Hodgepodge

Linking up with Joyce for the Hodgepodge

1. What's your favorite room in your house and why? 

Probably the family room. It's a room where everyone (can) gathers since it has plenty of seats. It's the main room where we watch TV, play UNO, chit chat, etc. It's where we put the main Christmas tree during the season. It has a fireplace (gas) that I love to sit in front of for warmth in the winter (and cold days in the spring and fall). We generally pose for pictures in this room- just a lot of "life" happens here (I'm sitting in the room right now :)).

This is the view from where I sit on "my" spot on the couch in the family room.

We're on our third set of family room furniture. We had a leather sofa/loveseat when we first moved into our home (that came from our first house). Then we got a sectional sofa that we liked but the kids rough housed on it and it started to show wear and sag. So a few years ago we bought a new sectional. Within the past year, we purchased this behind the sofa table. It's the first time we've had a behind the sofa table. What took us so long?? It's been great to use for seasonal decor and it's a good place on which to place lamps. 

This dear little tree is in a new location and bears (literally, as it were) the ignominy of my decorating, seasonal whims. 😆

2. What's something that will instantly annoy you? 

This is a toughie- what genre are we talking- something about travel, other drivers, politicians, mainstream media, neighbors, people in lines at stores, other people's kids?? I can name something from each of these categories...

I will say in general, inconsideration of others, selfishness. With regard to travel, it's drivers who don't use turn signals, with regard to politicians, it's ones who behave hypocritically, with regard to mainstream media, it's being laughably one sided (it's laugh or cry... and/or find alternate sources and only read mainstream media stories for eye rolls), etc.

3. May 28th is National Hamburger Day...will you celebrate? How do you like yours? If you're not cooking at home is there a favorite place you like to go for a burger? Did you ever work in a fast food  restaurant? 

I don't plan to celebrate it but I do like hamburgers. I like the meat cooked all the way through- no pink meat for me! I like cheese on mine, lettuce, pickles and I could take or leave condiments on it. Add a pretzel bun and I'm one happy eater :). We have a place in our town called Roosters that makes a pretty good burger. I also like burgers at Chili's- ok, I really like the price more than anything. I'm not that much of a connoisseur to be honest. 

My first job outside of detassling corn and babysitting was at a McDonald's. It was a decent job but I hated working the drive-thru! I liked the free aka old food. Big Macs and all the sammies could only sit under the warmer for so long before they were supposed to be thrown out. Some of them made it to employees' gullets, put it that way. 

4. What are three scents you like? 

I used to like the smell of coffee, freshly mowed grass, and roses. With my scent impairment, coffee smells very strange to me now (not like it used to), I can't smell grass at all. I can smell roses only if I stick my nose directly into a rose. 

5. What do you miss most about being a kid? 

Having someone else make all the decisions. Of course, as a kid, I remember not being able to wait until I was old enough to make the decisions. Be careful what you wish for!

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

I know it's going to get hot. It has been hot. But over the weekend and today, it was cool. Like, on Tuesday, I don't think it even hit 60 degrees. I decided to take advantage of the fall like temperatures and make, what seems to me, like a fall or winter comfort food, lasagna, for dinner. It's not the prettiest looking meal and is fairly monochromatic but it tasted good and I used the last of homemade marina from last year that was in the freezer. I'm ready for tomatoes this season to make more... gonna need a lot of sun for that. Which, as I said, I know is coming along with the heat. 

Leftover Nothing Bunt lemoon cake for dessert- YUM