Wednesday Hodgepodge

 1.July 15th is National Give Something Away Day. What can you give away? Will you?

Oh, probably. Clothes the kids have outgrown, books, food, time...our church has a pantry for donations so I'll probably pick up some of this month's requests, and drop them off.

 2. Do you have a mantra? Please share with the class if you feel comfortable doing so.

My sorority's motto is, "Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring." I like that one. Think I'll use it.

3. Who does the grocery shopping in your house? How many times a week do you shop? Do you make a list or pray for inspiration in the produce aisle?

I do, and I try to keep it to once a week. I do make a list, but I don't stick to it terribly strictly. My kids like to refer to Saturday as "donut day" because I usually leave before they wake up, and almost always come back with breakfast.

4. Is there a TV show you're embarrassed to say you watch? You're going to tell us what it is, right?
 
Embarrassed? Not so much. I watch a pretty wide variety of shows, fromDownton Abbey to The Walking Dead, but none of them are particularly embarrassing.

5. A recent article listed fifteen words we should eliminate from our (written) vocabulary in order to sound smarter-

that, went, honestly, absolutely, very, really, amazing, always, never, literally, just, maybe, stuff, things, and irregardless

Of the fifteen, which word is your most overused?

Stuff. I feel like I say it all the time and stuff.

6. So apparently dying your hair gray (in your youth!) is a thing right now. It's called 'The Granny Hair' trend. Your thoughts?

But...why?

7. A while back Buzz Feed asked members to share the most beautiful sentence they've read in a piece of literature. A hard thing to narrow down, at least for me, but let's try. What's one of the most beautiful sentences you've ever read in a piece of literature?

"Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt that I love." Hamlet, Act II, Scene II. William Shakespeare.  

8. Insert your own random thought here.

 It's been a heck of a busy summer. My calendar holds four big-deal, all-day things for the next week, and six for the next week and a half. I suppose it beats being bored, but good grief...