It's a Beany Hodgepodge

1. What is a childhood habit or preference you will never outgrow? My grandpa had a big garden and my daddy had a little garden and I grew up eating tomato sandwiches. I still love tomato sandwiches. When tomatoes were abundant, we often ate them at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. For breakfast, we might have scrambled eggs, grits, and sliced tomatoes. For lunch, we had either a tomato sandwich or a bologna sandwich with tomatoes on it. For dinner, we might have fried okra, field peas, maybe a piece of some sort of meat, and you guessed it . . .sliced tomatoes. Mark thinks it is totally weird that I would eat a tomato for breakfast.

I also grew up reading all of the time - especially in the summer. Back then, we walked or road our bikes to the local library and lugged home bags of books. These days, I usually purchase my books in kindle format and have them instantly delivered to my kindle, phone, and laptop. I still love to read.

I don't know if either of those are really examples of a childhood habit or preference that I never outgrew, but I couldn't think of anything else. I don't bite my nails. I don't "twiddle" my hair like my sister and my daughter! I'll be interested in reading other's response to this question.

2. Did you know July is beans month? What's your favorite bean? Your favorite recipe that calls for beans? When it comes to chili are you team beans or team no beans?  I did not know that July is beans month. My favorite bean is probably black beans though I do love pinto beans. That is another thing that Mark didn't grow up eating -- pinto beans! I actually like most all of the beans and peas that we have available. I do love a good black bean and corn salad/dip. It is easy and just requires a little chopping. I am team beans for chili. I love regular chili and white chicken chili.

3. Some historical figures have a tag line after their name, something like 'the brave' or 'the wise' or 'the mad'...what would your tag line be? Explain why? Let's see . . .how about Lisa, the 66 year-old college student? Or Lisa, the crazy one? Or Lisa, the really loud talker and laugher?All of those are pretty self explanatory!

4. The way to my heart is through words of affirmation and acts of service. 

5.  The calendar rolls into August this week, but before we go give us four adjectives that describe your July. This is what immediately popped into my head and they each happen to be four words -- "Where did July go?" "How is July over?" Seriously. I feel like we blinked and July vanished.

6. Insert your own random thought here. I took my final on Tuesday. I actually asked (or maybe told??) my boss that for my mental health, I needed to go home and take it. He very graciously agreed. It was a two hour test and I used up one hour and 23 minutes of the time. Some of the questions were a little more difficult, but I had studied, and it was technically open book/open notes. I don't know if you remember this from your time in college, but sometimes open book and open notes take far too long. It is easier to know most of the info, rather than scrambling to find the info. This American Lit course had three textbooks and a million power point hand-outs. The last part of the final was an essay question and I think I did a lousy job on that portion, BUT I was just done. I went into the final with some extra points so I should still have an A for the semester. I'm tired and I have a lot to do at work over the next few days so I'm glad that I have a few days before fall semester starts. I'm thrilled!