You might be wondering, “So what in tarnation is this Monday Poll thing anyway!?”
Well, it isn’t exactly a poll. It’s more of a constantly evolving (devolving?), somewhat random list of questions I’ve been putting out to readers every Monday morning for the past seven years. (It’s like a kickstart for your brain.) I’ve always enjoyed reading your answers in the comments, and I hope you enjoy reading mine.
- Spam (as in the canned “meat”): love it or leave it?
Ugh…as much as I hate to admit this, I kind of love it. 🙂 Not gonna lie. Even though I’m not a big meat eater anymore, sometimes I crave eggs over easy, fried Spam, rice and ketchup. I grew up eating that kind of thing for breakfast (it’s a Filipino thing), and occasionally I’ll still get a hankering for it. - Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK].
- Freshly baked chocolate chip cookies
- El Hub right after he gets out of the shower and gives me a big bear hug
- My parents’ house at Christmas
- Tabby’s stinky kitty breath first thing in the morning
- Have you ever had really terrible bangs?
Well, I was a tween in the late ’80s, so yes, I have. And they were TERRIBLE! They looked like a Brillo pad that someone had just used to clean a BBQ, LOL!No matter how hard I tried, I could never get them to look the way I wanted them to — like the big haired bangs all the cool girls had at my school.
Not my best hair years, that’s for sure.
- When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces?
I’ve tried a few times, but I must be doing something wrong with my kissy fish face looks because, yeah, not cute. - Do you ever see wild animals where you live?
OOH! Wild animals… Sounds so primeval. No, no lions, tigers, bears and that sort of thing, but we do see coyotes, raccoons, squirrels, foxes, turkeys, deer and the occasional bunny rabbit.
Your turn. 🙂 Just copy and paste the following questions into a comment with your answers. I look forward to reading ’em!
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it?
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK].
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs?
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces?
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. It’s back-to-school week, isn’t it? If you’re currently in school, what are you studying? I was sort of a confused academic soul. I studied two totally different things, English and Biology.
My folks wanted me to be a scientist or doctor, but I was more into artsy stuff… Go figure. 🙂
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? Can honestly say I’ve never eaten it and chances are, I won’t.
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK]. an even mix of summer rain, fresh cut grass, chocolate & coffee…
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? Yes!! until my ‘cows lick’ was tamed, short cut bangs were even shorted on the right side.
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? I admit it, I do – sometimes..
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? Yes! Just last week I seen 5 deer including this years fawn & 4 large Raccoons having a show down on the brick wall ledge – the deer won. I’ve also seen a Coyote with her pup and lots of bluejays, sparrows, crows & hawks.
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? Leave it. Tried it once and found it very meh.
2. Love smells like _cozy sweater_.
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? I had half-assed bangs– too thin to actually stay put, between last year of high school and sophomore year of college.
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? Nope. Never.
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? Just squirrels and the occasional crows.
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? leave it
2. Love smells like Commes de Garcons
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? yes, when I cut them off myself when I was 12 ahahah
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? Not really.
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? Luckily, no.
1. I haven’t and will never eat spam, I’m a vegetarian!
2. Love smells like hot coffee!
3. Can’t think of a time when I had bad bangs, but I’m thinking of cutting some this fall, kind of like Alexa Chungs latest hairdo!
4. I don’t do selfies, and I especially don’t do “duck lips”!
5. I live out in the country, so I have seen deer, turkeys, raccoons, woodchuck, coyote, chipmunks, squirrel, weasels, all kinds of songbirds, bald eagles….
I guess I was kind of like you in college, Karen. My bachelors is in Wildlife Biology with a minor in English!
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it?
Don’t tell.. but I kind of love it. 🙂 I didn’t even grow up with the stuff! I have no excuse!
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK].
freshly cut grass
baking bread
Puget Sound on a breezy day
Old Spice deodorant 🙂
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs?
hmm… I tried the straight-across fringe for a hot minute, but I have an infuriating cowlick at my right temple that did NOT agree with that hairstyle choice.
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces?
I think I used to.. not so much anymore, ha! Those pictures always looked a little too ridic.
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live?
I do! I tend to see plenty of birds, like sparrows and seagulls, in NYC. Rats in the Subway, of course, haha. And I once saw a wild turkey in Central Park! 🙂 that’s usually as crazy as it gets here, though.
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it?
