Joyce From This Side of the Pond hosts a weekly Wednesday Hodgepodge of questions for fun and for getting to know each other.

1. What is more important-doing what you love or loving what you do?

Well, we don’t always get to do what we love, though it’s nice if we enjoy our main job. But even if we do, there will be times we don’t enjoy it as much. And you can do what you have to do without actually loving it. So I am not sure how to answer this. My preference would be to love what I do, but as far as which is more important…I guess learning to love what you do because you have to go against natural inclinations to do it.

2. Do you like bleu cheese?

I’ve never actually tried it, but I don’t want to. It grosses me out.

3. What is the most difficult emotion for you to handle?

Handle as in control or just as in having it or in others? I guess either way the answer would be anger because of the harm it can do to others and even to one’s own body. But self-pity is pretty hard to deal with, too.

4. Fresh flowers or a box of chocolate?

Chocolate! Especially these:

5. What’s a song you love that has the word ‘love’ in its title? It doesn’t have to be a ‘love song’.

O Wondrous Love.

6. Are you the person you wanted to be when you grew up?

Um…I think so, more or less, though I still have a long way to go and am less kind and patient than I ought to and want to be.

7. Any special Valentines Day plans?

We usually have a family dinner — sometimes something “valentine-y,” sometimes not — and I make heart-shaped cupcakes and we exchange cards.

8. Insert your own random thought here.

It’s funny how all through the day things come to mind that I think about putting on my blog — until I get here, and my mind goes blank. I keep a pad on my desk to jot down ideas, but it seems a little eccentric to carry one around with me all day.

I have a sick boy at home today — throwing up since 1:30 a.m.. There’s nothing left, but his body keeps trying. Pray for us!