Category: Survey Sunday

Kitchen’s tidier than it’s been ages, lol, it won’t stay that way alas.

Couldn’t get the wordle this morning, and given that the word was MUSIC I’m feeling right pissed off.

I’ve always thought I could tell the good ones from the bad ones but good god Russell Brand is a turd. I had something nice to say about him in 2013 but I edited that to update my blog.

Survey Sunday asks: How be ye on this fair day!?

What was the best job you ever had, and why? The worst?

Was the best paying job you had the best job?

Does the worst job you ever had even exist any more? The best?

I personally have been struggling with developing and maintaining good habits my entire adult life (thank you, ADD), so this one’s dear to me.

What advice do you have for young people trying to develop good habits? What good habits would you wish to see a young person you loved take up?

What does home mean to you? What does your ideal home look like, sound like, smell like, feel like? What art is on the walls? what does your bed look like? How many people live with you? Are you in the city?

Have you ever been homeless? How did you overcome it?

 

How much would you say your politics have changed from the first time you voted? Why?

If you don’t vote, what’s your rationale?

What is your favourite:

Wild Mammal

Domestic animal

Reptile

Amphibian

Cryptid

Insect

Arachnid

Dinosaur

Literary beast?

 

 

 

 

 

my answers:

Snow Leopard or Pink fairy armadillo tied for this one

Cat

Galapagos tortoise

Spring Peeper

Sasquatch and Nessie tied for this one

Tomentose Burying Beetle

Phidippus johnsoni

I am rather fond of dimetrodons

Shadowfax

 

For those of you who coupled up, is there a romantic or enjoyable Valentine’s Day that you particularly recall?

For those of you who loathe such shucks, what is the aspect of Valentine’s Day which you most detest?

If you had your life to do over, would you have kept up that musical instrument you learned as a child?

Would you take up an instrument or take singing lessons?

Would you try at least once to be part of a band?

Can you think of the names of three people, living or dead, but known to you, who have your respect? What is it in other people – what qualities – allow or compel you to respect them?

When is the last time you felt awestruck?

What makes you feel awe and wonder?

Are you the kind of person awe and wonder doesn’t happen to?

What makes you feel safe? Unsafe? What do you do to make yourself feel safer?

If you feel safe (or unsafe) virtually all the time, what does that say about your life?

So I asked last Sunday, what’s the best advice you ever got… Here’s some advice. Most of it’s okay, some of it is really bad. I think the person giving the advice may be a little on the young side.

If you could challenge this advice, which number(s) would you smackdown, and why?

In this inaugural Sunday Survey…

What’s the best advice you ever received? If that’s too big, how about

for your health?

for your relationships?

for your career?

regarding your creativity?

re your pets?

re your schooling?

re money?

re gift ideas?

from a dream?

from a book?

Now think about the person who gave you that advice, and think about how it was given, and if that had anything to do with why you wanted to take it.

Send a brief thanks out into the world in that person’s honour, and resolve to be that kind of person.