Friday 5 for November 21: Somewhere, waiting for me

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  1. In your personal or professional life, which ship has sailed?
  2. What are you testing the waters in?
  3. When did you most recently swim against the current?
  4. What’s gotten you into hot water?
  5. Which current pop-culture topic has you out to sea?

Thanks for participating, and may someone float your boat this weekend!

Friday 5 for November 14: Eight tiny scorpions

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I’m still a little swamped and I am still behind on reading your 5s. I will get caught up this week!

  1. If you were Santa Claus, what might you change about your job without destroying the season’s traditions?
  2. If you were Santa Claus, what snacks would you like children to leave out for you?
  3. If you were Santa Claus, how would you spend December 26?
  4. If you were Santa Claus, what would you put under your own tree?
  5. If you were Santa Claus, what songs would be on the playlist you listened to in your sleigh Christmas Eve?

Thanks for participating and A Ha Ha!

Friday 5 for November 7: What would it take?

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  1. Under what circumstances might you deliberately fail at a task you were perfectly capable of completing?
  2. Under what circumstances might you choose to completely cut off contact with a family member you currently love and respect?
  3. Under what circumstances might you willingly give up every piece of modern technology you own and move to an off-grid location?
  4. Under what circumstances might you leave your job to take work paying half as much?
  5. Under what circumstances might you agree to live the rest of your life without ever using spoken language again?

Thanks for participating, and have a morally unambiguous weekend!

Friday 5 for October 31: Take the cannoli

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  1. When did someone make you an offer you couldn’t refuse?
  2. How do you feel about Italian food?
  3. When did you last attend a wedding?
  4. What do you know about organized crime in your city?
  5. If you’ve been to Las Vegas, how did you like it? If you haven’t, how do you imagine you’d like it?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful weekend. I’ve been crazy busy for a month, and last week was the first time, in all the years we’ve done this, I didn’t read everyone’s responses. I’ll get caught up this weekend for sure. Thank you for your thoughtful participation! It’s truly a highlight of my week!

Friday 5 for October 24: FMK

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Please feel free to replace F***, Marry, and Kill with Kiss, Marry, and Avoid or any words that work for you. Or feel free to uncensor the F*** part. It’s your space! Express yourself!

  1. Knitting, photography, flower arranging: which do you f***, which do you marry, and which do you kill?
  2. A walk on the beach, a cup of coffee at a sidewalk cafe, a movie by yourself in a cinema half full: which do you f***, which do you marry, and which do you kill?
  3. Hot sauce, soy sauce, ketchup: which do you f***, which do you marry, and which do you kill?
  4. Polka music, reggae music, death metal music: which do you f***, which do you marry, and which do you kill?
  5. Murder mysteries, romantic comedies, psycho-thrillers: which do you f***, which do you marry, and which do you kill?

I could play this game all night, so let me know what you think of the format. If it’s popular, we’ll do it again sometime. If you hate it, maybe not!

Thanks for participating, and have a hot, steamy, fiery, passion-filled weekend!

Friday 5 for October 17: Levels of care

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  1. What are you especially geeky about?
  2. What are you ambivalent about?
  3. What are you unreasonably, vehemently opposed to?
  4. What do you pretend to understand when other people talk about it?
  5. What’s something you’ve wanted for years to know more about, but you’re intimidated or paralyzed by the subject?

Thanks for participating, and have a gorgeous, love-filled, safe weekend.

Friday 5 for October 10: Ten slash ten

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  1. On a scale from 1 to 10, how was your week?
  2. Which of the Biblical 10 commandments are you especially guilty of breaking this week?*
  3. What do you remember about being 10 years old (or in 10th grade, if you prefer)?
  4. Which 10 things do you like most about October?
  5. Who are 10 people you admire, each for a different reason?

Thanks for participating, and have a safe, stupendous, smart, satisfying, special, soothing, soft, scrumptious, sexy, song-filled weekend!

* I’m not linking to them. If you know them, great. If you don’t, make something up or look them up.

Friday 5 for October 3: It’s their birthday

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  1. (Eddie Cochran, 1938) What caused your summertime blues this year?
  2. (Chubby Checker, 1941) Recently, what caused you to twist yourself?
  3. (Lindsey Buckingham, 1949) This weekend, how will you go your own way?
  4. (Gwen Stefani, 1969) What part of your personal or professional life these days is B-A-N-A-N-A-S?
  5. (Ashlee Simpson, 1984) Which pieces of you are you feeling pretty good about?

(Tommy Lee, 1962)Thanks for participating, and have a live wire of a weekend!

Friday 5 for September 26: 52.6641°N 8.6288°W

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  1. What is your water flask like?
  2. When did you last hold a mic?
  3. Of whom are you jealous?
  4. For what are you zealous?
  5. And when might you go on a hike?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful weekend! Be safe!

Friday 5 for September 19: Mononymously yours

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  1. What’s your favorite Elvis song?
  2. When did you last wear something Pink?
  3. What’s the most intereSting thing you learned last week?
  4. When did you last treat someone awFlea (or when were you last treated awFlea)?
  5. Which notable people do you Cher a name or birthday with?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful weekend where nothing is botherEnya!