It’s a Dolly kinda mornin’.
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. Winged liner or glitter shadow?
Glitter shadow. I love me a wing, but I feel like you get more bang for your buck with a glitter shadow. Plus, it’s less stressful.
2. Cheese or chocolate?
EHRMAHGAWD. Well this is hard…but I’m going with chocolate, since the chocolate cravings I get are more intense than the cheese cravings.
3. Over-the-knee boots or ankle booties?
Over-the-knee boots. But only if they’re flats.
4. Would you rather 1) run into your ex while buying granny panties at Costco, OR 2) have your mom or dad see you making out with someone on the street? And I’m not talking a cute little church kiss. I’m talking full-on, grabby-hand making out, HA HA HA!
Granny panties at Costco, for sure, because chances are I’ll never see the dude again.
5. Would you rather have your dream job or your dream house?
GIRL, don’t make me choose! OK…dream house, please. Ideally, one that also comes completely organized and with cat-friendly furniture. ?
Something to stream ASAP
On your list of things to do this week — watch Dumplin’ on Netflix, because any movie 1) with a soundtrack comprised solely of Dolly Parton songs, and 2) in which drag queens save the day, is A-OK with me.
It’s about a Texas teenager dealing with the loss of her beloved aunt, and her rocky relationship with her beauty pageant mom (played by Jennifer Aniston). It’s very sweet and fun.
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. Winged liner or glitter shadow?
2. Cheese or chocolate?
3. Over-the-knee boots or ankle booties?
4. Would you rather 1) run into your ex while buying granny panties at Costco, OR 2) have your mom or dad see you making out with someone on the street? And I’m not talking a cute little church kiss. I’m talking full-on, grabby-hand making out, HA HA HA!
5. Would you rather have your dream job or a your dream house?
It has been awhile since I have done one of these. I’ve been busy with assisting Zack with his college applications. We have two more left. Here goes:
1. Winged liner or glitter shadow? I don’t do either since, and I know this sounds non-beauty PC, but I am almost 60 and feel both are just not age appropriate anymore.
2. Cheese or chocolate? Can I have both since #1 is no longer an option for me. I love dark chocolate and most kinds of cheese.
3. Over-the-knee boots or ankle booties? Ankle booties definitely, my torso is too short for over-the-knee boots.
4. Would you rather 1) run into your ex while buying granny panties at Costco, OR 2) have your mom or dad see you making out with someone on the street? And I’m not talking a cute little church kiss. I’m talking full-on, grabby-hand making out, HA HA HA! Option #1, granny panties. I can always say they are for my mother, as they probably are.
5. Would you rather have your dream job or a your dream house? Not sure about this one, unless the dream house is a town house in a community village with a pool club and activities. I think at this point, I’d be closer to retiring.
I hope all is good and you’re getting ready for the holidays. Today is the last day of Chanukah, so we are done until New Years Eve. Just hanging with friends.
Be well!
Hi Jane,
That’s so crazy! Didn’t he just start high school? I was chatting with a friend the other day and she’s doing the same thing with her son; it kind of blows my mind that the process is digital now. I still remember waiting for an envelope in the mail. The big ones were usually a good sign, and the small ones meant you didn’t get in. Do you think he might stick close to home?
1. This is a hard one! I’m going to go with glitter since it’s the holidays.
2. Cheese. I’ve had so much candy since Halloween!
3. Over-the-knee boots! Have never worn them but I think they look sooooo gooooood.
4. Run into my ex while buying granny panties at Costco. I’d figure out how to make it hot and most likely he’s at Costco buying something embarrassing, too!
5. Dream job hands down! From there everything falls into place.
My husband and I watched Dumplin on Saturday. I wish it wasn’t so Hallmarky but otherwise I loved it. Millie was my favorite. She was so adorable!
Yeah, it was a little Hallmarky at points, for sure. But I don’t mind that sometimes (I really needed it yesterday… Was feeling tired and kinda blah).
