The Wednesday Hodgepodge #77

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. Do you think you're driven more by curiosity or comfort? Explain.

I think I am more driven by comfort rather than curiosity. I am happy in my own little world just plodding along, doing my own thing. I am of course curious about what is going on in the world. If something interests me I'll read about it as I like to understand and know things but I don't feel the need to know everything. There's that saying curiosity killed the cat and I reckon that's partly true. Knowing too much stresses me out. I'll read something, overthink it and then my head is full of things that I have no control over. Sometimes it's just easier to bury my head in the sand.

2. What non-food item is in your refrigerator or freezer?

I am boring and only have food and drinks in my fridge but I think there might be an ice pack in my freezer. That is as exciting as it gets here. The ice pack has been in there for about a year and never used which is probably a good thing. The only time I can remember having non-food items in my fridge was when the kids were little and their medicine needed to be kept chilled. I can still remember those bottles of bright, fluorescent yellow antibiotics that used to sit next to the milk.

3. Are you comfortable with silence? If you're home alone, do you like silence or do you need regular background noise? Do you seek out times and places to be silent? What's your favorite place to find silence/be silent?

I am comfortable with silence now and again but I prefer a bit of background noise most of the time. The only time I want silence is when I'm trying to concentrate on something or when I'm trying to drop off to sleep. When I'm home alone I always have some background noise going. I play music when I am doing the cleaning, listen to audiobooks while I'm pottering around and when I'm sat down the TV is always on. At the moment I am watching Ted Lasso. I can't believe it has taken me this long to get into it but it is such a fantastic show!

I think the only place I visit for some quiet time is the bathroom when I need 5 minutes to myself. I love my family but they are sometimes a lot. Now and then the girls will bicker and I will hide in the bathroom for some peace and quiet. Usually, by the time I come back out, they are best of friends again.

4. Carpentry, electrical, plumbing, landscaping...which skill would you most like to possess and how would you put that skill to use today?

My dad and my brother are very useful people to have around, especially when something needs fixing in my house. They are pretty good when it comes to things like carpentry, electrics and plumbing. In the past, my dad has fixed leaky taps, flickering lights and wonky floorboards. Just last week my brother came with his ladder and fixed our leaky roof. He had it sorted in about 10 minutes. What a hero!

I'd pick landscaping as a skill I would like to have. It's something that no one in my family really does or bothers with. I'd love to transform my garden as easy and quickly as ChatGPT can. I put the before picture in and asked it to "landscape this space in my garden, make it pretty with flowers and fix the path." If only things were that simple in real life.

5. Do you lean more towards being too needy or too independent? Which do you find harder to deal with in others?

I'm probably somewhere in the middle and it depends on what mood I'm in or what I'm trying to do. Some days I'll ask for a hand with something and other days I'd rather just figure things out for myself. It all comes down to what else I have going on at that time. I do become needy when it comes to catching spiders around the house, reaching the top shelf or opening bottles, those things I won't or can't do myself.

I don't mind helping out when someone needs a hand with something but I find it hard dealing with people who are too needy. If they come to depend on me too much I feel like saying just figure it out yourself, I had to! It might come across as a bit mean but there's a big difference between someone needing real help and someone who just needs their hand holding to get something done.

6. Insert your own random thought here.

For question #3 I mentioned I have been watching Ted Lasso and I am loving it. I've just watched the Christmas episode in season 2 and I was nearly in tears, it was just so heart warming. Ted is such a sweetheart too. I think we all need to be a little bit more like Ted, he is such a kind man!