I have no objection and have eaten it before. I don’t go out of my way to get it, though. To all the people who are grossed out, I say: it’s no different than a hot dog!
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK].
When your smell isn’t the first thing that you notice. As soon as you smell it, you feel a lightness, and maybe even a tightness in your stomach. Then, you realize that you are smelling a memory, or a person.
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs?
Maybe when I had short hair. I don’t remember / didn’t care.
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces?
No. I don’t know how.
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live?
I saw a fox recently!
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it?
I’ve never tried it actually lol
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK].
My mom’s homemade macaroni. I love it!!
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs?
Yes lol. I cut my own bangs in highschool since my mom wouldn’t let me. They were pretty choppy lol. That’s when I learned there’s a science to hair and scissors lol
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces?
I do. I love a good kissy face!
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live?
There’s a lot of squirrels and deer here in Michigan. Occasionally, I’ll see a raccoon, possum or little rabbit too
1) Spam – like you, once in a while, love crispy fried spam with fried rice eggs and banana ketchup!!
2) Love smells like the prime rib dinner I devoured with hubby when I was in the dumps
3) Luckily I have the face for bangs so even when it was cut too short I still looked ok hehehe
4) I can’t pull off the fish face lol
5) There’s a wild bunny family living near our house :). We occasionally see a deer, a fox, and the unmistakeable scent of a skunk lol
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? Leave it. I’m a vegetarian.
2. Love smells like freshly baked bread.
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? No. Not terrible. But some kinda bad ones I guess.
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? No, oh god no, I can’t stand that!
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? Foxes, rabbits, that kind of stuff yeah, but nothing cool 🙂
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? Leave it! I have a very low salt tolerance, so Spam is totally out of the question.
2. Love smells like: post-thunderstorm rain, Georgio Armani Aqua di Gioia, cookies
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? I had a bowl cut when I was 2 or 3, but that was short lived.
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? Rarely, but I have on occasion.
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? There’s been 4 cougar sightings in the last month. On a regular basis I see ducks, ducks, more ducks, squirrels, squirrels, and lots more squirrels.
Happy Monday!
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? I can’t remember what it tastes like but I sometimes make a mac & cheese casserole with canned corned beef and Velveeta, so I’m not judging anyone’s tastes!
2. Love smells like Holiday dinner, blankets fresh from the dryer, grape Bubble Yum and (unfortunately) hockey gloves. 🙂
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? Oh, my, yes. Also a victim of the 80s. I had the “cool” mile high bangs and trust me, that was just as bad as the Brillo!
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? I’ve actually never taken a selfie but sometimes I’ll make that face when other people take my picture (jokingly but also to reduce the chinless, moon face look).
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? All the time. We have tons of bunnies, skunks, foxes and racoons in town.
On a completely different note, have you been watching the Leftovers? The show is decent but, holy cow, Justin Theroux is hot. I never knew! A bit short for my taste but, dang!
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? I think I tried it when I was a kid and never did again!
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK] cotton candy!
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? I have had bangs almost my entire life, and I’ve never considered them terrible 😉
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? not yet, but maybe I should start
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? yes, and they are eating my garden
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? Leave, I am a semi-vegetarian now.
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK]. Fresh linen in spring/summer
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? No, not really
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? Nope lol
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? squirrels sometimes, owls but I just hear them because seeing or watching them is impossible, wallabies 🙂 at the park, foxes but this is very uncommon it happened just once in more than 10 years, snakes ( usually gentle ones but still scaring ), butterflies which is very good, it means good for biodiversity :)and lizzards !
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? No. Just no.
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK]. Chocolate!
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? Yup…all the way from when I had a bowl cut when I was 4 (why mom, why?!) to my senior year of college. I finally grew them out then and never looked back.
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? I don’t take selfies. No one wants to see that, LOL.
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? Not too many wild animals in downtown Baltimore…although once when I was running I saw the cutest little fox on someone’s lawn. And a couple months ago we had a bull that escaped from a slaughterhouse running around downtown. He was just trotting along a median strip on a very busy street…the police shot him. 🙁
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it?
Leave it. It’s vile. God only knows what unknowns are in it…
2. Love smells like vanilla, coffee, coconut oil, freshly baked bread, freshly mown grass, eau de cologne.
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs?
No, not really, thankfully!
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces?
No. I forget to!
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live?
