Happy Wednesday, friends! It is the first day of 2025!! A new start, a clean slate! Let’s do this!! It’s time for Joyce‘s Wednesday Hodgepodge linkup! Here are this week’s questions with my answers in italics.
1. At the end of every year (or at least since the mid-1970s) Lake Superior State University posts a list of words they think should be banished from the Queen’s English for misuse, overuse, and/or general uselessness. You can read more about the decision-making process here, but this year’s list includes-
cringe, game changer, era, dropped, IFKYK (If you know you know), sorry not sorry, skibidi, 100%, utilize, and period.
Which of these words/phrases do you use regularly or even just every now and then? How many did you have to look up? Which of these words would you most like to see banished from everyday speech and why? Is there a word/phrase not on the list you’d like to add? If so do share, then tell us why.
I occasionally use “game changer”, “era”, and IYKYK. Sometimes you just need to. I had to look up “skibidi”. Now I see why I don’t use it. It has no definition, according to Google. I wouldn’t mind “skibidi” being banished. It seems like a pointless word. I know there are several words that I honestly hate to hear, but at the moment I am typing this, I can’t think of a single one :/
2. Your favorite soup? Do you make this one yourself or is it from a can?
Taco soup and chili. I like them equally. I make the taco soup and my mom makes the chili (although I have the recipe and could if I needed to).
3. How do you feel about winter? What’s one winter activity you look forward to?
I love winter. Honestly, the only winter “activity” I can do here in the South is running. We don’t get snow, and if we do, it’s not enough for skiing, dogsledding, snowmobiling, snowshoeing, etc. Now, imagine if I lived in a place that got lots of good snow, I’d be looking forward to all of that!
4. The Pantone color of the year for 2025 is mocha mousse (sample pictured here). What say you? The website describes it as ‘a warming, brown hue imbued with richness. It nourishes us with its suggestion of the delectable qualities of chocolate and coffee, answering our desire for comfort’. Is this a color I might find in your home or wardrobe? Is it one you might add in some big or small way in the year ahead?
In a similar, but not really vein…if I were to offer you a choice right now of either a cup of mocha or a cup of mousse which would you say yes to?
I would say yes. I don’t think the actual color name is in my home or wardrobe but a color very similar is in both. However, if I need to add a color somewhere, mocha mousse is a very good one 🙂
5. Which of the following winter-related idioms can best be applied to your life in some way right now? Choose one, then tell us why you chose it.
snowed under, on thin ice, tip of the iceberg, chill out, break the ice, snowball effect, not a snowball’s chance in hell, get cold feet, the cold shoulder
“Tip of the iceberg” applies but in a good way! The expansion of our church sanctuary is so close to being complete and there are so many great and exciting things happening. It’s only the “tip of the iceberg”!
6. Insert your own random thought here.
We had some snow flurries on Monday and now we have snow in the forecast for Friday 🙂 here in the South, it will likely “shut us down”, but I still like some snow!
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I’m in an area where we get very little snow, most years none. It looks like we may have some on Friday though but the weather sometimes acts in unexpected ways right on the lake. We’ll see. I do think it’ pretty and know it won’t last so I wouldn’t mind a little. I felt the same about the words I dislike. I know there are some, but my brain couldn’t come up with even one. Have a nice week!
Gee, I’m feeling a bit left out – no snow or cold temperatures here. I’d love for it to snow here. When it did snow about 5 years ago, it shut down the whole town – it was fun because I didn’t have to get out in it. Heck, I’d be happy with snow flurries!