Friday, November 02, 2012

November 2, 2012: Blog Hopping Friday

I know most blog hoppers come to my blog via the hosting blogs which link directly to this post. So, I just wanted to bring it up once again that NaBloPoMo and NaNoWriMo started yesterday and run for the month of November. I'm participating in NaNoWriMo and maybe, possibly NaBloPoMo. If I do, I'll be using the prompts from 30 Days Hath November for most days which is a totally fantastic way of coming up with 30 blog posts for November. I'm also participating in #FMSphotoaday / #novphotoaday on Instagram. I hope that some of you will join in on at least one of these challenges. They're fun and a great way of building an online community. Links to these challenges which will take you to more info can be found on my post from yesterday. If you decide to participate in one or all, leave me a comment somewhere and let me know!!

 Now on to the show.

  1. Something I swore I'd never do, but have ended up doing anyway is buy a Coach purse. I've always said that they were the go to purse for military wives and I would never have one but I like them and now I have three. Well, four. Anyway...
  2. Something I've always wanted to do is write a novel, travel to Europe, get my degree. Blah blah.
  3. Something I have absolutely no desire to do is be on television or radio.
  4. The best thing I've ever done was marry my husband.
  5. When it comes to trying new things I am usually hesitant. I'm a creature of habit and trying new things intimidates me. I really hate that about me.
  6. One thing I've never done is beat other people's kids. No matter how much they've deserved it or how much I've been tempted.
  7. My favorite thing to do is read a book.



  1. What terrifies you the most? My kids or my husband getting sick or hurt.
  2. Favorite fall/winter drink? Hot apple cider. I'm going to try mulled wine this year though. I already have the spices, I just need a bottle of wine.
  3. Do you and your spouse have the same political views? For the most part. I'm a left leaning centrist and he's a right leaning centrist so we do have some difference of opinions occasionally. I support PBS, lol. 
  4. What was the last book you read? Was it any good? Yesterday, I finished reading The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan. It's the first book in the Heroes of Olympus series. I really enjoyed it. I loved the mythology. I only wish it had more character interaction instead of so much internal dialogue. I also wish I had realized that Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series came first and this next series has a lot of the same characters. Instead of reading book two, I am now reading book one of the Olympians series. :D
  5. Do you look forward to the snow each winter? Why or why not? A big gigantic NO! I can't be emphatic enough about how much I hate the snow. I lived in Vermont for 37 months. It snowed for 28 of those months. A lot. The nine months it didn't snow, there was mud everywhere. Unless you've lived in Canada or Alaska or the U.P. of Michigan, or freaking Vermont or someplace similar, you cannot imagine how much snow it snows in Vermont. You just can't.





  1. Growing up in Ohio was boring. Although, we did have Cedar Point, Kings Island, The Columbus Zoo, and Seaworld (which is closed now) so that was good. But other than that, it was boring.
  2. Wouldn't having a housekeeper be wonderful? 
  3. If I hadn't graduated early and moved back to my birth town, then I never would have met and married my husband. If he hadn't been six weeks premature, we also would never have met and gotten married because he would have been a year behind me in high school if he had been born on time. Fate, huh???
  4. When I clean house I like to listen to music.

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  1. I'm Canadian...I can imagine A LOT of snow. Like snow hills and forts still standing in April LOT of snow. LOL
    We actually had some of the wet white stuff fall early this morning, but it changed to rain. But - Any.Day.Now. The kids can't wait. Little do they know they are getting their own shovels for Christmas! ha

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    1. I bet you can imagine lots of snow, lol. And don't even get me started on shoveling!!! My kids were both too small to shovel snow while we lived there and my husband worked 16 and 17 hour days 7 days a week. Guess who got to do 99% of the shoveling!! ;)

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  2. I feel the same way about snow, although I've never lived somewhere where it snowed that much. UGH! No wonder you hated it! Where we live people complain about the heat and rain. Pssh! I always say, "you don't have to shovel heat and rain thankyouverymuch!" =)

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    1. Lol. Too true. I'll take heat and humidity over snow any day.

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  3. I'm so happy my parents decided to transplant us to Florida and I don't have to deal with snow anymore! I also like to listen to music when I clean... it makes the work go by a lot faster.

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    1. Music and cleaning go hand in hand.

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  4. Hot apple cider! YUMMMM. wow yes fate for you and your husband!!

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    1. I haven't had any yet this year. That's something I need to remedy.

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  5. But fall in Vermont?! Didn't that make it worth it? Or not?
    When I picture Vermont I picture forest lined highways bursting with fall colors. Oh, and my uncle Louie, too. :)

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    1. Fall in Vermont was nice. It was scenic and it smelled good. The couple months of leaves (and that's only if we didn't get an early snow which knocks the leaves off the trees and costs the state millions in lost tourism) were a nice calm before the storm. :)

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