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It’s been a while since our last gripe session!

1. What’s your biggest complaint about in-store shopping?
2. What’s your biggest complaint about seeing movies in a theater?
3. What’s your biggest complaint about personal hygiene?
4. What’s your biggest complaint about preparing a meal?
5. What’s your biggest complaint about your neighborhood?

Thanks for participating, and have an excessively positive, safe weekend!

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1. When did you last (literally or figuratively) feel the earth move?
2. What’s so far away?
3. What is it too late for?
4. When did you recently long to be home again and feeling right?
5. Which five beautiful things did you see this week?

Thank you for participating! Have a wonderful, safe weekend, and will you love me tomorrow?

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1. A well-known proverb begins, “Early to bed, early to rise…” How would you complete it so it’s descriptive of (not prescriptive for!) your life?
2. A well-known proverb begins, “If at first you don’t succeed…” How would you complete it so it’s descriptive of (not prescriptive for!) your life?
3. A well-known proverb ends, “…is the best policy.” How would you begin it so it’s descriptive of (not prescriptive for) your life?
4. A well-known proverb ends, “…is the spice of life.” How would you begin it so it’s descriptive of (not prescriptive for!) your life?
5. A well-known proverb ends, “…is the best medicine.” How would you begin it so it’s descriptive of (not prescriptive for!) your life?

Thanks for participating, and have a safe, fabulous, comfortable, relaxing weekend!

* I originally wrote this prompt but decided it might be too much of a downer, so I’m tacking it on at the end as an optional bonus question. Please ignore it if you’d rather not go there!

A well-known proverb begins, “There are…” and ends “…in the sea.” How would you fill the middle so it’s descriptive of your life?

* Here’s one I wrote twice, but it didn’t fit the descriptive/prescriptive model I established.

A well-known (something) begins, “I scream; you scream; we all scream for…” How would you complete it so it’s descriptive of your life?

A well-known (something) begins, “…for ice cream!” How would you begin it so it’s descriptive of your life?

Feel free to riff on either or both of these as well. You can see my issue. The original statement isn’t prescriptive. Maybe I should have asked, “…so it’s prescriptive for a better life, not descriptive of yours?” 🙂

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These are college application essay questions, but of course you don’t have to answer them in essay form. However, if you write them, I will read them, and possibly admit you into my university!

1. If you could create a new academic subject, what would it be and why?
2. Describe a time when you stood up for something you believed in. What were the challenges, and what was the outcome?
3. What is one question you wish you knew the answer to? Why is this question important to you?
4. Describe a time when you collaborated with others to achieve a common goal. What role did you play, and what did you learn from the experience?
5. Describe a time when you felt like an outsider. How did you overcome this feeling?

This reminded me of how much I hate college application essay questions, not because of the task but because of the inanity of the questions. I have helped many high-schoolers formulate their own responses, and it has always felt to me like they are all really the same question. I think I’ll write questions college applications should really ask and we’ll make that a future 5. 🙂

Thanks for participating, and have a gorgeous, ravishing, delectable, juicy, safe weekend!

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1. When did you last read a physical issue of a magazine?
2. If someone were going through your wardrobe, which item or items would give the person a good idea of your age?
3. What is your favorite song released in 2024?*
4. What non-food item did you last put in a zippered plastic bag?
5. You may know that in Japan there are cafes where you can play with bunnies, cats, hedgehogs, reptiles, owls, and many other kinds of animals. Assuming one hundred percent good faith, which would mean the animals’ safety and mental health are completely assured and the animals are rescues, making it unsafe for them to be released back into the wild, which animal cafe (whether it exists now or not) would you most like to spend time in?

* come on; you can do it!

Thank you for participating, and may there be fireworks in your heart but not in the air above your house this weekend!

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I loved reading your responses to last week’s questions, but I fear you only parsed half the theme. Hint: there were eight EDs for a reason. 🙂

We did this week’s theme two years ago, but I rather liked it, so here’s a second set of questions.

1. What’s in your wallet?
2. Where’s the beef?
3. What’s the best part of waking up?
4. What keeps going and going and going?
5. In what way have you come a long way, baby?

Sorry for that last one, but it just doesn’t hit right without the last word.

Thank you for participating, and have a new, improved, safe weekend!

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1. What (or who) has recently had you most captivated?
2. Who deserves to be congratulated?
3. What do you do to stay hydrated?
4. What do you seem to have underestimated or overestimated?
5. This weekend, what is most likely to leave you exhilarated?

Thank you for participating, and have an animated, noncontaminated, decorated, safe weekend!

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1. When have you refused to do what (seemingly or actually) everyone else was doing?
2. When have your faults been helpful?
3. Have you called anyone Uncle or Aunt who wasn’t related to you or married to a relative?
4. When did you last reread a book?
5. Honestly, if there is a battle between good and evil, which do you think is ahead?

Thank you for participating, and have a lovely, safe weekend!

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1. What kinds of non-music sounds do you like falling asleep to?
2. Besides alarms, what sounds do you associate with a particular time of day?
3. What sounds (of any type), unliked by most people, do you like?
4. In your downtime at home, what is usually the predominant sound?
5. How do you feel about the sound of your own voice?

Thank you for participating, and happy summer! At least one of our regular participants talks about her love of summer every year, and I’m right there with her. June is the best month, and it makes me happy to spend these few minutes with your thoughts every week in this, the best time of year! 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!

1. What should people be careful about in your neighborhood?
2. What’s a common pitfall for beginners in your field of work (or your most recent field of work)?
3. When have you recently regretted not being as careful as you should?
4. Which is more stressful: the feeling your car is about to break down, or the feeling your computer is about to break down?
5. Which warnings do you happily ignore with no apparent consequences so far?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful, SAFE weekend! 🙂