Friday Five 16-December-2022

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1. Have you gotten your flu shot yet? If not, why?
I've never taken the annual flu shots. But I can twist it a bit. I've taken 4 Covid shots already, and with the China Health Bureau (whatever the real name is) saying that "Covid is just a type of flu", then I guess I can say, I've taken my annual flu shot.... LOL

2. Are your halls all bedecked or are you not quite there yet?
Mom has started to heckle us about it but I'm just not feeling it. I've decided I'll do it tomorrow (Sunday) because the cleaning lady comes on Mondays to clean up... so yeah. I'll set the tree up on Sunday and get it all sorted out, but the aftermath dusting of things... the cleaning lady.

3. What is something you should really do this weekend but probably won’t?
I'm done with the Christmas presents, so I have nothing overly important that I MUST or must not do.

4. How will you be spending the weekend – at home, at the beach, skiing, or swimming?
Most likely at home. I've discovered the app Libby and am going to muck around and see how it works. It's still best if I have a library card from somewhere so I'm going to look around for that too.

5. Are you already so over this year?
Nothing particular with this year, and even if I'm already "so over this year" it doesn't mean next year is gonna be any good. Time is a continuous thing... just because it turns to 1-January doesn't mean "new starts" are real.

That sounds so pessimistic and demotivating LOL.

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1. How much of a sweet tooth do you have?
I would like to say I've got a very sweet tooth, but I also noticed lately I prefer savory stuff to sweet... maybe I'm getting old.

2. What sweet dishes do you prefer at breakfast?
Pancakes?

3. What have you recently gotten a sweet deal on?
Ugh... I dunno. Shopping on Taobao is always economical. I did miss out on the very sweet deal the other day, but otherwise nothing was bank-breaking anyway.

4. What are some good songs with the word “sweet” in the title or lyrics?
Can't think of one at the moment!

5. What evidence might someone present to prove you are a sweet person?
I dunno. I try to be considerate when arranging for things, say like if I'm arranging for a get-together I'd consider the people who have no cars and think of a place that's easy to get to without one, and if the location is a hard to get to place I arrange for a car pool sort of thing. When driving people back, some people try to be polite and say "oh you don't have to go all the way, just stop me in the area" and if it's late, I'd say "It's the car walking not me, so it's fine." Of course, it can also be construed that the person really wanted to stop in the area to get something in the shops first.