Coffee Chat

Time for the Coffee Chat! If you'd like to join, head over to Leslie's at Time out for Mom.

The topic is: Let's Play I Spy.   I Spy with my little eye....something that is GREEN.



Oh I wish I'd have taken a picture on Sunday! I painted my fingernails green for St. Patrick's Day. A bright, cheery, Springtime green. But I wasn't brave enough to leave it on for the work week.

The grass in my back yard is green and almost looks like it could be mowed. Not sure I'm quite ready for that but I an definitely ready for my garden - planting and looking for those little green plants to spring up out of the ground. And I noticed yesterday when I left the building that there were actually a few flowers blooming out in the entry flowerbed! I think it's finally going to be spring - although the weather this week seems awfully cold to me.

Monday Quiz About Me

Welcome to Monday Quiz About Me - hosted by Acting Balanced and Touristic. They post 5 questions on Sunday evening along with a linky for you to link up your post answers! 

Here are the Questions:

1. What is the most expensive car repair you ever paid for? A transmission - ouch!

2. Who is the big bad wolf in your world? My mother - she can eat you alive without even blinking.

3. At what age is the best to have a first child? Not sure - I was 23 and I think that was good - old enough to be done "running around" and young enough to have the energy to keep up with little ones.

4. When was the last time you said something nice to someone?  I try to be nice to people every day.

And don't forget to add a 5th Question on your own blog so we can answer as we hop around! My 5th question toady:
When faced with a new job, are you more nervous or excited? 

Follow Friday Four Fill-In Fun

Welcome to the weekly Follow Friday Four Fill-in Fun Blog Hop!

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Each week, Hilary over at Feeling Beachie lists four statements with a blank for you to fill in on your own blogs.   This week’s co-host is Amy from Life according to John – she came up with the last two statements!
This week’s statements:
1. My first car was a 1966 Opal Kadet.
2. My hair is so unruly!
3. I would drop everything to go see my grandkids.
4. I never tell people I once.____  If I told you, this statement would not be true!
Please follow Hilary. Since Google Friend connect is gone, please follow through networked blogs, Facebook fan page or by email….If there is a co-host, please follow them as well. Leave a comment! I will follow back!
Please link your Follow Friday Four Fill-In Fun post to the linky below. PLEASE grab the linky and post on your blog…
If you tweet, please use #F5-bloghop so she can find you…

Pondering With A Purpose

It's Thursday! One of my favorite days. Time to do a little "pondering" with Brenda from Ponderings of an Author.  

Her rules are really easy:

1. Grab the Pondering with a Purpose Badge (in her sidebar)

2. Look at the week's prompt

3. Post something on your blog that relates to the prompt - it can be a story, a poem, a picture -- anything you want it to be.

4. Go back here and add the URL from your post to the linky list on Brenda's.

5. Go check out the other bloggers who have added their links to the list.

6. AND most of all.... Have fun!

This Week's prompt:  Green

I love the color green -it is my favorite. And it's almost St. Patrick's Day! But the question today is have we ever seen someone we love turn green (from sickness). My answer is yes. When the kids were in high school, I worked a second job at a convenience store on the weekends. One day, a young boy came in to buy something. He was GREEN - literally, green. He was all smiles and didn't look sick or anything. I thought he was going to a party or something - but it wasn't close to Halloween. I almost asked him what he was up to but thank God something stopped me. When I got home, I mentioned it to my daughter and she said "Yes, that's ____, his liver is failing." I felt awful! The child was dying and I thought he was playing some sort of prank. He lived for another six months and I got to know him a little through those months. He always had a smile on his face. It never ceases to amaze me how terminally ill kids can find anything to smile about.

Hodgepodge

Welcome back to the Wednesday Hodgepodge! Be sure to add your link to the bottom of Joyce's post and then go visit the neighbors. After all, that's part of the fun! 

1. Do you play games of luck/chance for money? Have you ever played bingo for money? Visited a casino?  Placed a bet on a horse? Bought a lottery ticket? I have: neverplayed bingo; been to a casino once; never bet on a horse; and I buy lottery tickets only when the jackpot gets really high.

2.  Will you be preparing and/or dining on the traditional Corned Beef and Cabbage meal this St. Patrick's Day? Mashed-baked-hash browned-french fried...your favorite way to have potatoes? Yes, I will be making the corned beef and cabbage but I will not be eating it (can't stand cooked cabbage). My favorie potatoes would probably be mashed.

3. What's the last thing you felt 'green with envy' over? I can't remember anything. I have a coworker who is vacationing in FL right now and I told her that I was jealous  - does that count?

4.  What's at the end of your rainbow? I had this question yesterday and answered with "soggy ground." I think I'll stick with that.

5. March 12th marks the anniversary of the death of Anne Frank (June 12, 1929-March, 1945).  Anne's diary detailing her time spent hiding from the Nazi's during the war ranks as one of the best selling books of all time.  Besides your blog, do you keep any sort of diary or journal?  Was this a habit you developed as a child or is journaling something new for you? My blog is my only journal. I used tokeep a journal when I was in my early 20s and I still have it - kind of interesting to read every now and then - usually makes me laugh.

6. What's an item in your home or closet that contains every color of the rainbow? I know there's nothing in my closet. I honestly can't think of anything around the house either but I do have my carpenter's box decorated for St. Patrick's Day right now and it has a rainbow in it. It sits on the porch and gets decorated for every holiday.

7.  Write a limerick with you as the subject.  You can do it!!  Just remember this is a family friendly blog...don't make me get out my wooden spoon.
There once was a girl named Tam
that ended up with a guy named Sam
Good companions they are
though not a couple by far
but it keeps them both from being on the lam.

8.  Insert your own random thought here.
It's hump day!