A Super Day in the Wednesday Hodgepodge-Vol 11

Welcome to the Wednesday Hodgepodge...everyone is welcome to play along!

Be sure to link your post at the bottom of mine so friends and neighbors can come visit.

1. Will you watch the Super Bowl? If so, who will you cheer for? If you are not from the USA what is the 'big deal' sporting event in your own country?

Yes we'll watch the Super Bowl and in fact hubs and I are hosting a little Super Bowl party. We were hoping our home town boys, aka The NY Jets, would be playing but sadly they were beaten by the Pittsburgh Steelers which is why I will be rooting for the Green Bay Packers. I have zero ties to either team but I am looking forward to having friends in the house and making it a fun evening.

2. Is ignorance bliss?

Sometimes. Is it healthy? In general, no. I like to see life through my rose colored glasses but reality has a way of forcing itself in from time to time. I'm sure that's a good thing.

3. Which of the seven dwarfs are you? (and just in case your Disney is a little bit rusty, here they are-Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, and Sneezy).

Happy of course.

4. When you are riding in the car with another couple how do you organize seating? (Men up front? Women up front? Couples sit together?) And thanks to Lori at Mountain Woman at Heart for the question. Everyone go say hi to Lori.

My answer depends on the couple. If its a couple we know well then sometimes the guys ride up front and the girls ride in the back. If we're dressed up for an event or we're going somewhere special we definitely ride as couples because hubs enjoys admiring my legs and the scent of my perfume. That's not tmi, is it?

5. What is beauty?

How to answer this question without sounding like a cliche...hmmm...cliches are cliches for a reason ya know!

I think beauty is radiated from within. At a glance someone can appear to be 'beautiful' but as you get to know that person, if you find they lack inner beauty, you will begin to see them as less than beautiful. The opposite is also true-I've known women who don't meet the world's definition of classically beautiful yet they radiated such inner beauty that if I had to describe them I would say they are beautiful.

6. If someone asks you to bring an appetizer or a dessert to a party in their home, which would you choose?

Normally I'd choose an appetizer.

7. What is your crowd pleasing go-to appetizer?

Either a warm artichoke dip, my fruited cheese ball, or this pesto dip which is so super easy and delicious...

Spread one 8 0z package of cream cheese in the bottom of a dish (I always use a pretty quiche/tart dish so something about that size). Top the cream cheese with a small jar of pesto. Top that with a jar of drained and chopped sun dried tomatoes. Finally top that with a handful of toasted pine nuts. Serve with crackers.

8. Insert your own random thought here.

I'm in The Big Apple today and I'm wondering if you have ever been curious as to why New York City is sometimes referred to as The Big Apple? Well wonder no more...

Here's what the trusty internet tells me-Back in the early 1920's, "apple" was used in reference to the race courses in and around the city. Apple referred to the prizes awarded for the big races and a writer by the name of John Fitzgerald referred to the city's races as 'Around the Big Apple". He supposedly got the term from jockeys and trainers in New Orleans who hoped to race on NYC tracks, which they referred to as The Big Apple.

Okay, now why were the prizes referred to as apples? That my friends will have to be a random for another day.