So…what’s the Monday Ballot?

Glorious query! It isn’t, opposite to its identify, an precise ballot, like with little clicky buttons. It’s only a checklist of kind of random questions I’ve been posting on this weblog each Monday morning for the previous quadrillion years (since 2007).

1. How good are you at crafts?

I do okay if there are very detailed directions. So long as I can observe a typical working process (SOP), all the pieces’s gonna be alright!

2. Do you communicate every other languages apart from English?

I perceive the generally spoken Filipino language, Tagalog, however to a restricted capability. I can observe conversational Tagalog, but when it’s educational or the information, I can’t sustain with the vocabulary.

I can even communicate easy sentences in French. Nothing really helpful, simply issues like, “I’d like a croissant, please,” and “Hurry up, we’re going to overlook the bus.”

3. Have you ever began enthusiastic about Thanksgiving but?

A bit bit. It appears to be like like we’re sticking to a small celebration this yr — me, Connor and El Hub — so I don’t must do any huge meal planning. We’re going to do a crab feast as a substitute of turkey, with a couple of sides and a pie or two. Possibly we’ll go to a film afterwards.

4. How would your companion do when you despatched them to Ulta with an inventory?

I feel he could be OK if I put the precise identify of the product on the checklist and included screenshots and hyperlinks. LOL! I’d additionally must specify the precise dimension of the merchandise; in any other case, I’d find yourself with pattern sizes of all the pieces.

5. Charlotte Tilbury or Dior?

Dior.

6. Your 20s or 30s?

30s! I used to be touring rather a lot for MBB and dealing actually exhausting. Good occasions.

7. Lipgloss or lipstick?

Gloss.

8. Child age or toddler age?

I beloved each a lot so it’s exhausting for me to decide on. I do miss the cuddly child years rather a lot.

9. Summer time or fall?

Fall.

10. Inform ’em off or stroll away?

Sigh. Inform ’em off as a result of I can’t assist myself. Then hopefully I’ll stroll away.

11. One thing you’re grateful for right now?

The sprinkling of rain we received over the weekend. The ginger slices at Dealer Joe’s (so candy and spicy). The second season of “The Gilded Age” (I like getting misplaced in a narrative that’s not too scary). My chosen tribe. Sunshine early within the morning. Honeycrisp apples, particularly after they’re sliced, chilly and crunchy.

Completely happy Monday to you, candy pea

In case you want it, right here’s an enormous hug and a reminder that you simply’re doing OK. You’ll in all probability run into some challenges this week, however I do know you’ll have the ability to deal with them with persistence and style.

Your pleasant neighborhood magnificence addict,

Karen

P.S. Listed here are the questions to repeat/paste together with your solutions in a remark. Speak to ya quickly.

1. How good are you at crafts?
2. Do you communicate every other languages apart from English?
3. Have you ever began enthusiastic about Thanksgiving but?
4. How would your companion do when you despatched them to Ulta with an inventory?
5. Charlotte Tilbury or Dior?
6. Your 20s or 30s?
7. Lipgloss or lipstick?
8. Child age or toddler age?
9. Summer time or fall?
10. Inform ’em off or stroll away?
11. One thing you’re grateful for right now?