Friday Five 25-March-2022 #2

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1. If you could spend 24 hours locked in a room with anyone, from any time in history (including present) or a fictional character, who would you choose?
I actually have no idea. Who would be a good choice? My knee-jerk answer is my bestie C, but it feels like this is asking for a more meaningful answer?

2. Is there any one question you consistently ask everyone important to you?
"How are you? All good?"

3. If you had to choose one personally important question to never have the answer to, what would it be?
I haven't encountered any such questions, so I dunno. I guess so far the people I've met are rather respectful?

4. If you could change one life-changing event in your life, would you?
Ignore the pity I felt for mom when Sis left for Austria and just pushed ahead with my dreams of studying overseas.

5. Which household chore do you hate the most, and why?
I don't know why, but I really hate doing the dishes. The only thing I hate more than doing the dishes is using the dishwasher. If I'm going to have to rinse all the dishes first, then strategically place them on the rack so everything can get sprayed with the water, then I might as well just wash the damned dishes.

Manicure Day

So I've decided to forego the expensive manicure packages, despite still having credits with the parlour. I'd rather forfeit that amount, because I'm convinced if I go to "use up" the credit, they're just gonna rope me into buying a new package then I've got all that credit again.

I already have a manicure UV light thingamajig from before, so I went ahead and bought some new colors. I do have more than on this photo below, but these are the ones I used for today's manicure:  Base coat, a very transparent black, silver "shine", and top coat. The rod is a magnet, it's used to make patterns with the silver "shine" coat.

Actually I already did something similar on my previous manicure, only I used a very pale pink. This time I went with the transparent black. This is actually around 3 or 4 layers of that black. Then I did a layer of the silver, and hovered the rod over at an angle, so the silver congregates to that one line, and finally sealed it.

So there's this diagonal shine. In Chinese it's called the Cat's Eye shine. I just find it practical because when people see it, they are impressed and all that, and...... they don't see all the imperfections LOL. There's some spots I painted too close and have painted over my cuticles. I decided to try "square nails" and have missed a tiny corner. I don't even know how long I can keep them, because I know I hate square nails.