Sunday Stealing - SSSSSS

 

Welcome to Sunday Stealing. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!

At The Zeus Excuse, participating bloggers were assigned a letter and asked to list things they love beginning with that letter. Since at Sunday Stealing we love Sunday Stealing, here is –

Things I Love Beginning with S 

1. Smiling, smiles

2. Sunshine - glorious sunshine

3. Sand - especially the white sand on our Alabama gulfcoast!

4. Sanctuary - yes, specifically "our" sanctuary where we attend church. I've been known to slip in on a weekday and just sit quietly in a pew or kneel at the altar rail.

5. Songbirds - I love how they sing early in the morning as spring approaches!

6. Sunday Stealing, of course! 

7. There are so many others - I thought about listing sex as one of my five just to see what response I would get hahahaha! I love sincerity - please be real and honest, but also kind! I love Sunday School - yes, even at 67 years old! I love the good Shepherd - he loves me, leads me, and guides me. I love scholarships - they are helping me pay for a college education! I can't wait to read what everyone else loves!

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It is Friday!

I took this selfie a couple of weeks ago - no make up! I was sitting in my upstairs office doing homework. I truly have no idea why I took the photo! 

Guess what? I have finished my homework for the weekend (it was A LOT!) and our oldest granddaughter is on her way over to spend the night! We have fun Mardi Gras stuff planned.

I have a question. One of my "blog friends" was auburnchicksadventures.com. I was trying to go back and comment on a few blogs this afternoon and when I click on a link to her blog, I get a message "this site can't be reached." I thought I had her email address saved, but don't. If any of you have followed her or have any info, please let me know.

Y'all are awesome - all of you!!

One Word - Really?

 

I'm joining up with the Sunday Stealing Gang. One word answers only might be difficult. I might need to cheat!

One Word Answers ONLY

1. Where is your cell phone? Purse

2. Tell us about your hair. Dyed

3. What's your favorite thing? Granddaughters (I actually tried out several words including "living"!!

4. What room are you in? Office

5. Where did you grow up? Tarrant

6. What aren't you good at? Succinctness

7.  Your favorite drink? Soda

8. Where do you want to be in 10 years? Alive

9. Your mood. Happy

10. Last time you cried. Recently

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Hodgepodge

 

1. The Winter Olympics kick off on Friday, February 6th...on a scale of 1-10 how excited are you? (1= eh and 10=watching every event all day every day). What's your favorite Winter Olympic sporting event? Sometimes I enjoy watching the Olympics. This year, I probably won't simply due to the fact that I have so much going on right now. I know this sounds crazy but I love to watch curling haha! Mark loves Biathlon - where the athletes cross country ski and then stop and shoot a rifle. I like to watch figure skating and the ski events, along with bobsleigh events.

2. In other sporting news, the Superbowl (American football's championship game) will be played on Sunday, February 8th. So tell us...what's your superpower? What is my superpower? I guess I can be the hostess with the mostest haha! 

3. Are you a romantic? I don't think I am. I will admit that you could woo me off my feet and then I might be a romantic! 

4. Blue cheese-yay or nay? How about feta? If you said yes to one or both, what's a dish you like that calls for one of these? I can take small doses of blue cheese - it is not my favorite. I love feta! I love a big Greek salad with chunks of feta! We've even added feta to pizza before. I also make an Heirloom Tomato tart in the summer that includes feta.

5. What's more important-doing what you love or loving what you do? Is there a right or wrong answer to this question? I think maybe loving what you do is more important. Everyone isn't lucky enough to be able to "do what they love." In Philippians chapter 4, Paul says that he has learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I think that is along the lines of loving what you do. Learn to love what you do. I can't wait to read everyone's answers today.

6. Insert your own random thought here. I have no random thoughts worth sharing today haha! Mark and I have one episode left of Ozark and I hope we can watch it tonight. Speaking of TV, maybe this is my random thought. Anne over at Cooking and All That Jazz talked about learning something new every day. This nudged me to watch "You Are What You Eat" while Mark was out of town last week. Have y'all seen it? What are some good documentaries we should watch? For someone who had no random thoughts, I now have several! Mark hurt himself last Friday getting out of a tree stand and he came home from his trip on crutches. He couldn't put any weight on that leg/knee. He went to an orthopedic doctor that our neighbor recommended on Monday. He went in on crutches and came out carrying the crutches under his arm. He evidently told everyone in the waiting room that he had been "healed" and the doctor was a miracle worker. One gentleman in the waiting room shouted out, "I want that doctor!" Mark thinks this story is so funny (which it is) but he keeps telling it to me over and over. I must not be laughing hard enough!!

It's An Old School Sunday Stealing

 

Welcome to Sunday Stealing. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!

This week's questions come Kwizgiver, who was invited to play by a blogging buddy named Paula. Now you're invited to play along, too.

The Old School Blogging Meme

I am passionate about ...

1) our grandkids    

2) our kids, too . . .right?

3) our Tuesday night young adults

4) teaching adult Sunday School at our church (this includes my faith, Jesus, etc.)

5) travel

I'd like to learn ...

1) I'd like to relearn Spanish - I had almost enough hours for a minor . . .a long time ago.

