Wednesday Hodgepodge - A Perfect Summer Day

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.  The midpoint of summer (believe it or not) is August 7th. Describe a perfect summer day. Have you had one this year?

 

It feels like summer is almost over once we get into August, doesn't it? Our granddaughter will be going back to school next week, after all. Anyway . . . a perfect summer day is blue sky sunny and warm but not too hot. I'd say anywhere between 80ºF and 90ºF. There's a pleasant breeze to keep the air moving so it's not muggy. Now that we have perfect weather, the perfect day would be a vacation or weekend day so we're not at work, and we can get outside and enjoy that perfect weather doing something fun with family.

As it turns out, I think we did have a perfect day just a few days ago, on Friday. We were with the family staying at a vacation house in the Deep Creek area, and the weather was just beautiful, and perfect for a day hiking at Swallow Falls. 

 

2. What's one thing you wish you knew before starting high school?

I wish I'd known that I didn't have to decide everything about what I wanted to do after high school by midway through my tenth grade year, and that a four-year university isn't the only path to success. As it turned out, I did take a gap year and then did not finish my degree, but I felt bad and embarrassed in a way that I wasn't headed straight to college after my high school grad. Less pressure on myself might have helped me feel more confident that I could take time to be sure what I wanted to do.

 3. What's something that bothers you if it's not done perfectly?

 When I handwrite something like a greeting card, a check or an address and I make a mistake or my penmanship isn't as even and clear as I'd like. I don't rewrite it if it's not perfect (I don't usually have that luxury when I sign a birthday or congratulations card, after all), but it really does bother me when my own handwriting is not perfect. 

4. What's the most overrated food you're convinced people are just pretending to enjoy? What's a trendy food you actually do enjoy and would say is definitely not overrated?

 There are a lot of foods that I'm baffled how people could actually LIKE them. Raw oysters. Shrimp. Crawfish. Mushrooms. Yuck. Matcha tea is the trendy one that I find odd and overrated. It doesn't completely gross me out but I can't see why it's so popular when it looks and feels rather like you're  drinking chalky pond water. Are people really enjoying it that much? Doesn't seem possible to me.

I don't even know what foods are trendy. And have I tried any of them? Sourdough bread seems to still be trending, even several years after grocery shortages compelled a lot of people to try their hand at it. I have always loved sourdough bread so I don't consider it overrated. It seems like hot honey is kind of a thing now and I really like that too. Oh I know! The bubble tea type drinks like the Sunny Skies drinks at Starbucks. Delicious and refreshing, and I love them!

5.  Wrapping it up this week with five fun this or thats . . .

personal stylist or personal chef?

dance like nobody's watching or sing like nobody's listening?

unlimited tacos or free pizza?

bookshelf organization - by size or by genre?

ten minutes late or ten minutes early?

 

I can make a case for needing both. I'll take the personal stylist. 

I'll happily sing like nobody's listening. I kind of already do that!

Free pizza!

Books should be ordered by genre first, although I do like when my personal bookshelves look lined up by size too. When I buy book series from favorite authors, it annoys me when one is a different edition and doesn't match the rest of the set.

I only wish I could make a habit of ten minutes early. I know myself well enough to know that I'm usually closer to ten minutes late, to my great embarrassment. 

6. Insert your own random thought here.

Turns out this is a really short and interrupted work week for me. I had Monday off as it was the last week of our vacation. I was at work trying to get caught up on Tuesday and my husband texted me that I needed to find out if I could switch the time off I was requesting for his upcoming surgery to THIS week instead of next week. So that's what I did. His surgery was rescheduled so now I will be off Thursday and probably will need to go in a little late on Friday. Anyway, your good thoughts and prayers are appreciated for the surgery - he is having a melanoma removed from his ear.

Thinking about prayer gets me thinking about spiritual things, which is a nice lead-in for me to remind you about the Wednesday Quotes link-up. The current theme is "Spirituality" and you can find it here: WQ - Spiritual Life. 

 

What do you think a perfect summer day looks like? 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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