Who loves Wednesdays? I do! I do! (wildly waving my arms in the air). Time to join Joyce From This Side of the Pond for Wednesday Hodgepodge. She asks the questions. We supply the answers. Then we share the love. Let's go......
1. Share one thing that really makes your day.
What really makes my day is a hug. I love it when the kids put their arms around me and stay long enough for me to hug them back. Makes my day every single time. Especially now that they are teens and it is hard to get them to stand still long enough for the hug!
2. Lots of these kinds of lists out there, but one found here says the fifteen most colorful places on earth are:
Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Italy~Burano, Italy~Havana, Cuba~Rio de Janiero, Brazil~Chefchaouen, Morocco~Balat, Istanbul, Turkey~Menton, France~Jodhpur, India~La Baca, Buenos Aires, Argentina~Guanajuato, Mexico~Capetown, South Africa~Valparaiso, Chile~Wroclaw, Poland~San Francisco, California~and Pelourhino, Salvador, Brazil.
Of those listed which would you most like to see up close and in person? Of all the places you've seen or traveled in your own life, what would you say was one of the most colorful?
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Cuba |
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Curacao |
3."Everything you want is on the other side of fear." Jack Canfield In general, would you agree or disagree with that statement? Why?
In general, I would agree with this. What it means to me is: you have to get out of your comfort area to experience what life is really all about. I am guilty of not challenging myself enough to get out of my comfort area.
4. Imagine you're stranded on a desert island and dessert appears...what do you hope it is? Do you ever struggle to remember which spelling is desert and which is dessert?
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Yummy! |
5. What song almost always makes you cry?
I'm crying right now as I listen to this. Celine was Richard's favorite singer (right there next to Barbara Streisand). This song was his ringtone on my phone. We played it at his memorial service. I know that my heart will go on......and so will his!!
6. January is National Soup Month. Everything from soup to nuts, in the soup, thick as pea soup, souped up...which saying most recently applies to your life in some way? Explain.
We have had some foggy mornings recently where it is 'thick as pea soup.' I did not know that January is National Soup Month. I am making chili for dinner tonight! I will tell Harley (who isn't that fond of soup of any kind) that we are celebrating National Soup Month!!
7. Write a two word note to your younger self. What does it say?
Dear Younger Paula:
Hold On!
8. Insert your own random thought here.
I have finished my 30 day menu plan. Now I just need to plan a 'freezer cooking day.' All of January goals will then be achieved. Yay me!!
(I will add my link to Joyce's site when she puts up the link tomorrow)
Hi Paula - the sun makes me smile hugely ... and it's a broad smile today! I think I'd have to choose some Bowie songs today ... hugs most definitely ... cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteI wasn't much of a Bowie fan but I can see why people loved his music. And yes, the sun, good choice!!
DeleteGood for you for the 30 day menu plan! That's a good idea too with the freezer cooking day; get it done so to speak!
ReplyDeleteI follow a blog of a lady who lives in Canada; she went to Cuba last year for vacation and shared pictures; it does look like an interesting place to visit! I think I would choose Poland since I'm of Polish descent.
Nothing better than a bowl of soup on a cold winter day! Maybe Harley will come to like soup as she gets older :)
betty
Poland would be a great choice! I think Harley just likes to be different!! LOL
DeleteI always thought I should do a freezer cooking day and I know I would be overjoyed to have all those freezer meals on work days. I just have yet to sacrifice any of my precious time off of work to do it!
ReplyDeleteMaybe I will post about my freezer cooking day! I understand about precious time off days. I love all of my days now that I am no longer working
DeleteJanuary is kind of the perfect month for soup month.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is!
DeleteYou are on a roll with checking off your to-do list! I love soup. Fever is down for now. I should probably just drink more wine! Yeah, I saw that bottle in the photo you posted. �� I LOVE freezer cooking days. Too bad we don't share a back fence. We could cook stuff and go halfsies.
ReplyDeleteIt is too bad we don't share a back fence. What fun we would have. And I'd share my wine too!
DeleteMay I come along to Cuba?! My parents were there (pre-Castro); she spoke so lovingly about it.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Harley doesn't care much for soup because, if she's like me, I need to CHEW on something to feel satisfied.
Great choice of songs! Incredible, Celine's own journey with her hubby.
That would be so much fun to go to Cuba with you!! Yes, Celine has been on an incredible journey with her husband. It is such a beautiful love story. (a little creepy too)
DeleteYou're the second person who mentioned Curacao! My interest is piqued!
ReplyDeleteA beautiful Caribbean island!!
DeleteHugs are good!!!
ReplyDeleteI am impressed with you planning a menu for 30 days, I'm doing well to plan one day!
I am thinking that if I can get it just right then I only have to plan once. We can just then rotate the menu every 30 days. That is what I am trying to achieve anyway
DeleteCreme brulee is so good! I had green tea flavored once and man, you'd think it wouldn't be good but it was.
ReplyDeleteNo, green tea crème brulee doesn't sound that good. But I would sure try it!
DeleteWhat a beautiful place to see after walking off the cruise ship! I've only been on one cruise, from Seattle to Alaska, which has some wonderful sights, but not all that colorful.
ReplyDeleteIt was a beautiful place. We have been on 3 cruises! Richard loved them
DeleteThe only colorful place I have been on the list is SF. But I was in Curacao as well and it was much more colorful than SF. I was surprised it didn't make the list.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised as well!
DeleteCuba would be wonderful to visit! Que linda, y muy interesante. Y la gente es muy agradable!
ReplyDeleteSorry I don't speak fluent Spanish but I will figure it out!
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