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 your best solution for getting rid of a headache? Drink more coffee. 
2. Do you enjoy taking naps? Rarely.

3. What was the last 'block buster' movie you saw at the theatre? Don't remember.

4. If you could have anyone cook you dinner who would it be? Emeril Lagasse

My 5th Question - Any suggestions on how to deter those anonymous commenters? I hate having to have comment moderation turned on but the only other solution I can see is to limit commenting to only those who are followers and I don't want to do that.

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 ME from Empty Nest In Illinois – I came up with the last two statements!
 This week’s statements:
1. I don’t like to wear high heels - I prefer boots with low heels.
2. I love to get up and cook breakfast in the morning
3. If I could change one thing in my life it would be when I had my tubes tied. I would have loved to have more children although the two I have are the best in the world.
4. If I was better at public speaking, I would not get so nervous when I have to do it.

Pondering - Light

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:  

Light or Lite 

 Light - what comes to mind?  First I think of sunlight and the warmth it brings - definitely different than daylight which doesn't necessarily bring any warmth with it.

Then, there's those lights you turn on with a switch to illuminate the darkness, a light bulb, a light fixture, a flashlight, a book light or headlights.

There's those lights on electronic devices, red power lights, flashing lights on our routers.....

Stop lights - I think the town I work in has maybe a dozen while the town I live in has none! But we do have those flashing railroad crossing lights!

Of course there's all those "lite" foods out there, you know - the ones that taste like cardboard or chalk.

My favorite light is the one that I've always called "my idiot light." You know how it is when you can't understand something you're trying to learn - some new concept from a textbook or some instruction manual? You just can't seem to grasp it and then all of a sudden that "light" goes on in you head and you're like, "Oh, I see, that's easy! Why didn't I see that before?" I did that just last week when I bought a new toothbrush and was trying to figure out how to change the attachments. I spent a good 5 minutes trying to push the attachment up, pressing in different places to find that release button.  Then my idiot light went off and I slid the catch DOWN and it came right off in my hand. Duh! Yes, I have an idiot light!

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. Share one fun thing you did last week, while the Hodgepodge was on 'spring break'. I babysat for my new grandson! That was fun. There's nothing like a little one in your arms to make you realize what life is really all about.

2.  April 10th is National Sibling Day...do you have siblings, and if so are you close? Share a favorite story featuring one or all of your siblings. If you don't have siblings, did you ever wish you did? I have a brother and he lives 700 miles away. We do talk a lot on the phone. I have lost two sisters and some of my fondest memories are of us three girls ganging up on my brother. He took it very well. Once we caught him asleep and put makeup all over his face.

3. Is it important to you to 'buy American'? Why or why not? How much of an effort do you make to 'buy American'? If you're not American, insert your own country in the blank. I am American and I do try to buy things manufactured here but it's getting harder and harder to do.

4. Besides The Bible, what book has impacted your spirituality in some way? Drawing a blank here.

5. April showers bring May flowers or so the saying goes.  Do you find rainy days calming or depressing?  When were you last caught in a rainstorm? What's blooming in your neck of the woods today? I love thunderstorms, It is raining here now but I haven't heard any thunder. Daffodils are blooming! They're my favorites.

6. What's your favorite yellow food? Yellow? Summer squash! Love it in stir frys or battered and fried.

7. April is National Poetry Month...what's a poem that holds special meaning for you, and why is it special?
I've never been "into" poetry" and can't really think of one that I would call special.

8.  Insert your own random thought here. It's almost garden season! I called the guy that plows gardens in the town that I live in to make sure he had me on the list! I am soooooo ready - I have it all planned out - I'll have some of those little yellow squashes before you know it!

Coffee Chat

Before I go to the chat today I have to tell you that I had to turn comment moderation back on here. Way too many annoying anonymous comments. I myself love to see my comments pop right up on your blogs. I've been known to comment two or three times before I figure out that it's not there because of comment moderation so I'm sorry - just can't keep up with deleting them and don't want them on my blog.

So now that I've addressed that - let's go to Les's from Timeout for Mom  and chat - don't forget to get your coffee before heading over!

The topic is:   Not Myself These Days:  If you could live another person's life for a week, who would you choose?    Will it be the opposite sex?  A celebrity?   Or, make the prompt interesting: is it the cat's life for you?

Let's see. If I could be anybody - even the cat. Now there's an idea - nothing to do all day but lay around on the bed,  get up in the windowsill and look out at the world and let mom know that the food bowl is empty. I could handle that - for about a day - think I would get pretty bored after that.

A celebrity - no way - not into being in the "limelight."

A man - that's an interesting thought. I guess it would have to depend on the man and his job - can't really think of any that I'd want to trade places with though. I have to admit that I've always wondered how men handle certain parts of their anatomy just being there - especially when those parts are really sensitive. Jeans can be uncomfortable for a woman - can you imagine a guy? 

I guess I really wouldn't want to live anyone else's life. Mine is far from perfect but I don't think I'd want to be anyone else.