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Friday five and sickness
1. What’s the book you’re not reading? War and Peace..no thanks lol
2. Who’s the person you’re not seeing? I haven't seen my half sisters Kristi and Jenni in almost 20 years. O_o Even dad rarely sees them..weird
3. Where’s the place you’re not going? Australia..everything wants to kill you D:
4. What’s the problem you’re not fixing? Laziness?? Haha
5. What are the feelings you’re not feeling? Anger, for one
On Tuesday, my nose started dripping like crazy..I thought it was allergies (and was surprised Benadryl didn't help), but after I got home from work I started feeling worse. The next day it seemed like I just had a cold, so I didn't go to work and mom brought me cold stuff and lunch. While she was there I started feeling even worse, and later in the day started coughing
Yesterday I felt even more awful..I felt hot, then got chills (when I took my temperature it was 99, it's usually around 97), my head felt like it was being either squeezed or stabbed with an ice pick, my body (especially my back) was really achy, I was stuffed up..I felt absolutely dreadful. Motrin seemed to help, but Nyquil didn't really do anything. I managed to make it through the day, but when I tried going to bed I was in so much pain I couldn't sleep..it felt like I was dying. Finally I couldn't take it anymore and asked mom to take me to the ER. Of course there was a wait (even at midnight!), so mom got me a blanket and pillow from her car so I could lay down (she's always prepared haha). I felt dizzy and like my skin was being shocked or something. There was a guy in the waiting room hacking up phlegm into a bag. *shudders* When the nurse took my temperature, it was 101.8!! I got a room (I was admiring the curtains outside my room and mom was like "you just wanted to go to the ER to see the curtains!" and I said "it's an added bonus" LOL) and was given Tylenol, which didn't seem to do anything. Then no one came for like two hours (I think there's a rule in the ER where you HAVE to wait four hours to get treated haha). I was REALLY tired of being in pain and just felt dreadful. Finally the doctor came in and said my covid and flu tests were negative..what was it then?? Definitely not a regular cold! The doctor said he's get me something stronger for the pain. Awhile later a nurse came in with meds and discharge paperwork, and said I had to wait like six hours to take the meds. Wait..what?? I was in pain all day, I was NOT waiting six hours to take something, which I told the nurse, and she said she'd talk to the doctor. Eventually a nurse came in and started an IV of saline and pain meds..I wish they'd done that to begin with, but I think they wanted to knock down my fever first (it was 99 when I left). Another person came in to do a chest x-ray (yup, after four hours, I was getting all the attention LOL). After more waiting, the doctor said that I had pneumonia! ("Hazy groundglass opacity left lower lobe compatible with pneumonia" is what my online chart says lol.) He said he was sorry it seemed like he was rushing me and was glad that I spoke up, otherwise it wouldn't have been caught. I know to listen to my body and it just didn't feel right. He sent antibiotics to my pharmacy and finally, at like 5 AM, was able to go home. Yesterday was one of the worst sicknesses and migraines I've ever had (the rainy weather probably was partly the cause of that). If pneumonia is always like that, I NEVER want it again..I just felt awful (I kept asking mom "am I dying??" I have a high pain tolerance, so she must have been pretty worried!). Of course I had to pet the curtains before I left, and a nurse or whoever she was saw me and smiled haha
I didn't cough much in the hospital, but I did after I got home. I only got like four hours of sleep, and while I don't feel great, I still feel better than yesterday. I'm still achy, but my head doesn't feel like it's being stabbed with an ice pick. I'm glad I went last night and didn't wait. I hope the antibiotics work quickly, I'm tired of being sick!
Grandma got to go home this week, and mom said she LOVED all the notes I put everywhere. She deliberately didn't look for them so she could keep being surprised. Aunt Cindy is there (Blanca is much better! She had an overgrowth of bacteria or something like that), and she was amused too. A couple are pretty hidden, so I doubt she's found those yet. I've always loved when mom did that with me, and knew grandma would too. Mom showed me a picture of her happily sitting outside on her patio. I'm glad she's feeling better!