Wasn’t the magic scene fun?
1. Winged liner or glitter shadow?
Winged liner. If I wear glitter, it always gets caught under my contacts.
2. Cheese or chocolate?
Cheese. I sometimes go weeks without a chocolate craving, butnever without a cheese craving.
3. Over-the-knee boots or ankle booties?
Ankle booties.
4. Would you rather 1) run into your ex while buying granny panties at Costco, OR 2) have your mom or dad see you making out with someone on the street? And I’m not talking a cute little church kiss. I’m talking full-on, grabby-hand making out, HA HA HA!
Option 2. I think they have seen worse from me over the years…
5. Would you rather have your dream job or a your dream house?
Dream job. I still have so many years until retirement, I need to enjoy my days at work. And what I consider a great house changes every year anyway.
1. Winged liner or glitter shadow? Glitter shadow
2. Cheese or chocolate? Chocolate
3. Over-the-knee boots or ankle booties? ankle booties
4. Would you rather 1) run into your ex while buying granny panties at Costco, OR 2) have your mom or dad see you making out with someone on the street? And I’m not talking a cute little church kiss. I’m talking full-on, grabby-hand making out, HA HA HA!
I don’t have an ex (I’ve been with my hubby since I was 17) and my parents are both deceased, so fortunately I don’t have to make this choice.
5. Would you rather have your dream job or a your dream house?
Dream job. Those are really hard to find.
I’ve also been with my husband since I was 17! 🙂
You gals are so lucky. I wish I found my hubs early on. I had to kiss a lot of frogs to get to him, LOL!
Karen, I just saw Dumplin’! It was the sweetest movie and made me shed a tear or two. Hope you and Miss Connor Claire are doing well.
1. Winged liner or glitter shadow? Glitter, but only if it is that ultra fine fairy dust in neutral shades like bronze, copper, gold, and silver. Well, OK, maybe a soft, smoky lavender sparkle now and then. I’ve got dark green eyes after all and love the sparkle shade in Tom Ford’s Pretty Baby quad. Lightly dabbed on the moveable eyelid, it really opens open the eye area without calling to mind disco balls. None of that chunky, technicolor stuff for this septuagenarian!
2. Cheese or chocolate? Chocolate, but only the really good stuff. I especially enjoy artisan chocolates because of the imagination that goes into them. I’d rather buy a couple pieces of really good chocolate than pay the same price for a bag of kisses (sorry Hershey).
3. Over-the-knee boots or ankle booties? For winter, I love a high, but not over the knee, boot with a midi-skirt. Since I’m petite and not in the cavalry, over the knee is just de trop but I’d prefer it to ankle booties. Actually, my favorite boots are what are called paddock boots.
4. Would you rather 1) run into your ex while buying granny panties at Costco, OR 2) have your mom or dad see you making out with someone on the street? And I’m not talking a cute little church kiss. I’m talking full-on, grabby-hand making out, HA HA HA! This one really isn’t for someone my age, but I’ll play anyway ? I say bring on those granny panties!
5. Would you rather have your dream job or a your dream house? I was blessed to have both, but if I had to choose, it would definitely be my dream house. Having a refuge that perfectly suits me is one way of dealing with the ups and downs in life.
1. Glitter. I have very round eyes and look ridiculous with wings.
2. CHOCOLATE. I likc cheese, too, but chocolate is two of the 5 major food groups as far as I’m concerned. End of discussion.
3. Over the knee, which b/c I’m tall, are actually knee high.
4. Neither one, thank you. My parents died when i was pretty young, so even the idea of parents sort of doesn’t compute with me any more.
5. Yeah, dream house so long as I wasn’t stressing about how I could keep making the payments. 😀
1. Winged liner or glitter shadow?
Winged liner, which I sort of do now, even though I have quite hooded eyes and it never looks as good, and certainly not as precise, as others. I’ve tried liquid eyeliner but it just really doesn’t work with my oily, hooded asian eye shape. Also, glitter will get under my contacts and cause me lots of pain and the eyeshadow will wipe off anyway.
