Wednesday Hodgepodge

1.July 15th is National Give Something Away Day. What can you give away? Will you?

I have a bag of clothes and shoes to go to ST. Vincent DePaul. I donate things regularly there. They not only have a Thrift Store, but also clothe the homeless.

2. Do you have a mantra? Please share with the class if you feel comfortable doing so.

“Sometimes Chickens, Sometimes Feathers”. It’s sort of my outlook on life. Neither negative or overly optimistic. Just sometimes it works and sometimes it just doesn’t (through no ones fault).

3. Who does the grocery shopping in your house? How many times a week do you shop? Do you make a list or pray for inspiration in the produce aisle?

We do a big shopping about every two weeks. That requires us to drive 30 miles to a nicely priced store. To fill in, we go to the local super market a couple of times a week.

4. Is there a TV show you’re embarrassed to say you watch? You’re going to tell us what it is, right?

Not at all. The only show I am passionate about right now are the NYPD Blue reruns on the satelitte. Every night at 7:00 we sit down and watch the commercial free episodes. We are on Season 10 and by summers end, it will be over and we will have watched it from Episode 1, Season 1. What a great show that was.

I also love Blue Bloods. That is sort of my new favorite. Amazon Prime has it, so my plan is to start with Season 1 Episode 1 and watch up to the last episode of this year. Then I will be all caught up.

I guess I like these two shows because they are about good people, trying to make a diference.

5. A recent article listed fifteen words we should eliminate from our (written) vocabulary in order to sound smarter-

that, went, honestly, absolutely, very, really, amazing, always, never, literally, just, maybe, stuff, things, and irregardless

Of the fifteen, which word is your most overused?

Irregardless, literally, and really, are the ones that kind of bug me. Mostly because they are not used correctly.

6. So apparently dying your hair gray (in your youth!) is a thing right now. It’s called ‘The Granny Hair’ trend. Your thoughts?

I am fighting tooth and nail to keep my sweet, young, pretty, youthful hair! Kind of crazy to actually dye your hair gray. All in good time!

7. A while back Buzz Feed asked members to share the most beautiful sentence they’ve read in a piece of literature. A hard thing to narrow down, at least for me, but let’s try. What’s one of the most beautiful sentences you’ve ever read in a piece of literature?

It is from “A Fault in Our Stars“. Augustus Waters says to Hazel Grace Lancaster: “I am in love with you. And I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed. And that one day all our labor will be returned to dust. And I know that the sun will swallow the only earth we will ever have. And I am in love with you.”

8. Insert your own random thought here.

Yesterday, at lunchtime, I walked into my room while speaking with a friend on my cell phone. I looked in the mirror to check out my eye and there it was. A perfectly shaped STYE!

So, I read everything I could find on how to heal it. So I am showering twice a day, using a mild soap to wash the eye lash area (obviously with my eyes closed) and using drops. It is still incredibly uncomfortable, (like sand rubbing under my eyelid), but just knowing what it is, makes me feel a lot better!