Wednesday Hodgepodge

I don't know if that button shows anything other than Photobucket's maintenance message, but you should be seeing the Wednesday Hodgepodge button linking you to Joyce From This Side of the Pond. When you'er done reading my answers, just click on her blog name if the picture's not back. I haven't been able to do much blog-visiting lately to read the other Hodgepodge answers; every time I get my head above water, somebody or something yanks it back down. I know God doesn't give us more than He enables us to handle, but I do believe I am just about there!

1. Would you rather talk to everyone at a crowded party for a short time or have a significant conversation with two people?

Definitely two people. Mingling is so hard for me. I never feel like I quite mesh in any conversation. I am way too introverted for that. I am so thankful my man has never had a job that has required us to do the "cocktail party" type of thing.

2. What objects do you remember from your parent's living room?

The iron combo plant stand/book holder. The couch, and my dad's big chair with the floor lamp behind it. The big upright piano with a million knick-knacks. And of course the TV, first the black & white and later a colored console TV. With the same clock that sat in the same spot for 50 plus years. Oh, and the stereo, once that amazing invention came out in the early 70's.

3. Do you hog the bed? Steal the covers? Snore?

No, if I'm alone the other side doesn't even hardly get unmade. No, I just like what's mine to stay mine; he can have his. Rarely; I'm more likely to talk.

4. Speaking of Easter dinner....what is your favorite way to cook/eat lamb? Or does just the thought of that make you squeamish? If you're not cooking lamb what will be your entree du jour on Easter Sunday?

LAMB?! In the South we eat ham on Easter! With potato salad and deviled eggs. I've never even seen lamb sold in the store, that I know of. Lambs are for following Mary to school, even thought it was against the rules.

5. Let's throw some politics into this week's mix-oooohhh...Do you know the whereabouts of your birth certificate and when was the last time you had to produce it to prove you're you?

Yep, it's in the "important papers" box, and I used it to get my passport.

6. As a child, how did people describe you?

I don't know how children described me. Regarding how people described me when I was a child (Oh those pesky misplaced modifiers!), they probably said I was . . . a child. Albeit a very cute, and oh-so-smart, one!

Seriously, the funniest (well, maybe NOT seriously) thing was what happened when I was born, the 4th child of my parents whose first 3 children were 7, 9, 11 at the time. I am told I was NOT a surprise. Everyone wanted a baby brother. (Well, my being a girl was a surprise!) Anyway, a lady in our church felt so sorry for my poor mom, that she had this new baby when she already had 3 kids, and she had to "start over" when the other 3 were practically half grown. So she came to visit my mom to "cheer her up." (My mom says she didn't need cheering up. She was perfectly happy with her baby. And so was my big brother, once he quit crying because I wasn't a boy.) So the lady talked awhile and finally, as if she couldn't think of anything else encouraging to say, said, "Well, maybe when she grows up she'll become a nurse and then take care of you when you're old."

Um, thanks a LOT, church lady, for prophesying over my sweet innocent little self. Because of course that's just what I did. Sigh. Be careful what you say to moms of new babies!!

7. What do you complain about the most?

Incompetence and lack of critical thinking.

And ladies that jinx you before the umbilical cord has fallen off.

8. Insert your own random thought here.

If you haven't gone to see Soul Surfer, you are missing a wonderful movie! And check out some great interviews and behind-the-scenes videos here! (Technology is amazing! If I didn't know better, I would have thought they amputated Anna Sophia Robb's arm for the movie.)