Loving The Hodgepodge

Welcome to February and this week's edition of The Wednesday Hodgepodge. If you've answered today's questions add your link at the end of my post then go say hi to your neighbor there. Here we go-

1. The Winter Olympics kick off on Friday, February 6th...on a scale of 1-10 how excited are you? (1= eh and 10=watching every event all day every day). What's your favorite Winter Olympic sporting event? 

I love watching the Olympics, summer and winter both. I won't watch all day every day, but I will watch a lot, so giving myself a 7. 

I especially enjoy the love of country and sense of patriotism we typically see and feel at the Olympics. Recently it seems the press want athletes to bad mouth America and I appreciate those who say without hesitation they are proud to represent the USA. 

I enjoy all of the events and will watch whatever happens to be on when I'm available to watch. My favorites are probably alpine skiing, figure skating, hockey, and ski jumping. I like the sledding events too, so yeah, pretty much all of it. 

We stood at the top of the ski jump in Innsbruck and I'm just gonna say people who do this sport are a little bit crazy. Who went first? 

2. In other sporting news, the Superbowl (American football's championship game) will be played on Sunday, February 8th.  So tell us...what's your superpower?

I asked this question last February. Oops. Oh well, perhaps those of you who answered then will have discovered there's some new superpower you now possess. Last year I said napping and emptying the dishwasher, which honestly is kind of sad.  

This time around I'm going to say being a Nana. I love it, love spending time with my grands, love spoiling them when I can, love praying for them daily and for their parents too, and it's a huge part of who I am in this season of life. 

3. Are you a romantic? 

In a word yes, although the world is smudging my normally rose colored glasses somewhat here lately.

I read this description of what it means to say a person might be dubbed a romantic-'someone who expresses strong feelings of love and affection, often through thoughtful gestures...has a deep appreciation for emotional connection and beauty...sometimes holding idealistic views about love.' 

That fits. Mostly.  I'm not sure I'd say I'm idealistic about love. I think love within a marriage requires a daily choice to care for and nurture the relationship, and there's nothing idealistic about that. I do believe happily ever after is possible, but I don't think you get there by happenstance. 

4. Blue cheese-yay or nay? How about feta? If you said yes to one or both, what's a dish you like that calls for one of these? 

I like both, but wouldn't go so far as to say I love both. I definitely like blue cheese on a cheese board, but I don't order blue cheese salad dressing. I prefer Ranch style dressing with blue cheese crumbles. I like feta in small amounts. I love a Greek salad and Greek food in general, which often includes some feta. 

5. What's more important-doing what you love or loving what you do? 

One of those trick questions I see. 

I think both matter, but I'm going to say loving what you do is the more important side of the equation. It's great to do the things you love, if you're fortunate to have work or circumstances that feed your creativity and your God-given gifts, but sometimes that isn't an option. In that case it's more important to find the silver lining, the bright spot, the upside in what you have to do. There always is one. That's me. The romantic. 

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

February is the month of ❤️...
                                                    

"Love must be a light as much as a flame." Henry David Thoreau