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 more or less random questions I’ve been posting on this blog every Monday morning for the past quadrillion years (since 2007).
1. Something nice someone did for you recently?
My friend took me out to tea yesterday. I don’t know what it is about those tiny little sandwiches and a hot pot of earl grey, but it does a lot for my soul.
2. What’s your favorite holiday?
Halloween because it’s fun, you get to dress up and it doesn’t involve getting gifts or orchestrating a big meal!
3. Something that makes you nervous?
Driving next to big semi-trucks on the freeway that are going waaaaaay too fast.
4. My favorite weekday lunch is?
Roasted red pepper pasta with garbanzo beans and basil topped with lots of parmesan cheese. YUM!
5. Something you accomplished over the weekend?
I made myself take some downtime and did absolutely nothing housework related. Sure, there are tufts of pet hair floating down the hallway and I’ll need to do a grocery run after work, but I actually feel rested.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. Here are the questions to copy/paste with your answers in a comment. Talk to ya soon.
1. Something nice someone did for you recently?
2. What’s your favorite holiday?
3. Something that makes you nervous?
4. My favorite weekday lunch is?
5. Something you accomplished over the weekend?
1. Something nice someone did for you recently?
My aunt (a hairstylist) came over and did the girls’ hair before our family pictures on Saturday! I am so thankful for her help! I am not good at doing their hair.
2. What’s your favorite holiday?
Probably Halloween too! We attended our first dress up party of the season (which was also a fourth birthday party) and the girls had so much fun dressed up like little ladybugs!
3. Something that makes you nervous?
Driving. Not my own driving but other people’s driving that I’m not in control of!
4. My favorite weekday lunch is?
I usually have a salad kit with some sort of protein. It fills me up but doesn’t make me lethargic and tired after.
5. Something you accomplished over the weekend?
Getting our family pictures done to send out in Christmas cards and all the laundry! Yesterday I did laundry all day long.
1. Something nice someone did for you recently? My husband dropped off and picked up our son from school for a whole week just because
2. What’s your favorite holiday? I love the festive atmosphere of Christmas and the 3 weeks off from school is super nice
3. Something that makes you nervous? Fearless middle schoolers on e-bikes
4. My favorite weekday lunch is? Lately, some kind of soup with a buttered piece of very crusty bread
5. Something you accomplished over the weekend? Potted up a bunch of plant cuttings while it’s still warm around here
1. Something nice someone did for you recently? The neighbors moved my trash bins from the curb to the gate area after the contents were picked up by the sanitation workers. This might not have been entirely generous on their part, though, because they run a business and sometimes have people parking in that area. They might just have wanted to get the bins out of the way.
2. What’s your favorite holiday? Not sure. I used to say New Year’s Day, as it signified a sort of “clean slate” to start over. Now I’m too old to think that matters much. None of the “family” holidays mean anything to me now, because I don’t have a family. I can’t answer the door on Halloween as I’m alone and it’s far too risky to open the door after dark to people you don’t know when you’re alone.
3. Something that makes you nervous? Pretty much everything. Though I think heights bother me the most. I’d never be one of those people who gets too close to the edge of the Grand Canyon and falls into it.
4. My favorite weekday lunch is? At work it used to be Stouffer’s Chicken a la King entrees. Quality has slipped so much, plus I’ve eaten hundreds of those, I don’t like them much anymore. When I’m off work, probably Pizza Hut pizza.
5. Something you accomplished over the weekend? Nothing significant, just the usual mundane tasks.
1. Something nice someone did for you recently? My husband has been doing a good job of getting out of my hair when I am needing some “me time” around the house.
2. What’s your favorite holiday? Probably Christmas. I’m not religious anymore, it’s more about it being cold (my favorite weather), family time, and cooking/baking.
3. Something that makes you nervous? Medical costs in retirement. I think DH and I could probably retire anytime, but we are young and saving even more to hedge against either the ACA going away or medical costs being high will probably keep us working for a while yet.
4. My favorite weekday lunch is? Honestly, anything that I didn’t have to cook. Even better if it’s from the weekly food truck that shows up to my work site.
5. Something you accomplished over the weekend? I do think my cooking mojo is coming back after many months away (probably because of the hot weather). This weekend, I tried a new cookie recipe, roasted some carrots, made scalloped potatoes, mushroom cream sauce and pasta, and air fried some chicken cutlets. I’ll keep taking frozen dinners for lunch but it’s good to have leftovers for dinners for a while.
1. Something nice someone did for you recently? One of the ladies that teaches Sunday School at church took me out for a belated birthday lunch. I had the day off so we got to spend several hours eating, drinking, and catching up as the place wasn’t busy on a Monday.
2. What’s your favorite holiday? Halloween. I think it’s because I just love the crisp air, the laughter of the kids, and the trees turning color.
3. Something that makes you nervous? Parking my truck in downtown Chicago (though nothing says “YIELD”, like a redhead out of estrogen driving a 4 x 4 black pickup).
4. My favorite weekday lunch is? yogurt, fresh fruit, and a fresh croissant (breakfast is usually a mocha chocolate protein shake made with coffee, Kachava, and coconut milk).
5. Something you accomplished over the weekend? Made a gallon of fresh orange hibiscus Kombucha tea (seriously, so much cheaper than buying it), and baked a loaf of sourdough bread.
1. Something nice someone did for you recently?
Two friends I haven’t seen in a year or more treated me to a late night dinner after we enjoyed a dance night.
2. What’s your favorite holiday?
Earth Day is kind of cool.
3. Something that makes you nervous?
The upcoming elections.
4. My favorite weekday lunch is?
Fresh mozzarella on rosemary thyme crackers.
5. Something you accomplished over the weekend?
Lots of dancing and a possible knee injury!