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. Besides Thanksgiving, something on your November calendar you're looking forward to? Our daughter's 30th birthday is November. 

2. Dictionary.com's word of the year is '6-7'. Huh? Noooooooo

Is it even a word??? I had to consult the internet to find out it's meaning because apparently I'm old and this particular slang is not part of my vocabulary. Is it part of yours? According to the article I read, it's a viral term, more of an inside joke with an unclear meaning driven by social media.

What do you think? That is ridiculous. I heard it for the first time a few weeks ago when my daughters were laughing that my 7 year old grandson used it. Apparently he heard some youth group kids saying it. It was hilarious listening to them tell how he used it, but honestly it would get old really quick and would annoy me if he was older and always used it. 

Dictionary. com says it's selection each year is a 'linguistic time capsule reflecting social trends and events, but they also admitted to being confused by '6-7'. Some say it means so-so and is sometimes accompanied by the up and down hand motion we associate with the phrase so-so. My daughters said kids they know use it when they don't care to make a decision....like "do you want chicken or pizza?" They'll respond "6-7" or what do you like better, chicken or pizza?" "6-7"...I mean, really? 

What word do you think would have made a better choice? I have no idea. I don't really keep up with "popular" words, and I always feel weird using them, though I'm sure I did when I was in school.

3. What's a food, trend, activity, or thing people love but you think is just so-so? I'm going to go with Chatgpt and AI. I know it has it's place, and I've used it here and there, but I don't love it. I think it's over used and mis-used. I hate not knowing (though I can usually tell) if a photo or video is AI, or even a group of text/document, etc has been generated by Chatgpt/AI.

I'm sure there's a food but I just don't pay super close attention. 

4. Are you a tea drinker? Not really, but I do really like chai tea so if I'm somewhere and don't want a coffee I'll get a chai. Hot or cold? I prefer cold over hot, but if hot is the only option I'll drink that. How do you like yours and at what time of day? Either one.  Do you like flavored teas or teas billed as calming, energizing, healing, etc? It just depends on what catches my eye or sounds good.

5. The November Hodgepodge has always included a weekly gratitude question. Here's the question for today-what are three things that make your heart sing? 

My family, my home, fall colors.

6. Insert your own random thought here. Ladies, I promise, after the New Year I'll get back to being better about getting around to commenting on everyone's (well most everyone...there are a lot of entries) posts..it's so hard to do when I have my oldest daughter and her family living up here on our property. I love it, but there's not a lot of "free me time" to just sit and read blog posts...I'm not complaining at all because I am savoring this time and it is "real life" which is priority. I do enjoy getting a peek into everyone's lives and answers are so fun. So I do try each week to get around to at least a handful but hope to get around to more in the future. 

I need to start thinking about Thanksgiving, though my MIL usually does the main dishes and hosting...she just loves it so until she can't anymore, we'll let her do it. One year we had it up here and she just didn't know what to do with herself...lol. 

Thank you Joyce for always coming up with great questions for us to answer and journal about. 

With Joy Unquenchable,

Kirstin