20. How Often Did/Do You Fight With Your Parents? I did sometimes when I was a stubborn teenager, but very rarely anymore'
21. What Qualities Would You Look For in a Housemate? Nice fur, likes to snuggle, purrs :P (speaking of cats, Abby's new food has made her fur look better, and not as knotted as before! She still walks like an old lady LOL, but hopefully her kidneys are happy :P)
22. Have You Ever ‘Paid It Forward’? Probably?
23. What Have Been Your Experiences With Catcalling or Other Kinds of Street Harassment? Ugh, I've been asked out more than once, especially by inebriated people. One time a guy asked me out and I said nope, and he said "so that's it then??" when I kept walking (Vicki loves that story haha). More recently I saw a guy walking towards me and I was like "oh no, he's going to be trouble" and sure enough he stopped and was like "do I know you?" I said no and then he asked if I wanted to go out with him because I'm beautiful. I couldn't think of anything intelligent to say so I just said "not appropriate!" and he said "ok ok, I tried!" He kept looking back at me saying "you're awesome! You're beautiful! Do you like money?" Uh..ok. O_o Just leave me alone haha
24. How Do You Feel About Proms? Ugh, no thanks. I went to one school dance and was like "meh," and never went to another lol
May
1. What Words or Phrases Do You Think Are Overused?
2. What Family Traditions Do You Want to Carry On When You Get Older?
3. Have Your Ever Taken Part in a Protest?
4. Are You a Nerd or a Geek?
5. Did You Want to Go to College? Where Did You Want To Go? Did You Get To Go There?
6. What Are the Sounds That Make Up the Background Noise in Your Life?
7. Why Do We Like Reality Shows So Much?
8. What New Technologies or Tech Toys Are You Most Excited About?
9. Are You Afraid of Math?
10. Do You Find It Easier to Make New Friends Online or In Person?
11. Do You Have Good Manners?
12. What Is Your Favorite Place?
13. How Careful Are You Online?
14. Have You Ever Reinvented Yourself?
15. Which Is More Important: Talent or Hard Work?
16. What Do You Want More From a Career: Happiness or Wealth?
17. Have You Ever Had to Make a Sacrifice to Help Someone You Care About?
18. How Well Do You Perform Under Pressure?
19. What Do You Want Your Obituary to Say?
20. How Often Did/Do You Fight With Your Parents?
21. What Qualities Would You Look For in a Housemate?
22. Have You Ever ‘Paid It Forward’?
23. What Have Been Your Experiences With Catcalling or Other Kinds of Street Harassment?
24. How Do You Feel About Proms?
25. What Do You Want to Be Doing When You’re 80?
26. How Often Do You Cry?
27. How Do You Express Yourself Creatively?
28. Is It O.K. to Use Family Connections to Get a Job?
29. Is It Easy For You to Say ‘I’m Sorry?’
30. What Would Your Dream Home Be Like?
31. How Do You Get Your News?
June
1. When Was the Last Time You Did Something That Scared or Challenged You?
2. Do You Ever Talk About Issues of Race and Class With Your Friends?
3. Is College Overrated?
4. Do You Set Rules for Yourself About How You Use Your Time?
5. Can You Be Good Without God?
6. How Are You and Your Parents Alike and Different?
7. What Did You Once Hate but Now Like?
8. If You Were a Super Rich Philanthropist, What Causes Would You Support?
9. At What Age Should Children Be Allowed to Go Places Without Adult Supervision? What Age Were You When You Were Going Places By Yourself?
10. Does Your Life Leave You Enough Time to Relax?
11. Did You Take a Gap Year After High School?
12. Do You Need to De-Clutter Your Life?
13. Would You Rather Work From Home or in an Office?
14. Do You Have a Dream Car?
15. What’s the Story Behind Your Name?
16. What’s the Best Party You’ve Ever Been To?
17. What Are Your Favorite Board Games?
18. Are You an Introvert or an Extrovert?
19. Where Do You Want to Travel?
20. What Are You Looking Forward to This Summer?
21. What’s Your Favorite Summer Food?
22. Did You Ever Have a Summer Job?
23. What Are the Best Souvenirs You’ve Ever Collected While Traveling?
24. What Are Your Favorite Names?
25. Do People Complain Too Much?
26. What Were Your Favorite Childhood Shows and Characters?
27. What Role Does Stress Play in Your Life?
28. What Are Your Favorite Junk Foods?
29. Do You Have Childhood Memories of Being Read Aloud To?
30. Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, a Picky Eater?
