So…what is the Monday Poll?
Excellent question! It isn’t, contrary to its name, an actual poll, like with little clicky buttons. It’s just a list of five more or less random questions I’ve been posting on this blog every Monday morning for the past quadrillion years (since 2007). I love reading your answers, and it helps me get my week off to a good start. ?
1. Glittery lids or glossy lids?
You know I lurve me that editorial style with grungy, glossy lids, but heaven help me, I’m going through a majah glitter phase at the moment. So I say glitter, and lots of it.
2. I don’t know if you’re going out on the town tonight, but let’s say you are. Assuming that, would you rather be stuck wearing uncomfortable shoes all night long or uncomfortable underwear? YOU MUST CHOOSE.
I’ll take the undies… Both would be equally awful, but I no longer have any patience for footwear that hurts. Methinks the uncomfortable underwear would be just slightly less uncomfortable… Plus, no blisters afterwards.
3. Ponytail or French braid?
Ponytail! Mind you, I love French braids because of the waves after I take my hair down, but a ponytail’s more practical for me (less likely to come undone).
4. Grossest thing you’ve seen on NYE?
Thankfully, I’ve never encountered anything too disgusting on New Year’s Eve (knock on wood!), but having to use a bathroom at the club on New Year’s is pretty damn gross.
Ewww.
5. Will you be staying up ’til midnight?
Girl, I’m gonna try, but there’s at least a 50 percent chance I’ll be in full-on REM sleep by 10:30.
OK, OK, 75. Ha ha ha!
Last day of 2018!
That’s craziness. It seems like two seconds ago I was marveling at the spring cherry blossoms, then going to the pool in summer, and now it’s the end of the year.
Like many people, right now I’m thinking about changes I’d like to make in 2019. Do you have any “New Year’s resolutions”? This year, I don’t. I quit making them a while back because I could never keep them, you know? And I don’t want to set myself up for failure, so I’m gonna try something different this year. Instead of having “resolutions,” I’m setting little mini projects for myself.
I don’t even want to think of them as big projects because that would make them too daunting, but I can handle little mini projects. One of them is to install a shelf or some other way to organize the pots and pans in the kitchen because I can never find anything, or sometimes the pot handles get stuck in a drawer (hate it when that happens)…
I’m going to finally get rid of the pans I don’t use, and then organize the ones I want to keep in a way that I can find everything I need easily.
Then, after that, my other mini project is to organize the pantry. There’s gonna be many, many baskets and a label maker involved, LOL! I’ve blocked it off for the third week in January (no particular reason for the date; just chose it), and that week I’m going to spend 20 minutes each day organizing a different area in the pantry.
And all of these things fall under the overarching umbrella of “organizing my kitchen.”
Anyway, the mini projects are the closest I’m coming to New Year’s resolutions this year.
How do you feel about New Year’s resolutions? Do you make them? Do you keep them? (If you do, what’s your secret?) Also, while we’re at it, what are you doing tonight!? We are straight chillin’ at home.
I know! Livin’ the toddler life.
Hopefully we get to chat before the day/year is over, but if we don’t, have a safe and happy New Year’s Eve. See you in 2019!
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. Question time! Here they are to copy/paste with your answers in a comment. Talk to you soon.
1. Glittery lids or glossy lids?
2. Uncomfortable shoes or underwear for NYE?
3. Ponytail or french braid?
4. Grossest thing you’ve seen on NYE?
5. Are you staying up ’til midnight?
Happy last day of 2018 Karen! I have some sinus crud going on (allergic to my mom’s dog and unstable weather in the Midwest are contributing factors) but feel better than yesterday.
1. Glittery lids or glossy lids?
I say glittery, but that usually makes my eyes itch like whoa.
2. Uncomfortable shoes or underwear for NYE?
Underwear for the same reasons you said!
3. Ponytail or french braid?
French braid is my go-to for pulling hair back, but I have really slippery hair, so it doesn’t always work LOL
4. Grossest thing you’ve seen on NYE?
I never really do anything for NYE so I don’t have any horror stories!
5. Are you staying up ’til midnight?
Maybe! Not sure. I’m going to the circus gym with my friends in a little bit, so we’ll go from there. I’m definitely staying home.
1. Glittery lids or glossy lids? glittery
2. Uncomfortable shoes or underwear for NYE? underwear , i have worn a girdle
3. Ponytail or french braid? french braid. i wear pony tails daily
4. Grossest thing you’ve seen on NYE? a man vomitting, peeing and popping on myself
5. Are you staying up ’til midnight? probably
on himsef. not me
Happy New Year, Karen!
No resolutions for me, just continuations of the things I’ve been working on (keeping up with eating things my body won’t reject, continuing my phys therapy exercises because I’m no longer going, re-incorporating yoga into my life – it’s been a couple years!). I’d love to start taking ballet classes again this year but that really depends on how my back and hips behave.
1. Glittery lids or glossy lids?
Glitter all day, er’ry day.
2. Uncomfortable shoes or underwear for NYE?
Underwear! I’m 99% sure that wouldn’t screw up my back like uncomfortable shoes would.
3. Ponytail or french braid?
Braid, always. It looks so much nicer and doesn’t crease my hair.