Yep. Deer, badgers, foxes, rabbits, herons, woodpeckers.
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it?
I LOVE Spam! Give me a couple slices with some fried noodles and fried egg on the side, or on top of a steaming hot bowl of instant noodles with lots of soup! To lessen my guilt though it will not make a difference anyway, I add a few miserable chunks of broccoli. Hahaha
2. Love smells like Hubs at the end of a work day (I love his natural smell mixed with D&G Light Blue), the kitchen when Hubs is cooking, my grandmother with her whole army of medicated oils, and Chloe perfume.
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs?
YES. I was dating a Taiwanese guy in the past, and to look “cute”, I cut my bangs to look like one of those cute Taiwanese actresses, or even the Korean ones. Sadly my face structure and looks belong to the more mature type, so for 6 months I felt like wearing a cap to work everyday (except I cannot!) and using a whole bottle of hair spray to fix my bangs into a permanent “side parted” style. I really looked so darn weird. NO MORE BANGS.
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces?
I’d rather look cock than look cute. Cross-eyes, face in spasms and the reverse lip bite (Hubs told me he finds ladies who bit their lower lips cute, so I purposely brought my lower jaw outwards and did a chew on my upper lips, gorilla style… He never talked about his favorite poses anymore after that hur hur) are my go-tos.
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live?
Squirrels, snakes, foxes and groundhogs count? I will like to see some deer, but I doubt they will venture this far out of the park which is less than 10 minutes by driving from my place.
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it?
Ew, leave it! Never had it and no desire to try.
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK].
Fresh peonies. I received them as a gift as a teenager and just smelling them brings me back to that place. Also– lilac bushes. We had them in spades at the farm where I grew up, and the scent reminds me of a childhood while not always happy, was always filled with love.
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs?
Only as a young child did I have bangs and they honestly weren’t awful. I’ve always known bangs on my round face would not be a good look, so I’ve never had them since I controlled my own hair.
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces?
Only on occasion. The last time I did, the recipient asked if I was just making a weird face or blowing a kiss. I guess if they have to ask…that’s not a good sign.
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live?
All the time! A few months ago, I was getting into my car when a woodchuck ran out from underneath the car and across my foot. Eek! I see deer pretty much all the time, and lots of small animals like raccoons, bunnies, skunks, groundhogs, etc. Wild dogs/coyotes are very common and bears have been spotted a few times over the years.
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? NO. Regular ham in a non-can is preferred. 🙂
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK]. The forest. Or whatever project hubby is working on… 🙂
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? I have really curly hair and I had “the waterfall” in the 80s (accomplished with a curling iron).
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? I really don’t take selfies but when someone else takes them of both of us…no…no fish faces.
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? Yes. Here in the suburbs of Boston we have coyotes, deer, woodchucks, lots of birds and crazy chipmunks that keep eating my garden tomatoes while they are still green!
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? I’ve never tried it!
2. Love smells like old books.
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? Yes, a few years ago. I have very wavy hair and somehow convinced myself that straight-across bangs would suit me. I looked…very ’80s, actually.
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? Noooo!
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? Deer and rabbits, and my apartment had a mouse infestation last winter, if that counts. Shudder.
Oh, and I’m currently getting a PhD in English literature. I’m glad to hear that you’re a member of the tribe of English majors!
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? I´m from Brasil and here we don´t have this kind of meat
2. Love smells like: my parents house on hollidays like christmas, sunblock (remember me sunny days on the beach =)), smell of cookies cakes breads pizzas =)
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? not that i remember
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? It´s rare, it´s not my best angle
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? I live in an apartament in Rio and sometimes I see little monkeys at the tree in front of my window
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it?- never really tried so can’t say till I give it a shot…
2. Love smells like baby powder
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? Hell yes….and they resembled limp cockroach antennas!!! Ewwwwwwh!!!….. N a horrendous haircut to go with it.. But then thankfully I had clip them away when in school so I figured out a way to get away…
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces?… Well not really… Selfies n I haven’t come to good terms as yet…
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? Sadly no!
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it?
I’ve never had it.
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK].
Fresh mown grass or YSL L’homme Nuit
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs?
I’m having them right now! I have had terrible bangs several times!
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces?
No. I’m also terrible at selfies so I just avoid them now.
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live?
Quite a few actually! I saw a sea otter last week and some deer this week. I live in puget sound of the PNW so there is a decent amount of wildlife even around the more urban areas.