July
1. How Easy — or Hard — Is It for You to Say No When You Want To?
2. How Good Are You at Time Management?
3. Have You Ever Been in Love?
4. What Nicknames Have You Ever Gotten or Given?
5. Do You Have Siblings? How Well Do/Did You Get Along With Them?
6. Do You See Great Disparities of Wealth in Your Community?
7. What Are Your Best Sleepover Memories?
8. What Childhood Rules Did You Break?
9. What Is Your Racial and Ethnic Identity?
10. What Have You Made Yourself?
11. Have You Ever Experienced Food Insecurity?
12. Do/Did You Collect Anything?
13. Who in Your Life Introduces You to New Music?
14. Are You a Saver or a Spender?
15. How Careful Are You in the Sun?
16. What Local ‘Microadventures’ Would You Like to Go On?
17. Would You Consider Moving Overseas for a Job?
18. Do You Ever Feel Overlooked and Underappreciated?
19. What Were Your Favorite Picture Books When You Were Little?
20. How Much Information Is ‘Too Much Information’?
21. Would You Most Want to Live in a City, a Suburb or the Country?
22. What Life Lessons Has Adversity Taught You?
23. Have You Ever Been Scammed?
24. Can Creativity Be Scheduled?
25. What’s Your Favorite Sandwich?
26. What Would Your Personal Mascot Be?
27. How Did Your Parents Teach You to Behave?
28. Are You a Perfectionist?
29. Should People Give Money to Panhandlers?
30. What Would You Put in Your Emergency ‘Go-Bag’?
31. How Much Do You Know About History?
August
1. What Do You Gain From Pursuing Something You Do Really, Really Badly?
2. What Would You Be Willing to Wait in a Really Long Line For?
3. Do You Wish You Could Return to Moments From Your Past?
4. What Pranks, Jokes, Hoaxes or Tricks Have You Ever Fallen For or Perpetrated?
5. What Are Your Personal Superstitions?
6. Do You Spend Enough Time With Other People?
7. How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors?
8. How Much Time Do You Spend in Nature?
9. What Are Your Favorite TV Shows?
10. When Have You Ever Succeeded When You Thought You Might Fail?
11. How Productive and Organized Are You?
12. How Do You Deal With Boredom?
13. Should Couples Live Together Before Marriage?
14. What Assumptions Do People Make About You?
15. Can Money Buy You Happiness?
16. What’s Your Favorite Candy?
17. How Do You React When Provoked?
18. What is Your Favorite Place in Your House?
19. What’s the Best Way to Heal a Broken Heart?
20. Are You a Hoarder or a Minimalist?
21. What Would You Outsource if You Could?
22. What Fantasy Invention Would You Want to Exist in Reality?
23. What Old, Worn Out Thing Can You Just Not Part With?
24. Do You Want to Live to 100?
25. How Good Is Your Sense of Direction?
26. Do You Write in Cursive?
27. What Are Your Earliest Memories of Music?
28. What Would You Grab in a Fire?
29. Do You Have Any Tattoos? If Not, Would You Ever Consider Getting a Tattoo?
30. Does Buying and Accumulating More and More Stuff Make Us Happier?
31. When Do You Become an Adult?
September
1. How Often Does Your Family Eat Together?
2. Is ‘Be Yourself’ Bad Advice?
3. What’s Your Comfort Food?
4. How Good a Friend Are You?
5. Do You Think You’ve Forged Your Lifelong Taste in Music?
6. How Well Do You Take Criticism?
7. What City or Town Most Captures Your Imagination?
8. Is It Possible to Start Out Poor in Your Country, Work Hard and Become Well-Off?
9. What Food Would You Like to Judge in a Taste-Off?
10. Has Anyone Ever Said That You Look Like Someone Famous? Do You Resemble Your Parents?
11. What Are Some Recent Moments of Happiness in Your Life?
12. Do You Pay Attention to Nutrition Labels on Food?
13. Are You a Saver or a Tosser?
14. Does What You Wear Say Anything About You as a Person?
15. What Are You Good At?
16. How Closely Do You Listen to Lyrics?
17. Do You Root For Any Sports Teams?
18. What Era Do You Wish You Had Lived In?
19. How Do You Cope With Grief?
20. What Are You Listening To?
21. How Impulsive Are You?
22. What Was Your Favourite Fairy Tale or Nursery Rhyme?
23. What Is Your Fantasy Vacation?
24. How Much Do You Curse?
25. What Buildings Do You Love? What Buildings Do You Hate?
26. Given Unlimited Resources, What Scientific or Medical Problem Would You Investigate?
27. Have You Ever Felt Pressured to Betray Your Beliefs?
28. What Famous Landmarks Have You Visited?
29. What Are Your Healthy Habits?
