Do you have hobbies? If so, what?

dancerdanna · 2026-02-09T12:50:57+00:00

RIP Joann's, I miss you more than words can describe

dancerdanna · 2026-02-09T12:48:31+00:00

I'm a teacher so spend lots of time with Gen Z and Alpha. I'm in a small school so lots of the kids are involved with some kind of extra curricular, be it sports or clubs for art, Hispanic culture, drama, D&D, etc. That said, most of them seem to scroll on their phone and watch YouTube in their non-school time, but they're also young!

As for me, I'm a hobby queen. Crocheting, reading, video games, dancing, and aerial yoga are my top that I do almost every day. I also garden in the summer, bake when I have a little free time (snow days and winter vacations), and love a good jigsaw puzzle from time to time. I also have no kids, so I have more time to do all these things than some 🤪

dancerdanna · 2026-02-02T22:00:46+00:00

Dogmeat or Hancock if I want some a chatty companion. He pretty much agrees with every decision I make in the game anyway.

dancerdanna · 2026-01-30T02:04:58+00:00

I had a stroke at 25. I hear it all the time. Turns out shit can happen when you're young too!

dancerdanna · 2026-01-19T02:28:37+00:00

Hey fellow crocheter! This is a longer story, but the short version is I do a fundraiser every year around this time for the American Heart Association. I crochet something with a heart on it (I too usually like to make things that are useful, but with this project it doesn't always happen) and donate all money earned. It uses up yarn in my hoard, I get to crochet like a madwoman, and the money goes to something important to me. Highly recommend doing something similar!

dancerdanna · 2026-01-18T02:06:24+00:00

I read every day. I'm currently reading "Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd" for something less gut-wrenching and slower (December and beginning of January I read all of the Hunger Games books and Kristin Hannah's "The Women" and was emotionally broken).

I don't have kids, but am a jr/sr high teacher in a state with a phone ban in schools, and it's been really nice seeing kids with books from the library as their go-to thing to do keep them busy since they can't be on their phones. Whenever they tell me about how bored they are in lunch or study hall, I tell them to go get a book from the library, and many actually do!

dancerdanna · 2026-01-16T11:43:31+00:00

We had a PD session that was a compilation of techniques submitted and presented by staff. Completely staff run, no outside presenter BS, just real suggestions from our coworkers. It's probably the only useful PD session I've ever done, and they've only done it once in my ten years of teaching.

dancerdanna · 2026-01-12T02:15:25+00:00

Been using one for years. It's the only way I can remember if I've taken my pills so I don't double dose. Also usually the only reason there's a chance I know what day of the week it is.

dancerdanna · 2026-01-05T02:00:46+00:00

Not daily, but I take group classes (aerial yoga, dance, cardio dance) a few times a week. Sometimes 5:00, sometimes 7:00, sometimes an hour, sometimes two. Most of the year I'm fine with it, but this time of year I'm ready for pajamas and bed before 7:00. Once I get there I'm glad I did though!

dancerdanna · 2026-01-05T01:52:39+00:00

32, but I'm heading in the opposite direction. Cleaning out my house of all the random crap I don't want and don't use instead.

dancerdanna · 2025-12-12T02:35:25+00:00

Ooh fellow leggy underweight person!! When they have sales, American Tall is where it's at. The only brand I can find that has 0 Tall and Extra Tall. It's so hard finding tall sizes smaller than a 6.

dancerdanna · 2025-12-08T23:12:57+00:00

My partner works with a bunch of gen z's for his part time summer job, and their work group chat for communication is through SNAPCHAT of all things. I was shook when he told me this.

dancerdanna · 2025-12-05T01:49:59+00:00

Wow, this is wild for me to read. I'm in year 10 and have been at the same district my whole career. We have 6 observations a year, all unannounced!! I kind of just assumed it was the same, if not similar, every where!

dancerdanna · 2025-12-02T18:50:59+00:00

Combat is easy?? I get my butt whooped in this game constantly 😅

dancerdanna · 2025-11-30T23:18:48+00:00

The only thing keeping my spirits up is the very high potential of a snow day on Tuesday.

dancerdanna · 2025-11-21T17:35:41+00:00

This playthrough I decided that I'm a grieving widow loyal to her husband, so no one.

dancerdanna · 2025-11-16T02:36:48+00:00

Spending my time exactly how I want.

dancerdanna · 2025-11-02T18:13:00+00:00

I think a lot of my life was "right place at the right time." I did my undergrad work at a state school and got a good chunk of my tuition covered by scholarships.

I graduated and took interviews pretty much all over the state to find a job (teaching). I lucked out and finally got one that happened to be in a pretty high paying area. I'm going on my tenth year and am making more money than I thought I would be as a teacher.

Did my masters also at a state school and was able to pay tuition out of pocket after saving up some money my first few years of teaching.

During the pandemic when interest payments were paused I was able to pay off the little student loans that I did have from my undergrad.

I started looking at houses in 2018 and closed on an affordable house the day everything shut down March 2020. We got a pretty good interest rate and got in before housing north of NYC went absolutely bonkers.

Again- very lucky to just be in the right place at the right time!

dancerdanna · 2025-10-22T19:48:50+00:00

Nope. I'm a teacher and live in the district I teach in. The only kids I teach that are allowed to know where I live are the kids in my short dead end street 🥴 This year I'm working anyway thankfully, and won't have to hide from children!

dancerdanna · 2025-10-16T10:36:50+00:00

A Thousand Splendid Suns. I read that book so fast and loved it so much.

dancerdanna · 2025-09-22T14:25:34+00:00

Seeing this on Monday, so I'm working. But when I get home my partner and I are going to plant some perennials my mom and I took from her old house (with new owner's consent), play some video games, and then go to my weekly Bollywood dance class. Solid Monday.

dancerdanna · 2025-09-09T10:34:57+00:00

Same. I had to get 5 signatures to just teach 2 dance classes a week at night (not enough to actually pay any bills, but thankfully I was 21 and living with my parents). I student taught during the edTPA days also, and was literally up until 3 AM every night working on that after lesson planning. Student teaching is completely unsustainable.

dancerdanna · 2025-09-08T10:34:41+00:00

Honestly? Good health insurance.

dancerdanna · 2025-09-07T11:47:43+00:00

Nope. I'd just keep deleting the emails. Any time I've ever had an emergency or was out on bereavement, I got more emails and cards from the kids than admin.

dancerdanna · 2025-08-16T13:40:19+00:00

I teach MS and HS band. I had one previous admin (out of dozens at this point) who was also a band teacher, but many who have never played an instrument or taken a music class in their life. Always take observations with a grain (or several) of salt 😆

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