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. Last show you binged watched?
“The Diplomat” season 2 on Netflix with Keri Russell. It’s a little silly but I like how they weave real things that happen in the world into it.
2. Have you started planning for Thanksgiving yet?
Girl, no. LOL! I barely made it through the Halloween season, which honestly felt like it was three years long. I know in a few years, when Connor’s older, I’ll miss all the activities. Anyway, for Thanksgiving, we’re invited to a dinner that a friend is hosting, so we’ll probably do that. Or, we’ll just stay at home in our jammies, watch movies and have a crab fest again. So fun!
3. Pick your fall nail color – red, burgundy or dark blue?
Ooh, burgundy please! I’d love a touch of barely there micro shimmer and a shiny finish.
4. Peas mixed into your mashed potatoes – yes or no?
Hard no. I like my mashed potatoes traditional. Lots of butter, with the option for gravy.
5. Something you’d like to accomplish this week?
I’d love to carve out some time to write. Work is finally winding down a little, and so are all the activities that packed our calendar last month. I’m hoping that a little bit of breathing room will allow me to relax enough to joyfully sit at my computer and let my mind wander. I’ve had a hard time focusing lately; I’ve felt pulled in all the directions.
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. Last show you binged watched?
2. Have you started planning for Thanksgiving yet?
3. Pick your fall nail color – red, burgundy or dark blue?
4. Peas mixed into your mashed potatoes – yes or no?
5. Something you’d like to accomplish this week?
1. Last show you binged watched? OMG I am binging so many good shows right now: Shrinking, Lincoln Lawyer, Disclaimer, Nobody Wants This, Colin from Accounts
2. Have you started planning for Thanksgiving yet? No way.
3. Pick your fall nail color – red, burgundy or dark blue? Dark blue.
4. Peas mixed into your mashed potatoes – yes or no? Heck no.
5. Something you’d like to accomplish this week? Finishing two major projects before I leave for a long weekend trip.
1. Last show you binged watched? Didn’t really binge watch…but we just finished Marvel’s Agatha all Along on Disney
2. Have you started planning for Thanksgiving yet? No. It’s my least favorite holiday😐
3. Pick your fall nail color – red, burgundy or dark blue? Red
4. Peas mixed into your mashed potatoes – yes or no? No peas
5. Something you’d like to accomplish this week? This election has my stomach in knots…not sure how much I will accomplish this week.
1. Last show you binged watched?
Z Nation. A zombie apocalypse dark comedy/horror series. It was a Halloween season background show for me. I honestly hardly paid attention!
2. Have you started planning for Thanksgiving yet?
I’ll be at the beach and am so very much looking forward to it. As for the day itself, no!
3. Pick your fall nail color – red, burgundy or dark blue?
I painted my toenails a bright cheery red this weekend. Although I love shades of burgundy too.
4. Peas mixed into your mashed potatoes – yes or no?
Canned peas are one of the few veggies I just can’t do.
5. Something you’d like to accomplish this week?
Honestly I’m just trying to survive (election anxiety). I’m making a list of things I can do to try and take my mind off politics this week. It’s proving difficult already.
1. Last show you binged watched?
What We Do in the Shadows
2. Have you started planning for Thanksgiving yet?
No! My plan is to have someone else plan it and we’ll go there!
3. Pick your fall nail color – red, burgundy or dark blue?
Just painted mine a dark burgundy last night.
4. Peas mixed into your mashed potatoes – yes or no?
No thanks. I don’t like my food touching food.
5. Something you’d like to accomplish this week?
Go to the gym at least twice, ideally 3 times.
1. Last show you binged watched? My husband and I kicked off our October horror marathon by bingeing Midnight Mass.
2. Have you started planning for Thanksgiving yet? Nope. All I know is I want to bake a pumpkin cheesecake and some kind of pie with my little boy.
3. Pick your fall nail color – red, burgundy or dark blue? Dark blue
4. Peas mixed into your mashed potatoes – yes or no? Oh no
5. Something you’d like to accomplish this week? Start taking out my cooler weather clothes and continue (and hopefully stop) the stress baking 😁
1. Last show you binged watched? Chicago Med – yes some of the medical bits aren’t accurate, but I got hooked on several of the relationships between characters and had to keep watching.
2. Have you started planning for Thanksgiving yet? No, it’s just hubby and I, my daughter spends Thanksgiving with the Hawaii half of the family. I’m NOT flying that far over a holiday.
