It's a Royal Hodgepodge...

Hodgepodge Questions-Volume 353

Our amazing hostess, Joyce, gives us the questions each week to answer and then link up with other Hodgepodgers on her blog HERE!!  Join in!!

1. The last place you visited/patronized where you felt like you were given 'the royal treatment'?  I blogged about our anniversary dinner at Bone Fish Grill.  They found out it was our anniversary and brought us a free dessert with candles!  We felt pretty special!  Maybe not “royal” but at least well celebrated!

2. The last task you completed that was a 'royal pain'? Anything lately gives me a royal pain because I broke my stupid toe.  My smart toe would not have gotten in the way, so it’s definitely my stupid toe that is broken.  I am treating it myself by doing a ‘buddy splint’.  There isn’t much a doctor can do for a broken toe. I just know it hurts like the dickens.  April and May have not been good months for Joe and me, between miserable colds and arthritis pain and now a broken stupid toe.

3. How have your strengths helped you succeed? How have your faults hindered you? Oh my. My strengths are organization and (perhaps) good common sense and I used those for over 20 years in my last job. I believe I was successful.  My biggest fault is that I don’t always have patience with myself or with others.  Not having patience is never good. I work on it daily.

4. If you found a remote that could rewind, fast forward, stop and start time, what would you do with it? Oh gosh. This is such a loaded question. Do you answer broadly with world peace going back in time to fix things going forward?  Or do you get your parents diagnosed earlier with cancer so they could still be with us (my brother, too)?  Maybe it is just that we managed our money better…

5. Any special plans for the Memorial Day weekend?  Yes!  Mas Verde is having a potluck at the clubhouse and we invited Helen and Cheryl to join us. The HOA buys the meat (hamburgers, hotdogs, and ribs) and everyone else brings a dish to share. Will you in some way honor or recognize the meaning of this day (remembering people who died in service to their country)?  We fly the flag and we do honor those who gave their lives that we can continue to live free in this great land of the brave!!  Have you ever been to Arlington National Cemetery? Yes, I have been there several times.  We lived in the metro-DC area for 12 years.  Does your town do anything special to mark the day? There is a ceremony at Lakeland’s Veterans’ Park.

6.  Insert your own random thought here. We have rain again today. I’m sorry for anyone who needs rain and wish I could send some of ours your way. It has been raining every day for well over a week and rain is predicted through the holiday weekend. Booo.

I took Joe back to the orthopedic doc today because the cortisone shot he got in his hip last week didn’t give him any relief at all.  This time Dr. M gave him a needle in the hip joint, rather than in the bursa. Since Joe’s knee has also been hurting, he got a shot in the knee too.  I sure hope he is feeling better in a couple of days.  I’ve been getting cortisone shots in my knees for over five years now. The pain does not go away, but it does become manageable. We’ll see what a couple of days brings for him.

I am back on antibiotics.  My cold has never gone away and is back with a vengeance this past couple of days. Seven weeks and counting. I’m SO tired of coughing and blowing. Yes… I’m whining again.

On that note, I’ll stop and just thank you for your visit today!! I thank Joyce for this week’s Hodgepodge!!  Happy Wednesday!  Peace & hugs!!