Weekly Hodgepodge

It's been awhile since I've linked up with Joyce at From This Side Of the Pond for the Weekly Hodgepodge. I thought this would be a good week to do so. You can find Joyce here.

 

1. This week's Hodgepodge lands on 'Back To The Future Day'. October 21, 2015 was the date the movie characters (Marty McFly, Doc, and Jennifer Parker) traveled to in the future in the 1989 film Back To The Future Part 2.

Did you see the movie? Tell us a something about what was happening in your life in the fall of 2015.

I don't know that I ever saw Part 2 but I loved the first movie. Michael J Fox was my teen heart throb and it was a bonus that he was Canadian too! In fall of 2015, Rachel had just started Junior Kindergarten, Sam was starting French Immersion in Grade 1, and I had just started back to work full-time after four years of being a stay at home mom. To remember where I was at, I re-read a few of my Fall 2015 blog posts and Wow! The kids were soooo little!

Also, that June we had just taken the kids to their first Blue Jays game and that year the Jays made the playoffs for the first time since 1993 so it was a very exciting fall!

2. Which -ber month is your favorite? (September, October, November, December). Explain why.

I think October is my favourite. September still feels too much like summer and also, with school starting, there's just too much going on to really enjoy it. November is a little boring in Canada as we have no holidays that month. I've learned to embrace the quietness of November but it's still not my favourite. December is balancing too many things, usually -- Channukah, Christmas, dance performances, work chaos -- just too much going on.

October is perfect -- we celebrate Thanksgiving (in Canada), usually the leaves are changing but it's not too cold. The colours are amazing -- I realized the other day that it's almost like living in a perpetual golden hour -- the light is just incredible all the time.

This is the view from our living room and the view of our front yard. I took both these pictures yesterday. Isn't it just amazing?!?!?! 

3. Red, yellow, orange, bronze...your favorite fall color to wear? To eat? To see in nature?

I love wearing red -- all the other colours look awful on me. This time of year, I love eating orange -- pumpkin cream cheese muffins, butternut squash soup -- it's all so yummy! I love seeing all the colours in nature! See the above pictures.

4. What do you miss most about being 20?

There's not much I miss about being twenty except that I was living in a university residence and I always had friends around. Now between work and kids' activities, I feel like I don't get to hang out with my friends in the same way. I also miss the energy I had when I was 20. It's 7pm and, after i'm done this blog post, I'm going to bed. I'm so tired right now. When I was 20, I would be working on homework, going for a late night pizza run, and then maybe watching a movie before bed.

5. We're roughly three quarters of the way through the year. What's one goal, habit, or mindset you want to purposely carry into the final weeks of the year? Elaborate.

Soak it all in. 2027 is bringing some big changes for our family as Sam graduates Grade 12 so I don't want to rush through all of this. My biggest goal for the last weeks of the year is to finally finish all the post-renovation stuff -- hang pictures, unpack boxes -- I just don't want to think about this stuff anymore!

6. Insert your own random thought here.

 

Technology is not my friend right now. I wanted to post a picture of me and Rachel but my iCloud won't load my pictures. Grrrrrr. Plus, ever since I got back from New York, my phone has been three minutes ahead so all my alarms go off three minutes early. Nothing is horrible but it's just not smooth sailing, technologically, for me these days.

 

So those are my answers to this week's Hodgepodge. Now I'm off to snuggle in bed. The meme below is me and I'm looking forward to being cozy in my bed with my window open. Hahahaha!!! (I guess that's really just another random thought...)

image from here