AuburnChick's Adventures

Yay!  Time for the Hodgepodge!  Thanks, as always Joyce, for hosting this fun meme!

1.  Will you watch the Super Bowl? If so who will you root for? If you are outside the USA what is the ‘big deal sporting event’ in your own country?

I will watch the Super Bowl, but I care not who wins.  I haven’t been into the NFL season this year, but I love football, and I especially love the commercials.

2. Is ignorance bliss?

I believe there are times when ignorance is bliss, like when your children are spreading poop all over your walls and you simply do not have the energy to face life at that moment.

I believe ignorance is bliss when people are talking behind your back.  Who gives a rip what people say?  They are probably just jealous anyhow.

3. Which of the seven dwarfs are you? (and just in case your Disney is a little bit rusty, here they are-Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, and Sneezy)

Right now, I feel like Dopey.  I am completely overworked and am beginning to lose what remaining marbles I had left over from raising toddlers.

4. When you are riding in the car with another couple how do you organize the seating? (Men up front? Women up front? Couples sit together?)

I think that if the couples know each other well, the women should sit together so they can chat while the guys do the same.  I also prefer to sit in the front seat because I get car sick, so men can sit in the back!  Ha!

5. What is beauty?

Great timing with this question as, just last week, I discussed this similar thing with my sixth graders.  Beauty is the quiet confidence that comes from within.  Beauty is not what you look like on the outside but what streams forth from your soul.  Beauty is a life spent glorifying God in all that you say and do.

6. If someone asks you to bring an appetizer or a dessert to a party in their home, which would you choose?

Because I bought a gajillion (yes, that is a made up word, but I do not care) boxes of brownies for pennies, I will take brownies to a party if asked.

7. What is your crowd pleasing go-to appetizer?

I am not a crowd person, but if called on to take an appetizer, I opt for deviled eggs.  I can whip these babies up in no time, and the filling I make is delicious!

8. Insert your own random thought here.

Gripe time!

This week, I want to complain about my local paper.

I have done battle with the paper before, and I am about to reenter the fight.

Why?

Because the stupid company will NOT put all of the coupons I am entitled to in newsstand issues!

Every Sunday, I drive to Books a Million after church to buy two papers.  I get them there because 1) I cannot afford regular, home delivery and 2) I have a discount card, so I save money.

Last year, I got into an almost-yelling match at my local paper because the place had the nerve to sell me two papers, on site, that were missing inserts.

You better believe that I made employees wade through mounds of papers to find my supplements.

Ticked off royally is what I was (as Yoda would say).

For two weeks now, BAM has not had all of the supplements in its papers.  I complained to management with the request that they give the paper a What For.  They are losing my business.

If and when I ever start getting paid more money, I am going to subscribe to home delivery of either the Jacksonville or Atlanta papers.  Their coupon distributors actually recognize the fact that people do eat and, thus, need more than two flipping coupons in the inserts, and I will gladly pay the delivery charges and wait the extra two days to get them.

So, that is my random thought.

Go on over to Joyce’s blog to play along.

It’s fun!

I promise.

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