A Directionally-Challenged Hodgepodge

Hello, dear friends.  I hope that you are enjoying your week.  Today is going to be a picture-perfect Fall day here in the Northeast.  A long walk and some ball playing with my sidekicks are on the schedule.

If it's Wednesday, it's time for Hodgepodge. 

1.  On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your sense of direction? 1 = can't find your way out of a paper bag and 10=if I've been there once, I can find it blindfolded ten years later.

I would give myself a big fat zero.  It's not entirely my fault though.  It is genetic.  My parents didn't argue much, but when they did it was usually in the car over directions.  Neither one knew how to read a map.

I could safely say that I spent 8 years out of my childhood in the backseat being lost.

I still manage to get lost even though I have designed this unique GPS system.

When was the last time you looked at/used a map you could hold in your hand.  (phones don't count).

When the Mister and I started dating, he handed me a map to help him navigate.  When he saw that I was holding it upside down, he gave up and pulled over to the side of the road and figured it out.

So, to answer your question, the last time I held a map was 28 years ago. 

Choose one of these directional expressions and tell us why you chose it.  Back East, down south, out west and up north.

Not a clue.

Next question, please.

2.  Did you do more talking than listening yesterday? 

Is that typical?

I did a little of both.

I did some listening to the TV while I was tending to some household chores.

And I barked some orders at my assistants.

Describe yesterday in one word.

3.  Time, money, water-power-resources, opportunity... which one on the list are you most guilty of wasting?

Don't tell the Mister but I would have to say money.

My downfalls:

What might you do to change that? 

This may call for some drastic measures.

4.  Did your family take regular vacations when you were a kid?  

My Dad has always loved to travel.  My Mom - not so much.  We visited the Cape, Lake George, Spring Lake, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Canada, Hawaii, England, and Ireland.

We were only in San Francisco for one night because we were on our way to Honolulu.  Sista and I were preteens at the time. We got in big trouble because we opted to stay in the hotel, order room service, and watch our favorite TV show rather than venture out and see the city with my parents.  Until my dear departed Mother's last breath, she never let us live it down. 

Tell us something you remember about a family road trip from your own childhood.

I remember my first road trip to Camp Tegawitha.  I wore my uniform for the first time.  My mother (the overachiever) washed my white cotton shirt in bleach.  I sneezed for the entire three hours it took to get there.  My parents finally figured it out as we approached the driveway to the camp that I was allergic to bleach. 

5.  If you could grow anything you wanted, what would you grow? 

My legs.

Why?

Need I state the obvious?

6.  Insert your own random thought here.

Amazon

Last year, my cousin Louise recommended the novel Our Souls At Night to me and I loved it.

Yesterday, while I was flicking through Netflix looking for something to watch while I folded laundry I came across the new movie Our Souls At Night.  It stars my old boyfriend before George, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda.  It's very good, not quite as good as the book, but definitely worth watching.  

Here's the trailer.

Until next time...

doggymom