Share Your World – April 24, 2023

Posted on by rogershipp

Share Your World – April 24, 2023

Hosted by pensitivity101.

Each week Share Your World offers its followers FOUR intriguing questions for insightful responses.

It’s a great way to get to know other bloggers! You could give them a try!

THE FOUR INTRIGUING QUESTIONS

What was the most memorable gift you gave someone?

What was the most memorable gift you received?

For the girls: Would you be suspicious if your partner gave you flowers or chocolates for no reason?

For the guys: Do you surprise your partner with something for no reason at all?

Have you accepted a gift with pleasure, even if you hated it?

MY BRILLIANT ANSWERS

What was the most memorable gift you gave someone?

For it to be memorable for the other person…? I’d have to ask them???  

What was the most memorable gift you received?

My sister gave me a 12-string guitar for my college graduation.

For the girls: Would you be suspicious if your partner gave you flowers or chocolates for no reason? For the guys: Do you surprise your partner with something for no reason at all?

I don’t do Christmas gifts or birthday gifts very much anymore. All my gifts are the ‘for no reason’ gifts. Does this mean there is a cloud of suspiciousness surrounding all my gifting?

Have you accepted a gift with pleasure, even if you hated it?

I have never received a gift I hated.

Written for Share Your World – April 24, 2023.

Share Your World – April 17, 2023

Posted on by rogershipp

Share Your World – April 17, 2023

Hosted by pensitivity101.

Each week Share Your World offers its followers FOUR intriguing questions for insightful responses.

It’s a great way to get to know other bloggers! You could give them a try!

THE FOUR INTRIGUING QUESTIONS

Do you have a special talent (i.e. music, art, singing, dress making, pottery etc.).

What was your best subject at school and was it your favorite?

Do you like to cook?

Do you get riled easily?

MY BRILLIANT ANSWERS

Do you have a special talent (i.e. music, art, singing, dress making, pottery etc.).

What was your best subject at school and was it your favorite?

I loved music classes!

Do you like to cook?

I am learning to like cooking. I have gotten to like dump meals that you can make in crock pots. They also have dump meals for sheet pans. And I have even tried a dump cake. (I bet you see a pattern here?)

Do you get riled easily?

Who said that about me? Me, getting riled up? NEVER! I can’t believe people talk behind other people’s backs and make this dumb stuff up.

Written for Share Your World – April 17, 2023.

Share Your World – April 10, 2023

Posted on by rogershipp

Share Your World – April 10, 2023

Hosted by pensitivity101.

Each week Share Your World offers its followers FOUR intriguing questions for insightful responses.

It’s a great way to get to know other bloggers! You could give them a try!

THE FOUR INTRIGUING QUESTIONS

Do you celebrate the Easter holiday and if not, do you have an alternative?

Do you exchange gifts or have a traditional meal?

How many Easter Eggs (or alternative) did your receive/give?

Was Easter a Bank Holiday in your country or did you have to work this weekend?

MY BRILLIANT ANSWERS

Do you celebrate the Easter holiday and if not, do you have an alternative?

Yes. Christmas. Easter. Passover. Hanukah, Rosh Hashanah, New Year’s Eve, Yom Kippur, Purim, July 4th. Veteran’s Day. April Fool’s Day. Some of my favorite holidays. 

Plus… a birthday EVERY month!

Do you exchange gifts or have a traditional meal?

I celebrate each month with a friend or two and a special meal.

How many Easter Eggs (or alternative) did your receive/give?

I didn’t do Easter eggs this year. Bummer!

Was Easter a Bank Holiday in your country or did you have to work this weekend?

Being retired, I have EVERY HOLIDAY off!

Written for Share Your World – April 10, 2023.

Sunday Poser #129

Posted on by rogershipp

Sunday Poser #129

Sunday Poser hosted by Sadie @ Keep It Alive.  Sadie offers a thought of the week to start you writing juiced flowing on an early weekend morning. If you enjoy wise sayings from others, check out what she’s doing. 

This week’s question is…

Do you like to relax at home on the weekends or go out?

My brilliant answer …

“Yes” and “Yes.”

Now that I am retired, every day can be a weekend!

