AuburnChick's Adventures

Happy Wednesday, y’all! Thank you for visiting my little corner of the internet world.

I hope your week is finding you well. Classes started back Monday, and I have to say that I absolutely adore the energy that these college students bring to campus.

Even though the traffic is horrendous, the joys of living in my favorite college town and working on campus far outweigh everything else.

I guess we should get to Joyce’s questions for the week, eh?

1. What’s worth standing in line for? 

I’m not that impatient of a person, so I honestly don’t mind waiting in line for things.

Waiting to board a plane that’s about to take me to my grand babies’ house is definitely worthy of a line.

I don’t mind waiting in line to be seated at my favorite restaurant.

Waiting to get into the football stadium to watch my beloved Auburn Tigers play is something else I don’t mind. Hello football season!

2. Tell us about a favorite food related memory. 

My favorite food-related memory is recreated every time I have both of my kiddos and their families under my roof.

We always try to plan one big family meal with everyone around the table. The Mr. grills something he and the guys have shopped for, and my girls help me prep the sides.

There’s a lot of going inside and out to check on food – lots of chasing grand babies – lots of laughter and pure joy.

Any time I am with my kids, there’s always food and fun involved.

3. What are some things you find particularly peaceful or calming? 

Saturday mornings before the Mr. has awakened, and I’m sitting with a cup of tea . . .

Lazy Sunday afternoons with the TV off and my dog snoring beside me . . .

The start of a weekday before everyone else has gotten to the office, and I’m setting up for my day . . .

An overcast evening spent porch sitting, watching the approach of a storm while hearing thunder in the distance . . .

4. Is there something you do now that gets you just as excited as it did when you were a child? 

Going to bed Christmas Eve is just as exciting for me now, as a middle-aged adult, as it was when I was a child. I always had trouble going to sleep the night before Christmas, and I still do to this day.

Granted, it’s just the Mr. and me nowadays, which makes me sad, but I still love the magic of the night before.

5. To what degree are you in touch with friends from grade school? high school? college if you attended college? 

I moved a lot when I was in elementary school. I don’t remember any friends from those years.

My life settle down after we moved to a tiny town in Alabama. I went to school with the same group of kids from sixth grade through 12th grade, and I still keep in touch with many of them. Our class numbered 18 on graduation day. Social media has made it easy to keep up with everyone.

I have never, though, attended a class reunion. We had our first one when my daughter was starting kindergarten, and I didn’t want to miss that day.

I think they had an impromptu one years later, which I regret not attending. It was the last time our class was complete as one of our classmates passed away from cancer a short time later. I had no idea that she was sick. I had an appointment with the surgeon who’d operated on my ankle after I had broken it a few weeks before and couldn’t cancel it. This still makes me sad.

I only attended college for a year before I got married, and although I did stay in touch with a couple of people for a while, we eventually stopped communicating. The internet didn’t exist back then, so it was a lot more difficult.

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

I work in a fishbowl.

Literally.

If you were to visit my office, you’d come in via a glass door that sits beside a floor to ceiling window. My desk is visible from the hallway.

There’s a classroom and two bathrooms a stone’s throw away from my office.

I’m sorely tempted to buy stickers like this one, which I saw in a meme recently.

I can imagine hearing students and staff yelling at the paper towel dispenser.

This makes me giggle every time I think about it.

So, fair warning.

Y’all have a wonderful day!

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