December 2023 Prompts - Part 2
I am slowly working my way through getting back to normal life, but it’s a slow process. So, here, have the last set of answers to blog prompts from 2023.
1. What was the last thing you put off doing? I need to finish putting away laundry.
2. Do you eat your dinner at a dining table, coffee table or off your lap? At the dining room table.
3. Do you prefer holidays where you relax or actually do things? Do you mean holidays in the American sense or in the British sense, i.e. vacations? For a single day when things are closed, relaxing is good. For vacations, I like to do things.
4. Have you ever attended a black tie formal event? I love getting dressed up and I’ve gone to several black tie events. The most notorious is Black Tie Miniature Golf. It’s very amusing.
5. Can you snap your fingers? I can snap my fingers on my left hand but not on my right hand.
6. Have you ever broken a window? I don’t think so.
7. Have you ever finished reading an entire book in a day? Many times, though not as much in recent years as I used to.
8. Do you know how to play pool? I used to play pool fairly often when I was a teenager, as one of my friends had a pool table in her basement. I haven’t played in years, however.
9. If you had to be trapped in a TV show what would it be? I suspect that, given my age, it would have to be The Golden Girls.
10. Do you dream often? Yes, but I often forget my dreams soon after waking up unless I write them down.
11. Furthest away from home you have ever been? The antipodal point to where I live would be somewhere in the ocean, south of India and west of Australia. So the furthest from home I’ve been is somewhere between Madagascar (or, perhaps, Mauritius) and Perth, Australia.
12. Do you wear jewelry? I used to always wear a couple of rings, but I stopped when I was traveling a lot to places where I worried about being robbed. I do wear some jewelry when I get dressed up, particularly long, dangly earrings.
13. What is your favorite flavor for a smoothie? Something with berries.
14. Is there anyone you wish you never met? There are people I’d have been happier never knowing, but I’ve pretty much moved on.
15. Has the electricity ever gone out when you were at school or work? I know we lost power at work at least a couple of times. I don’t remember the power ever going out at school, but that could be an outage of my memory.
16. What’s the latest you have ever stayed out? I’ve stayed out all night, but not in many years.
17. Do you put ketchup on top of your french fries or on the side? I don’t generally use ketchup. I prefer putting spicy things, like sriracha mayonnaise, on french fries and I put those on the side for dipping.
18. What is the first song that comes to mind right now? “What About Love?” as sung by Heart around 1985
19. Would you rather live without music or without the TV? I could live without television, but not without music.
20. Do you like orange juice? It's okay, but I prefer other types of juice, e.g. cranberry.
21. What are your plans tomorrow? I have a meeting of the Litvak genealogy group I’m a mentor for.
22. How long are your showers typically? They could be anywhere from 5 minutes to 45 minutes. I suppose about 15 minutes is typical.
23. Last strong smell you can remember smelling? Something in my guest bathroom smells marvelous and I have no idea what it is. Possibly some sort of shower gel spilled.
24. What was the last thing you had to eat? A bowl of cereal.
25. What is one thing you'd change about yourself? I’d be stronger and more nimble. I suppose that is actually two things, but they are linked.
26. Do you know any sign language? Not really.
27. For listening to music, do you like to turn up the volume or keep it calm? It depends on what I’m listening to. I like to turn up the volume on certain types of dance music, e.g. Cajun music. Though I still try to keep things low enough not to annoy my neighbors.
28. Have you ever been fired? I got fired from a job at a summer camp in 1977.
29. What people have made a difference in your life this year? There’s always the gentleman with whom I’m conducting the world’s longest running brief meaningless fling. Aside from him, there are several friends I do a lot of things with, notably the Loser crowd.
30. What have you achieved this year? I’ll cover that in my year in review, which I’ll write real soon now.
31. What are you looking forward to in the upcoming year? The usual things - travel, theatre, achieving total world domination.
1. What was the last thing you put off doing? I need to finish putting away laundry.
2. Do you eat your dinner at a dining table, coffee table or off your lap? At the dining room table.
3. Do you prefer holidays where you relax or actually do things? Do you mean holidays in the American sense or in the British sense, i.e. vacations? For a single day when things are closed, relaxing is good. For vacations, I like to do things.
4. Have you ever attended a black tie formal event? I love getting dressed up and I’ve gone to several black tie events. The most notorious is Black Tie Miniature Golf. It’s very amusing.
5. Can you snap your fingers? I can snap my fingers on my left hand but not on my right hand.
6. Have you ever broken a window? I don’t think so.
7. Have you ever finished reading an entire book in a day? Many times, though not as much in recent years as I used to.
8. Do you know how to play pool? I used to play pool fairly often when I was a teenager, as one of my friends had a pool table in her basement. I haven’t played in years, however.
9. If you had to be trapped in a TV show what would it be? I suspect that, given my age, it would have to be The Golden Girls.
10. Do you dream often? Yes, but I often forget my dreams soon after waking up unless I write them down.
11. Furthest away from home you have ever been? The antipodal point to where I live would be somewhere in the ocean, south of India and west of Australia. So the furthest from home I’ve been is somewhere between Madagascar (or, perhaps, Mauritius) and Perth, Australia.
12. Do you wear jewelry? I used to always wear a couple of rings, but I stopped when I was traveling a lot to places where I worried about being robbed. I do wear some jewelry when I get dressed up, particularly long, dangly earrings.
13. What is your favorite flavor for a smoothie? Something with berries.
14. Is there anyone you wish you never met? There are people I’d have been happier never knowing, but I’ve pretty much moved on.
15. Has the electricity ever gone out when you were at school or work? I know we lost power at work at least a couple of times. I don’t remember the power ever going out at school, but that could be an outage of my memory.
16. What’s the latest you have ever stayed out? I’ve stayed out all night, but not in many years.
17. Do you put ketchup on top of your french fries or on the side? I don’t generally use ketchup. I prefer putting spicy things, like sriracha mayonnaise, on french fries and I put those on the side for dipping.
18. What is the first song that comes to mind right now? “What About Love?” as sung by Heart around 1985
19. Would you rather live without music or without the TV? I could live without television, but not without music.
20. Do you like orange juice? It's okay, but I prefer other types of juice, e.g. cranberry.
21. What are your plans tomorrow? I have a meeting of the Litvak genealogy group I’m a mentor for.
22. How long are your showers typically? They could be anywhere from 5 minutes to 45 minutes. I suppose about 15 minutes is typical.
23. Last strong smell you can remember smelling? Something in my guest bathroom smells marvelous and I have no idea what it is. Possibly some sort of shower gel spilled.
24. What was the last thing you had to eat? A bowl of cereal.
25. What is one thing you'd change about yourself? I’d be stronger and more nimble. I suppose that is actually two things, but they are linked.
26. Do you know any sign language? Not really.
27. For listening to music, do you like to turn up the volume or keep it calm? It depends on what I’m listening to. I like to turn up the volume on certain types of dance music, e.g. Cajun music. Though I still try to keep things low enough not to annoy my neighbors.
28. Have you ever been fired? I got fired from a job at a summer camp in 1977.
29. What people have made a difference in your life this year? There’s always the gentleman with whom I’m conducting the world’s longest running brief meaningless fling. Aside from him, there are several friends I do a lot of things with, notably the Loser crowd.
30. What have you achieved this year? I’ll cover that in my year in review, which I’ll write real soon now.
31. What are you looking forward to in the upcoming year? The usual things - travel, theatre, achieving total world domination.