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Jo’s Daily Questions 2023 – https://jo.dreamwidth.org/2802730.html

1 – Cookie Cutter Day: Do you own any cookie cutters? Any unusual ones? Tell us about them.

I own Christmas ones… Star, moon, heart, man, woman and flower cutters I think. One of each. I haven’t baked Christmas cookies in like 20 years, so it’s been a while since the last time I even looked at them.

2 – Play Basketball Day: Have you ever played basketball?

In school when forced to.

3 – Make a Gift Day: Do make gifts for anybody? How about cards?

Not as an adult. The last couple of years I’ve thought about making birthday and/or Christmas cards with watercolors but haven’t gotten around to it.

4 – Wear Brown Shoes Day: Do you own any brown shoes?

One pair that I never use. All my shoes are black at the moment except for the crocs which are hot pink. Continue reading Jo’s Daily Questions – December 2023

Answers to yesterday’s questions over at thefridayfive@LJ

1. What are you hoping for in 2024?

I’m hoping it won’t be as horrible as I fear it will be, thanks to the far-right government’s cold and inhuman politics.

2. What was your low point of 2023?

My life’s pretty even, and the only thing that stands out for this question for me is the “empty the bowels” procedure I had to do in preparation for colononoscopy in late November.

3. And your high point of 2023?

The times I got to spend time with my Mom. Especially the times I didn’t get a migrane attack after.

4. Do you make New Year’s resolutions or are they just a waste of time?

I don’t think about them at all.

5. Do you have any traditions for celebrating New Year’s Eve?

Not really. I just hunker down and hope I don’t have already have migraine attack when the fireworks start, and that the fireworks won’t trigger one. It’s the noise that can trigger it.

Today’s questions over at f.riday5.com ✨

1. What inconveniences do you experience every single day?

Physical pain and poverty.

2. What do you wish you weren’t so often in close proximity to?

There’s nothing physical that fits this question. More like things that happen but not routinely throughout the entire year. Such as hot weather days/weeks during summer and too-warm indoor temperatures hot weather causes when it goes on for more than a few days in a row.

3. This past week, what would you have appreciated some advance warning about? (alternate question: What were you grateful to receive advance warning about?)

This week has been good! I didn’t get, or need, advance warnings about anything this week. We did plan in advance to meet up on the 25th for Christmas and 28th for my Name Day, but those plans aren’t “warnings” – they’re good things I looked forward to!

4. What caused you to smile happily today?

Having slept on the brand new sleeping pillow I got for my Name Day yesterday! I adore new sleeping pillows so it brought a smile to my face to realize I had slept better than normal last night and I think it’s because of the brand new sleeping pillow!

5. When did you recently give in to a sudden impulse?

I can’t remember… I feel like it was in the last few weeks and involved baking…? But my memory is pretty shot these days so it might’ve been in November already….

Today’s questions at thefridayfive @ Dreamwidth.

1. Are you easily offended or upset by things other people post online?

Offended? Never because why should I be offended by what some idiot thinks or says?

Upset? I sometimes get upset and kind of scared by certain people and particularly by certain politicians expressing certain views on poverty, poor people and the unemployed when they have an education and should know better. But I don’t allow myself to get stuck in it.

2. How much does the order in which the Friday Five questions are presented here matter to you?

Not at all! There’s been a few times when my answer to a question flows naturally to the next question and it’s more by coincidence than design. I like those times!

3. Have you ever made an effort to be inclusive, only to have someone complain that you were not being inclusive enough?

Nope.

4. Are you having a happy holiday season?

It’s my normal, so not happy and not bad. Although today I’m very frustrated by some new, idiotic KELA bureaucracy but that will pass as the day goes on. It doesn’t make anything factually worse for me, the thing just takes longer and is now a more rigid process than before, while KELA is making factually more work for itself because of the new rules. So I’m kind of LOL at KELA, insisting on making more work for itself.

5. Which holidays do you observe or celebrate?

We don’t celebrate but we do observer some: Christmas, New Year, Easter, May Day, Midsummer Day, Valentine’s Day. Mostly this just means eating good food/specialty food that’s available usually only for that holiday. Christmas is the only time we visit as a family as much as possible as a matter of course, the other times are just regular visiting that may or may not fall on some holiday and are not planned ahead as such.