End of May Hodgepodge....

Hodgepodge Questions-Volume 176

From Joyce:  Monday holidays always throw me off in blogland. I hope you had an enjoyable weekend and you're ready for a new set of questions in the Hodgepodge. We had a fun full weekend here, which I'll get around to recapping later today, but for now here are your questions for this end of May Hodgepodge.  Be sure to hop back HERE tomorrow and add your link to the party!

1. What news story are you following right now?  I don't listen to the news anymore, and I rarely read the front page of the newspaper, so I'm not "following" any news story right now. Most of them just get my Irish up because of stupidity, or underhanded politicians. I barely recognize our country now. So looking forward to 2017 and no more Obama!

2. What's the last thing you wanted but didn't get?  On a trivial level, I wanted a maxi skirt I found in a little store, over the weekend, but they didn't have my size, so I didn't/couldn't get it.

3. May 28th is National Hamburger Day...when did you last have a hamburger? Other than your own kitchen or BBQ grill, where is your favorite place to go for a hamburger? And for all you non-meat eaters out there...when you're invited to a cookout what is the one side dish you hope is on the menu?  We had hamburgers, cooked on the grill, Memorial Day. We love the burgers at Miller's Ale House and at Red Robin Restaurants.

4. How have your priorities changed over time? Core priorities of faith, and family first don't really change, but I don't stress over cat hair and dust anymore, and am coasting to retirement now, rather than worrying about career development.

5. What's a favorite memory with your grandparents? They go back to when I was little and have to do with our big family holidays and reunions (all of which I have written about before). My dad's folks were gone when I was in my early 20s - Granny's fried chicken is a great memory. My mom's folks divorced when she was 11, so I had two sets of maternal grandparents. Weekends at Lake White, with my grandpa and step-grandma (she is still living!); my mom's mother doesn't bring many favorite memories to light, but my step-grandpa loved us and let me build Barbie doll furniture in his workshop, from scrap lumber. Loved him to pieces.

6. On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being fantastic!), how good are you at multitasking? Share an example.  I am probably a 9 at multi-tasking. I wear five hats in my job, and also keep a home with a husband and four cats. I am always doing something else while watching TV.  I find that I am unsettled if I don't have several things going on at once.

7. How would you summarize your highs and lows for the month of May?  The low was losing our sweet Cookie kitty. The high was getting through Mayfaire, at work, and (personally) seeing grandson Tristan just this past weekend, and learning that our son and DIL will be moving from PA to GA and will only be 4 hours away (instead of 18)!

8.  Insert your own random thought here. Family. It is becoming more and more important to have family close.  Soon to have Lauren and Tristan both in Florida and Joey just across the border. Have to keep working on Jeff (son #2)!!

Thanks for reading my Hodgepodge answers today! Looking forward to getting to yours! Blessings!