3. Pick your fall nail color – red, burgundy or dark blue? Burgundy!
4. Peas mixed into your mashed potatoes – yes or no? No, butter, and lots of it.
5. Something you’d like to accomplish this week? Get out and walk m ore before it gets really cold,
1. Last show you binged watched? Shogun.
2. Have you started planning for Thanksgiving yet? Nope. I’ll probably start texting Dear Daughter about her menu wants once her Micro, Macro, Econometrics and Abstract Math midterms are done.
3. Pick your fall nail color – red, burgundy or dark blue? Burgundy with a bit of micro shimmer.
4. Peas mixed into your mashed potatoes – yes or no? Absolutely not!
5. Something you’d like to accomplish this week? Drop off my beauty recyclables to Nordstrom. Try on and clear out my jeans drawer and maybe the shoe part of my closet, too. Pare down my makeup collection a bit, too. (I’ve been pretty good about not falling for every new shadow palette that gets released these days) Buy some new bed linens, the ones I have are getting threadbare.
1. Last show you binged watched? Finishing The Diplomat tonight. I will watch anything with Rufus Sewell – man is amazing. Also just finished Inside Man with Stanley Tucci – will also watch anything with him in it
2. Have you started planning for Thanksgiving yet? Just made dinner reservations
3. Pick your fall nail color – red, burgundy or dark blue? Burgundy
4. Peas mixed into your mashed potatoes – yes or no? No way – I refuse to eat peas.
5. Something you’d like to accomplish this week? Clean up our outside patio for winter & finish clearing the leaves. We have a lot of trees – I spent 3 hours leaf blowing yesterday
1. Last show you binged watched? On DVD, “The Crown.” I get this from the library, so there’s at least one whole season I haven’t seen yet. On cable, I guess you could say “Bluey.” Since the shows are mostly very short, I think I’ve already seen all of them at least twice.
2. Have you started planning for Thanksgiving yet? Not really. Even if I plan a dinner, probably not more than one relative will show up for it. Not sure if it’s worth the trouble.
3. Pick your fall nail color – red, burgundy or dark blue? Red.
4. Peas mixed into your mashed potatoes – yes or no? No.
5. Something you’d like to accomplish this week? I have a ton of things to do. I really must buy a new clothes dryer because I can’t stand towels that feel like sandpaper (that’s what you get when you line-dry cotton towels that have been washed and dried 100 times). I also need to schedule some doctor appointments. As a cancer patient, I’m really worried due to some symptoms I’m having.
1. Last show you binged watched?
Murdoch Mysteries with my brother last May. We love to fact-check the history!
2. Have you started planning for Thanksgiving yet?
I bought a bag of stuffing mix, but am not sure I’m going to use it. With mother gone now and my brother busy at work in another state, it’s probably just going to be vegetarian me and my dad. Not sure we’re going to bother this year.
3. Pick your fall nail color – red, burgundy or dark blue?
Burgundy is so pretty, but it’s probably another blue for me. Again.
4. Peas mixed into your mashed potatoes – yes or no?
Maybe a few.
5. Something you’d like to accomplish this week?
Make the dental appointment! After the move down here last year it’s all new doctors for me, and not great insurance. Nervous doesn’t begin to cover it!
1. Last show you binged watched? Probably the Diplomat, although I was binging The Witcher (haven’t finished that) around the same time.
2. Have you started planning for Thanksgiving yet? Not yet, still need to finalize who is coming. Then the planning.
3. Pick your fall nail color – red, burgundy or dark blue? Probably burgundy, but I almost never wear nail polish anymore.
4. Peas mixed into your mashed potatoes – yes or no? Absolutely not. Roasted garlic is the only add-on I like.
5. Something you’d like to accomplish this week? Getting through the week, considering the election, will be an accomplishment in itself.
I am seriously late to the Monday poll party, which seems appropriate for the week I’m having, lol.
1. Last show you binged watched?
Downton Abbey. I needed to work through my grief at losing Maggie Smith.😔
2. Have you started planning for Thanksgiving yet?
No.
3. Pick your fall nail color – red, burgundy or dark blue?
A nice moody blue, maybe with a touch of purple.
4. Peas mixed into your mashed potatoes – yes or no?
Absolutely not. I am Team No Peas.
5. Something you’d like to accomplish this week?
I’m working on a 500-page book I’d like to finish and I need to reorganize my desk drawers.