Hodgepodge Wednesday!

Here are my latest answers to this week's hodgepodge questions.  I have to admit that this is the third round of answers.  My first answers ended up sounding defensive and mean! That's not me! I re-read what I had written and had to start all over from a different perspective, I guess. Just wanted to say that. This bunch was not as easy for me as some of the others.  That said....here we go!

1. The first week of August is National Simplify Your Life Week...what's one thing you could do this week to qualify as a participant?  I would have to tackle one of the over-flowing closets, but that isn’t happening this week.  Maybe there will be another National Simplify Your Life Week in October!!

2. It's also National Peach Month...peach pie, peach cobbler, or please pour me a Bellini?  What's your peach pleasure?  I like peaches, but I’m not much into cobblers or fruit pies.  As for cocktails,…not into those either. I don’t care for sweet drinks. Just give me a juicy peach to bite into and let the juice run down my chin!

3. Eleanor Roosevelt once wrote, "Do one thing every day that scares you." Agree or disagree...explain.  I refuse to bungee jump, jump out of a plane, etc., etc.  I guess I’m too sensible to try things that would scare me or possibly lead to bodily harm, which leans me toward disagreeing with Miss Eleanor.  Not too many things scare me – but jumping from bridges or out of a plane ---not on my to-do list, on any day!

4. What's your favorite household chore?  Yes-you have to name one.  Let’s call it my least hated household chore….vacuuming, I guess.  Chuckle.  I used to have a cleaning service, and miss that!!

5. Fodors recently listed (what they've dubbed) the ten most beautiful sunset spots in America. Click here to read more and see the pretty pictures, but this is their list:

Butterfly Beach in Santa Monica CA, Mount Haleakala in Maui HI, Old Fort Marcy Park in Santa Fe NM, Laguna Beach CA, Hopi Point in Grand Canyon AZ, Four Seasons in Miami FL, Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica CA, Gay Head in Martha's Vineyard MA, Ensign Peak in Salt Lake City UT, and Mallory Square in Key West Florida.

Have you seen the sun set from any of these spots?  If you could choose to watch the sun set this weekend from one spot on the Fodors List, which would you choose?  Where was the prettiest sunset you've ever seen?  I  HAVE seen the sunset in Key West, Florida, but I can’t say that it is any prettier than any sunset on the Gulf of Mexico and I have seen lots of those since we live only an hour away and enjoy the beach a few times a year.  The sun appears to just settle into the water, and it can be breath-taking.  I find it interesting that Miami Beach is listed for a sunset….I can see a SUNRISE there, but when the sun sets in the west, that would seem to put Miami Beach out of contention, I would think. Oh well.  Any sunset on the Gulf of Mexico is beautiful.

6. What's your favorite or most used app?  If you don't use apps how about your favorite or most visited website?  I have lots of apps on my Android phone and Nexus7, but the one that has me hooked right now is a game called Flow Free. It is easy at the beginning, but gets progressively more difficult. I try to solve at least one puzzle every day, now that I am into the 9 x 9 puzzles.  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigduckgames.flow&hl=en

7. We've recently passed the halfway mark for 2013...write a seven word sentence that sums up your year thus far.  This year, so far, has been interesting.

8.  Insert your own random thought here.  I am disgusted with myself for not simplifying my life by getting rid of clutter, and choosing instead to watch too much TV. Sighing.  It’s too hot!!  LOL