Cee has posed the questions for this week’s sharing time. There’s a couple there that I think are going to give me some trouble, but let’s see what I can come up with.
1. What is your favorite comfort snack food? My favorite comfort snack food changes. Frequently. Chocolate is always a good go-to, but when I’m reading or watching TV in the evening and feel the need to nibble, what I want varies. For awhile, it was red licorice sticks. Then apple and cheese. This week it’s been tortilla chips with a sour cream/salsa verde mixture. For quite awhile, it was popcorn with sea salt and coconut oil. Sometimes grapes or cherries, cut-up melon, nasty salty greasy potato chips – like so many things, it just depends on what my cravings decide to call for today, too often something I don’t have.
2. If you had to spend one weekend alone in a single store but could remove nothing, which store would you pick? (except food or beverage) I think Ikea. I could spend hours wandering through, looking at what they’re offering now. And they would have comfortable furniture on which I could sit and read, play on the internet – did I mention the store would have to have wifi? – and nap. Besides, they have a little cafe usually, don’t they? Would food I consumed while in the store count as removing something? It would still be in the store, technically – just in a different place and different form. Oh but wait – you said “except food or beverage”, so I guess I was worrying for nothing.
3. What was the largest city you have been to? What is the one thing you remember most? Can you wait just a moment, please? I need to go speak with Google. Okay, ready now. According to what Google found for me, the largest city I have ever been in was Seoul, Korea. Followed by (in order of size) New York City, Beijing, London, Los Angeles and Chicago. What I remember the most about Seoul was the different shopping areas and the Bibimbap, which I loved. About New York City – the embarrassment when visiting book stores there asking for a book called “The Art of Loving” by – ? Eric someone, I think. It was a “self-help” type book, but that was not the way many of the book store people took it, which was made obvious by their comments. About Beijing, the crazy place where items I view as not really edible were offered for purchase to be consumed, all on sticks. London – how none of the little shops in the underground seemed to have the kind of change I needed to ride the subway, which is called something else in London, but now escapes me. In Los Angeles, the manic traffic, the theaters where I saw some excellent plays. In Chicago, a night spent in Union Station awaiting transfer to another train station which would not happen until morning – it was very spooky.
Finish this sentence: It has recently come to my attention that …. I need to get myself up and moving about more than I have been of late. I spend far too much time thinking about what I should be doing and not enough time doing it.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up? I am grateful for the rainy days, the books I’ve been reading, friends to share some time with, my furry girls so I have someone to talk to besides myself in the quiet evenings. Are furry girls “someones”? I think so. It’s called furry girl therapy. I’m looking forward to my kids arriving for a couple of weeks – Kat arrives on Saturday night, Gep the following Monday.
This week’s photos are all about birds – such a surprise, I know! This fluffy little guy appeared at the feeder one morning – please try to ignore the reflections on the glass of the window. I think he’s a very young finch.
The pair of white-headed woodpeckers that have been frequenting the nectar feeders.
What an intriguing question .. which store would I choose to spend a weekend in! Well, I don’t know! Maybe Harrods … whenever I go, it’s always horribly crowded and there’s never enough time to look at everything! I presume the elevators and escalators would still be working? I could take zillions of photos (I suppose that’s allowed?), try lots of things on, read, lounge on the furniture, sleep on the beds … yeah, that might work!
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You’ve been to interesting places! We used to travel a lot, being a military family, so I feel lucky to have seen other parts of the world. Love your bird pictures! I have a feeder in the back yard…we get finches, sparrows, and lots of doves, grackles, and an occasional blue jay!
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Carol — I’d be there, right with you, in IKEA!
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I had to go to Google as well to check on the populations of different cities before I could answer that question. I learned a lot thought. I had no idea how big some of those places were.
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Your responses to these questions do make me laugh! I have never been to IKEA–we don’t have one anywhere near me. dammit.
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I don’t have one near me here either, Lois. I went to the one near me in Orange County, CA often when I lived there.
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I love that one. Though the 3-story one up by the Goodyear Blimp is interesting too – if for no other reason that the rickety outdoor escalator!
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As I was reading your Ikea answer, I kept say, yes you can eat the food. And it is our own fantasy so there would be wifi for sure. 😀 I just figure that is a given 😀
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I was thinking WalMart but Ikea is so much classier.
I wonder…is Rome bigger or smaller than NYC? I will have to go look that up.
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Oh my NYC is MUCH bigger than Rome! 🙂
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Oh yes Carol, furry girls are definitely “someones”, and so are birds. They all keep me company when I’m gardening, and my own furry girl, Miss Tibbs, and her big brother Sammy (my daughter’s cat who I am cat-sitting at the moment) are great company indoors too. I always love seeing your bird friends and the little fluffy finch is so cute. 🙂
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The Underground or Tube (subway in London). I always enjoy your answers to Cee’s question. IKEA would be a fab place to spend the night. It’s like a maze, and maybe I could work it all out by the end of the weekend. 🙂
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I totally agree about the snacks – I always crave something that I don’t have in the house!
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Chocolate and Cheetos. And entirely too much of both lately. 😦 That’s what happens when I start stress eating.
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