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, and pleeeeease be safe!

1. What was the last thing you purchased second-hand?
2. What’s a dish you cannot resist a second helping of?
3. How many seconds can you go right now without blinking?
4. Whose second album is much better than their debut album?
5. What’s something for which you were runner-up?

Thanks for participating, and have a 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, and pleeeeease be safe! I mean in your life, not answering the questions. Please be reckless answering the questions because I think we could all use a little bit of excitement in our online reading.

1. In what way have you recently been naughty?
2. What’s the closest you’ve been to death-defying these past few weeks?
3. What temptations have you recently resisted?
4. What’s something you wish you didn’t recently see?
5. What behavior from others are you excusing nowadays?

Thanks for participating, and have a thrilling weekend! Happy Easter if you celebrate it, and…whatever the appropriate Passover wishes are, if you commemorate that.

Please stay safe, and please: if you’re going through this stuff alone and would like to chat, I’m right here. I hope you’ll reach out for DMs, IMs, or texts.

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5. Who else had the longest March in history? 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!

1. What did you have too much of this week?
2. What did you have not enough of this week?
3. What did you have in just the right amount or number?
4. What’s better today than it was a week ago?
5. When they make a movie about last month, what would be a good song for the soundtrack?

Thanks for participating, and have a safe day. If you feel you’re going through this alone, please reach out and I’ll be happy to chat. My contact info is in last week’s post.

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 would you do with more physical storage space?
2. What would you do with more living space?
3. Would you rather have more kitchen counter space or kitchen cabinet space?
4. What would you do with a larger bedroom?
5. What’s taking up too much space in your brain lately?

Thanks for participating, and have a safe week!

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. In the next seven days, what’s something you’ll do for your mental health?
2. In the next seven days, what’s something you’ll do to feel connected?
3. In the next seven days, what’s something you’ll do to relax?
4. In the next seven days, what’s something you’ll do to make yourself laugh?
5. In the next seven days, what’s something you’ll do to flex your creativity?

Thanks for participating, and have a safe weekend! If you’re sheltering at home and want someone to connect with, please friend me on FB or add me on Twitter, and I’ll be happy to chat online (IMs or DMs only — no phone calls or video chats). Nobody should go through this alone. If I don’t know you by name, please tell me who you are on FB messenger or @ me on Twitter — I don’t add just anyone! 🙂

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. In what ways have recent events altered your everyday life or your plans?
2. Where’s a good place to dine out if you want to practice comfortable social distancing?
3. How’s your mood lately?
4. If you’re forced to isolate at home for a couple of weeks, what would be your primary source of entertainment?
5. How do you think you’d be able to handle two weeks of isolation at home, assuming whoever you live with (if anyone) would do the same?

Thanks for participating, and have a safe weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your website. 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!

Did you know Hawaii doesn’t do Daylight Savings Time? Have fun springing forward, you other Americans (minus Arizona, I think)!

1. What is something you’re not looking forward to this weekend?
2. What lies ahead of the weekend?
3. What are you making progress on?
4. What were you most recently a little too early for?
5. When did something fun unexpectedly spring up?

Thanks for participating, and have a progressive 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!

Sorry for the late post. Sometimes I don’t realize it’s Friday until I’m knee-deep in Fridayness.

1. What’s something can’t do alone?
2. What’s something you can’t do if people around you are making noise?
3. What’s something you can’t do in complete silence?
4. What’s something you can only do at home?
5. What’s something you wish you didn’t need help with?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, lovely 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!

We did a variation on this theme several years ago but I’m feeling it again. I’ll try not to repeat questions from the first time.

1. The motto of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus, which means, “Never tickle a sleeping dragon.” Using Google Translate to turn English to Latin, what would be the name and motto of a school you founded?
2. What is the motto of a school you attended, and how do you feel about its representing you (or about your representing it)?
3. From this list of university and college mottos, which will be yours for the coming weekend?
4. Based strictly on its motto, which country should you be a citizen of?
5. Based strictly on its motto, which U.S. state, federal district, or territory should you probably stay away from?

Thanks for participating, have a great weekend, and Floreat Regina!

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!

When I wrote these, I meant for you to create your own words, but of course if you’d rather just use words already in existence, I’m not going to have you arrested.

1. A portmanteau is a linguistic blend of words, as with “motor” and “hotel” becoming “motel,” or “breakfast” and “lunch” becoming “brunch.” What would be a good portmanteau to describe your mood today?
2. An acronym is a word or name formed from the initial components of a longer name or phrase, usually using individual initial letters, as when “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation” becomes LASER and “self-contained underwater breathing apparatus” becomes SCUBA. What’s a pronouncable acronym to describe a meal you had today?
3. A backronym is a constructed phrase purporting to be the source of a word that is an acronym, as when (in elementary school) my classmates insisted KISS (the band name) stood for Knights Under Satan’s Service or that FORD (the name of the auto manufacturer) stood for Fix Or Repair Daily, or Found On Road Daily, and don’t get me started on SPAM. What’s a good backronym for the name of a street you traverse regularly?
4. A demonym is a word identifying residents or natives of a particular place, usually derived from the name of the place, as “Californian” is a demonym for people from California, and “Iraqi” is a demonym for people from Iraq. What would be a good demonym for the people who serve you at a favorite establishment? *
5. Onomatopoeia is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes, as when we describe a cat as saying “meow,” or a sack of flour hitting the floor going “thud.” What are some onomatopoiec words to describe sounds your body makes?

Thanks for participating, and have a C.O.O.L. weekend! **

* You know, like maybe they’re all Sexinese from Sexylvania, or Rudian from Rudeville.
** Considerably Outstanding, Outrageously Long. See how easy #3 is?