Happy May! How fast is this year flying by, y’all?! Seriously, though. What a great way to kick off a new month . . . Hodgepodge-style, of course! Thanks, Joyce, for the fun questions you post each week. Thanks to all of you for visiting my little corner of the blog world too!
1. Can you tell I’m embracing a Cinco de Mayo theme here this week? Do you like Mexican food? What’s your favorite dish? How about on the side-black beans, pinto beans, refried beans, rice? What about heat-mild, medium, hot? Will you celebrate with Mexican food and drink on May 5th aka Cinco de Mayo?
Mexican food is my absolute favorite! I could seriously eat it every single day. Just ask the Mr. I typically order bean burritos and refried beans as my side. Yeah. That’s a lot of beans. Shall I sing the song for you? heehee
I like things spicy, but really, if I’m getting Mexican, who cares? Just give me the chips, salsa, and burrito. I’m a happy camper! I don’t know if I’ll be celebrating on Friday. The Mr. will be coming home from another appointment at the Mayo Clinic, so depending on what time he gets back into town will determine if we go out for dinner. I’d love a margarita though!
2. Ever been to Mexico? For work or holiday? Love it or no? If you haven’t been is this a place you’d like to visit? Can you speak Spanish?
I believe I went to Mexico when I was a little girl. It was my dad’s turn to get us for part of the summer (my parents were divorced), and I remember taking a long road trip. I also remember him telling me not to drink the water. He offered me beer instead, which I did not drink. My dad was French. Need I say more? The only languages I speak are English and Redneck. I understand a few Spanish words because I teach a lot of ESOL kids, but I could never carry on a conversation in this language.
3. What’s one thing you may accomplish this month?
I may finish a knitting project I started a couple of months ago. I find myself napping or watching TV in my down time lately. I need to finish this project so I can move on to the next one!
4. If you were mayor of your village, city, or town, what’s one thing you’d like to see changed, done away with, revamped, or accomplished? Is serving in public office something you’ve ever seriously considered?
I have never aspired to public office, but if I did serve as mayor, I think I’d find a way to get curbside recycling started. When I lived in south Florida, I was able to recycle paper, plastic, and cans. Up here, I have to take my stuff to recycling dumpsters across town. It’s very frustrating, but it’s something I do because I believe in it.
5. What’s something that may be popular, but that you just don’t get?
How about that new Starbucks drink . . . the Unicorn Frappuccino? Here’s an article I just found about some other new things Starbucks has planned.
I actually posted a link for a recipe that Detoxinista, a gal who’s written a cookbook that I prepare from weekly, created as a healthier alternative.
Borrowed from Detoxinista’s website (I hope she doesn’t mind since I’m giving her credit here).
I think that the brouhaha surrounding it has actually been good. I’d like to think that it’s making people aware of how unhealthy drinks such as this one are.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I like a Starbucks hot chocolate every once in a while, but ever since I re-started my fitness journey a year and a half ago and started monitoring what I’m eating, I’ve become leery of wasted calories and other things contained in such drinks.
So yeah. I don’t get it.
6. Can’t let this week slip by without mentioning Thursday May 4th is Star Wars Day. As in ‘May the 4th be with you’ ahem. Are you a fan of the Star Wars series? Exactly how much of a fan are you? On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being ‘I’ve seen every film, own the action figures, might have dressed as Darth Vader for Halloween one year‘, and 1 being, ‘what’s a Vader?‘ -where do you land?
I love this movie franchise and would rate myself as a 10, given Joyce’s criteria. I have seen every film, many times, I’m pretty sure we own some action figures, and I have dressed up as a character for Halloween before (when I was a child). In fact, the first movies came out when I was little. I remember going to the theater to see them. I had a Star Wars themed birthday party one year. Because I had one moment when I was cool.
I even used the Star Wars theme of passion and ill-fated lovers when I did my student teaching seven years ago. The teacher I was working with was covering Romeo and Juliet.
I rest my case.
7. Scroll back through your blog posts and in three sentences or less tell us the general theme of your fourth blog post. Does it still ring true today? Is it a topic you re-visit on your blog from time to time?
Oh my goodness . . . what a walk down memory lane! I had to go all the way back to November 2007 for that fourth post! Can you believe it’s been almost ten years?! Here’s the link to it.
Not surprisingly, I wrote about knitting and a swap I’d participated in.
All of that yarn has been knit up since then. In fact, that Big green yarn became a hat I became infamous for during high school soccer games.
Knitting has definitely been a theme in MANY of my blog posts. When we traveled for soccer games, I always found yarn stores. Las Vegas had, by far, the BEST ever! Of course, I blogged about my splurge, much deserved because I’d just finished my coursework for my Bachelor’s degree.
It’s through knitting that I’ve met some of my best friends. In fact, it’s because of knitting that I started writing a blog! When I signed up for Ravelry, a website dedicated to fiber arts, there was a spot on my profile page for a blog URL. I did some research and voila, a blog was born! I mean, I had to have something to put in that blank, right?
8. My Random Thought
I really want to use this space to vent a little . . . but I’m not. I think I’m going to pray about what I want to vent about.
Instead, I’ll post these happy pictures, taken last Thursday.
Please admire my double chin. I take enough selfies. One would think that I’d remember to hold the phone up in the air, not down. Sheesh.
Here’s a picture I took Thursday evening when I attended my nephew’s baseball game.
That’s super sis. Hey girl!
Super Sis’s family lives a couple of hours away, but my nephew’s school was playing a high school next door to me (my school’s rival team), so it was very convenient to watch him. I’d never seen him play before but knew he was an incredible athlete. We have always said that he’s a female version of my Chicky.
He was first up at bat and by golly, he hit a home run! It was his second ever! He hit the first one a few games ago when Chicky was visiting. We think it must be our side of the family that brings him uber good luck when we are in attendance.
His team beat the local team . . . which was ranked first in the state. Whoop Whoop!
It was a fun way to break up the week and put a smile on my face going into Friday.
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