2. Cheese or chocolate? Probably chocolate. I love cheese, but I get chocolate cravings.
3. Over-the-knee boots or ankle booties? Ankle booties for sure. I don’t even wear my knee high boots much, as I don’t wear nearly as many dresses as I used to, especially in winter, and I don’t have many jeans that are skinny enough to tuck into boots well.
4. Would you rather 1) run into your ex while buying granny panties at Costco, OR 2) have your mom or dad see you making out with someone on the street? And I’m not talking a cute little church kiss. I’m talking full-on, grabby-hand making out, HA HA HA!
I’m 48 years old, I don’t give a rat’s ass if my mom sees me making out with someone. Also, because of said age, I wouldn’t care if an ex saw me with the granny panties (which I don’t wear anyway except maybe that time of the month). Being old doesn’t have many advantages, but not giving a crap what people think is definitely one of them.
5. Would you rather have your dream job or a your dream house? Dream job for sure.
1. Winged liner or glitter shadow? Winged liner
2. Cheese or chocolate? Cheese
3. Over-the-knee boots or ankle booties? Ankle booties; I’m short so normal OTK boots would probably come up to my hips! 🙂
4. Would you rather 1) run into your ex while buying granny panties at Costco, OR 2) have your mom or dad see you making out with someone on the street? And I’m not talking a cute little church kiss. I’m talking full-on, grabby-hand making out, HA HA HA!
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5. Would you rather have your dream job or a your dream house? Dream job, which can help me make my house into my dream home
1. Winged liner or glitter shadow? I’m not a winged liner gal so I’ll have to go with glitter.
2. Cheese or chocolate? When I was growing up my grandparents owned a candy store! So I was pretty spoiled in the chocolate department. I love all types of cheese but I feel if I did not say chocolate it would be letting down my family legacy. 🙂
3. Over-the-knee boots or ankle booties? Ankle booties all the way! So cute with dresses or skinny jeans.
4. Would you rather 1) run into your ex while buying granny panties at Costco, OR 2) have your mom or dad see you making out with someone on the street? And I’m not talking a cute little church kiss. I’m talking full-on, grabby-hand making out, HA HA HA!
Well I’d have to say Costco because if my parents saw me making out with someone on the street (that was not my husband) it would be bad news!
5. Would you rather have your dream job or a your dream house? Dream job! You spend more hours with your co-workers than your family so it’s best to love what you do.
Hi Karen ,
Glitter shadow . I love it !
Def chocolate ?! I’m eating it right now .
Ankle booties over the knee is just too over the top .
Run into mom and coscoes . Will never see my ex ever again .
Dream house cause I’m retired !
Hi Michele,
If you love glitter shadow you must try Urban Decay Diamond Dog! It’s the best!
1. Winged liner or glitter shadow? Winged Liner
2. Cheese or chocolate? Cheese, all day every day.
3. Over-the-knee boots or ankle booties? Ankle booties. Can’t get into the over the knee ones.
4. Would you rather 1) run into your ex while buying granny panties at Costco, OR 2) have your mom or dad see you making out with someone on the street? And I’m not talking a cute little church kiss. I’m talking full-on, grabby-hand making out, HA HA HA! I guess run into my ex buying granny panties.
5. Would you rather have your dream job or a your dream house? Hmmm … this one is tough. I’m gonna go with dream job.
Hey Barb,
Happy Monday! I hope you’re having a good day so far. Connor and I went to lunch with the hubs, and then I took her to the playground. Now I’m just catching up on things and drinking tea.
P.S. Did you and the hubs ever get around to watching Creed II?
No, I’ll probably wind up seeing it with my mom. My hubs is not a movie person. He hates going to the movies and he doesn’t even like watching them at home either. Don’t get me wrong, he will go to the movies but it could be years before that happens. We just saw the new Halloween movie while it was out and I’m not kidding when I say that was the first time in YEARS, he’s been to the movies.