30. Tell Me Three Good Things That Happened This Week
October
1. What Rites of Passage Have You Participated In?
2. Will Humans Live on Mars In Our Lifetime?
3. Do/Did You Ever Hang Out at the Mall?
4. Do You Unknowingly Submit to Peer Pressure?
5. Is Breakfast Really the Most Important Meal of the Day?
6. What Public Behavior Annoys You Most?
7. What Superpower Do You Wish You Had?
8. What’s Special About Your Hometown?
9. How Materialistic Are You?
10. Should the Private Lives of Famous People Be Off Limits?
11. What Are Your Opinions on Cosmetic Surgery?
12. What Habits Do You Have, and Have You Ever Tried to Change Them?
13. Does Keeping a Messy Desk Make People More Creative?
14. Does Reading a Book Count More Than Listening to One?
15. Are You a Novelty-Seeker?
16. How Strong Is Your Sense of Smell?
17. Are There Topics That Should Be Off Limits to Comedy?
18. What Animal Are You Most Like?
19. What Magazines Do You Read, and How Do You Read Them?
20. Would You Like to Live in Another Country?
21. What’s the Coolest Thing You’ve Ever Seen in a Museum?
22. Are You a Good Listener?
23. Do We Still Need Libraries?
24. How Do You Celebrate Your Birthday?
25. When Have You Failed? What Did You Learn From It?
26. What Activities Make You Feel Most Alive?
27. Where, and How, Do You Watch Movies?
28. What Is Your Favorite Street?
29. When Do You Remember Learning a New Word?
30. Is Amazon Becoming Too Powerful?
31. Will You Be Wearing a Halloween Costume This Year?
November
1. Are You Hard or Easy on Yourself?
2. What Teacher Would You Like to Thank?
3. What Health Tips Have Worked for You?
4. How Do Male and Female Roles Differ in Your Family?
5. What Are Your Longtime Interests or Passions?
6. Do You Have a Hard Time Making Decisions?
7. Were You Ever the ‘New Kid’?
8. How Much Freedom Did Your Parents Give You?
9. What Motivates You?
10. Have You Ever Posted, Emailed or Texted Something You Wish You Could Take Back?
11. What Challenges Have You Overcome?
12. What Do You Wish You Could See, Hear, Read or Experience for the First Time All Over Again?
13. Would You Quit if Your Values Did Not Match Your Employer’s?
14. Are You More Or Less Religious Than Your Parents?
15. Do You Recognize Yourself in Descriptions of ‘Generation Z’?
16. Do Machines Represent a Threat to Humans?
17. What Good Can Come from Disagreements?
18. Is Modern Culture Ruining Childhood?
19. What’s the Most Memorable Thing You Ever Got in the Mail?
20. How Did You Learn About Sex?
21. How Often Do You Interact With People of Another Race or Ethnicity?
22. Do You Suffer From Anxiety?
23. What Are Your Thanksgiving Traditions?
24. Will Your Family Members Disagree With Each Other About Politics This Thanksgiving?
25. What Do You Look Forward to Most – and Least – During the Holiday Season?
26. What Does Santa Claus Mean to You?
27. What Is Your Most Prized Possession?
28. What Are You Grateful For?
29. Did You Take Part in Any Post-Thanksgiving Shopping?
30. Under What Conditions Do You Do Your Best Work?
December
1. How Often Do You Leave Your ‘Comfort Zone’?
2. With Whom Would You Share Your Passwords? How About Your Debit Card and PIN?
3. What Would You Do if You Won the Lottery?
4. When in Your Life Have You Been a Leader?
5. How Should You Handle the End of a Friendship?
6. What’s the Best Advice You’ve Gotten?
7. What Is Your All-Time Favorite Piece of Clothing?
8. What Small Things Have You Seen and Taken Note Of Today?
9. How Should Parents Discipline Their Kids?
10. How Do You Get Your Nature Fix?
11. When Should You Compromise?
12. How Important Is Keeping a Clean House?
13. Does Stress Affect Your Ability to Make Good Decisions?
14. What’s the Best Gift You’ve Ever Given or Received?
15. What Annoys You?
16. If the World Was Ending, What Would You Want to Do?
17. What Role Does Procrastination Play in Your Life?
18. Have You Ever Changed Your Mind About a Hot-Button Issue?
19. What Are the Best Things You’ve Watched, Read, Heard or Played This Year?
20. Was There a Toy You Wanted as a Child but Never Got?
21. Have You Ever Given, or Received, a Perfect Gift?
22. When Is the Last Time You Did Something Nice for a Stranger?
23. Do You Ever Eavesdrop?
24. What Things Did You Create When You Were a Child?
25. What Are the Best Things in Life and Are They Free?