4. Grossest thing you’ve seen on NYE?
Ugh. I live in Chicago and years ago (I think I was a junior in college?) I went to a DePaul bar for New Year’s. It had a stupid expensive cover charge and everything. Just the whole experience was gross in the “young-20s-hot-mess” sort of way because it was a HIGH concentration of hot mess in one spot.
5. Are you staying up ’til midnight?
Probably, but only because I’ll be playing video games…we have a tradition of going to a movie on NYE but we’re always home by 1030 to avoid the awful driving.
Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1. Glittery lids or glossy lids? Glittery baby. All the glitter
2. Uncomfortable shoes or underwear for NYE? undies.
3. Ponytail or french braid? French braid
4. Grossest thing you’ve seen on NYE? barf on the floor in a bar bathroom
5. Are you staying up ’til midnight? Haha, probably not.
Per your kitchen organizing, one of the best things my hubs ever did for me was install five or six hooks over the window over my kitchen sink for my most reached for pots and pans. There’s also a hook for my chopping board. It’s been life-changing I tell ya. I’ve still got a bit of a mess in my pots and pans cupboard in part because I’m waiting for husband to install a sliding shelf but the hooks have helped tremendously in the mean time.
I’m conflicted about New Year’s resolutions. I love thinking about them and trying to decide if I should make any. Generally, I set a few goals or intentions instead. Like I set a savings goal for the year.
I also think about whether there are any new habits I want to form. My daily yoga practice started a few years ago on New Year’s when I decided I would do a few minutes of yoga every day after getting out of bed. That’s been life-changing, especially for my rear-end and my decollete and for my biceps, too frankly.
Hey, have you ever seen that show Billions on Showtime? There’s a character on there named Wendy Rhodes and I really need the details on her makeup colors, especially lip and blush. It looks like she usually wears some rose shades but I need specifics. Do you know anyone TV makeup people who might know?
1. Glittery lids or glossy lids? Neither
2. Uncomfortable shoes or underwear for NYE? Staying in so shoes since I’ll be on the couch
3. Ponytail or french braid? My hair is short so neither
4. Grossest thing you’ve seen on NYE? Public transportation
5. Are you staying up ’til midnight? Probably not – just want this craptacular year to end. Bring on 2019
1. Glittery lids or glossy lids?
Glitter!
2. Uncomfortable shoes or underwear for NYE?
Uncomfortable underwear. I refuse to wear painful shoes anymore.
3. Ponytail or french braid?
Ponytail. I used to be able to french braid my hair years ago, but now my arms get tired!
4. Grossest thing you’ve seen on NYE?
Hmmm…probably cat puke on the carpet. 🙂 I prefer to stay in for NYE. I don’t even want to think about the grossness that is Times Square.
5. Are you staying up ’til midnight?
Yes, planning on it! A couple of people are coming over for an informal celebration.
I don’t do resolutions either. I started using a basic habit tracking app to try and keep on track with little things each day – like flossing, drinking enough water, etc. I get overwhelmed thinking about big picture things.
For organizing pots and pans, I found these racks at the store which allow me to store my skillets vertically. I find it so much easier than stacking them. Last time we moved, I did a pretty big purge of pans and utensils I didn’t need. It felt so good! Oh and if you have enough cabinet space, I set up a dish rack to store lids separately.
I organized my pantry during Thanksgiving break. It was in bad shape, but I went to the dollar store and Big Lots and got tons of baskets and storage boxes. I was ruthless about throwing out old stuff. Good luck!
Hope you have a happy and relaxing New Year’s Eve! Wishing you all the best in 2019. 🙂
Happy last day of 2018 Karen!
1. Glittery lids or glossy lids?
Glittery lids, love the look of it although I can’t stand it with contacts :-D.
2. Uncomfortable shoes or underwear for NYE?
Underwear! It’s always fireworks for NYE in Germany, so I need good shoes to be agile.
3. Ponytail or french braid?
Ponytail. Don’t have the patience to do French braid..
4. Grossest thing you’ve seen on NYE?
It’s not eww gross, but it’s quite disturbing, I’ve seen people actually tried to shoot fireworks to harm people, like some passerby bike, or to an open balcony.
5. Are you staying up ’til midnight?
Yeah, that’s the plan!
I don’t have resolution for new year but I do have a set of goals and plans. I might not achieve all, but it helps me set my priorities acknowledging which parts of my life I am dissatisfied with.
Happy new year 2019 Karen! Wishing you a great year next :).
1. Glittery lids or glossy lids?
Glitter.
2. Uncomfortable shoes or underwear for NYE?
Underwear. I cannot even with uncomfortable shoes anymore.
3. Ponytail or french braid?
Ponytail all the way. My hair slips out of braids.
4. Grossest thing you’ve seen on NYE?
I’ve never been out on NYE, so nothing.
5. Are you staying up ’til midnight?
I’m usually up at midnight anyway, lol.
I’ll have 3 out of 4 girls tonight, so there’s my NYE party right there! ?
Happy New Year ?? Karen and Family !
Glittery lids lips and cheeks tonight !
Can’t bear uncomfortable shoes !
