Hodgepodge Questions-Volume 250
1. Are you ready for new? Always!! Is 2016 likely to be very different than 2015? Not likely, but 2015 was good for us. Do you want it to be? Winning the lottery would help, so sure, I'd like some new surprises, but am fine with how things are going.
2. January 6th is National Technology Day. Currently, what is your single biggest struggle or frustration when it comes to technology? I'm pretty savvy with technology, so can't think of a frustration right now. I've been a computer administrator before, and have been using computers (and training people) since the early 1980s. I could even program in DOS. Life was easier with DOS, I think, but I wouldn't trade Windows for anything now.
3. It's that time again...time for Lake Superior University to present a list of words (or phrases) they'd like to see banished (for over-use, mis-use, and general uselessness) in 2016. You can read more about the decision making process here, but this year's top vote getters are-
So (at the start of every single sentence), conversation (as in hotly debated topics where we're invited to 'join the conversation'), problematic, stakeholder, price point, secret sauce, break the Internet, walk it back, presser, manspreading (common in larger cities where some men take up the entire bus or train seat by sitting wide), vape, giving me life (refers to anything that may excite a person or make them laugh), and physicality
Which of these words/phrases would you most like to see banished from everyday speech and why? Ha! I haven't even heard of half of these, and if I have heard it said, it wasn't over-used. My favorite is manspreading, though! Made me laugh! Is there a word not on the list you'd like to add? Can't think of one.
5. Let's talk fifty shades of gray. As in the color. Gray is currently a popular color in home decor, paint, wardrobes, hair, wedding party attire, and more. Are you a fan? I think gray is a good neutral. Do you have the color in some variation in your home or wardrobe? Yes, in my wardrobe (not in my home). Gray hair, the old gray mare, gray matter, gray area...which gray idiom can you most relate to right now? Gray hair. I've quit coloring. Yikes! It isn't pretty, and there really isn't a color name for by variegated mop.
6. Certain foods are considered 'lucky' if eaten on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day. Cooked greens to bring economic fortune, black-eyed peas or lentils also symbolize money, pork which symbolizes progress, fish for good luck, and if you're in Spain 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight. Did you eat any lucky foods on the first day of the year? Pork and black-eyed peas, so yes. Is that a tradition in your home? Yes. In Ohio (growing up) we had sauerkraut instead of black-eyed peas. Of the foods listed, which most appeals to you? I don't care for lentils, but I do like everything else listed.
7. What's the single biggest time waster in your life and what, if anything, will you do about it this year? Ha! Blogger and Facebook take up way too much of my time, but I wouldn't say they are a waste of time. I don't plan to make any changes.
8. Insert your own random thought here. Many of you have had my dear friend, Karen, on your prayer lists over this past year. Many thanks!! Karen has posted a new blog today and I am linking her with you HERE. She talks about the challenges she has faced and offers her thanks for the prayers. I hope you'll visit her blog and leave a message for her. We have been friends since 5th-6th grade, and had many adventures together!! She and her husband Lee are good people. Karen is a very talented and creative seamstress (among other talents!). She is a good cook, and raised some pretty special kids, too!
Thanks for your visit today! I so enjoy your comments. Peace & hugs!!
As always, I enjoyed your answers. Many Happy Wednesday Blessings to you.
ReplyDeleteOh my, Karen has been through it this year, and has come out the other side, praise God. I've enjoyed our blogging friendship, Terri, and never consider blogging a waste of time. :-) I hope you and Joe have a wonderful new year ahead!
ReplyDeleteOh my...no, I did not say blogging was a waste of time. I guess that doesn't sound like I meant it. I just spend waayyy too much time on the computer. Our friendships here mean so much to me!! That's why it's not going to change!
DeleteI like lentils better than black eyed peas, and I love lentil soup. I will check out your friends' post. Wishing you a very happy new year!
ReplyDeleteHad not heard of "man spreading" but we have a similar problem in our metro area on the light rails. It tends, however, to be more of a problem with college students who are either oblivious or don't care that they take up more than their fare share of space during the crowded commute.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed your answers today!
I've never heard of most of those words either. Manspreading made me laugh.
ReplyDeleteHave a great day!
I had not heard many of those words/expressions either. Now, on the grey....I like it, and have a headful of grey now. As for my clothes, mostly blacks these days! Did visit Karen's blog and left a message. She has surely been through more than many people on this earth have been thru. I can handle most anything on my computer, but I still have the old flip phone and really dont desire the new fancy ones. Hope your Wed. is good to you my friend!
ReplyDeleteWell, wish you could help bring me up to speed with technology :) Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteWell, most of those words have escaped me this past year. Where have I been living? ;-) I'm gonna visit your friend's blog...so glad she's doing better...there's power in prayer!
ReplyDeleteHi Terri...will definitely be praying for your friend, Karen. Seems that so many folks are hurting these days. I plan to share this week what happened to the husband of a friend of ours just 5 days prior to Christmas.
ReplyDeleteManspreading?! It took several tries for my keyboard to accept the word. I will have to remember it when I'm seated next to a man on the plane. They definitely spread out!
ReplyDeleteI visited your friend, Karen. So glad to hear she is cancer free. She is blessed to have such a friend as you, Teri.
We had our black eyed peas and cornbread on NY day. That is the only time I ever eat the peas and then only because DH requests it.
I want to win the lottery too! Hey do you know anything about google classroom? We are having problems with that for Andy's school! I need to lose weight too. And I just don't look good in gray myself. Enjoyed your answers.
ReplyDeleteSandie, I don't know anything about Google Classroom. Sorry!! I just heard that the PowerBall is up to $500 million dollars. Can you imagine?!!
DeleteAs always, I enjoyed reading your answers :) Some of ours were opposite answers, today...for instance, "manspreading"--not a favorite of mine. Ha Ha
ReplyDeleteI wish I had a few of your computer skills! Both of our boys are very skilled in technology, but they didn't get the talent from me. In fact, it's what our oldest does for a living, at a nearby university.
I hope 2016 will be good for you and Joe. I'll try to hop over and visit your friend, Karen.
Kathy (from Reflections)
This was an interesting one Terri. One of these Wednesdays I will join up again. You are lucky with having computer skills. I am so lost sometimes and the more I try and teach myself, the more frustrating I become.
ReplyDeleteYou do make me laugh! I would hardly call your hair a variegated mop, although sometimes I have similar thoughts about my hair. I visited Karen- it's great to hear her good report.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed your answers as always. Went over and had a visit with Karen, she's been on quite a journey. It was nice to see she's on the mend.
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