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. Are you good about going to the doctor? No, I don't do doctors. The last time I went to the doctor, I had pneumonia. He insisted on a chest xray. Two weeks later when I went back for the follow up he hadn't even looked at it.
2. What do you think about the practice of restaurants adding automatic tips for large groups or specific events? I can understand why they would do that since there's a lot more work involved for the servers.
3. When was the last time you went out for dinner? I can't remember.
4. What is your best budget saving tip for recovering from an unexpected expense or planning for one? I usually try to cut back on groceries and use what I have "in stock."

 

And don't forget to add a 5th Question on your own blog so we can answer as we hop around!

My 5th question this week is ... 

February is a short month but usually one of the coldest here. I'm ready for spring and already have my garden planned - Do you garden? What's you favorite thing to plant?

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. I was probably the only kid in the world who knew how to "handle" bees.
2. Cranberry/Grape is my favorite juice
3. I never thought I would be a cat owner until I got a kitten for my kids and it ended up being mine.
4. I have always wanted to see an old castle in Scotland or Ireland but so far it hasn't happened.
Please add the Follow Friday button to your post, or your blog.
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! She 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

Thursday again! 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:  Words with double meanings -Close

Running late this morning so I'm going to keep it short and sweet.

Close brings up ideas like closing the door to the past. Sometimes we tend to close ourselves off to avoid being hurt - I've done that a lot. But I prefer to think of the word close as in being close to my children and giving them a close-knit family, the kind I never had.

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! 

This week's questions:  This week's questions are all about sports and since I'm not, in any way, a sports fan - I don't think my answers to them would be of any interest to anyone. Going to sit this one out. I'll be back next week!

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: "What makes you lose track of time? "
The answer to that would be lots of things! 

Like blogging - and visiting everyone else's blogs - that can take forever. 

Trying to clean out the inbox - another task that usually requires a couple of hours at least. 

Reading - I can get lost in a book very easily. 

And then there's crocheting - definitely one of my biggest time hogs. 

Of course, I have to list online browsing (notice I say browsing instead of shopping). There's lots of things I would love to have out there cyber space and I hate to admit that I will sometimes spend hours just "dream shopping." 

Skyping! Love that.

Gardening - and I am sooooooooo ready to spend hours and hours in my garden! 

Many, many things make me lose track of time. Just looking at this list makes me wonder how I ever find time for anything else.