Thank you to our host, Bev Sykes of the blog "Funny the World.” She searches the internet every week to come up with questions for Sunday Stealing. This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. This week’s questions are from The Queen’s Meme. I'd love to hear your answers!
Stolen from The Queen's Meme
1. January usually has ample amounts of snowfall in parts of the world. Did you ever make snow cream as a kid? We don’t get a lot of snow in Alabama but I actually remember making snow cream one of the times that it did snow.
2. January is one of the months with 31 days. What are you going to do with
that extra day?
I will probably be doing the same thing as any other day. I’ll get up at 5:00
and exercise and shower and go to work. At the end of the day, I’ll come home
and prepare and eat dinner. Hubby usually does the dishes. Then we will watch a
couple of episodes of Ted Lasso or Castle. Those are the two shows we are
watching right now. We are actually watching Ted Lasso for the second time
through.
3. In medieval times superstition dictated that the 1st day of January was
significant for prosperity, or lack of it, in a person's life. Farmers put a
flat cake on the horns of a cow and they danced and sang songs around the cow
until the cake was thrown to the ground. If it fell in front of the cow that
meant good luck; it if fell behind the cow that meant bad luck for the rest of
the year.
Do you have strange New Year customs in your household? This year, we opened
the front and back door on New Year’s Eve and ushered out the old year and
welcomed in the new. We usually make a big pot of gumbo on New Year’s Eve. On
New Year’s Day, we always eat black eyed peas, some sort of greens, ham or pork
tenderloin, and cheese grits. The black eyed peas are for luck, the greens are
for money, I can’t remember what the pork is for, and the cheese grits are just
because we like them. I usually make cornbread to go along with this meal.
Gumbo at the very beginning before it cooks down |
4. On January 14, 1986 motorists were required for the first time to wear seat
belts? Do you always buckle up? Why or why not? I do always wear my seatbelt. I’m
a rule follower so that is one reason but I also do think they protect us in
the case of an accident.
5. Have you ever blabbermouthed something to a significant other that in
hindsight you really should have kept to yourself? I can’t think of an exact
instance but I have found that I can’t talk about someone in a negative way to
my husband because he never forgets.
6. Have you ever written anything on your blog that you wish you could take
back? I don’t think so. I think I probably self censor most of the time.
7. Are you the blabber or the blabbee? Tell us your most embarrassing
blabbermouth moment. Most of the time, I not either one. My job requires a high
level of confidentiality so I know how to keep my mouth shut. A week or so ago,
I did have diarrhea of the month. My son and his family had covid and I didn’t
realize that my 5 year old granddaughter didn’t KNOW that she had covid and I
said something on the phone to her. Luckily, I don’t think she had slowed down enough
to really listen to what I said.
8. Who is the biggest blabbermouth tattletale in your household? We laugh about
this a lot. We say it is our son. My husband is on a “need to know basis.” His
words – he says to tell him if he needs to know, otherwise don’t tell him.
9. You are the Blog Paparazzi! Which blogger's real photograph are you most
interested in getting?
I think it would be cool to meet Ree Drummond in person. I actually think it
would be cool to meet all of the different bloggers.
10. If you could hire the loudest and most skilled blabbermouth in the universe to do your talking for you and advertise it well, what message would you like to spread to humanity? Be kind to one another. Everyone doesn’t have to think the same but be KIND! I’m sure there are more profound messages but that is what popped into my head immediately.
11. Are you always on time or just a tad late? 99% of the time, I’m a tad
early.
12. Is there someone in your life that irritates you regularly about not being
on time? One of my husband’s brothers is always late. He’s been late as long as
I’ve been in the family. It used to irritate me but most of the time now, I
just laugh about it. We also have some other relatives that are always late and
I just laugh about it, too.
13. Can you think of a time when you were late for something and it was REALLY
a big deal? I cannot think of any time that it really mattered. My husband is
always early for most things but when we were newlyweds, we would be late for church
every Sunday. We would get there in time for the sermon.
14. If you were on your way to work and had five minutes to get there, would
you stop in the road to rescue a crossing turtle? I hate to say this but I probably
wouldn’t stop . . .but then I would worry about it the rest of the day.
15. Have you ever had to actually punch a time clock? I have not. I did have
to fill out a time card for one of my part time jobs years ago but most of my
jobs have been salaried.
When I lived in Mississippi, we did gumbo for New Years. Out here, in New Mexico, I've made it twice in 10 years. The ingredients for seafood gumbo are awful dear out here. I spent about $100 getting head-on shrimp, blue crabs, and lump crab for my Mom's 80th birthday gumbo. Worth it, but sure can't do it regular!
ReplyDeleteGood shrimp is about 15-20 a pound here and we are only a few hours from the gulf of Mexico. I feel like food is so expensive right now.
DeleteI punched a time clock twice in my working life. Once when I was a waitress in college and later at the government agency I worked for. So grateful I'm retired and no more time clocks for me. Have a good week and thanks for visiting Buttercupland.
ReplyDeleteMy husband is getting ready to retire but I plan to work a few more years :-)
DeleteI found that with my sister-in-law, because she was late all of the time, other family members would show up late too. I got tired of it. It is ridiculous. Now they start on time, and everyone just comes and goes. The thing about that though, is you aren't really spending time with them because they haven't arrived yet. Drives me nuts. Loved your answers! Have a nice day!
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yes, some Sundays we don't see them at all - we eat and go home before they arrive!!
DeleteThat gumbo look delish. Have a great week.
ReplyDeleteIt was yummy!!
DeleteI've heard of those New Year's things. My grandmother used to want a man with dark hair to be the first person to enter the house in the new year. I remember one year I went in first before my father and my grandmother said I was bringing bad luck. It had quite a bad effect on me.
ReplyDeleteoh my goodness! I imagine that would have a bad effect on you!! We aren't superstitious but do it as sort of a tradition.
DeleteI've been craving cheese grits! Your decision to laugh when others are tardy is a great response. I waste too much time getting upset about those things over which I've no control.
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