WEDNESDAY HODGEPODGE #445

Thank you Joyce.

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1. How young is young? In the past, according to various organizations who decide these things, age 60 was the 'border age' to old. The World Health Organization has done new research recently and divided up the categories as-0-17 (underage), 18-65 (youth or young people), 66-79 (middle-aged), 80-99 (elderly senior), 100+ (long-lived elderly). Your thoughts on this particular breakdown, and also your thoughts as to where you land?

Obviously I would love to live to be an elderly senior but I am sure that I won't because of my COPD, but I'm certainly going to try!!  My family history has had several members living in the elderly senior bracket. 

My dad was a month short of 97, his sister was 90, her husband was 89, Marks grandmother was 99 and his mother is turning 94 in January. I did lose my mother at 56 but she had a lot of medical issues. I think the breakdown sound okay with me. 

2. TIME magazine has declared Elon Musk person of the year in 2021. What say you? If you want to know more about how they choose you'll find that info in the link here. If you were choosing, who would be your person of the year? 

I don't follow the news much in any way shape or form. So I asked Mark about him and he felt that him being the person of the year is an okay choice. I can't wait to hear what everyone's thoughts are on someone else getting that honor. 

3. I read here ten habits of extremely likable people which include-they greet the world with a smile on their face, they ask questions, they're consistent, they put the phone away, they remember names and use them, they keep an open mind and don't pass judgement, they're authentic, they're kind and generous, accountable for their mistakes, and they send thank you notes.  

So, are you likable-lol? Which one of these habits could use some further developing in your own life? What is one habit/quality you'd add to the list? 

I know I have bad days and I've shared things here when I have been down but when I am out and around people I believe I am a likable person. 

I love to great people with a smile, I love to ask questions and I do put my phone away. I do have a problem with names. This is not because of my age, it's just an issue I have lived with since as far back as High School. It can be embarrassing. 

I try not to pass judgement because we have have a history, I am accountable for my mistakes and yes I send thank you notes. However you don't see that happen too often from me because I don't have the addresses of people that I blog with because I don't feel comfortable asking your addresses. 

4. One non-holiday related task/job/goal/dream on your to-do list that you hope/plan to make happen before the new year rolls in? 

That's a great question. Since I am pretty well caught up with everything for Christmas except for wrapping the gifts for Christmas day and wanting to do some baking, I need to clean out my bathroom cabinet. We each have big cabinets and I have a ton of things that just need to be tossed so all the new beauty products I keep buying can fit into the cabinets. (LOL)

5. Share with us some of your holiday plans. 

We had Adam, Gabby and James over on Saturday and it was a wonderful day. We made a nice filet mignon dinner. James enjoyed all of our decorations along with my 17 Hallmark singing snowmen. They may try to come over one more time before Christmas. 

We set up a Christmas train on our dining rooms table. We have had it forever. It worked okay but not necessarily geared for James' age. So we are donating it to charity and we had a new train delivered today. Can't wait for him to play with it the next time he comes over. He is so into trains now. 

On Christmas day we will be going to their house after James gets up from his nap. I can't wait for him to see the gifts we have for him. It should be a glorious day with the 5 of us although it would be awesome to have Amber and Dylan here too. 

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

I will definitely get a Christmas post with photos out written before Christmas. Adam and Gabby did bring the dogs so we had to put up gates and I had to move a lot of things but it turned out okay. Their puppy Gracie is still pretty active. She has taken their tree down twice and of course they have nothing on the tree now. 

They went to see Santa....

So we were all set to make lunch yesterday and since it was pouring rain all day, which we needed, we decided to watch a movie. Well before we even started our lunch the power went out. Then it came back on and went back out again. It was out for over 3 hours. Then it came back on and a few hours later it went out again, however it did turn on again in a few minutes. Praying that it will stay on until the morning since Wednesday is my bowling day and it's our Christmas potluck. 

This will be the last Wednesday Hodgepodge of the year. We'll be back on track Wednesday January 5th, so plan to ring in Hodgepodge 2022 with us then.