26. How Stoic Are You?
27. As A Child/Teen - Where Did You Think You Would Live When You Were an Adult?
28. What Role Will Robots Play in Our Future?
29. If You Had Siblings - Did Your Parents Treat You Differently? If Not, Did You Wish You Had Siblings?
30. Do You Look Forward to New Year’s Eve?
31. Do You Make New Year’s Resolutions?
2. Who’s the person you’re not seeing? I haven't seen my half sisters Kristi and Jenni in almost 20 years. O_o Even dad rarely sees them..weird
3. Where’s the place you’re not going? Australia..everything wants to kill you D:
4. What’s the problem you’re not fixing? Laziness?? Haha
5. What are the feelings you’re not feeling? Anger, for one
On Tuesday, my nose started dripping like crazy..I thought it was allergies (and was surprised Benadryl didn't help), but after I got home from work I started feeling worse. The next day it seemed like I just had a cold, so I didn't go to work and mom brought me cold stuff and lunch. While she was there I started feeling even worse, and later in the day started coughing
Yesterday I felt even more awful..I felt hot, then got chills (when I took my temperature it was 99, it's usually around 97), my head felt like it was being either squeezed or stabbed with an ice pick, my body (especially my back) was really achy, I was stuffed up..I felt absolutely dreadful. Motrin seemed to help, but Nyquil didn't really do anything. I managed to make it through the day, but when I tried going to bed I was in so much pain I couldn't sleep..it felt like I was dying. Finally I couldn't take it anymore and asked mom to take me to the ER. Of course there was a wait (even at midnight!), so mom got me a blanket and pillow from her car so I could lay down (she's always prepared haha). I felt dizzy and like my skin was being shocked or something. There was a guy in the waiting room hacking up phlegm into a bag. *shudders* When the nurse took my temperature, it was 101.8!! I got a room (I was admiring the curtains outside my room and mom was like "you just wanted to go to the ER to see the curtains!" and I said "it's an added bonus" LOL) and was given Tylenol, which didn't seem to do anything. Then no one came for like two hours (I think there's a rule in the ER where you HAVE to wait four hours to get treated haha). I was REALLY tired of being in pain and just felt dreadful. Finally the doctor came in and said my covid and flu tests were negative..what was it then?? Definitely not a regular cold! The doctor said he's get me something stronger for the pain. Awhile later a nurse came in with meds and discharge paperwork, and said I had to wait like six hours to take the meds. Wait..what?? I was in pain all day, I was NOT waiting six hours to take something, which I told the nurse, and she said she'd talk to the doctor. Eventually a nurse came in and started an IV of saline and pain meds..I wish they'd done that to begin with, but I think they wanted to knock down my fever first (it was 99 when I left). Another person came in to do a chest x-ray (yup, after four hours, I was getting all the attention LOL). After more waiting, the doctor said that I had pneumonia! ("Hazy groundglass opacity left lower lobe compatible with pneumonia" is what my online chart says lol.) He said he was sorry it seemed like he was rushing me and was glad that I spoke up, otherwise it wouldn't have been caught. I know to listen to my body and it just didn't feel right. He sent antibiotics to my pharmacy and finally, at like 5 AM, was able to go home. Yesterday was one of the worst sicknesses and migraines I've ever had (the rainy weather probably was partly the cause of that). If pneumonia is always like that, I NEVER want it again..I just felt awful (I kept asking mom "am I dying??" I have a high pain tolerance, so she must have been pretty worried!). Of course I had to pet the curtains before I left, and a nurse or whoever she was saw me and smiled haha
I didn't cough much in the hospital, but I did after I got home. I only got like four hours of sleep, and while I don't feel great, I still feel better than yesterday. I'm still achy, but my head doesn't feel like it's being stabbed with an ice pick. I'm glad I went last night and didn't wait. I hope the antibiotics work quickly, I'm tired of being sick!