Whereas, me and my mom are avid movie watchers/goers. I have off on Friday and we’re talking about going then to see something. Don’t know what yet. There are a bunch of new ones out I want to see.
That’s cool that your mom is your movie pal! I hope she’s good about sharing her snacks with you, LOL!
My mom-in-law was just telling me about a movie she watched that she loved called Green Book, have you heard of it?
1. Winged liner or glitter shadow?
Winged liner – it’s classic!
2. Cheese or chocolate?
CHEESE…even though I can’t eat it anymore. Always cheese.
3. Over-the-knee boots or ankle booties?
Ankle booties – I have some very long legs and the over-the-knee just don’t fit quite right.
4. Would you rather 1) run into your ex while buying granny panties at Costco, OR 2) have your mom or dad see you making out with someone on the street? And I’m not talking a cute little church kiss. I’m talking full-on, grabby-hand making out, HA HA HA!
Granny panties for sure…mostly because my mom would taaaaaaalk about it. Ugh.
5. Would you rather have your dream job or a your dream house?
Dream house, mostly because I don’t even know what my dream job is (which sounds depressing but I promise it’s not! I’m happy with what I do!) but I have a very solid idea of what my dream house includes.
Girl! You can’t eat cheese anymore? The triple cream brie in my fridge is very, very sad. 🙁
(So I just realized the notices for your replies were going to my spam folder – now I feel like a jerk but I swear it’s actually gmail being a jerk!)
Nope, no more cheese. For my 30th birthday this year I got myself a dairy allergy!
I mean, I was definitely allergic before then but it wasn’t diagnosed until now. But please eat that brie and enjoy it (I sometimes ask my boyfriend to tell me about things like pizza, and mac n cheese, and think about it wistfully LOL)! Do you bake it with honey? *drool*
No worries, babe. The brie (what’s left of it, DOH!) and I are very sad to hear about it. On the other hand, there are lots of vegan cheese options out there… At least there are here where I live in California (hope it’s the same out where you live too). I’ve never thought to bake brie with honey!
Luckily, I live in a big city with plenty of crunchy stores on top of WF and TJ – I have options aplenty!
One of my favorite holiday things is baked brie! You take the wheel o’ brie, put fig jam on the top, wrap in phyllo, bake & drizzle with honey over the top. So good!
Girl, how did you know that I have a jar of fig jam in my cupboard?! Must get some phyllo ASAP. 🙂
Did you find out about your allergy from a visit to the doctor?
1. Winged liner or glitter shadow? winged . even though i can not do a winged liner properly
2. Cheese or chocolate? why choose but if i had to chocolate
3. Over-the-knee boots or ankle booties? ankle, my legs dont do over the calf boots nicely
4. Would you rather 1) run into your ex while buying granny panties at Costco, OR 2) have your mom or dad see you making out with someone on the street? And I’m not talking a cute little church kiss. I’m talking full-on, grabby-hand making out, HA HA HA! (2) my mom saw a boy kissing me when i was 5 years old and my sister would snitch on me about making out with someone when i was a teenager. she used to call me the kissing bandit. she used it.
5. Would you rather have your dream job or a your dream house? dream job
Where else have I heard the name “Kissing Bandit” before? I feel like it was in an ’80s movie or a TV show.
1. Winged liner or glitter shadow?
In an ideal world I’d say winged glitter liner, but my skills are more basic, so glitter eye shadow to feel like I tried hard.
2. Cheese or chocolate?
Both, just can’t decide here in Germany.
3. Over-the-knee boots or ankle booties?
I’ve never tried ones over-the-knee so I’ll play say and go with ankle booties.
4. Would you rather 1) run into your ex while buying granny panties at Costco, OR 2) have your mom or dad see you making out with someone on the street? And I’m not talking a cute little church kiss. I’m talking full-on, grabby-hand making out, HA HA HA!
