my friends. I watch cartoons.
And soooo much more. I guess since I didn’t grow since I was 11, I didn’t mature either.
Let’s see, I’m 32 (male) and here are some of the things I like to do:
Play on the swings at the park
Jump in puddles when it has rained
Play with my Legos, which I often do when I am visiting my mom and dad’s house and they have my nephews there.
Coloring
Watching Rugrats and other shows on Nickelodeon
Watching kid-oriented movies
Making up silly songs
There are a lot of “grown-up” things that I don’t like to do, or don’t know how to do, such as:
Watching sports, especially football
Drinking beer
Hunting and fishing
Working on cars or building things out of wood
I also still laugh at bathroom humor jokes such as pooping and farting. I don’t think anyone should hold back on doing the things they liked to do as children, just because they reach a certain age. After all, it certainly isn’t illegal to enjoy these things.