2) I'd like to learn what/how to do a capstone project.

3) Along the lines of #2, I need to learn what I have to do for a practicum.

4) I might like to learn more about nutrition.

5) I need to continue to learn how to be a better wife, friend, mother, employee, etc.

Things I say a lot ...

1) What cha doing?

2) What was that? (noises)

3) I need a diet pepsi, please.

4) I can help you with that.

5) I'll do it in just a minute - evidently I've been saying that one since childhood. My mom once said to me that "in just a minute" was my middle name haha!

Places I'd like to travel to ...

1) Portugal

2) Iceland

3) Scotland

4) Scandanavian Countries

5) Maybe Thailand or Vietnam or Australia or Japan

6) I need another number - Alaska, places like Slovakia -- anywhere in the world where I haven't been before!

What about you? What would be some of your answers to these prompts?

Chilly Hodgepodge - BRRR!

 

Here are the questions to this week's Hodgepodge. Answer on your own blog, then join us over at Joyce's blog - From This Side of the Pond.

1. I live in the south so we're pretty much only talking about the weather right now. Give us a weather report from where you live. Does the kind of weather you're having today affect your mood in some way? It is so cold in Alabama right now. We didn't get any snow or ice. We had torrential rain on Sunday with strong winds . . .and then the temp dropped. Everything did close on Monday due to the threat of black ice. It was 14 degrees when my alarm went off at 5:00 on Tuesday morning. I don't think the temp was above freezing on Monday. I know that doesn't sound cold to our friends who have negative temps right now . . .but we don't have the right clothes for this kind of weather. I only have a handful of long sleeve shirts!! The sky is blue and the sun is shining - so that is a good mood enhancer. 

2.  Avocados, kale, cauliflower and cottage cheese have all had their time to shine. 2026 brings us the year of the cabbage. Is this a vegetable you like? If so, what are some of your favorite dishes that call for cabbage?  I think it is so funny to think of "the year of the cabbage." I actually do like cabbage. I like it steamed (boiled?). I like it cooked in the crockpot with onions and kielbasa. I like using the preshredded slaw to make "eggroll in a bowl." My favorite way to eat cabbage is Asian Slaw. I make that often. It has sunflower seeds, toasted slivered almonds, green onions, toasted ramen noodles, shredded cabbage (slaw in a bag). The dressing is oil, sugar, vinegar, and the beef packets from the ramen soup.

3. Was a Cabbage Patch Doll a part of your childhood? Or maybe your children's childhood? What's a toy trend from your childhood you remember wanting for your own? My step-mother, now deceased, made us a "fake" cabbage patch doll one time. They were so cute!! I'm pretty sure that our daughter, Laura, had a cabbage patch doll but I don't remember her loving it. My childhood was long long ago haha! In hindsight, even though we didn't have a lot, I don't remember wanting something and not getting it for Christmas.

4. Something you've spent a lot of time doing lately? I know I sound like a broken record, but I have spent a lot of time doing homework. Y'all just have to hear about it until May of 2027 hahaha!

5. Somehow it's the last week of January...sum up your month in just three sentences. January 2026 has been better than January 2025. We've spent quality time with family and friends. I can't believe one month in 2026 is already over. How?

6. Insert your own random thought here! We have one trip planned for the fall - England and back to Ireland for a few days. We can't decide what other kind of trip we want to take this year. It can be difficult to plan around my work schedule plus exams. I can do homework while traveling, but exams and unreliable internet are not a good combination.

Weekend in Review

I have been studying a lot! I am taking Human Behavior in Organizations and Lifespan Development (Spring A is infant and child; Spring B will be the same book). Our professor said between January and May she will take us from conception to death. It is interesting! I had to learn another program - IBM SPSS. It is a spreadsheet for data plus an output to analyze that data. I then had to learn how to record using Studio (also new to me) and do a video explaining how it works and showing it on my screen. Google, ChatGPT, and I are close friends. Between the two of them, they have taught me how to do many things!!

The book below is a part of the Human Behavior class. Right now, we are doing all sorts of assessments on ourselves and then thinking about the type of person we would prefer as a co-worker and a boss. Then we have to write about it . . .I have to do a lot of writing. BUT . . .each class brings me closer to my degree, so I'm really not complaining.

I didn't take many photos this weekend. On Thursday night, we met our "out to eat" supper club at Half Shell Oyster House. There were 10 of us and we had a really nice time. I had a drop of lemon martini. It was delicious and when I couldn't finish it, Mark took over. He is such a good man! haha! Seriously - he is!

On Friday night, we went to our regular supper club - the one we've been in since 2004. We were in charge of the appetizer. I made pinwheel sandwiches.

Mark made Quail and Chukar poppers. I didn't eat one but the guys loved them.

This is what the little pinwheel sandwiches looked like after baking them - crescent roll dough, honey ham, swiss cheese, sharp white cheddar cheese all basted in a butter, worchestershire, poppyseed dressing.

Sunday was Celebration Sunday at our church. We were celebrating all of the amazing things God has done over the last year. It was a great day! It was pouring rain with lots of wind . . .and then the temps started dropping. I just got an email that our office will be closed tomorrow due to the threat of black ice. The schools are closed, too.