What do you do for fun? I wish I knew...

If you spend as much time on dating sites as I do, eventually a dreaded question comes up, either when filling out a profile or when communicating with a potential match... So, what do you do for fun?

It should be an easy question, but it's one I never have a good answer for.

Until recently, I had minimal free time on my hands. I was working six days a week up until a year and a half ago, and taking grad classes at night until last summer. I still work a lot of overtime - it probably works out to at least one weekend day a month, plus I've been working Tuesday nights until 10pm for the last 6 months or so.

But when I'm not at work, I tend to fill my time with hobbies that aren't terribly interesting, or sexy, or conductive to involvement with another person. I go to the gym daily, unless something else (like work) prevents me - which kills 90 minutes working out, plus time spent getting changed and the like. I read. I watch TV, although not all that much. I spend a fair amount of time online - blogging, reading message boards, listing stuff on eBay. I go to yard sales, hamfests, auctions, flea markets, browse the clearance sections of Target and Staples. I play the occasional game of wii bowling, until my cat starts attacking the wiimote.

I guess it probably wouldn't hurt to get out more - I might try to take a few day trips this summer, maybe give hiking a try, although I'm not sure where I'd hike. I have a group of acquaintances - friends of a friend- that I've occasionally done dinner and board games with, and I should probably get that going again. But I don't get out much, don't really like doing things by myself all that much, and can't help but think if half my income is going to my mortgage, I should probably spend some time while I'm awake at home. And despite my lack of exciting hobbies, I still have a backlog of stuff I need to do at home - cleaning, eBay descriptions, home improvements- partly due to lack of time, partly due to procrastination.

When I look at profiles on dating sites, I look at the pictures, and if they have a ton of pictures like "me jumping out of an airplane" or "me in Alaska fighting wild wolves" I can figure they probably won't go for me - and on sites like eHarmony where people close matches, they are usually the ones that get closed.

I guess I have a couple of choices:

1) try to develop hobbies that make me look cool, even if I hate them.

2) hope that someday I find a chick whose idea of fun is getting up at 7am and going through granny's old crap at a yard sale in the hopes of finding something of value

3) learn to be happy alone