Wednesday Hodgepodge

It's time for Wednesday Hodgepodge with Joyce, who blogs at From This Side of The Pond.  Each week she'll pose some questions for us to answer. What a great way to journal life.

1. April 13th is National Scrabble Day...are you a fan? I love scrabble. My hubby and I used to play all the time when we were first married. My mom got us a turntable scrabble one year for Christmas. Do you enjoy word games in general? I do love word games. What's an eight letter word that tells us something about your life currently? Hmmm...I'm going to go with Familiar. It just seems like kind of the same things. 

2.  Do you have a junk drawer? Yes I do. Actually I have two. One in our old kitchen, and one in the new kitchen addition.  Is it full? No, and I try to keep it organized because my hubby really doesn't like junk drawers. Do you know what's in it? What's in it? I'll just show you!

3. When does time pass quickly for you? Vacations....or even my days off seem to pass quickly. When does it pass slowly? When I'm working...lol. Sometimes it goes by fast though...or when I'm working out...a minute is super long when you're holding a plank or doing a minutes worth of exercise that's hard.

4. These eight vegetables are in season during spring-asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, celery, collard greens, garlic, herbs. What's your favorite? I like all of them, but I love asparagus. Any on the list you refuse to eat? I don't think I refuse to eat any, though I haven't had collard greens much. Last one on the list you ate? Broccoli.

5. What's the oldest thing you own? I'm going to go with two antique furniture pieces that my mom got many years ago from a few local antique stores. Tell us about it. One is a secretary desk, the other is a wash stand. I love them both. I don't know much of their history but I wish I did. 

6. Insert your own random thought here. The movie I went to see with my girls, The Journey with Andrea Bocelli was really good. I had also entered a giveaway on Kym's blog, A Fresh Cup of Coffee, and got an email today that I won. How fun!!! 

I had gone 6 months with no monthly cycle, was pretty excited, and then boom, two weeks ago, "hello, Aunt Flo". Now I have to start counting down all over. I haven't been sleeping well and hot flashes have started coming back. No fun! 

I will say that I successfully completed the 12 weeks of getting 70,000 steps a week. We started over and this time added doing 140 pushups a week, 210 situps a week and a total of a 7 minute plank a week...could be 1 minute a day, or more, however we want to divide things up. I also am trying to get the equivalent of 5 miles 3 days a week. Usually 10,000 steps is about 4.36 miles for me, so it's challenging me to increase my daily steps. 

With Joy Unquenchable,

Kirstin