Happy new year Hodgepodgers! I hope you had a happy restful holiday and are easing in to this new year with joy. I'm looking forward to lots of random fun here on Wednesdays and am so glad you're joining in with the weekly hop.
If you've answered today's questions add your link at the end of my post, then leave a comment for your neighbor there. Onward in to 2026 we go...
2. I ask this question every January, and I always get comments about how we shouldn't be banning words. This is fun and games so just play along : )
Every January 1st since 1976 Lake Superior University has published a list of words they'd like to see banished from the Queen's English. Words may be banished due to misuse, overuse, or just general uselessness (go here to read about how the words are chosen). Here's the list for 2026-
67 • demure • cooked • massive • incentivize • full stop • perfect • gift/gifted • my bad • reach out
Which one (if any) do you use most often? I like the word perfect and that would be my most used on this list. I have no plans to stop.
Which one of these words/phrases would you most like to see banished from everyday speech and why? I'm not a fan of my bad and would be okay if we let that one go. I know 67 is overused, but not in my crowd. Perhaps if I had teens or tweens in the house?
Is there a word you think should have made the list? How about 'circle back'?
3. What are your nightly rituals? Is that different from your 'ideal' nightly ritual? If so what's your ideal?
Is falling asleep on the couch considered a ritual? I do this a little too often.
My nightly ritual is pretty simple-pjs, wash face, moisturize, retinol, and brush/floss teeth. I often do the face wash early in the evening if we're not going anywhere. I'm not the person doing any kind of housework in the evening. If we're home we watch something on TV and I might also read or work on my blog. My energy level is on a downward trajectory after 5 PM.
4. January 6th is/was National Bean Day. Do you like beans? Which one is your favorite? Last thing you ate made with beans?
I like all beans, with green beans being my favorite and limas my least liked. Still I'll eat them, but mostly just in soups or stews. Black eyed peas are actually a bean and we had those on January 1st so that would be the last thing I ate made with beans.
5. Are you easily embarrassed? Elaborate.
I can be, but it depends on the group I'm with and who's doing the embarrassing. I can definitely fake it and pretend I'm not embarrassed when I'm actually cringing on the inside. As a child I think I was pretty easily embarrassed but as an adult I've learned to laugh at myself.
I will say I'm someone who is easily embarrassed for others, even when they might not feel it themselves.
6. Insert your own random thought here.
I've made a simple winter bucket list, nothing too crazy, just a few things I'd like to do in the next three months. I find a list motivating in terms of helping me tackle some of the nagging to-dos that don't seem to get done if they're not written down. I can't explain it but somehow it works. Do you have a new year-new month-new season bucket list?
Sorry I messed up the first time I tried to link up and it won't let me delete it! So I entered it again the right way.. I am the same way with having a bucket list; it definitely motivates me to get it done. I do like green beans and for some reason didn't think of those with that question!
ReplyDeleteBucket lists are a bit too type A for me :). But I enjoy reading lists that others come up with and I may read a list from someone else and think that something on the list is something that I´d like to do. But to sit down and create a list on my own is not something I´m likely to do. I picked the word ¨perfect¨ as well from the list of words. I *think* that 67 is dying down among the young? I noticed in the middle school where I was from November to December that its usage among the kids seemed to have waned from November to December. But maybe that´s hopeful thinking? Suffice it to say, I´ve not heard it since December but I´ve not subbed yet either so I can´t say that the kids aren´t saying it if that makes sense. Thanks for link up and happy Wednesday!
ReplyDeleteI am the exact same after 5 pm - I make dinner, eat dinner, shower, and then I'm done. My ritual is also falling asleep on couch. When I was teaching (not so long ago) I would regularly fall asleep as early as 6 pm on the couch and now it's more like 9. He he
ReplyDeleteGreat winter list!
I, too, am easily embarrassed for others! I forgot to answer the question about the beans I ate last -- on Monday night, we pulled out all of our leftovers and I ate a spoonful of pinto beans and a spoonful of black eye peas. No, I would never serve them at the same meal . . .but they were available and I couldn't choose which one to eat . . .so a bite of both!
ReplyDeleteI hear 6 7 here every darn day from my 11 year old but it always cracks me up- I also crack up that people get so annoyed by it- ha!! Love your winter bucket list- great list to bring the JOY in 26- thanks for this awesome linkup Joyce!
ReplyDeleteI love that bucket list! It's easily attainable, which are my favorite kind. I want to do one, and keep forgetting! Maybe today I'll work on this while I have free time this morning. Thanks for hosting us each week, my friend!
ReplyDeleteOops...I forgot to answer the last question in #2, but I don't have an answer for it, so I guess it's okay! I'm impressed you have a bucket list!
ReplyDeleteYes, my bad can go. I like your description of "My energy level is on a downward trajectory after 5 PM." I definitely feel that way too. I'm in bed now when I used to be getting ready to go out, lol, those young, carefree days of living on a few hours' sleep are long gone!
ReplyDeleteGrateful is awesome. Good point with "circle back". Your nightly routine sounds pretty good. For some reason I didn't think about green beans, we eat them often. I was thinking about the other beans. That's a great list. I wish you success.
ReplyDeletelove your goal list!! I hike 1 new trail each season (new to me I mean!!).
ReplyDeleteGood Morning! Our son Sam's girlfriend says "my bad" I just chuckle at her... I really do not like the phrase. ;-) I agree about circle back. That has gotten overused and annoying.
ReplyDeleteI like your bucket list.
My husband and I are starting our 52 weeks... thank you again for the inspiration.
Carla
I don't mind the word perfect and I use that a fair bit but "my bad" makes me irrationally angry and thankfully my girls don't say 67 much!
ReplyDeleteI don't do any housework on an evening but I do get my family to have a quick tidy up as it's usually their mess around the house.
Good luck with your bucket list, it sounds like you have lots of good things planned.
I used to not be bothered by "6 7" but I hear it every single day by several teens and I'm done with it. haha. And hello, I'm new here and this is my first time joining in as I've found this from a few other blogs I follow. I needed something new to add so I hope you don't mind I joined in today.
ReplyDeleteAnchored is such a good place to be. Hope the fractured areas physical and relational heal well or as much as possible on your side of things. I like the idea of a winter bucket list. Have a beautiful day!
ReplyDeleteI often fall asleep in the recliner!! Love the bucket list. I have never thought of a winter bucket list....Good Idea!
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