I usually try to have one outing over the usual week and one outing over the weekend. They are not often (almost never) big outings. Just a purposeful trip (often to take pictures) away from the home place.

Written for Sunday Poser #129.

Sunday Poser #128

Posted on by rogershipp

Sunday Poser #128

Sunday Poser hosted by Sadie @ Keep It Alive.  Sadie offers a thought of the week to start you writing juiced flowing on an early weekend morning. If you enjoy wise sayings from others, check out what she’s doing. 

This week’s question is…

Do you like to win arguments or do you concede a point to keep peace?

My brilliant answer …

Wow! Am I glad that the question was not “Do you like to win?”

I am presently playing Fantasy Baseball with a friend and I am losing. We have four teams in our league and I am constantly in third and fourth place. I HATE LOSING!

We are celebrating the victorious team which won first place in Fantasy Basketball tonight. We don’t bet money… we just bet pizza. It’s just a fun meal together. I am really looking forward to tonight’s meal. PIZZA and a small trophy. And the honored guest is ME!

FIRST PLACE is a great deal more fun that last place!

As far as arguments… I really don’t care who wins them. I disagree until I’m tired of disagreeing and then throw in the towel. Doesn’t mean I’ve changed my mind… I’ve just released my adversary to remain woefully wrong.

FYI: Even though I hate losing… I don’t think I am an arrogant poor sport. (But maybe that’s what arrogant poor sports think?) Once a game is over… it’s over. Time for a new game.

Written for Sunday Poser #128.

Sunday Poser #127

Posted on by rogershipp

Sunday Poser #127

Sunday Poser hosted by Sadie @ Keep It Alive.  Sadie offers a thought of the week to start you writing juiced flowing on an early weekend morning. If you enjoy wise sayings from others, check out what she’s doing. 

This week’s question is…

What is one rule you’ll never break?

My brilliant answer …

I have to decide what the definition of RULE will be before I can answer this question.

Is a RULE a LAW? Is the RULE a REQUIREMENT from work or society? Is a RULE a new computer PROCESS that I am trying to master? Is a RULE a new GOAL I am trying to implement in my life?

LAWS … I try to follow all of these. Even the ones that I think are rather silly.

REQUIREMENTS from work or society… For me requirements from work are usually things I try to be in compliance in completely. Sometimes I am not as timely with compliance as everyone wishes…

Requirements from society… I see these as more like a REQUEST. The requirements from society that hinge on politeness I am usually very affable towards. The requirements that just are more sporadic to what is the current in-vogue thing to do… I mostly ignore those.

Computer process rules… I usually have problems obeying these… I just don’t catch on to them very fast. But, the computer program usually wins and forces me to comply if I want to complete that given task.

In retirement, the RULES I am most in contact with are me new GOALS in life. I say that I want to obey these new processes… but sometimes I am very stubborn and it takes weeks to start even casual compliance.

FYI: Just so you now … After rereading my answer… I don’t think I answered the question. That seems to happen a lot?

Written for Sunday Poser #127.

Food For Thought: April 23, 2023

Posted on by rogershipp

Pricture by https://coolbeans4.wordpress.com/2021/01/27/keeping-your-brain-active/

FOOD FOR THOUGHT, APRIL 23, 2023

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

–Joseph Addison

Written for FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Food For Thought: April 16, 2023

Posted on by rogershipp

Picture from https://insider.si.edu/2010/10/newly-named-spider-from-madagascar-spins-some-of-the-largest-webs-on-record/

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: APRIL 16, 2023

“When spiderwebs unit, they can tie up a lion.”

–Ehiopian Proverb

Written for FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Fandango’s Provocative Question #208

Posted on by rogershipp

Fandango’s Provocative Question #208

Fandango’s Provocative Question is a weekly writing opportunity to allow your mind to travel to unexplored area on argumentative intrigue and oppositional engagement.

This week’s PROVOCATIVE QUESTION …

How are you doing?

MY BRILLIANT ANSWER …

Thanks to the reminder from FANDANGO, I am happily participating in the 2023 A-Z Challenge this year. THANKS!!!

Written for Provocative Questions #208.