Grandma got to go home this week, and mom said she LOVED all the notes I put everywhere. She deliberately didn't look for them so she could keep being surprised. Aunt Cindy is there (Blanca is much better! She had an overgrowth of bacteria or something like that), and she was amused too. A couple are pretty hidden, so I doubt she's found those yet. I've always loved when mom did that with me, and knew grandma would too. Mom showed me a picture of her happily sitting outside on her patio. I'm glad she's feeling better!
20. How Often Did/Do You Fight With Your Parents? I did sometimes when I was a stubborn teenager, but very rarely anymore'
21. What Qualities Would You Look For in a Housemate? Nice fur, likes to snuggle, purrs :P (speaking of cats, Abby's new food has made her fur look better, and not as knotted as before! She still walks like an old lady LOL, but hopefully her kidneys are happy :P)
22. Have You Ever ‘Paid It Forward’? Probably?
23. What Have Been Your Experiences With Catcalling or Other Kinds of Street Harassment? Ugh, I've been asked out more than once, especially by inebriated people. One time a guy asked me out and I said nope, and he said "so that's it then??" when I kept walking (Vicki loves that story haha). More recently I saw a guy walking towards me and I was like "oh no, he's going to be trouble" and sure enough he stopped and was like "do I know you?" I said no and then he asked if I wanted to go out with him because I'm beautiful. I couldn't think of anything intelligent to say so I just said "not appropriate!" and he said "ok ok, I tried!" He kept looking back at me saying "you're awesome! You're beautiful! Do you like money?" Uh..ok. O_o Just leave me alone haha
24. How Do You Feel About Proms? Ugh, no thanks. I went to one school dance and was like "meh," and never went to another lol
May
2. What Family Traditions Do You Want to Carry On When You Get Older?
3. Have Your Ever Taken Part in a Protest?
4. Are You a Nerd or a Geek?
5. Did You Want to Go to College? Where Did You Want To Go? Did You Get To Go There?
6. What Are the Sounds That Make Up the Background Noise in Your Life?
7. Why Do We Like Reality Shows So Much?
8. What New Technologies or Tech Toys Are You Most Excited About?
9. Are You Afraid of Math?
10. Do You Find It Easier to Make New Friends Online or In Person?
11. Do You Have Good Manners?
12. What Is Your Favorite Place?
13. How Careful Are You Online?
14. Have You Ever Reinvented Yourself?
15. Which Is More Important: Talent or Hard Work?
16. What Do You Want More From a Career: Happiness or Wealth?
17. Have You Ever Had to Make a Sacrifice to Help Someone You Care About?
18. How Well Do You Perform Under Pressure?
19. What Do You Want Your Obituary to Say?
20. How Often Did/Do You Fight With Your Parents?
21. What Qualities Would You Look For in a Housemate?
22. Have You Ever ‘Paid It Forward’?
23. What Have Been Your Experiences With Catcalling or Other Kinds of Street Harassment?
24. How Do You Feel About Proms?
25. What Do You Want to Be Doing When You’re 80?
26. How Often Do You Cry?
27. How Do You Express Yourself Creatively?
28. Is It O.K. to Use Family Connections to Get a Job?
29. Is It Easy For You to Say ‘I’m Sorry?’
30. What Would Your Dream Home Be Like?
31. How Do You Get Your News?
June
1. When Was the Last Time You Did Something That Scared or Challenged You?
2. Do You Ever Talk About Issues of Race and Class With Your Friends?
3. Is College Overrated?
4. Do You Set Rules for Yourself About How You Use Your Time?
5. Can You Be Good Without God?
6. How Are You and Your Parents Alike and Different?
7. What Did You Once Hate but Now Like?
8. If You Were a Super Rich Philanthropist, What Causes Would You Support?
9. At What Age Should Children Be Allowed to Go Places Without Adult Supervision? What Age Were You When You Were Going Places By Yourself?
