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. Do you like your name? I do like my name, I mean, I've never had a reason not to, though it is always mis-pronounced. It is Kirstin (KUR-stin), but I always get Kristen or (KEER-stin). Are you named after someone (grandparent, etc)? Nope. If I understand correctly, she heard the name on a soap opera in England. If you have children how did you choose their names? With our oldest we picked her name because we liked a character on a show we watched, her name was Kaitlynn and a family member called her Katie-bug and we loved that nickname. We went to college with a gal who's name was Christiana, and we liked that so we named our youngest Kristiana. We were going with keeping all "K's" in the names. 

I'll also add that I like my nicknames (well, all except what annoying classmates gave me). I go by Kiki, Kirstie, Kirst, Keek. My grandkids call me Nonni Kiki.

2.  A piece of red velvet cake, a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a slice of blueberry pie? I'm going to go with red velvet cake though I'm not a fan of using red food dye, so I'd go with a natural red coloring. You can only have one...which will you choose? If you could pick any red, white, or blue dessert other than those listed here, what would you choose? I do love desserts. Strawberry shortcake would be a hit. This fruit pizza is also really good and can be adapted to a red, white and blue theme. 

3.  What's a job you'd like to try for just one day? Oh man! For just one day...I think for one day I'd like to see what it would be like to own a bookstore and coffee shop. I've always thought it would be something neat to own, and since I love books and coffee, it would be fitting.

4. Any patriotic decor in your home currently or coming up this summer? No, not really. I do have some patriotic shirts I enjoy wearing. One time I did put up a patriotic bunting in the house. Maybe I'll do that again. 

5. It's the end of May, so let's exercise our brains. Sum up your month with an acrostic using the word MAY. We can do it!!  

M ostly good. The best part was our family's Sunriver vacation.

A lmost summer. May is so wishy washy....weeks of sun, then rain, repeat!

Y oung animals arriving and yearning (I stole the word from Joyce) for summer to arrive.

6. Insert your own random thought here. I'm trying to hustle to get this post finished because they're going to be doing work on our internet (Comcast will be up here working in our area) so we'll have an outage today...good day to clean windows, go get my teeth cleaned and make some bread...all which are what I have planned. 

I love mysteries, especially cozy type mysteries. I have been loving a couple of movie series...Ainsley McGregor (which sadly I watched one, and the others are on another paid channel...so bummed), Auroa Teagarden Mysteries and Garage Sale Mysteries. They've been fun to watch. I've also been enjoying the show Hope Valley 1874. It's a spin off of When Calls the Heart which I love as well. 

If you haven't watched Remarkably Bright Creatures on Netflix, you should. I enjoyed it so much. Sally Fields is such a great actress. I read the book and I think it's been long enough that I didn't feel a need to compare since I couldn't remember everything I read, but the movie did bring it back to mind. 

With Joy Unquenchable,

Kirstin