The First of 2016 Hodgepodge

The First of the Year Hodgepodge

Joyce asks the questions.

We answer the questions.

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1. Are you ready for new? Is 2016 likely to be very different than 2015? Do you want it to be?

2016 will be new for our family in ways of our boys are growing up. Our oldest son will take his driver's test. He also plans on getting a part/full time job this summer. In that way, yes, 2016 will be different. 

My role as a mom is starting to change as well. A friend of mine gave me good advice. "We slowly start to cut the apron strings." Not necessarily easy for me to do. Yet, it has to be done. 

 Celebrating with Chinese lanterns.

 Up Up and Away

 2. January 6th is National Technology Day. Currently, what is your single biggest struggle or frustration when it comes to technology?

Change

Just when I have it! They go and change it!

3. It's that time again...time for Lake Superior University to present a list of words (or phrases) they'd like to see banished (for over-use, mis-use, and general uselessness) in 2016. You can read more about the decision making process here, but this year's top vote getters are-

So (at the start of every single sentence), conversation (as in hotly debated topics where we're invited to 'join the conversation'), problematic, stakeholder, price point, secret sauce, break the Internet, walk it back, presser, manspreading (common in larger cities where some men take up the entire bus or train seat by sitting wide), vape, giving me life (refers to anything that may excite a person or make them laugh), and physicality

Which of these words/phrases would you most like to see banished from everyday speech and why? Is there a word not on the list you'd like to add? 

manspreading

I have never heard this word used, and I do not think I would like to.

vape

FYI - our little town of Cameron had a Vape Shop open for about six months. I did not visit nor did I hear what happened, it simply closed after six months.

 
4. Share one of your current health related goals.

Drink more water!!

5. Let's talk fifty shades of gray. As in the color. Gray is currently a popular color in home decor, paint, wardrobes, hair, wedding party attire, and more. Are you a fan? Do you have the color in some variation in your home or wardrobe?  Gray hair, the old gray mare, gray matter, gray area...which gray idiom can you most relate to right now?

 

  I have some gray in my wardrobe. I have a beautiful gray wool skirt. I love it, but I never seem to wear it.

No, I do not have any gray in my home decor at this time. I did see a photo of a beautiful gray kitchen. It had me thinking.

Gray hair! I did not know it was popular...I have to take a peek about that....see #7. Tee Hee ~ Ha Ha

6. Certain foods are considered 'lucky' if eaten on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day. Cooked greens to bring economic fortune, black-eyed peas or lentils also symbolize money, pork which symbolizes progress, fish for good luck, and if you're in Spain 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight. Did you eat any lucky foods on the first day of the year? Is that a tradition in your home? Of the foods listed, which most appeals to you?

I made homemade caramel rolls for New Year's Day breakfast. It is a  yummy tradition. Not sure if lucky, but definitely yummy!

12 grapes at the stroke of midnight. I will have them in the morning with my caramel roll. 

7. What's the single biggest time waster in your life and what, if anything, will you do about it this year?

Computer time...Pinterest....looking at fun stuff on Etsy...looking up information on stuff, decor, gardening, now I need to look up gray hair being popular...☺

I limit myself to so much time.  I try to be good about obeying my time...but sometimes I am naughty!!

 8.  Insert your own random thought here.

Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

The weather folks say, snow for this neck of the woods the next three days. An inch or 5 would be very helpful for this cross country ski girl who is just itching to get out and ski!