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it?
Leave it. I’ve been vegetarian for over a decade, never tried it, probably not going to start now.
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK].
A fresh pot of frijoles de la olla (Mexican-style pinto beans).
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs?
Never had bangs. I have curly hair, so bangs are a dicey proposition at best.
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces?
Can’t say that I have. My selfie game is not strong, it pretty much takes all my concentration to just make sure my face is in the picture at all.
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live?
Sure. In CA, mostly coyotes, lots of birds and lizards, occasionally a rattlesnake or tarantula. In MI, mostly deer, skunks, and squirrels. I went snorkeling in La Jolla last week and saw leopard sharks, which was awesome.
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? I love it. I grew up with it and still love it in my ramen or for breakfast (like you have it) with rice, eggs and ketchup. Yum!
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK].
Orange bloosoms. Grew up not far from Orange groves. 🙂
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? Yes! also grew up in the 80’s – all types of bad hair styles during that time LOL
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? No, I haven’t tried making fish faces when taking a slefie. Now I might have to try.
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? Nope
YAY! MBBMP! (Kinda sounds like Mmmbop, speaking of the 90’s)
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? LOVE! So yummy pan seared and served with eggs! It’s also amazing chopped up in mac n’ cheese with some stewed tomatoes. YURM.
2. Love smells like Christmas dinner! <3
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? Oh yeah. I had real sweet bowl cut bangs through 9th grade. D:
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? I have before, but it has to happen naturally. You have to be wearing a great lipstick that makes you feel sassyfied and then…it kind of just happens!
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? The weirdest thing I've ever seen near my house was a pair of turkey buzzards. They stared at me as I walked to my car. It gave me the creeps!
Spam (as in the canned meat) was my absolute favorite side dish to go along with breakfat foods. My mother being West African and having a taste for tangy meats, served it with almost everything possible from fried spam and bread, to spam sloppy joes, to spam and coffee. Yes, we ate sloppy joes for breakfast.
For me love smells like when you’re walking down an unfamiliar road, or something Long those lines, and you get a quick whiff of some food and all of a sudden you feel like you’re at home. It’s that smell that you can’t exactly name, but you know it in your heart, and it brings you an odd sense of euphoric bliss.
Have I I ever had terrible bangs? Only once, and that was because I didn’t exactly understand how bangs worked. Basically, my entire forehead would be hidden, my tan was horrible.
When it comes to selfies, I am guilty of the kissy/duck lips. I thought they mase my cheeks more hollowed and contoured, but ehh.
I live in the city so the only wild animals I get to see are my local politicians.
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? Eric Idle said that Spam should only be used for comedy purposes, and never eaten. I follow that advice religiously. My mother was a fan, and made me eat it when I was little. It was very traumatizing.
2. Love smells like … the top of a baby’s head.
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? As a child, when my mom would cut my bangs, or worse, let one of her friends do it.
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces?
I have never even taken a selfie. I hate pictures of myself. If I did, I would not make the stupid duckface/fishlips.
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? I live in the suburbs of Portland, OR. Yes — squirrels, red-tailed hawks, field mice, raccoons, opossums, all kinds of birds, the occasional owl. When I lived about 25 miles further out, in the country, we got all those plus shrews, frogs, snakes, feral cats, skunks, coyotes and the occasional wolf. Some of the wetlands in the area have beaver and nutria.
. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? – LOVE it!
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK]. Freshly licked kitty fur, baking bread, sautéing garlic, steak grilling
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? Never had bangs
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? Don’t take selfies
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? No, I’m right in the City – no wild animals on Nob Hill
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? LEAVE it. I just can’t handle it, but my ex used to love it (yup, must be a Filipino thing) and I could never get used to it (I’m more of a pigsfeet kinda gal, which is gross in its own way).
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK]. Fresh-baked bread made by my mom. That weird Denali scent by Old Spice (I can’t claim my SO has good taste in shower gels).
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? I definitely had the same 80s bangs that never quite looked right. Whenever it was a “special occasion” my mom insisted on curling my bangs, so I have a slew of horrible photos of them, like birthdays, first day of school, etc. So embarrassing.
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? No, I usually end up with more of a scowl or snarl. I’m definitely not model material!
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? We usually get coyotes, hawks, javelina, ground squirrels. Nothing too exciting for the most part.
