1. What’s a lesson you’ve learned from a mistake? 

I won’t be specific since the one I am thinking of is from high school but let’s just say I learned to always be honest because one lie might lead to another and then you have to remember the lie you told and it gets really messy.

2. Do you salt food while you’re cooking or let diners add their own?  What’s a food you think must be salted? Do you like pepper? 

That really depends on the meal. For things like green beans or mashed potatoes, no. For the chicken I pan sear, yes. I put salt, pepper, onion and garlic powder. For me, scrambled eggs must be salted. Everything else I wait and see but I generally do not rush to over-season. I like pepper ok; I always think of how my mom puts it on her cole slaw, no matter where we are, without tasting it first and I think that’s not right.

3. What was the last gathering you attended and what did you do there? 

Hmm, I guess it was the Hogtown beer festival last weekend. We worked with fellow homebrewers from our club to serve beer to attendees. We also rubbed elbows with other homebrewers and commercial brewers (and friends) we know in Gainesville.

4. Your favorite shade of purple? What’s your favorite purple flower? 

Hmm, I guess a dark purple would be my favorite. A favorite flower would have to be wisteria.

5. Share a favorite spring travel memory. 

It’s lame but I don’t have one. I don’t recall ever going anywhere for Spring Break and then, once I had kids, I always worked.

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Oldest son is sick so I am taking my middle to school in a minute. It’s sort of outside my realm of beliefs; if you can’t get a ride, you take the bus. But this one hasn’t ridden the bus in the morning since he began high school and it definitely comes too early.

I don’t know why I still feel this sort of unsettled feeling. I guess just with the semester winding down, I have this timeline of events I feel must happen: one of my pending online sections must make so I have 2; get full time job so I don’t have to worry about cobbling together online work; then, if I get one of those jobs, I have to deal with the fact that I’ll need to tell them about our 2 big trips we already have on the books. Will they let me take leave I have not yet gained? It’s all such a stressful thing but at the same time, I am well aware that worrying about things that have not happened and may not even happen in that way, is a complete waste of time and just a stressor on my mind and body.

So my focus today is to get my H a to z post done after I take my son to school, get ready for class, teach class (while getting a lot of grading done in between) go to the auto parts store and Publix, and most importantly: slow down my thoughts so I don’t go thinking about things that may or may not happen!