Wednesday Hodgepodge - Thinking Ahead?

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.  What's the last thing you completely overreacted to?

 

Last week there was one day when I took a phone call at work that made me extremely angry. My overreaction was all internal though. The caller was upset about something to do with a refund they were expecting, but that's not something I do in my office, and he refused to give me an account number or an invoice number or any information for me to go on, yet were rude and nasty and hateful to me because I was not a mind reader. I really wanted to tell him exactly what I thought of him and be equally nasty back, but of course I couldn't and didn't do that. But I admit that I ill-wished him just a bit after I hung up. So I think I overreacted in how much I fumed about a person that was so incredibly ridiculous because there was absolutely nothing I could have done about it. While I understand the frustration of trying to resolve a problem with a huge company where it seems you're being passed from one office that can't help you to another that also can't help you (been there, done that, over and over with my insurance company), but if you think you'll get anywhere by NOT giving any information to the person that answers the phone and yelling at them because they can't magically guess who you are and why you're calling, you are remarkably stupid and it's likely that YOU are the problem. I said what I said. 

 

2. Your top five snacks?

 

I think I have lots more than five favorites, but these are five I have most often: crackers with peanut butter; bananas; breakfast bars; trail mix or nuts; and Timbits (donut holes).

3. What smell always brings back some type of memory? Elaborate.

 The smell of bread baking still reminds me of my Grandma's kitchen, even if I'm the one doing the baking. The combination of pine and cinnamon or spices means Christmas to me, but if the pine tree scent is combined with the smell of a woodfire, it takes me back to camping trips with my family when I was growing up, and to bonfires at teen camp and with friends.

4. What's something you learned from the last book you read?

 I mostly read fiction, which isn't always educational, but because I like historical fiction, I often learn things about the historical settings. The last book I completed was Harvest of Rubies by Tessa Afshar, and I learned a lot about life in the nobility class of ancient Persia.

 

5.  What's the next thing on your to-buy list? Will you make that purchase before the end of the year?

 

Having trouble thinking of anything significant that I've been meaning to buy. I've been thinking maybe it's time to buy a new swimsuit, but unless I happen to see just the right thing at just the right price point, it's not important to get before the end of the year. I've got a couple of books in mind that I'll probably get before the end of the year though.

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

 

We've been on a family vacation this week - we rented a Vrbo house near the Hocking Hills and all our kids joined us for a few days. It's been so much fun to have the whole family together, and it will hopefully be something we can do regularly!

Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need. ~Jerry Smith

Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children. ~Ezra Taft Benson

I've been participating in the Wednesday Quotes link-up hosted by Marsha at Always Write. The link-up originally had prompts for each week to inspire our search for quotes and our writing, then was simplified to allow participants to choose their own themes. Recently Marsha decided to step back from hosting the link-up, and asked if any of the participants would like to take it over. I'm considering it, but I won't be able to do an anchor post weekly, so I'm wondering if hosting a month-long link-up would work. In the meantime, I'll give a shout-out to Wednesday Quotes 2024 whenever I do that kind of post. 

So this is part of my random thought process this week . . . should I make the offer to host a quotes link-up, perhaps starting in September? 

One of the big parts of my decision-making process is knowing that when you're signing up for something, you're signing up for multiple seasons, should it be successful, and in theory, you want it to be successful, but you also want to be doing something that you're enjoying. ~Tom Ellis

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. ~Elbert Hubbard

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. ~A. C. Benson

What are your answers to any of these questions? If you have been doing WQ posts or would like to, would a month-long link-up for your posts be a good idea? 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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