Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Hodgepodge

Welcome back to the Wednesday Hodgepodge! Be sure to add your link to the bottom of Joyce's post and then go visit the neighbors. After all, that's part of the fun! 
1. How often do you check the weather? How do you check the weather?

I usually check the weather once in the afternoon and sometimes again when I get home - on the computer. I do also have alerts set for any weather alerts come to my phone.

2. Since this is Volume 84 of the Wednesday Hodgepodge, and since I got married in 1984, and since I'm attending a wedding this weekend, it only seems right to post something related here.

"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life." Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Agree or Disagree? Why?

I have to respectfully disagree. Happiness is not just a matter of chance, there are lots of things that come into play. About knowing someone making no difference - again I disagree. You can never know a person completely until you live with them.

3. Do you like to dance? Have you ever taken dance lessons?

I do like to dance although I'm not the best dancer in the world. The only lessons I have ever taken were "belly dancing" lessons I took way back in 1979!. 
 
4. Fresh from the oven peach pie or homemade peach ice cream. Pick one.

Homemade peach ice cream.

5. Should people accept unfairness and learn to make the best of it?

I'm torn here. I believe we should make the best of the situations we find ourselves in, be it fair or unfair. I'm not one to wallow. On the other hand, if you see something that is unfair, I believe you should at least try to do something about it.

6. The top five all time summer blockbuster movies (released between May and August and grossing at least 100 million dollars) are Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars (the original), Ghostbusters, and E.T. Which one's your favorite?

I liked hem all. If I had to choose one it would be Jaws. That music still makes me jump.

7. If given the chance, would you like to visit the moon?

From someone who remembers the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger disaster vividly, I will have to decline.

8. Insert your own random thought here.

I'm taking the morning off today - have to go pick up the cat from the vet. It seems very strange to be sitting here at my home computer on a weekday morning. Most of my posts are made from the laptop, in the car, at work but before it's time to go in.

8 comments:

  1. The music to Jaws still makes me jump too. I don't know why because I've seen the movie many times and know what's coming but I still jump.

    Enjoy your morning off!

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  2. I say no to question #5.

    Have fun today.

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  3. Taking the morning off work (when I was working) was always a weird thing ... going back to work in the afternoon made it feel like a regular work day, yet I wasn't following my usual morning routine, so it almost felt like a full day off. Hope your cat is ok.

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  4. Jaws is like Miles said in "The Holiday": "BA-BAM! Two notes and you've got a villain. I don't know what to say about it. Totally brill."

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  5. That music from JAWS still gets to me too! You took belly dancing? That's awesome! I hear it's great exercise but I'm not sure I can move my body like that anymore without throwing something out. LOL

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  6. I chose Jaws, also-music is so thrilling! Enjoy your morning off :)

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  7. I always thought it would be interesting to take belly dancing lessons :) Sounds fun!

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  8. IT IS AL ABOUT THE PIE I QUIT READING AFTER THE PIE YUM PEACH PIE EVEN LOL WELL I HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU SO HOP OVER TO MY BLOG AND PICK UP YOUR AWARD YOU DESERVE IT I LOVE YOU BLOG :}

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