AuburnChick's Adventures

It’s time for the Wednesday Hodgepodge, when bloggers everywhere get to relax their brains and just have fun!

Oh wait.  Joyce’s questions aren’t always that easy.  Hey, at least we don’t have to come up with the topics of our blogs.  There ya go!

Drive (get it…with the direction theme) on over to Joyce’s blog and link up!

1.  National Read a Road Map Day falls on April 5th.  Would people say you have a good sense of direction?  Do you rely on a GPS when you drive someplace new?  When was the last time you used a map?

Uh oh.  This is embarrassing.  I get lost a lot.  It all started when I began driving while I was in high school.  Living in Super Podunk, USA was tough…lots of small back roads.  One night, I was driving home after a high school football game, and I got so lost that I wound up two hours away from home.  That was in the day of pay phones.  I had two friends in the car, and we all had to stop, around midnight, and call our families.  Not fun.

I am infamous for calling up friends to get help.  My not-so-favorite time was when, on my way to a soccer field way out in Podunk, New Orleans (why do they stick soccer fields in hard-to-find places?), I called up my daughter’s best friend’s dad.  He could find his way out of the Sahara Desert.  He asks, “Where are you?  What do you see?”

I shouted back in frustration, “All I see are trees.  Lots of stupid trees.”

Yeah.

Ok…so it’s obvious that I use a GPS all the time!  Even then, I still get lost!!!  The GPS actually once yelled at me (I kid you not) when I was looking for a yarn store in New Orleans (different trip).  Maybe she was mad because I really wasn’t supposed to be spending money.  I’m sure the Mr. had paid her off.

The last time I used a GPS was two weeks ago…on my way across town to the high school where my mentor teaches.  I had passed this school the two times Rooster’s band had to play at that school.  I didn’t trust myself, especially in early-morning rush hour traffic.

2.  What’s your favorite cookbook?

Ha, ha, ha!  Funny one, Joyce!  Right now it’s the menu of Panera.  Take 1 bowl of Black Bean Soup, add 1 long baguette, and take it To Go.  Serves 1.  (I’m a pig and eat the entire baguette…to help keep my weight up, I might add.)

Sorry folks.  That’s my life right now.  On the plus side, I’m earning a lot of free goodies thanks to the frequent buyer card the place has.  😉

3.  What painting would you like to “walk into” and experience?  Why?

The first thing that came to mind was The Last Supper

Oh my word, but just to be with Jesus while He was still on earth and be able to break bread with Him!!  Wow!

But, I will get to do that when I enter heaven one day, and that will be even better!!

4.  What annoys you more:  misspellings or mispronunciations?

Hmmm…English teacher speaking here…I can’t say that one annoys me more than another.  I probably encounter mispronunciations more often than misspellings; however, I cannot stand to read misspelled words…especially on prestigious web sites or, say, in teenagers’ essays.  It’s called Spell Check, people!!

5.  What is something your mother or father considered important?

A good work ethic is the legacy my parents handed down to me.  I’ve recently been called a workaholic.  I don’t see myself as that.  I do see myself as an overachiever (my mentor alluded to this as well in an email I received from him yesterday).  I just cannot accept anything less than my best or others’ best.  My poor students have had this drilled into their heads this year.

6.  Do you like or dislike schedules?

I dislike them only because I have to live by them so rigorously right now.  I am ready to retire and not be tied to any kind of schedule.

7.  Let’s have some fun with National Poetry Month (that would be April).  Write your own ending to this poem:

“Roses are Red
Violets are blue…
One of my students
Likes to write about poo-poo.”

I kid you not.  My juniors and seniors have been maintaining blogs, and this student of mine is extremely funny (of course, she has me as a great role model in that department…har-de-har-har).  If you have a sec, would you visit her page and give her a comment?  These kids come into class smiling when they get comments.

8.  My Random Thought

Words with Friends is going to be the death of me.  The Mr. doesn’t know how to use half of the features of his fancy, schmancy phone, but somehow, he discovered how to download, install, and use this app.  And now he expects everyone else to play the game with him.

Folks, he LIVES for this game.

I resisted the urge to play along, but after I started games with Chicky and Rooster, the Mr. pouted.

I was trying to be a good girl and not get too distracted from my classes.

He pouted.

Finally, I invited him to play a game.

Oh, good gravy.

Now, we have two games going.  When one ends, he invites me to a rematch.  Even though I decline, he persists.

As I sit in the main room working on assignments, all I hear is the tinging noise that signals that he has entered a new word.

This goes on ALL NIGHT LONG.

Seriously.

Yesterday, he even hunted down Rooster…dared to enter a teenage boy’s room…and asked, “Why haven’t you put a word in?”

Yeah.

What about you?  Have you discovered this game yet?

 

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