Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Wednesday Hodgepodge

 

Once again, Joyce has come up with some fun and interesting questions for this week’s Hodgepodge.  If you’d like to join in the fun (and you know you would), just click on the button above.

 

1. Do you and your family enjoy camping? What do you enjoy most/like the least when it comes to family camping? When was the last time you camped?

I don’t camp.  I don’t rough it.  I like to joke that roughing it, for me, is a hotel without room service (ok, maybe it’s not really a joke?).  Seriously though, sleeping out on the hard, lumpy ground with no air conditioning, with the possibility of critters joining us just does not appeal to me.

 

2. Did you attend a summer camp when you were a kid? Is that a happy or not so happy memory?

I attended a one-week camp in southern Illinois.  My only distinct memory of that camp was that I went swimming with my ring on (a birthstone ring, which I’d wanted for forever and was SO proud of) … and of course, the ring fell off while I was swimming.  Lost.  Forever.  Sad smile

 

3. Over the course of your life, what have you probably spent more time pondering than anything else?

My relationship with God.

 

4. Which of the seven natural wonders of the world would you most like to see? There are many lists of 'wonders' but this is the standard natural wonder list-Mount Everest, The Great Barrier Reef, The Grand Canyon, Victoria Falls, The Harbor of Rio de Janerio, Paricutan Volcano and The Northern Lights.

I’d love to see them all, but given my aversion to flying, I suppose that narrows it down to the Grand Canyon.

 

5. What was your first real job?

As in getting paid to do the job?  My first paid job was working as a car hop at the A & W Root Beer stand in my home town.  1968.  I made 60 cents/hour … and when payday came, I thought I was rich.  ha!  And no, thankfully, I wasn’t on roller skates.

 

6. Lemonade or Sweet tea...which do you prefer on a hot summer day?

Neither one.  I’m a Diet Coke kind of gal.  I’ve never been a big lemonade fan, and while I do like iced tea, I prefer mine plain … no sugar.

 

7. What is something that always brings a smile to your face?

Hearing one of the Ts say “I love you, Nana”.

 

8. Insert your own random thought here.

Why is it that the air conditioner decides to die in the middle of the hot weather?  We’ve had several days of 95+ degree weather/heat indices of 100+, and our air conditioner stopped cooling Monday night.  Thankfully, our air conditioner repair guy was able to get here before 9:00 Tueday morning … and we were “only” $95 poorer when he left 30 minutes later.  Although to be honest, I would have paid 3x that much just to be able to stay cool in this hot weather!  ha!

14 comments:

  1. We're heating up today...hope our ac is working! So do you still drink root beer? Sometimes a job like that can put you off something for life : )

    Stay cool!

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  2. how cool to work at a car hope.. Sweet hearing I love you Nana. That is what my little one calls my Mom.

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  3. We're hot like that too right now. Fortunately our air is still working. I'm with you 100% on #1.

    Have a great day!

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  4. Camping isn't too bad in a trailer or RV--there's AC, tv, and no critters! LOL
    I made a dollar an hour at my first job--and I thought I was rich, too :)

    Thank goodness for speedy AC repairmen!

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  5. You got off cheap! We've had them out twice...the first time was in late April: $226, and then again a couple of days ago: $136. They missed a leak in one of the copper wires the first time.

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  6. It's going to be a hot, hot summer. I'm not looking forward to it at all. We have an AC guys close by that advertises they will respond to a service call any time of day or night. Twice I've had to call them out in the middle of the night (once for AC, once for heat) and you're right - I'd pay any amount of money to have those systems running!

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  7. Your ring story is so sad! I would have been heartsick for months. And yes, I am also curious about whether you can tolerate root beer nowadays .When I worked in a candy shoppe at the beach, we sold hundreds of pounds of fudge. Took me 19 years to like it again!

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  8. So glad your air got fixed quickly!
    Did you ever get tired of the Root Beer? Love all your answers and I love room service too!

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  9. glad you are up and running again with the air conditioner and not too much poorer!! amazing everyone is getting such hot weather already!

    I'm with you about camping; I know lots of people talk highly about it, but definitely not for me!

    that had to have been hard to lose that special ring like that.

    LOL about working at A&W; amazing what we thought was a lot of money compared to these days!!

    enjoyed the questions and answers this week!

    betty

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  10. Hi! kathy, happy to meet you! thanks for the tip on comments, will try this if I hav eany trouble again! BTW~ car hop was my first job,K&N Rootbeer! and yes~ diet coke is my love!! LOL! Wish I could get one of those frosty mugs again! Thanks for stopping by, will follow, love new friends! Happy:) Day!

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  11. Good morning! I am a little behind on my blogging, but better late than never, right? haha Yes, I am with you on the camping. We did it when my boys were young as I wanted them to have the experience. But now? Oh my, IF I got down on the ground in the first place to sleep, I'd no doubt NEVER be able to get back up, haha. Oh, the heat doesn't sound good. I know ours is coming. And I hate to run the air. It is soo expensive. But when you are in the midst of it I would pay whatever I have to pay for relief. Praise God for air conditioning! Have a wonderful day! HUGS

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  12. Hi! kathy, happy to meet you! thanks for the tip on comments, will try this if I hav eany trouble again! BTW~ car hop was my first job,K&N Rootbeer! and yes~ diet coke is my love!! LOL! Wish I could get one of those frosty mugs again! Thanks for stopping by, will follow, love new friends! Happy:) Day!

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  13. So glad your air got fixed quickly!
    Did you ever get tired of the Root Beer? Love all your answers and I love room service too!

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  14. It's going to be a hot, hot summer. I'm not looking forward to it at all. We have an AC guys close by that advertises they will respond to a service call any time of day or night. Twice I've had to call them out in the middle of the night (once for AC, once for heat) and you're right - I'd pay any amount of money to have those systems running!

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