Wednesday Hodgepodge

I sure have been slacking with my blogging, haven't I? I have all the best intentions in the world, but there just never seems to be enough time in the day to visit y'all like I want to...and leave comments.  However, one thing I do try very hard to participate in each week is Wednesday Hodgepodge over at Joyce's place.  Just click on the button and it'll take you right there.  All you have to do is answer the questions and link up!

1.  Summer officially rolls in with the Hodgepodge this week, for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, anyway.  What song says summer 2012 to you?  Well, when I was watching the CMA Awards a few weeks back waiting anxiously for Tim McGraw to give me a big ol' shout out (which never came!), I heard a song performed by Little Big Town that I fell in love with called "Pontoon".  It has the greatest beat and makes you want to head for the lake!  Go on...take a listen and tell me what you think!




2.  What's your favorite quintessential summer food?  No ifs, ands, or buts about it....homegrown tomatoes and sweet corn on the cob! Those are two veggies I could eat until the cows come home...literally!

3.   I've spent a lot of time traipsing up and down the NJ Turnpike in recent weeks.  Did you know the names of the rest areas on the turnpike are named after people who lived or worked in NJ?  Clara Brown, Walt Whitman,  James Fenimore Cooper,  Molly Pitcher,  Joyce Kilmore, Thomas Edison, and Glover Cleveland just to name a few. Of those listed, who would you most like to have known and why?  Hmm...I'd probably say Grover Cleveland.  He was the 22nd and the 24th President of the United States.  Can you imagine the stories he could share?  I'd be all ears!

4.  At what age did you move out of your parents house and what prompted the move?  Well, when I went away to college at around 19 or 20...I attended a community college the first 2 years to get my basics out of the way.  After I got my Bachelors degree. I moved back in with my Mom and Dad to attend graduate school. Of course, I didn't "officially" move out until I was 25 years old....when I got married.

5.  What's more satisfying to you-saving time or saving money?  I'd definitely have to say saving money.  Since we're a one-income household, I do whatever I can to cut costs on groceries, gas, water, and electric bills...you name it!  I feel it's the least I can do to help out.

6.  Name something you think brings out the good in people.  I would have to say kindness and generosity.  Those two things go a long, long way and it's a win-win situation for both the giver and the receiver.

7.  This last question comes to you courtesy of Kathy over at Reflections.  Will you be taking a vacation or a staycation this summer?    If so, where will you go?  If a staycation is on the calendar, have you made any plans to fill the time? We're taking a vacation in late July to Hilton Head, SC.  I can hardly wait!

We're planning to go to Savannah for a day and take Brittany on a ghost tour since she wasn't able to go with us last April.  Fun...and spooky times are ahead!

8.  Insert your own random thought here.  Last night, Brittany was standing outside visiting with one of her former boyfriends.  No...they're just friends (sigh!).  Anyhow, she burst in the front door informing me that an old man had just fallen off of his motorcycle in front of our house and wanted to know if he could park it in our driveway for the night until he could come get it sometime today. She said he had blood running down his arms, but seemed to be OK, otherwise.  He's very lucky that he didn't get killed.  We live on a steep road and cars zoom up and down it all the time.  God was definitely watching over him.  In just a bit, it's back to the dermatologist I go.  He, apparently, didn't get clear margins on my basal cell skin cancer and has to scrap/cut it down some more today. I'll be so glad when it's over!  On Friday, we're heading to my mother-in-law's house in South Carolina for some fun on the lake! See y'all next week! :)