Wednesday Hodgepodge

1. Have you ever written a love letter? Have you written one recently? Had one written to you? Did you keep it?

Mr BC and I were long distance sweethearts just before we were married, and we wrote many letters of love to each other.  Yes we have them still and one day the girls will find them and know we were once young.

2. What's a movie that ends in a way you especially love?

I especially liked the way Harry Potter ended, where we knew how they ended up.  I also love the way the Big Chill, my favorite movie, ended.

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 would have to exclude the grandsons and dogs as well, as they rank up there as kids too. My heart sings when Mr BC and I start out on a travel adventure, any vacation like travel adventure. 

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?

Any time I have to cook dinner, I do it half heartedly.  I don't really like to cook anymore. 

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 fish salad sandwiches with onions and hard boiled eggs. My mom made tuna fish with hard boiled eggs and Lipton Onion Soup mix many years ago. We quit fixing it that way because it had too much salt in it. 

6. What's something you 'know by heart'? 

Mississippi, The beginning paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence, from 8th grade Constitution course, my blog address, and many songs.

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.
Grandma Loves You Best.

8.  Insert your own random thought here.  
Mr BC said today that I am nicer since I started mall walking....I think it is because I feel better and I get a chance to have coffee every day with some folks.

Heart of Stone-Trifextra

 

Your heart, stone.

I grind away at the granite

That is your nature.

I fail again

Sharpening the ache.

You crush me

To fine particles,

I am not defeated.

Only scattered by gentle winds. *

What I Did On My Christmas Vacation

It is wonderful being home.....we had a great Christmas with the grandsons.... they had grown so much and are so smart and so loving.  I wish I were a younger grandma as I get tired just trying to keep up with them.  Especially the youngest.  Caшa is always on the move, Mr BC refers to him as Bam Bam as he pounds on everything and laughs when you pound along with him.  Лука is fine- tuning his skills.  He love riding his coaster bike at the park, especially if he can ride through a puddle.

If loving you is wrong..........etc. Saturday 9

1. Has you ever done something that you knew was wrong, but because of love or lust, did it anyway?

Since my family reads this I will take the 5th.  Actually the real answer is No. I am boring.

2. Do you take longer to dress for a special event?

Sure, it takes time to shore up my fittings and put on my war paint. I am mistress of cliches!

3. Do you consider yourself a good driver?

Yes, I have only had one ticket in my life, other than parking violations. I may have deserved others but for the most part, I drive well.

4. If you won Powerball, what would be the first thing you spent it on?

After taking care of family, I would travel and then settle in London for a couple of years.

5. How much of the Olympics have you watched? Why?

Some gymnastics, swimming and a little track.  Because it's summer and there is nothing else on TV and the men are mostly, good looking and not too muscle bound.

6. Have you ever changed your appearance because of a random happenstance?
This is not random, I have cultivate this look since high school.

7. Do you consider yourself attractive?

I don't think I am unattractive but I weigh to much.  I am always smiling, I think smiling is attractive.

8. If you started your own religion, what would it be like?
My followers, woud have compassion and fairness.  They would not be judgemental and hypocritical.  We would pass the chocolate plate around at meetings.

9. Have you ever given up too easily in the game of love?
No, I've done pretty well, my anniversary is Sunday.....45 years!