Wednesday Hodge Podge.. All about Love

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1. When's the last time you had a heart to heart talk with someone? A change of heart? Experienced figurative 'heart failure?'

I love heart to heart talks.. I actually had  an online  heart to heart chat this week  between  a  great  friend and myself..  She was  concerned about  taking her husband to the UVA  Medical Center.. having the same concerns that I had about  going to such a huge  facility  out of town  perhaps being concerned  only to be a a number and  not  having any idea about  it at all except of their  great reputation for  dealing with  serious issues..  In her case, her husband had  some  serious heart issues.I contacted her  telling her I went into   having my   reconstructive plastic surgery on my face with the same concerns, yet every single  item on my  concern list went  far better than I every anticipated.  It was like  every  consideration was  made in advance for ease of  finding the locations,  ease of parking,  the doctor's familiarity with my case,    family  type  atmosphere,  super wonderful staff from   reception  through  every phase of the procedure...  I love to go to my appointments, even though it is a 2 hour drive for us.  I only have 2 more visits  and I'm going to be sorry to say good bye!

To answer another  question here, I have recently had a change of heart regarding an issue at my church...  I had become so disenchanted  that I was  ready to  start looking elsewhere,  but  God did a work on my heart , whereby I am now praying differently and  things are so much better now... Prayer is always the best  first line of defense!

2. Champagne, chocolates, flowers...what's your Valentine pleasure? Any special plans for the day?

I love flowers  but I really  don't expect any this year... We actually did our Valentine's   special dinner on Sunday after church by stopping at Carrabas  to get my favorite ,   Mussels in wine sauce, then Chicken Marsala

                                                  

                            

Then, Lynn ordered one of my favorite author's  two books to finish off  her autobiographical trilogy...

Susan Branch's  books. 

 Fairy Tale Girl

 and 

Martha's Vineyard, Isle of Dreams..

I absolutely love her books and illustrations!!! My daughter gave me the third book last year!

Our group at church is doing a lovely catered banquet on Thursday so  enough is enough when it comes to  the food part!  yikes!!!

Surprise of surprises....

along with my new bird feeder 

3. Are you a hopeless romantic or do you fall more in the category of practical and pragmatic? What's a gesture you find romantic?

Oh, I am definitely a hopeless romantic.   I just love it  when  Hubs  actually  says  "Wow, you  look really nice today  or  this evening"...  I mean he is awesome to fix my morning coffee and  yogurt every morning  and I love that,  but I long for  the  simple  compliment, but  I don't want him to stop with the morning  attention!  !!

4. Do you ask a lot of questions in life or are you pretty content with what you already know?

As a retired teacher  I believe I've asked and answered enough questions in my lifetime...  I  love for the Holy Spirit to  divide The Word  for me  as a  lifelong student of   the Bible,,  but  I  think I have very few questions left to ask!

5. Your favorite power ballad? I had to look up  what a power ballad is  and go through several until I knew this was the one...

  By Boston,  "Amanda"

Our daughter Amanda, who happens to live 12 hours away outside of Boston!  Just seems appropriate!

6. Insert your own random thought here.
I still don't know what a power ballad is....
:(