Wednesday Hodgepodge - Some Simple Thoughts

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A hodgepodge is a jumble or assortment of things that might not appear to belong together. Joyce at From This Side of the Pond hosts a weekly link-up called Wednesday Hodgepodge that is a little collection of questions for bloggers to answer just for fun and to get to know each other. I always look forward to chatting with friends over coffee, so pour a cup of your favorite and let's visit for a few minutes!

Here are this week's questions - and my answers - for this week's Wednesday Hodgepodge.

1. Is your life simple? Elaborate.

Is it simple? I don't know?! I guess it's simple in that there's not a whole lot to it. I go to work (which is a new thing starting this week), I putter around the house doing the same chores, we go to church a couple times a week, and I go to chorus. Rinse and repeat. On the weekends we usually get together with our son and his family so that adds some interest, but mostly it's a very simple weekly routine that often feels a bit pointless.

 And yet, trying to sort out all my feelings about all of it is quite complicated. Sundays are the best days of the week, but also the worst. I'm at peace with being here, but also I hate that it has to be this way.  When it comes to my emotional life, nothing is simple at all.

  

2. What simple pleasure are you currently enjoying?

Being able to go for walks. Walking at a park, down to the mailbox, around a shopping district or downtown, or on a slightly more challenging hike. I should be doing it more! It's been just over a year since my knee replacement and I'm still amazed at what a difference it makes to be able to walk without pain.

3. Travel by plane or go on a cruise? Walk or ride a bike? Swim or ski? Ocean or mountains?

 I've never been on a cruise, but it's on my wishlist so I'd choose that. I'd far rather walk―I do not like riding a bike at all. I'd choose swimming as an activity, even though I'm not any good at it. But the couple times I tried downhill skiing, I hated it. I'd like to try cross-country skiing though. And I would choose the mountains as a destination! Nothing against the ocean, because I love that too, but the mountains are more appealing to me.

4. What's the last thing you bought online that you really loved?

 Hmmm. I bought a couple pairs of jeans that I think I will love. I did love that I could get them as "try before you buy" from Amazon to make sure they were a good fit. I had to buy a specific style and color for the chorus performance costume so I was nervous about whether I'd like them, but they were really comfortable when I tried them on. 

Oh, I know! I bought my daughter's grad portraits online and I loved that!

 

5. What's your 'back in my day we _____________' story?

 

I do like to tell stories about what we did for fun and what we got away with as kids, and to compare aspects of it to my kids' experiences. So we tell short stories about how we didn't have GPS or cell phones, so we had to find our way using a paper map and that's all. We couldn't text our parents to explain why we were late coming home, and my mom couldn't call me or even check on me if I decided to do something other than what I'd told her. Back in my day, when we went on a road trip, we had to use the AAA guidebook to find a hotel and we had to either PHONE and make reservations or just show up and see if they had a room available. And we were navigating using the impossible-to-fold paper maps, or the AAA Trip-tik that we had to order at least a week in advance. 

 Back in my day, there was no internet and no Word or Google Documents. We had to go to a library and search the card catalogs and encyclopedias to research our school papers. And we either wrote them by hand, or typed them on a manual typewriter. Typing was an actual class in high school―can you imagine?!

However did we manage? Kids these days don't know how good they've got it! 

6. Insert your own random thought here.

I'm really scrambling, trying to get used to a weekly routine that includes me going to work every day! We're planning to get a second car, and I hope we can find one soon, because it will be a lot easier when I don't have to drive my husband to work so I can have the car to get to work, and I found out yesterday that I especially hate driving straight from my job to his at the end of the day―it's a horrific drive! I'll also have to figure out when to do all the other things (like blogging?) that I want to do and how to manage my days.

But she did not, in fact, have time.

Is your life simple? What simple pleasures are you enjoying these days? Leave a comment and let me know!

I'm sharing in this week's Wednesday Hodgepodge at From This Side of the Pond.

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