A Love-Filled Hodgepodge...

Hodgepodge Questions-Volume 208

From our Hodgepodge Hostess, Joyce:  Hello Hodgepodgers! Here are this week's questions...answer on your own blog, then hop back here  to share the love. See you there! 

1. Have you ever written a love letter? Have you written one recently? Had one written to you? Did you keep it?  No, no, no, and nothing to keep.  This sounds really sad, doesn't it?  I've gotten lots of beautiful cards, expressing love, and I do keep those!  But letters...no. I write a little love note for Joe, each morning when I leave, on our dry-erase white board. Maybe that counts?

2. What's a movie that ends in a way you especially love?  I LOVE "While You Were Sleeping", and "Sleepless In Seattle", just to name two!

3. Something that makes your heart sing? And for those of you who are parents, I mean something besides your children that makes your heart sing?  I can say, for sure, that Joe makes my heart sing, and so does art, as in paintings, photography, and drawings, etc., not a man named Art!!  LOL

4. What's the last event you had to attend, phone call you had to make, routine task you needed to complete, or meal you had to prepare, that you did do, but only half-heartedly?  I have come to hate cooking for two, so I'll choose preparing a meal.  I just don't go to events I don't care about anymore. Of course, cleaning the house has been low on my list lately, too. Sigh.

5. Tuna fish salad-yay or blech? If you said yay, how do you like your tuna salad prepared? Hey, this is the Hodgepodge, right?  I love tuna salad, and sometimes just add mayo to the tuna. I also like it with celery, pickles and egg, though.  Subway and Jimmy John's both do great tuna subs!

6. What's something you 'know by heart'?  My accounting software, at work.  The QWERTY keyboard. A couple of songs on the piano.....

7. In the spirit of Valentine's Day, what two or three word phrase would you write on a conversation heart for someone you love? That someone could be a spouse, child, parent, cousin, bestie...anyone at all whom you love.  'Dear One'  (would apply to several who are dear to me!)

8.  Insert your own random thought here. If you are connected to me on Facebook, you probably know that one of our cats (Lucy) bit through my thumb (including the nail) yesterday morning, while I was trying to get her to take a pill.  We have been successful in the past, but this morning, she was like a she-devil.  I had to call the doctor and go in for a prescription.  Antibiotics for 10 days.  My doc said the human mouth, a cat's mouth and a dog's mouth are all full of horrible bacteria.  Anytime a bite breaks the skin, you will need an antibiotic.  I called our Vet, Dr. Jill Davis, and she is coming to the house Thursday evening to give Lucy a shot, and she will administer the pill for us.  Good grief, it has been a trial!!  Before anyone gives advice, let me just say that I have had cats since I was 16 years old.  I have a half dozen plastic pill poppers; I've tried greenies; I've tried cheese and butter; I've tried crushing and liquifying; I've had instructions from Dr. Jill and from her Tech, Sandy.  Three of our current four cats are not hard at all to give medicine to, but Lucy was a feral and she is not a cuddle kitty. She fights us if we try to contain her.  She also has a skin thing going on, and needs an antibiotic, too.  I've never been bitten before, though.  This was a first, in a long, 47-year run of loving and caring for cats.

 Isn't she pretty?  She doesn't look vicious!

I appreciate your time today!  Thanks for checking in, and for leaving a comment!  I look forward to reading your posts!  Peace, love & hugs.