10. Does Your Life Leave You Enough Time to Relax?
11. Did You Take a Gap Year After High School?
12. Do You Need to De-Clutter Your Life?
13. Would You Rather Work From Home or in an Office?
14. Do You Have a Dream Car?
15. What’s the Story Behind Your Name?
16. What’s the Best Party You’ve Ever Been To?
17. What Are Your Favorite Board Games?
18. Are You an Introvert or an Extrovert?
19. Where Do You Want to Travel?
20. What Are You Looking Forward to This Summer?
21. What’s Your Favorite Summer Food?
22. Did You Ever Have a Summer Job?
23. What Are the Best Souvenirs You’ve Ever Collected While Traveling?
24. What Are Your Favorite Names?
25. Do People Complain Too Much?
26. What Were Your Favorite Childhood Shows and Characters?
27. What Role Does Stress Play in Your Life?
28. What Are Your Favorite Junk Foods?
29. Do You Have Childhood Memories of Being Read Aloud To?
30. Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, a Picky Eater?
July
1. How Easy — or Hard — Is It for You to Say No When You Want To?
2. How Good Are You at Time Management?
3. Have You Ever Been in Love?
4. What Nicknames Have You Ever Gotten or Given?
5. Do You Have Siblings? How Well Do/Did You Get Along With Them?
6. Do You See Great Disparities of Wealth in Your Community?
7. What Are Your Best Sleepover Memories?
8. What Childhood Rules Did You Break?
9. What Is Your Racial and Ethnic Identity?
10. What Have You Made Yourself?
11. Have You Ever Experienced Food Insecurity?
12. Do/Did You Collect Anything?
13. Who in Your Life Introduces You to New Music?
14. Are You a Saver or a Spender?
15. How Careful Are You in the Sun?
16. What Local ‘Microadventures’ Would You Like to Go On?
17. Would You Consider Moving Overseas for a Job?
18. Do You Ever Feel Overlooked and Underappreciated?
19. What Were Your Favorite Picture Books When You Were Little?
20. How Much Information Is ‘Too Much Information’?
21. Would You Most Want to Live in a City, a Suburb or the Country?
22. What Life Lessons Has Adversity Taught You?
23. Have You Ever Been Scammed?
24. Can Creativity Be Scheduled?
25. What’s Your Favorite Sandwich?
26. What Would Your Personal Mascot Be?
27. How Did Your Parents Teach You to Behave?
28. Are You a Perfectionist?
29. Should People Give Money to Panhandlers?
30. What Would You Put in Your Emergency ‘Go-Bag’?
31. How Much Do You Know About History?
August
1. What Do You Gain From Pursuing Something You Do Really, Really Badly?
2. What Would You Be Willing to Wait in a Really Long Line For?
3. Do You Wish You Could Return to Moments From Your Past?
4. What Pranks, Jokes, Hoaxes or Tricks Have You Ever Fallen For or Perpetrated?
5. What Are Your Personal Superstitions?
6. Do You Spend Enough Time With Other People?
7. How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors?
8. How Much Time Do You Spend in Nature?
9. What Are Your Favorite TV Shows?
10. When Have You Ever Succeeded When You Thought You Might Fail?
11. How Productive and Organized Are You?
12. How Do You Deal With Boredom?
13. Should Couples Live Together Before Marriage?
14. What Assumptions Do People Make About You?
15. Can Money Buy You Happiness?
16. What’s Your Favorite Candy?
17. How Do You React When Provoked?
18. What is Your Favorite Place in Your House?
19. What’s the Best Way to Heal a Broken Heart?
20. Are You a Hoarder or a Minimalist?
21. What Would You Outsource if You Could?
22. What Fantasy Invention Would You Want to Exist in Reality?
23. What Old, Worn Out Thing Can You Just Not Part With?
24. Do You Want to Live to 100?
25. How Good Is Your Sense of Direction?
26. Do You Write in Cursive?
27. What Are Your Earliest Memories of Music?
28. What Would You Grab in a Fire?
29. Do You Have Any Tattoos? If Not, Would You Ever Consider Getting a Tattoo?
