Sunday: A little of this and a little of that.

Hodgepodge


Welcome back to Sunday Stealing which originated on the WTIT Blog with Bud Weiser. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. You may have heard the expression, “honor among thieves”. In that age-old tradition, we try to credit the blog that we stole it from, if possible. We also provide a link to the victim's questions in our "Previous Victims" widget. (It's our way of saying "Thanks!") Sometimes we edit the original meme, to make it more relevant to our global players, to challenge our players, to select the best questions, or simply to make it less repetitive from recently asked questions from a previously post. 

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One more from This Side of the Pond

Thanks to Bev for producing this meme every week!  And thanks to your Sunday Stealing Professor Emeritus, Bud Weiser, for the many prior years of getting this out there... Thank you!

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1. January was National Mentoring Month. Have you ever had a mentor? Been a mentor? How would you rate the experience?  I did a little mentoring of little third graders.  One of them told me she was sad because she wanted Santa to bring her a bed of her own for Christmas.  She was an adorable little kid, and I only hope that life took a terrific turn for the better for her family.  I would rate this experience as opening my heart even wider to what is really going on out there....

2. What current trend makes no sense to you?  I'm not really up on current trends of fashion, or hair or anything that personal.  But one trend that I don't like, and never did,  is that the media want to classify Generations as the X Gen or the Y Gen, or any number of sort of idiotic Letters or names, like Millennials.  What IS that all about?  The people they are labeling don't like it, and, frankly, it's too simplistic to withstand any rational test.

3. I saw a cartoon on Facebook highlighting a few 'weird' things that make you happy as an adult. The list included-writing with a nice pen, having plans cancelled, freshly cleaned sheets, eating the corner brownie, cleaning the dryer lint screen, and sipping coffee in that brief time before anyone else wakes up. Of the 'weird' things listed which one makes you happiest? What is one more 'weird' thing you'd add to the list?  There are a several things on the Facebook list that make me happy.  I guess the most important "weird" thing to me is clean sheets, or maybe writing with a nice pen.   Weird for me would be that I like to be the person to open the new Peanut Butter Jar.  I love that smell. It used to be a weekly event but now it's more like Bi-monthly.

From This Excellent Page about
why peanut butter doesn't go bad, well, almost never.

4. What's the last good thing you ate?  I just ate a banana and some nuts, and a square of dark chocolate.  Yummy!

5. Describe life in your 20's in one sentence.
I was a busy wife to a wonderful guy and taking classes at the Jr. college to fill in my "blanks"and was the mother of two sweet little girls with whom I loved riding bikes in the rural area we lived in that was just a  fantastic place to raise kids, and I also was planning to finish my Bachelor's degree at San Diego State but the birth of twins, unexpected on two counts, saw my family double in size which changed much for me.  Taking a breath.... lol

This sentence is short compared to the longest sentence in English Literature.  And I quote a bit...

"The sentence is composed of 1,288 words (In the 1951 Random House version). Another sentence that is often claimed to be the longest sentence ever written is Molly Bloom's soliloquy in the James Joyce novel Ulysses (1922), which contains a sentence of 3,687 words."

6. It's that time of year 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, or genera uselessness) in 2018. This year's top vote getters are -- unpack, dish (as in dish out the latest rumor), pre-owned, onboarding/offboarding, nothingburger, let that sink in, let me ask you this, impactful, Cofefe, drill down, fake news, hot water heater (hot water doesn't need to be heated), and gig economy
Which of these words/phrases would you most like to see banished from everyday speech and why? Is there a word not on the list you'd like to add?  No.  But I would vote "Gig Economy" off the team...
I don't know trendy word byte sort of things and what they entail, but one I suppose that qualifies as that would be "virtual money", or else, "Bitcoin".

 When you starving in the city from famine, and you want to buy food, no farmer is going to take a bitcoin for his fruits and vegetables.  You will have to trade something that's actually useful to him, like a sack of flour.  Maybe you can get that in a bitcoin "store" but I doubt it.  

This is about Virtual Money gambling.  I didn't link it.

7. What's something you need to get rid of in the new year?  Politics. And my rantings about it.  Events that are unfolding are way above my level of influence, so I can either watch and laugh at the mortals being fools, or ignore it all, but I can't really do anything about it. So, I'm folding.  You have to know when to hold em, and when to Fold em, yes?

8. Where do you feel stuck?  I'm totally stuck on the Aran sweater.  I am having a hard time with it.  I want very much to finish it but frankly, it is looking less and less likely.  My concentration is bad.  See Question 7 and the answer.  I keep also keep vacillating on whether or not to cut my hair all off.  I'm starting to lean toward cutting it shorter.  Maybe not as short as it's been, but shorter than it is now.

9. January is National Soup Month. When did you last have a bowl of soup? Was it made from scratch or from a can? Your favorite canned soup? Your favorite soup to make from scratch on a cold winter's day?  Last winter we had some soup. It's just been way too warm for soup this winter.  

 Mr. Z makes all our soups from scratch. Well except for the vegetable broth.  
And, we both like Progresso soups from time to time.

Especially this one

  My favorite soup to make on a cold day, is Minestrone or even lentil soup.  I made fresh rolls to go with it, from scratch.  I have a roll recipe that is called "90 Minute yeast rolls" and it's really great!  SDG&E used to have a newsletter they sent with the bill every month.  It's recipes were stellar!  Also, I used to like to make Turkey soup after Thanksgiving, but we no longer cook the birds at Holidays.

10. Tell us one thing you're looking forward to in 2018.

Learning to live in the moment.  I'm getting better at it but, to be honest, it still makes me feel a little lazy.