AuburnChick's Adventures

Hola!  It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means!

Yep!  It’s time for the Hodgepodge!  Join the fun…answer the questions on YOUR blog and then link back up on Joyce‘s!

1.  What is one piece of advice you would give to a just-turning 21-year old adult?

Stay in college until you graduate.  It’s much easier to finish while you’re young.

2.  Besides cooler weather (or warmer weather, depending on your hemisphere), what is one thing you are looking forward to this Fall?

Teacher pay!  I just started my first year in the public school system, and the pay difference from my private school salary is going to feel like I’ve won the lottery.  If only the district would finish processing my paperwork…any day now!!

3.  What sound lulls you to sleep?

A professor…lecturing at the college.  I am not an auditory learner, so those Saturday EPI classes were rough for me.  I got busted the first Saturday in January when my eyes started rolling back in my head.  Stupid me had sat in the front row too!!

4.  September is National Preparedness Month.  Does your family have an emergency ‘kit’ and/or disaster plan in place?

You would think that I would have a kit…living on the Gulf Coast and all.  But, alas, I don’t.  I, like thousands of other residents, find myself rushing to Publix when a hurricane threatens.  I do have a disaster plan, though.  It’s called “Stuff the kids, dogs, and baby pictures into the car and drive in the opposite direction.”

How’s that for being organized?

5.  How has your blog changed since you started blogging?  Or has it.

Well, I’ve added people (Guy Friend and Dancing Girl), removed pets (RIP Chloe, Chance, and Cadillac).  Otherwise, I still drone on endlessly about matters that I consider important but few others do.  LOL.

6.  What’s something you’ve recently learned to do on the computer?

Just last week, I learned how to download a YouTube video and convert it to an mp4 so I could run it on my laptop, internet free, in my classroom.  Otherwise, I consider myself very computer savvy.

7.  Is a picture worth a thousand words?  Elaborate.

Yes, it is.  I love to take pictures, and it never fails to amaze me how many different things people find to say about them.  Often, I am drawn to a subject for a completely different reason from what someone else sees when he or she sees when looking at that same picture.

Plus, have you ever taken a picture of something in nature?  Oh my word, but one only has to go back and look at my pictures from Alaska to realize that a person often doesn’t have enough words to describe what’s been captured through the lens.

8.  My Random Thought

A friend of mine lost her husband yesterday after he lost his year and a half battle against cancer.  The lives of this couple are intertwined with my own family’s in several ways.  Such is the way in small towns like mine.  Steve touched many lives as people far and wide supported him through their prayers.  We are all reeling from his unexpected passing, yet we take comfort in the fact that Steve was a Christian and is, at this very moment, with the Lord.

Please pray for his family…his wife and two children…especially in the difficult days and months to come.

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