If he’s my ex I should not care about his opinions on my underwear, also you need underwear of each type.
5. Would you rather have your dream job or a your dream house?
Since right now I can only visualize my dream house I’d say that.
Germany has been a telenovela, so much drama, a new home, a burned hand, but I keep going. Hugs Karen.
Oh, no! What happened to your hand? (Burns are awful, I’ve had two relatively minor ones in my life, and both took over a decade to fully heal.) And why did you have to move?
I burned my hand with an old heater, I forgot it was boiling hot and I put my hand by accident. It seems that in three fingers there was no big deal, but in half of my palm it’s almost second degree, so I hope it gets better soon (good think is that I have a week off work).
About my home: we didn’t get along and officially I was going to stay until December, but the woman got crazy and I had to leave.
I hope you get better soon, too, because burns hurt like heck. Do you have any student health insurance while you’re over there? If you haven’t yet seen the doctor you should really go ASAP. LOL, there I go sounding like the older sister you never knew you had again.
I think it was a good idea that you left your housing situation. I’ve lived in a couple of bad situations and stuck them out and in the end all that did give me unnecessary stress. Good for you for making a decision to just leave!
1. Winged liner or glitter shadow?
Liner. I’ll save the glitter for my teenager.
2. Cheese or chocolate?
Yes, please.
3. Over-the-knee boots or ankle booties?
Ankle booties. I’m just too short to pull off over the knee boots. Also I think I’d feel too Robin Hood.
4. Would you rather 1) run into your ex while buying granny panties at Costco, OR 2) have your mom or dad see you making out with someone on the street? And I’m not talking a cute little church kiss. I’m talking full-on, grabby-hand making out, HA HA HA!
The latter. Because I have an ex-husband, complete with infidelity (not me), ugly divorce, and the works. That’s a bit different than an ex-boyfriend. My parents I can handle, lol.
5. Would you rather have your dream job or a your dream house?
Dream house.
Haha, Suzanne! I have a pair of brow over-the-knee boots, and now that I think about it, they’re VERY Robin Hood. LOL
How are things on your end? Have you been able to start on the house repairs yet?
Soon, I hope. The first check from the insurance company finally came, along with their initial list of approved repairs. Which is just from the 30 minute walk-around the adjuster did 3 days after the storm. (Yeah, all that took two months, almost to the day.) I have no idea when they’ll get around to their review of the engineer’s report. They may still tell us that our house is unsafe to live in.
How are you all doing with Connor in school? Is everyone getting adjusted to the new normal?
Oh, gosh. Keeping my fingers crossed the engineer’s report moves speedily along and everything works out in the end.
Connor is in school two days a week now, and it’s been great for her social development, but man! She’s catching ALL THE THINGS. She seems to get sick at the start of every month, and then she’s healthy for about two or three weeks, and then she catches another bug. And of course that means I catch what she has since when she’s feeling under the weather all she wants is to be in my lap. On the positive side our immune systems are getting a workout!
You guys all ready for the holidays? I have a few more presents to shop for and cards to send out.
1. Winged or glitter eye shadow? Glitter, liquid liner is beyond my abilities. Plus, I wear glasses, and glitter shadow looks great with glasses.
2. Cheese or chocolate? Chocolate! I love them both, but I love chocolate more!
3. Over the knee boots or ankle booties? Ankle booties, my calves don’t fit into tall boots very well. Plus, it’s a lot of look for me.
4. Granny panties ex or make out in front of parents? Granny panties please! I don’t like my parents knowing I’ve fooled around with my husband of 22 years and father of my two children! ?
5. Dream job or dream house? House. I already have my dream job, raising my girls. So I’d like my dream house, cat proofed and pug proofed! ❤️
Hi Stephanie,
You’re so right! Glitter looks amazing with glasses. 🙂 If you haven’t already, you have to try Urban Decay’s Diamond Dog. Looks beautiful with neutrals, especially. Golds and bronzes, too!
