Please join in and comment with your answers below! The Friday Five for December 20, 2019:
- Do you buy any weekly/monthly magazines?
- Have you ever made your own Ice cream?
- Have you ever baked your own bread?
- Do you collect anything?
- Has anyone ever approached you thinking you were someone else?
As for me:
- Do you buy any weekly/monthly magazines? I don’t buy any, but earlier this year Denis decided to accept the offer to receive a bunch of free magazines. Since then, our house has been inundated with People, Entertainment, InStyle, Better Homes & Gardens, and New Yorker magazines. At some point they arrived so often that I had a stack of 20-30 magazines that I needed to read. I’m just not a magazine reader. When CG and I housesat for a weekend back in the summer I took 6-8 of them with me and spent an entire afternoon plowing through them. Once these free subscriptions run out, I’m hopeful that we will go back to being a non-magazine house.
- Have you ever made your own Ice cream? We have made ice cream multiple times. Growing up we’d make it on special occasions, and then once Denis and I got married we had a small ice cream maker that we’d use once in a blue moon. We now have a soft-serve ice cream maker and we dust it off a couple times a year to make soft-serve for the kids.
- Have you ever baked your own bread? I own a breadmaker that hasn’t seen daylight in years. Denis will occasionally make pumpkin bread, or banana bread. But as for real sandwich-ready bread, I’ve only ever failed in my attempts.
- Do you collect anything? Over the years I’ve collected lots of things. For a while I collected snow globes. Since I graduated college I’ve collected Fiestaware although I stopped buying vintage about ten years ago since I have no place to display it (my current collection is boxed up in the attic). I also collected Funko! pops (CG does too). You could make the argument that I collect movies, since I have such a large collection at this point.
- Has anyone ever approached you thinking you were someone else? I don’t recall this ever happening to me, but the reverse has happened – about 20 years ago I met someone who had constantly been confused for being ME. Soon after I got married and moved to NYC to be with Denis, my club/rave pals started to tell me that they kept seeing someone in the scene that looked just like me. Then a couple years later I met someone online that was from that area, and the more we talked, she came to realize that I was the woman that she kept being mistaken for a couple years prior! At the time I didn’t think we looked much alike, but we had the same haircut/color, and about the same build, so I could see how people would see her from behind or the side and automatically think she was me. I also think (and this may be a false memory) that she actually ended up dating a guy I had dated for a while before I met Denis.
What about you? Time to answer these softball questions and help me get to know you! Comment below…
