Hello, Hodgepodge!

It's another Hodgepodge Day, which means it's another day where my computer does not like the Hodgepodge picture and link. In spite of that, you can still click here and go see Joyce, who is the originator of the Hodgepodge. Read through and comment on her answers, and then you can click through everyone else's links to see what they had to say.

Don't forget to read mine first, though. After all, I could use a comment or ten.

1. It's that most wonderful time of the year...tax season! Do you complete your own returns or farm that job out to the professionals? 

It is not tax season yet because it's not April. And when that season rolls around, we don't do our own returns, but neither do we look to professional farmers for help. Wait, that wasn't the question, was it?

2. This next question comes from Kansas Bob...he posed it in his response to something I asked in an earlier Wednesday post and I asked him if I could add it to the Hodgepodge some day. Today's the day....

Which do you think has changed you more-love or pain?
I'd say it's fifty-fifty because sometimes love is a pain and sometimes it's a pain to love.

3. Tangerine Tango has been named color of the year for 2012. Your thoughts? Would I find this color anywhere in your house? How about in your closet? If not, will you be adding this color to your life in some way in 2012? If you're not sure what tangerine tango looks like click here.
I am not in favor of fruit colors, either in my house or on my body. Who picks the color of the year anyway? And can they be replaced?

4. Are you a collector? What do you collect and does it get admired, used, and/or dusted regularly?

I collect children. (I've had six of them.) Sometimes they're admired and sometimes their useful, but I never dust them. (They don't dust either, which is why they're only useful sometimes.)

5. February is National Heart Month...besides a green salad what is one tasty heart healthy dish you like to prepare?

There are so many foreign phrases in this question! Phrases like heart healthy and like to prepare. I'm not a fan of either of those expressions. Let's just say I'll start ordering the vegetable skewer instead of the baked potato when we eat out and leave it at that.

6. When was the last time you had car trouble?

The most car trouble I've had lately is finding a vehicle to use that someone else isn't already using.

7. Have you been more demanding on yourself lately or less? Is that a good trend?
I make a lot of demands on myself, but I never meet those demands so I also annoy myself.

8. Insert your own random thought here.
Tomorrow is Groundhog's Day and we'll find out if we get six more weeks of winter. I'm not sure if I can handle six more weeks of this weather. Yesterday the temperature only got up to 73 degrees, and I froze all day.

Don't hate me for that. Just smile and think of how miserable I'm going to be next July.