It’s my fifth week back at school here (we start early in AZ, and since I work there, I start even earlier than the kids!).
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? leave it
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK].
Vanilla
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs?
umm not terrible bangs but a terrible layers hair cut, I looked like mushroom and the layers entered my ears. Is as annoying as a mosquito zooming near your ear.
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces?
I don’t take selfies, So no chance to make kissy or /fish faces.
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live?
If lizards counts as wild animals, yes
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it?
As we don’t eat it here in Mexico I’ve only seen it sometimes in the supermarket but haven’t even buy it.
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK].
-The hair of my sister.
-My dad and mom perfume.
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs?
Not really, when I had my hair longer I had my front hair as a bang, it didn’t look completely bad.
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces?
No, I don’t look good doing those faces.
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live?
No, only dogs and cats.
I started school last week and I remembered how comfortable is to stay in the house without doing anything but I want to learn. I’m studying a Bachelor’s degree in Communication.
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? I haven’t had it in many years, but loved it as a kid, especially breaded and pan fried.
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK]. Dog paws (they smell like corn chips), pancakes and coffee in the morning, babies.
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? No, I only had super short, retro type bangs that looked really cute.
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? I don’t take selfies.
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? Saw a couple of raccoons and a possum recently, oh and one deer on an early morning walk. On a city street in Oakland!
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it?
–YUCK!!
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK].
–a steamin’ cup of Chai tea!
–freshly washed sheets!
–my daughter’s hair after her bath!
–a combo of suntan lotion and salt air, which means—VACATION!!
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs?
–sadly, more than once! I have an extremely small forehead and finding the “perfect” bangs just doesn’t “work” for me….
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces?
–yes, and it’s a hit or miss look for me!
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live?
–well, yes we do! We get deer alot and every so often we get news reports about bears and wild cats that wander into the neighboring areas.
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? I’m vegan, so leave it!
2. Love smells like a crisp fall day!
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? Yes, i cut them myself supershort in grade 5!
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? No, i leave fish faces for the fishes!
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? Nope! Too close to toronto!
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? – Never tried it! I’m open to it, but I’m afraid I’ll hate it, and I hate wasting food, so I’m waiting for the fateful moment when someone offers a small bite for me to try!
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK]. – Little babies! I love the smell of little babies and think that’s what love (in the family aspect, anyway) really smells like. For more romantic love, I’d say that kinda combo morning smell of breakfast and coffee and maybe a hint of laundry detergent in the background from folding 🙂 Just a chill-morning-together elixir.
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? – Honestly, no! I have had bangs I disliked (thinking my stylist cut them too short, for example) or hated styling (I now know I can never do sideswept- my hair falls straight into my eyes!), but they actually looked good on me when I took care of them.
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? – Not really! I’m not against it, but I also feel like that invites ridicule, and I usually aim to be a bit more original 🙂
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? – Yes, absolutely! Northern Michigan has many. The usual are deer, squirrels, coyotes, rabbits, chipmunks, muskrats, hawks, turkeys, bald eagles, an assortment of fowl and fish, and if you’re lucky (or unlucky, depending!), you might see wolves, mountain lions, bears, minks, pine martens, bobcats, or osprey. The first 3 are more populous in the upper peninsula, while I live just below the bridge and don’t have to worry about those so much.
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? I am a vegan, so leave it.
2. Love smells like [FILL IN THE BLANK]. the beach at night
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? Yes. Until my mother finally listened to me when I said I hated straight bangs (when I was twelve). I have not had bangs since.
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? I have been known to.
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? My husband and I were on a walk a couple of nights ago and saw an otter and a beaver! I had never seen a wild otter. Super cute! We also used to have a family of raccoons who lived behind us. There was a mother, father, and baby. The baby (who I had named Cicily) messed with my little black cat Kitty one evening and Kitty scratched him! The racoons went away after that as the parents looked angry with my cat. Kitty lives inside now…
1. Spam (as in the canned meat): love it or leave it? Leave it. Although my Hawaiian friends LOVE it!
2. Love smells like : toasted marshmallows.
3. Have you ever had really terrible bangs? Every so often I trim my own bangs and I always seem to get them a WEE bit too short. Bettie Page anyone?
4. When you take selfies, do you ever make those kissy/fish faces? Guilty!
5. Do you ever see wild animals where you live? Pigeons and seagulls in the city by the Bay!