By Lily
Everyone’s busy with the season. Running around to get things done, and when we’re at rest, thinking about the things that need to be done. With as many holiday seasons as I’ve survived, I think they should be easier by now. Ann’s article on her effort to simplify Christmas is just what I’m talking about. So, let’s take some time to take a break and get to know a few interesting tidbits about each other. Below are five fun questions. I’m wondering how many of us will have the same holiday pet peeve.
- What is one item that you really should throw away, but probably never will?
- You’ve been given access to a time machine. When and where would you travel to?
- What is one food you never want to taste again?
- If you had to give up a favorite food, which would be the most difficult to give up?
- What is your biggest pet peeve about the holiday season?
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18 Responses to Five Fun Questions
1. Jar candles. I have a phobia of keeping them no matter how low they are.
2. I would travel back in time to when my Dad was alive and ask him so many unanswered questions regarding his family’s ancestry. Same for my maternal grandparents.
3. Anise cookies. Uccckkk.
4. Pizza.
5. Commercialism of Christmas.
1. I have hundreds of CD’s that I am keeping and I really have no reason to. All my music is stored on the computer or on my i-phone now. I think I would feel bad about just throwing them in the garbage, and I don’t know anyone who really wants to take them off my hands…so they sit.
2. Any point in time to see my mom one more time. It would be especially interesting to meet her as a young woman.
3. Tuna
4. Kind of embarrassing that so many come to mind – I’ll go with pasta.
5. Everything is so crunched together. Also, this time of year happens to coincide with a period of time that is really busy for me at work, so I can’t really take as much time as I’d like to enjoy the season.
1. Some pieces of fabric that I am going to do something creative with(not).
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2. I would love to travel with Lewis and Clark, but I’m probably romanticizing what was a very rough trip
3. Coffee ice cream.
4. Chocolate(most any way, shape, or form).
5. Rush, rush, rush….then it is over…maybe next year.
I’m stuck on the first one, “what should you throw away”. I like my stuff.
I”m thinking.
HaHa…me too, Lily. I read this in the morning, and I’m still thinking. I shall return.
Okay, I thought of stuff I should and will get rid of. A couple of cpus and sev keyboards “just in case”. The computers were orig saved “because they have a real good hard drive”, but they are now passe’.
Time Machine – I would want to go to and see the time of Henry VII and Lady Jane Grey. I know parts of it would be horrid and primitive, but I would want to see the people, the castles, the clothes and everything else. Then I want to come back all comfy.
Food never taste again – Raw Oysters. BMBMGoBlue, I think Anise is nasty too.
Food never give up – Chocolate. NEVER! I eat it daily.
Holiday pet peeve – Gift wrap lines. It’s never my idea to wait in one of those. What a waste of my time.
1. Hmmm…I usually hold onto things for as long as I feel attached to them or feel I’ll need them, and then I get rid of them. So there’s nothing that I currently think I SHOULD get rid of but can’t – if I still have it, I still need it.
2. I would go back and visit my mom and aunt as children and meet my grandmother. It would be bittersweet to see them, knowing my grandmother would die when they were 10 and their lives would never be the same. I would want to help them somehow.
3. I would say vegemite, but it actually holds a strange fascination for me and I probably would try it again to see if it was as disgusting as I remembered it being. So maybe fish – any kind. It’s all gross.
4. Cheese. I have lots of favorite foods but the idea of never getting to eat cheese again makes me very very sad.
5. The pressure and the crowds. I hate shopping in crowds.
Aw, Pam and I are soul sisters when it comes to fish.
Anise is nasty too – Lily
Agreed!
Time Machine – I would want to go to and see the time of Henry VII and Lady Jane Grey. I know parts of it would be horrid and primitive, but I would want to see the people, the castles, the clothes and everything else. – Lily
Just so you know, you have to take my aunt with you.
She has READ every single Alison Weir and Phillipa Greogory book and is obsessed with all things Tudor!
1. I can’t throw out the plastic flower pots that the perennials I bought were in. I hate to just toss or recycle them. I never remember to take them with me to the garden center to re-use, and now there are stacks out in the garage.
2. I’m heading back to the first Christmas, and I’m staying for 33 years (and taking toilet paper, hot showers, and electric lighting with me.) I want to see the miracles of Jesus, especially the cures.
3. I’ll trade you my plate of liver for your anise cookies.
4. Don’t touch my coffee.
5. I’ll agree with Anya. There is too much to do right before Christmas. It’s not really the Christmas stuff that annoys, though. Why do I have to think about open enrollment for the benefits office now? Is it really necessary that the retirement people get answers to their questions in December? Can I please get my license renewed and car inspected in another month?
1. Too many choices for this one, but I decided on my bread machine from the 90′s. Every time I look at it taking up a sizable portion of a kitchen cabinet, and get close to taking it to Goodwill, I think of the fresh Sally Lunn bread that used to come out of it, and close the cabinet.
2. After much consideration, I decided going back to the late 20′s, early 30′s in the U.S., which was such a difficult time, and also the time I could see my parents as children, experiencing that time in the same city but in very different ways.
3. Kimchi – at least the variety my sister urged me to try when she returned from Korea.
4. Ice cream…must have. (I can get my chocolate fix there, too.)
5. The feeling that money gifts are now expected by a few family members…it really takes the fun away.
1) pre-pregnancy clothes……….
2) Our daughter’s baby days to hold her as an infant one more time
3) Mayo!
4) Soda – so bad.
5) Holiday travel!
Mary,
I asked for a bread making machine for Christmas. LOL
That gave me a good chuckle, Pam. Just like computers have gotten smaller over the years, I bet new bread machines take up half the space of my 90′s clunker. Hopefully your family’s willpower is greater than mine, because we’ve been known to consume a loaf within an hour of it coming out of the machine.
Mary, I don’t know how much smaller the new ones are. It’s the one appliance that I always make room for even though they’re so big. I had one of the old ones forever and was given a newer last Christmas. It took me awhile to open it up and get it out (it’s Emeril’s). It’s still huge but it does make more bread that look like loaves and has some cool other features too. Fresh bread goes fast in our house too. Love throwing stuff in there and then it magically turns into bread w/no work from me. Pam, I bet you love yours.
Can I please get my license renewed and car inspected in another month?
Ann, that sucks..so sorry, what a yucky time to go to the BMV.
What is one item that you really should throw away, but probably never will? Old roldexes and files of contact numbers. I keep thinking I might need those numbers one day. I know I won’t, but just in case.
You’ve been given access to a time machine. When and where would you travel to? I would travel back about 35 years. I loved my childhood.
What is one food you never want to taste again? Yogurt.
If you had to give up a favorite food, which would be the most difficult to give up? Ice cream. Mary, I am so with you on the chocolate. My favorite flavor is Turkey Hill Rocky Road. Yum Yum. Also, Chocolate Caramel International dairy creamer. I can’t drink the coffee at work without it.
What is your biggest pet peeve about the holiday season? The rude people zipping around the mall parking lots. It amazes me how people think it’s safe to drive fast in a parking lot.