Hodgepodge!

 I'm joining up with Joyce and friends for this week's hodgepodge. This is volume 598! Joyce is amazing!!

1. Do you complete your own taxes? Besides actual taxes, what's something you've found taxing lately?

I do not prepare our taxes, but Mark does. He is a CPA by education and is a retired CFO. I don't have an answer on what else has been taxing lately!

2.  What are three values you treasure most in a friendship? Honesty, loyalty, and a sense of humor are all important to me . . .as is the ability to keep a confidence.

3. Do you meal plan or do you mostly wing it? Share your dinner menus for this week. I do meal plan sometimes. I really like to meal prep my lunches but this is Holy Week and we will have noon day preachers and lunch three days. On Tuesday night, we are having a hot dog bar, baked beans, slaw, and chips and dip (young adult night). One night we will have Good & Gather Chicken Fried Cauliflower Rice. It is an easy freezer meal. 

4. Thomas Sowell is credited as saying, ''There are no solutions, only trade-offs.' Agree or disagree? Discuss. What an interesting quote. I'm not sure whether I agree or disagree. I feel like there are solutions to some things, but maybe not. I look forward to reading other answers.

5. What's the best perk you've enjoyed at a job? I worked for Tambrands and I got free Tampax! Before we had kids, I worked for South Central Bell and then AT&T. We had several concessions on our phone bills. Mark was CFO for a corporation that included a car dealership. He always had a car which was an amazing perk.

6.  Insert your own random thought here. By the time you are reading this, I will have submitted my big project and all I have left is a little review of other speeches, one more chapter and quiz, and the final PLUS we will be on the slide into Easter weekend. When you work on a church staff, Holy Week is a big deal. As a Christian, Easter is a big deal. This has been a good Lent. I've loved the study book I've been teaching from and I've loved the sermon series.