Author: scrivener

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. When did you last give (or serve) something you cooked to someone not in your residence?
2. When did someone — not a restaurant or takeout spot or housemate! — last prepare a dish for you?
3. When did you last reach out to someone who could use some company?
4. When did someone last reach out to you for similar reasons?
5. How good a listener are you when someone needs to talk it out?

Thanks for participating, and have a glorious, safe weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

This week’s 5 is inspired by the party game Scattergories, in which players have to think of items, all beginning with the same letter, in several categories. For example, if the die is rolled and shows the letter M, players might have to name a soft drink, a farm animal, a river, and a U.S. President, all beginning with M. Valid answers might be Mountain Dew, mouse, Missouri, and Monroe.

First, go to this nifty online random-letter generator. Set the “number of random letter sequences to generate” to 1. Set the “length of each random letter sequence” to 1. Leave the “letters to choose from” how it is and click the button. You’ll get a rather non-dramatic one letter. Use that letter to begin all your answers to the 5 questions below. If you’d like to avoid difficult letters, feel free to change the “letters to choose from” list. I’ll only judge you a little bit.  🙂

Alternately, if you find this boring, you could set the “length of each random letter sequence” to 5, thereby giving you five letters, a different one for each question.

Wow! This is our eleventh year doing this! If you find this particularly fun (because I do) and haven’t done this before, here are the questions for parts 9 and 10. Go crazy and do those too.

Please answer these questions with an answer whose initial is the letter you rolled!

1. What’s something that recently exceeded your expectations?
2. What snack from your childhood would you love to have right now?
3. What ailment do you suffer from?
4. Which musical artist would be fun to hang out with?
5. What’s something you’re looking forward to this weekend?

Thanks for participating, and have a XCSOH* weekend!

* (generated by the random letter generator)

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What kiddie song do you still like as a grownup?
2. When did a new* song most recently* get you excited?
3. What song were you introduced to via television ad or as background in a movie or TV show?
4. Which song’s opening lyric do you especially love?
5. With which five songs would you begin a weekend-themed playlist?
   Alternate question: With which five songs would you begin a playlist themed for this weekend?

* defined however you like

Thanks for participating! Have a wonderful, safe weekend!

(alternate title: Moist!)

Hallo. Welcome to this week’s Friday 5. Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What word do you love the sound of?
2. What word do you hate the sound of?
3. What word do you always have to look up because you can’t remember how to spell it correctly?
4. What are some individual words to describe this past week?
5. What’s a word you know that many people don’t?

Thanks for participating, and have a crowkeeper of a weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What gadget did you most recently obtain, and which gadget do you have your eyes on?
2. What business establishment did you most recently visit for the first time, and which do you have your eyes on?
3. What movie did you most recently see, and which do you you have your eyes on?
4. What reading material did you most recently consume, and which do you have your eyes on?
5. Which current event has been of greatest interest to you this week, and which do you think will grab your attention next week?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely weekend! I’ve been a little smooshed for time lately, so I’m not commenting as actively, but I promise I read every word of every response!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What is the least organized area of your daily life?
2. What is the most organized area of your daily life?
3. How well do you handle disruptions of your routines?
4. How do you respond to unexpected blocks of unstructured time?
5. How structured is your time this weekend?

Thanks for participating, and have a loooooooovely, saaaaaaaaafe weekend!

Hello! And welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What’s got you feeling chipper these days?
2. About what did you decide to let the chips fall where they may?
3. What are you chipping away at?
4. What potato chips did you most recently consume?
5. When did you most recently toss your cookies?

Thanks for playing, and have a lovely, wonderful, safe weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. For what ability do you seem to have a natural gift?
2. What’s pretty good about the present moment?
3. What nearby, everyday object would be a good symbolic bequest to someone in your life?
4. What recognitions, large or small, have been bestowed upon you?
5. What was your most recent charitable donation?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, safe weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What’s your prescription for a case of Weekend Uncertainties?
2. What’s your prescription for a persistent case of Restless Munchies Syndrome?
3. What’s your prescription for Streamer’s Indecision?
4. What’s your prescription for a hypersensitive Get Off My Lawn reflex?
5. What’s your prescription for an inflamed FOMO?

Thanks for participating, and may I prescribe a lovely, safe weekend?

Hello and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

I saw a movie. In a cinema. I almost can’t believe it. Here are questions inspired by (and posted from my phone during) the movie.

1. What’s the best non-animated movie musical you’ve seen in the past several years?
2. How are you most likely to pass the time during a lengthy blackout?
3. When were you last in a swimming pool?
4. What do you remember fondly about the neighborhood where you grew up?
5. What language did you study in school, and what’s something you remember how to say?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful, safe weekend! May you find something to give you a little joy—you deserve it. And may you find a way to bring some joy to others—they deserve it too.