The Wednesday Hodgepodge #41

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. The Winter Olympics kick off on Friday, February 6th...on a scale of 1-10 how excited are you? (1= eh and 10=watching every event all day every day). What's your favorite Winter Olympic sporting event?

I’d say I’m about a 5. I’ll watch it if it’s on but I’m not going to plan my day around it. My favourite to watch has to be figure skating, there’s something about the grace and drama that just pulls me in. I also like keeping an eye on the Jamaican bobsleigh team if only for a little Cool Runnings nostalgia. Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up, it’s bobsled time!

2. In other sporting news, the Superbowl (American football's championship game) will be played on Sunday, February 8th. So tell us...what's your superpower?

As a mum of two adult daughters, my superpower is knowing things without being told. I can hear a sigh through a closed door and instantly know someone’s had a bad day, whether someone’s hungry, or someone’s about to ask me for a favour but is warming up first. I can also sense drama before it’s even formed into words.

3. Are you a romantic?

I think I am but not in a big, dramatic way. I like romance but my fella and I aren’t that couple. We’re settled, we plod on and there’s no grand gestures but then every now and again, he’ll come home with flowers or chocolates, just because. I will do little things like make his favourite food, buy him his favourite snacks and not complain when he is watching football, even though I need his help with something. So I suppose I am a romantic, the kind that appreciates the small surprises and the thought behind them.

4. Blue cheese-yay or nay? How about feta? If you said yes to one or both, what's a dish you like that calls for one of these?

No to both! I’ve tried but the smell of blue cheese alone is enough to make me run for the hills and I know people love Feta but that tangy, crumbly stuff just isn’t for me. I am not a big cheese lover. I am sure I have mentioned it before, all cheese used to give me migraines but over the last 10 years I have realised I can eat mozzarella and cream and cottage cheese without any side effects so I don't push my luck with the rest.

5. What's more important-doing what you love or loving what you do?

I’d say loving what you do is more important. It’s about enjoying what you’re doing, no matter what it is. It’s not about chasing some big dream all the time, more about making the best of what’s in front of you. Enjoying the little bits, the small wins, the stuff you can control even if it’s not exactly your ultimate passion. That’s what makes it work.

6. Insert your own random thought here.

We’re a few days into February and every year I forget just how much I like this month until it sneaks up on me. There’s Valentine’s Day with all the chocolate and little surprises even though I’m not exactly a hopeless romantic and then Pancake Day which is an excuse to eat syrupy, pancake goodness without feeling guilty. The days are starting to get longer too and suddenly winter doesn’t feel like it’s going to hang around forever. There are little hints of spring, maybe warmer days are on the way and life might not be all hats, scarves and gloomy skies for much longer.