Pony tail for the New Year .
Grossest NYE . Well I was an ER nurse so you can imagine .
I will be up til midnight ?
It’s raining here and windy tomorrow.
No resolutions. Just a 10 minute a day per section organizing my
house .
Happy New Year ??
My new year’s resolution is summed up in one word: indulge. I want to make a better effort enjoying life.
1. Glittery!
2. Shoes! Assuming they’re cute af and I’ll get the chance to sit down now and then.
3. Ponytail
4. Being stuck at home with small children.
5. Probably only if I can find something good to watch on Netflix!
Have a wonderful New Year, Karen! And to all your readers, too.
1. Glittery lids or glossy lids?
Glittery. Glossy lids look like they’d feel really gross.
2. Uncomfortable shoes or underwear for NYE? Underwear. Sore feet will feel miserable for days.
3. Ponytail or french braid? Ponytail. I can’t French braid to save my life, regardless of how many tutorials I watch and then say, “I think I’ve got it.”
4. Grossest thing you’ve seen on NYE? I can’t remember. I can’t even remember the last time I went out for NYE. Probably 1992. Yeah…
5. Are you staying up ’til midnight?
I’m an insomniac and almost always up till 3 a.m. – 5 a.m. most “nights,” so midnight is easy as pie.
1. Glittery lids or glossy lids? Glittery for me, it just looks so pretty!
2. Uncomfortable shoes or underwear for NYE? Hmmmm, shoes. I can always sit down, but uncomfortable undies is a no go for me!
3. Ponytail or french braid? Ponytail. I’m a horrible self French braider.
4. Grossest thing you’ve seen on NYE? Nothing really. I have usually just stayed home or gone to friends’ parties, so nothing gross.
5. Are you staying up ’til midnight? Yeah. It’s Christmas vacation from the kids’ school so our schedules are all screwed up. We got a couple of bottles of Marinelli’s sparkling cider to drink, I have a freezer full of frozen junk food, it’ll be a good night. I just need to make sure my five cats are inside, yes 5, because it’ll be nuts with fireworks and idiots shooting guns and I want to make sure my animals are safe.
I don’t really do resolutions. But I do like the idea of a new beginning, 365 new opportunities for fun. I like to pick a word for the new year, this year’s is “Organization!” I feel like I need to get my stuff together, I have too much clutter and it’s starting to get frustrating. We also adopted a new kitty, #5, he was thrown in a dumpster and found and I just couldn’t let him go to a shelter, so I’d like to get my house together so that the cats and the two pugs can all harmoniously live together. It’s a lot. Lol!
1. Glittery lids or glossy lids?
I love the glossy lid look in magazines, but whenever I tried it, it just made my lids stick together! So I guess glitter? But more of a shimmer than the chunky glitter. (I don’t want it falling in my eyes/contacts.)
2. Uncomfortable shoes or underwear for NYE?
I’ve had both, unfortunately. For me, I’d actually rather have uncomfortable shoes than underwear.
3. Ponytail or french braid? Ponytail. My hair has never been long enough for a french braid, but I love how they look!
4. Grossest thing you’ve seen on NYE?
Luckily nothing.
5. Are you staying up ’til midnight?
I’m going to try. I took a nap, so we’ll see!
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, Karen!
1. Glittery lids or glossy lids?
Hmmm… Glossy.
2. Uncomfortable shoes or underwear for NYE?
Uncomfortable underwear. No way am I spending the entire night feeling like I have gremlins stuck to my feet.
3. Ponytail or french braid?
Ponytail.
4. Grossest thing you’ve seen on NYE?
I’ve seen some disturbing things on NYE.
5. Are you staying up ’til midnight?
Nope 🙂
You know, something I’ve really been trying to get around is CLEAN THE WHOLE HOUSE. I never thought of it as a new year’s resolution but tackling small areas every day seems like a good idea.
I wish you and the family a fulfilling year ahead! I want to thank you for all your wonderful posts and thoughts, for sharing your journey through motherhood, and for being the presence that you are that touches so many lives… Hugs!!
1. Glittery lids or glossy lids?
-Glitter! Although I prefer shimmer or a soft sheen instead.
2. Uncomfortable shoes or underwear for NYE?
– the underwear.
3. Ponytail or french braid?
-ponytail, because I can’t French braid my own hair.
4. Grossest thing you’ve seen on NYE?
-once (much younger) my friends played a drinking game and were projectile … Ya know, and it was only 10 PM.
5. Are you staying up ’til midnight?
-oh yes! New Years Eve was at my boyfriends place and his family is huge into celebrating so it was a fun time!
1. Glittery lids or glossy lids? Glitter! Never tried gloss lids and I am also loving the glitter look at the moment.
2. Uncomfortable shoes or underwear for NYE? Underwear. Cuz that way, I can take them off and no one will know…(is that an option Karen?!)
3. Ponytail or french braid? French braid…which I can’t do. 😛
4. Grossest thing you’ve seen on NYE? Nothing too gross. I did eat a gross burger for NYE back in the day once.
5. Are you staying up ’til midnight? HECK NO. I have a 10 month old at home. This momma’s going to bed.