Wednesday Hodge Podge

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1.Describe your 30's in one sentence. If you're not yet 30 tell us one thing you hope to accomplish once you hit that particular decade.

My life was blessed beyond measure in my 30's as I  became a mother when 

we adopted our daughter from South Korea in 1985.

2. Is it harder for you to exercise or eat healthy?

Definitely,  to exercise...  I have  been  eating a much healthier  diet and have actually lost 30 pounds  in the last few months...  but  exercise comes hard for me.

3. June 7th is National VCR Day. Huh? Anyway this reminded me of something I saw on Facebook listing household items we no longer have and the VCR was on it. I couldn't put my hands on that list, but found another list here of 21 items we all had ten years ago, but which are now obsolete-

bookshelves (WHAT!!???), drip coffee makers, alarm clocks, file cabinets, desktop computers, printers, printed phone books, answering machines, fax machines, paper shredders, a Rolodex, CD racks, CD burners, china cabinets, home phones, entertainment consoles, DVD players, calculators, takeout menus, incandescent light bulbs, and cable TV

Your thoughts? How many on the list do you still have? Still use?

Goodness,  most of these  are  very important to our household....

Bookshelves???  We have them in every room... I will never give up my  books..  reading online is  a travesty! We love our drip coffee pot.. those    Keurigs  are not all they are  cracked up to be  and  create  a ton of  waste! We have  3 file cabinets in Hub's office...I use our printer everyday..., I suppose our voice mail  replaced the answering machine..we are thankful for our fax machine.. it has saved us much money ... Hubs has been  burning up the shredder lately  disposing of   old  data,  My daughter  doesn't own a china cabinet.  I suppose my three will end up in the Good Will.    We still use our home land line ~ it gives the best reception. Our cordless phone and cell phones are  basically  cr--.  They are running out of battery continually  and  are staticky.  I mean I love  Pandora, but I, also, love my  dvds and play them often,   Hubs  would be using his calculator at work if  he wasn't retire

d   What in the world is wrong with take out menus...  They tried to get us to use those new- fangled  light bulbs,  but we  detested them and are still using  our tried and true  incandescent ones. ... and we  love our cable tv, it is so much improved, so  either we are old fogies or we are smarter than the average bears!  

I choose to say  we  follow in the vein of Yogi!!

But I must say  I miss  our printed phone books...  the online white pages don't work unless you pay a premium.

4. What's something you see disappearing in the next ten years?

Hubs helped me with this one... 

Civilization..

anyway, I'm hoping for the rapture  to happen  just around the corner.  I cannot imagine how much worse it can be in another 10 years.

5. How did you celebrate your birthday this past year? Is that typical?

Hubs took me on a special birthday weekend.. to the Martha Washington Inn,  and  the  Barter Theater  to see  a fabulous play in Abingdon, Virginia!  That was  rather atypical  but much  loved!!!!

6. Insert your own random thought here.

To prepare for my trip last week to Lancaster, Pa, we knew we'd be outside quite a bit so we  purchased  our own sun hats  to keep the  harmful rays off of our faces... I  absolutely must wear a hat at all times because of my  new  skin graft on my nose..  I wore it  all week,   even on the bus because  I never  want any sun shining on my nose again!! Yesterday  I wore my hat  out on our errands and   when we stopped in at  Wendy's I seemed to capture a lot of attention..  Ladies around here just do not wear hats much.. men do all the time, but not ladies.  One lady kept staring at me and when we were leaving she spoke and said, 'I  like the hat,"  and I leaned down and told her, "I won't be without it since I had  the  tip of my nose removed and a  skin graft last fall... Im trying to start a new fad for  women  who really need to protect the skin they have!" She said, "I think I need to get one!"  I said.. "let's  get  that fad on to a great start then!!"

I now have  5  very fashionable  sun shade  type hats and   I encourage  women everywhere to consider  caring for their  precious faces...  It isn't the sun you get  today,  but over the whole of years of your life..... today's sun just adds to the damage you've already done!