I hope you are all having a good week? It's Wednesday which means it's time to join in with the Wednesday Hodgepodge with Joyce who blogs at From This Side of the Pond! Each week there are 6 questions, we answer and then link up. Simple!
1. What's worth standing in line for?
I don’t like standing in lines at all. If I’m stuck in one for more than five minutes I start questioning whether it is actually worth my time. So for me to willingly queue it would have to be something I really need like the bathroom and even then I have been known to just say stuff it to the ladies queue and just go and use the men's facilities, they never have a queue like the ladies toilets.
2. Tell us about a favorite food related memory.
One of my favourite food related memories has to be Sunday dinners with my family when I was little. The kitchen would be some sort of organised chaos with pots boiling, trays clattering and my brother and I sneakily stealing roast potatoes the second they came out of the oven (Of course we burned our fingers but we never learned). The best bit wasn’t even the food, it was everyone squeezed around the table: my grandad, aunts, cousins, parents and my brother, talking over each other, laughing and fighting for the last Yorkshire pudding.
3. What are some things you find particularly peaceful or calming?
For me, some of the most peaceful moments are the really simple ones. The every day moments: sitting down with a cup of tea at the end of the day, listening to the rain falling and hitting the window, watching butterflies and the bees fly around my garden and that time at night when I am the last one up and my family are all tucked up in bed.
4. Is there something you do now that gets you just as excited as it did when you were a child?
Opening presents! It doesn’t matter if I was 5 or 45, the thrill of tearing into wrapping paper is still the same. Even if I already know what’s inside, I still get that same little kid excitement knowing the present is for me.
5. To what degree are you in touch with friends from grade school? high school? college if you attended college?
I’m still friends with a few people from school and college on Facebook but that’s about as far as it goes. Life just took all of us in different directions, different cities, careers, families and routines so those connections seemed to fade naturally. Every now and then I scroll through their posts to see what they are getting up to and smile at the memories.
6. Insert your own random thought here.
I have been watching the movie My Oxford Year while writing this blog post. I went into it knowing nothing about it apart from people had been talking about it online. It completely caught me off guard! The story, the friendships and heartbreak. It definitely wasn't what I was expecting but I enjoyed every minute.
I agree with you about standing in line, I don't have the patience or stamina to queue up nowadays. I think that's why we disliked Alton Towers so much this time.
ReplyDeleteListening to the rain is the most calming thing in the world I think.
Opening presents is still a fun thing! I need to watch My Oxford Year. I have heard so many people talk about it lately. Have a good day!
ReplyDeleteI like your food related memory- so fun. I'm the same way about lines. I feel like I really only stand in line for things that I have to- like if I want to match a purchase, I have to wait to pay for my items. I forgot about the sound of rain. I like that one as well.
ReplyDeleteI loved your answer about opening presents! Yes! I love the idea of a Sunday dinner. I bought a special pan for Yorkshire puddings and I love to make them or popovers - isn't the difference the gravy?
ReplyDeleteI love your opening presents answer - yes! I love the idea of a Sunday dinner. I bought a popover pan and like to make those. Isn't a Yorkshire pudding that but with meat drippings?
ReplyDeleteI loved your description of Sunday dinners with family around the table. What a wonderful memory. I'm the same about opening presents too. I haven't watched My Oxford Year, but have heard a lot of chatter about it. Going to add it to my to-watch list now. Enjoy your day!
ReplyDeleteI agree on so many of these!
ReplyDeleteI LOVED your description of dinners with your family. That’s exactly how my dinners with my grown up kids and their families look like now. I pray that we are creating memories they’ll treasure in years to come.
ReplyDeleteHi, oh I loved your answer to #2!! I love how you added stealing the roasted potato and burning your fingers, we did not care did we. My sister and I would do the same with yummy things we loved to eat too.
ReplyDeleteSunday dinners with family is one of very best memories. Enjoyed reading your description.
ReplyDeleteThat is so funny about the bathrooms... I have done the exact same thing and used the mens restrooms so many times! It's so silly to wait in those long lines when there's a perfectly empty men's room! Haha. If you liked My Oxford Year, the movie, you definitely need to read the book! I read the book years ago and it was fantastic! I was actually a little let down by the movie just because they had to leave so much out. The book is excellent!
ReplyDeleteSo many people have wonderful memories of times spent around the dinner table. My Oxford Year was an excellent movie and as you said, it will completely catch you off guard.
ReplyDeleteHI Kim! One of the things that I am enjoying about the Hodgepodge is that we all have so many unique answers. When it comes to family dinners, it can't get much better... In reading your answers, I can see that aside from the answers I posted, many of mine would have been similar to yours.. I'll need to take a look at this movie as I am always looking for something new to watch... Happy Wed.
ReplyDeleteI will have to look for that movie! Thanks for the recommendation. I enjoyed your answers and had to laugh at standing in line when you have to pee. I was at a place one time a few years ago where a person monitored the men's room and let women use it. The men had to wait for a change!! It was actually great fun! Family dinners are definitely some of the best memories I have, too! Loved your answers.
ReplyDeleteI watched my Oxford Year last week and LOVED it. Well done at least in my opinion
ReplyDeleteI almost always use the non gender specific restrooms here in NY because there's rarely a long line unlike the women's bathroom!!
I enjoyed all of your answers.
I'm with you on the family meals. My mom was one of 14 kids, so there were always lots of cousins. So much fun!
ReplyDeleteI am the same way about waiting in lines!
ReplyDeleteI hate bathroom lines BUT I have stood in my fair share of those lines. I enjoyed reading about your family meals memory!!
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