1. Winged liner or glitter shadow? Glitter fo sho. I don’t have the best hand eye coordination so winged is always a crap shoot for me.
2. Cheese or chocolate? Normally I would say chocolate. But, I spent the fall eating an apple and some cheese for breakfast and it’s making me feel Great.
3. Over-the-knee boots or ankle booties? Neither. My legs are kind of short and stumpy so I would look ridiculous wearing over the knee boots. But I don’t love ankle booties.
4. Would you rather 1) run into your ex while buying granny panties at Costco, OR 2) have your mom or dad see you making out with someone on the street? And I’m not talking a cute little church kiss. I’m talking full-on, grabby-hand making out, HA HA HA! Totally run into an ex at Costco. Plus I’m married and I keep getting these random lectures from my mother about the bad karma that comes from infidelity so I really don’t need them seeing me making out–even with my husband.
5. Would you rather have your dream job or a your dream house? dream job for sure. A house is just a place to live. Plus you can make parts of your average house the way you want. You really have to inhabit your job–unless you have a trust fund or a winning lottery ticket.
Also, off topic, I was horrified to read your post about the identity theft. I can’t imagine what you’re going through. Also, please be safe. You don’t know who you might be dealing with. xoxo
Also, I watched Dumplin last night, absolutely loved it. It was such a great story and I thought Jennifer Aniston played her role just perfectly.
1. Winged liner or glitter shadow?
Um, glitter shadow. Please. I’m an equestrian. WE GLITTER.
2. Cheese or chocolate?
Girl, this is the only thing that shows I have Wisconsin parents and grandparents: CHEESE. There could be a pasta platter, a chocolate platter, a nuts platter and a cheese platter and I will 100% of the time go for cheese. It is a darn Wisconsin thing. We bleed cheese.
And sausage. And beer. But I actually don’t like sausage much and beer is yucky so if you need to find me at a place like this…just find the cheese station. I’m there, okay?
3. Over-the-knee boots or ankle booties?
Over-the-knee 1.5″ boots only because you have no idea what mucking stalls is like. Nu uh. You do not want ankle booties. NO. Ankle booties are purely for the fashion conscious folks. Me? Boots better be able to work in and out of the barn.
4. Would you rather 1) run into your ex while buying granny panties at Costco, OR 2) have your mom or dad see you making out with someone on the street? And I’m not talking a cute little church kiss. I’m talking full-on, grabby-hand making out, HA HA HA!
Run into an ex while buying granny panties because 1. I don’t have any ex’s and 2. I pretty much wear granny panties 24/7 as is because I have terrible circulation due to Reynaud’s so I have no shame. No. Shame. It’s like running into a cute guy while holding panty liners. I’m a lady, I need them, and if a guy can’t handle seeing that (especially a cute one), then clearly they aren’t worth my time.
5. Would you rather have your dream job or a your dream house?
I have my dream house all ready, so I’d choose my dream job even though I’m close to doing that all ready. (I’m just not paid or employed in that area.) What I’d truly love is my dream bathroom!
My husband and I just watched Dumplin’ on Monday night. Excellent flick!! I’m a big fan of Dolly Parton’s music too. We both loved the movie.
1. Winged liner or glitter shadow?
Glitter shadow because I can apply glitter eyeshadow better than I draw a winged liner, lol.
2. Cheese or chocolate?
Cheese!!!
3. Over-the-knee boots or ankle booties?
Over the knee boots because I think you can wear a more variety of outfits with OTK boots.
4. Would you rather 1) run into your ex while buying granny panties at Costco, OR 2) have your mom or dad see you making out with someone on the street? And I’m not talking a cute little church kiss. I’m talking full-on, grabby-hand making out, HA HA HA!
All I do is wear granny panties, so more than likely my ex has already seen me in them. 🙂
5. Would you rather have your dream job or a your dream house?
I have my dream job now, and wouldn’t be able to maintain my dream house.