Hodge Podge: What is adventure?

/ Lisa R. Howeler

Hodgepodge is hosted by From This Side of the Pond.

1. What does adventure mean to you? 

To me adventure means experiencing something different from the normal everyday. It’s something unique that captures my attention and makes me excited to see what is coming next.

2. What are your thoughts on tipping? What businesses or service providers do you regularly tip? Do you resent being asked if you’d like to add a tip? What about when a suggested amount is presented? 

I support tipping because many waiters and waitresses do not get paid a ton an rely on tips. Our family tips most frequently at restaurants. We don’t get food deliveries where we live now but we used to give a small tip to the pizza delivery man if we had the cash on us. I don’t really like when a suggested amount is presented because then I feel like I absolutely have to give that amount but I can understand why they might offer a suggested amount.

3. I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream…do we? Is ice cream a favorite treat at your house? What’s your favorite flavor? Regular, soft serve, gelato, sherbet, or some sort of non-dairy version of ice cream…what’s your pleasure? 

I am lactose intolerant but still love dairy ice cream. I can take a medicine like Lactaid before I eat dairy, but sometimes don’t do it like I should. Why? I have no idea. I guess I am a rebel! A rebel who suffers later!

Because I have a corn allergy, I can’t eat ice cream out that much since I don’t know what is in it. What I love is chocolate Haagen Dazs ice cream. It doesn’t have anything in it that I can’t have. Sadly, there are not a lot of places near me that carry Haagen Dazs. Yes, I do live in a type of hell in some ways.

If we drive 45-minutes away from our house in either direction we can  usually find a store that has it. Sometimes one 20-minutes away. I only have it a couple times a year at this point. Writing that out really makes me sad because that means I only have ice cream once or twice a year. I really need to look harder for ice cream I can eat.

4. What’s your ‘back in my day, we____________________ ‘ story or saying? 

Back in the day, we used to ride our scooters down the street in my friend’s small town and when we got too hot, we ran down to the creek behind her house and took a swim and rode the rapids on inflatable inner tubes.

 

5. Somehow this is our last Hodgepodge in the month of June. Next week’s Hodgepodge lands in July. Wow. Sum up your June using three adjectives. 

Relaxing.  Overwhelming. Exhausting.

Yes. It was a “hodgepodge” of adjectives. Ha!

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

We’ve had horribly hot temps where I live so I haven’t left my house in four days. Extreme heat makes me very sick. Today the temps are supposed to go down so I can leave the house. But I don’t have a car because a tire went flat and we have to replace it. Ah life – full of irony, isn’t it?

  

Lisa R. Howeler is a blogger, homeschool mom, and writes cozy mysteries.

You can find her Gladwynn Grant Mystery series HERE.

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11 thoughts on “Hodge Podge: What is adventure?”

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    • We do sometimes but sometimes it has corn syrup and with my weird corn allergy I have to be careful there too. It’s always a catch 22 in my world. I do have medicine I can take before eating dairy so that helps a ton.

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  3. It is such a hot, humid summer again. I don’t know why I’m always surprised about that. That’s why I just can’t love summer like some people do.

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  5. I have always been a good tipper, but our “rules” are different from yours because waiting staff doesn’t rely on tips that heavily to get by.
    I haven’t been eating out for years, though, so I usually just tip delivery people here now or outstanding tradespeople.

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  7. I think it’s so sad that waiters and waitresses have to rely on tips to gety by. They are the people who usually work the hardest.
    That is good you can still eat ice cream. It made me chuckle that you are a rebel.
    It was hot here too last week, probably nothing compared to your temps but hot for us here in the UK. It has cooled down now and I am so happy.

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  8. We have a friend with a severe corn allergy and she can’t even eat/drink anything from animals that have been fed corn; is yours like that or do you just have to watch out for the corn syrup? I definitely think I have some sort of dairy allergy but I just can’t seem to give up my ice cream.. and my plain yogurt. I try but I just love them both so much… especially in summer. You’ve got to bring a cooler and some ice and stock up on ice cream when you find it so you can enjoy it more often! LOL

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  9. I am a big tipper. I figure, even if the service is lousy, I can be the better person. I also make up a backstory for why that person is delivering such lousy service and hope the tip makes their day better. I love ice cream, and it shows! I don’t know if I’ve ever even had Haagen Dazs ice cream. I’m just going to use your last two adjectives…exhausted and overwhelming…sums it up perfectly. We are still in for several more days of the 90s. Thank goodness for air conditioning though we have it turned down (or really up).

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  10. Car issues stress me out like few things can. The day before we were leaving on a road trip last week hubs went out to start his car and the battery was dead. At least we were hoping it was just the battery (it was). A hassle but fixable so not the worst. I hope you get some ice cream this summer!

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