Is That a Hobby?

i don't have legitimate hobbies, i don't think.  a hobby is what you choose to work on when you have free time.  the things i choose to do?  uh... watch reality television. go happy hour. online shop.  see cover bands at street fests.  i don't play sports, i don't do crafts or diy projects (except making costumes for bar crawls).  i'm not a photographer or a cook.  i don't even discuss work outside of work.  julie and i often extensively discuss the finer points of the appetizer and wine menus at our favor happy hour establishments, but never work.  because i'm too much of an ocd perfectionist and since i'm not good at any of those things, i choose not to do them.  but also, to me those things suck and i find them incredibly boring.  i need a hobby that i don't find painfully dull.

looking at my post yesterday, i wonder - is cleaning and organizing a hobby?  can it be?  that's what i do when i get home from work.  and on my weekends.  it's what i do when i'm at home alone and bored, it's what i do to hang out with my friends.  (i helped betsy organize her house.  i helped tara declutter before moving.)  honestly, i was so excited about organizing my mother's house over the long weekend because i find that fun.  even when i read, which admittedly hasn't been often, i read e-books on decluttering, simplifying, organizing, cleaning.  have you seen my home pinterest board?  it's all about organization and cleanly decorated homes.  yes all of this probably makes me insane, but organization gives me a sense of control, and i do so love control.

this is my goal.  i'm almost there, wouldn't you say?!

technically, they sell organizational supplies at hobby lobby.  and if they sell it at a store that has hobby in the title, then it has to be a hobby, right?  kind of like how you can't put anything on the internet that isn't true... so i'm going with that.  when someone asks me my hobbies and interests, i'm going with organizing and cleaning.  that doesn't make me sound crazy at all.  now all i have to do is turn organizing into a viable business that pays me a living wage so i can organize all day e'ry day.

the point is, i suppose, that my house is completely and totally decluttered and organized.  at all times.  can i come do yours now?