30. Does Buying and Accumulating More and More Stuff Make Us Happier?
31. When Do You Become an Adult?
September
1. How Often Does Your Family Eat Together?
2. Is ‘Be Yourself’ Bad Advice?
3. What’s Your Comfort Food?
4. How Good a Friend Are You?
5. Do You Think You’ve Forged Your Lifelong Taste in Music?
6. How Well Do You Take Criticism?
7. What City or Town Most Captures Your Imagination?
8. Is It Possible to Start Out Poor in Your Country, Work Hard and Become Well-Off?
9. What Food Would You Like to Judge in a Taste-Off?
10. Has Anyone Ever Said That You Look Like Someone Famous? Do You Resemble Your Parents?
11. What Are Some Recent Moments of Happiness in Your Life?
12. Do You Pay Attention to Nutrition Labels on Food?
13. Are You a Saver or a Tosser?
14. Does What You Wear Say Anything About You as a Person?
15. What Are You Good At?
16. How Closely Do You Listen to Lyrics?
17. Do You Root For Any Sports Teams?
18. What Era Do You Wish You Had Lived In?
19. How Do You Cope With Grief?
20. What Are You Listening To?
21. How Impulsive Are You?
22. What Was Your Favourite Fairy Tale or Nursery Rhyme?
23. What Is Your Fantasy Vacation?
24. How Much Do You Curse?
25. What Buildings Do You Love? What Buildings Do You Hate?
26. Given Unlimited Resources, What Scientific or Medical Problem Would You Investigate?
27. Have You Ever Felt Pressured to Betray Your Beliefs?
28. What Famous Landmarks Have You Visited?
29. What Are Your Healthy Habits?
30. Tell Me Three Good Things That Happened This Week
October
1. What Rites of Passage Have You Participated In?
2. Will Humans Live on Mars In Our Lifetime?
3. Do/Did You Ever Hang Out at the Mall?
4. Do You Unknowingly Submit to Peer Pressure?
5. Is Breakfast Really the Most Important Meal of the Day?
6. What Public Behavior Annoys You Most?
7. What Superpower Do You Wish You Had?
8. What’s Special About Your Hometown?
9. How Materialistic Are You?
10. Should the Private Lives of Famous People Be Off Limits?
11. What Are Your Opinions on Cosmetic Surgery?
12. What Habits Do You Have, and Have You Ever Tried to Change Them?
13. Does Keeping a Messy Desk Make People More Creative?
14. Does Reading a Book Count More Than Listening to One?
15. Are You a Novelty-Seeker?
16. How Strong Is Your Sense of Smell?
17. Are There Topics That Should Be Off Limits to Comedy?
18. What Animal Are You Most Like?
19. What Magazines Do You Read, and How Do You Read Them?
20. Would You Like to Live in Another Country?
21. What’s the Coolest Thing You’ve Ever Seen in a Museum?
22. Are You a Good Listener?
23. Do We Still Need Libraries?
24. How Do You Celebrate Your Birthday?
25. When Have You Failed? What Did You Learn From It?
26. What Activities Make You Feel Most Alive?
27. Where, and How, Do You Watch Movies?
28. What Is Your Favorite Street?
29. When Do You Remember Learning a New Word?
30. Is Amazon Becoming Too Powerful?
31. Will You Be Wearing a Halloween Costume This Year?
November
1. Are You Hard or Easy on Yourself?
2. What Teacher Would You Like to Thank?
3. What Health Tips Have Worked for You?
4. How Do Male and Female Roles Differ in Your Family?
5. What Are Your Longtime Interests or Passions?
6. Do You Have a Hard Time Making Decisions?
7. Were You Ever the ‘New Kid’?
8. How Much Freedom Did Your Parents Give You?
9. What Motivates You?
10. Have You Ever Posted, Emailed or Texted Something You Wish You Could Take Back?
11. What Challenges Have You Overcome?
12. What Do You Wish You Could See, Hear, Read or Experience for the First Time All Over Again?
13. Would You Quit if Your Values Did Not Match Your Employer’s?
14. Are You More Or Less Religious Than Your Parents?
15. Do You Recognize Yourself in Descriptions of ‘Generation Z’?
16. Do Machines Represent a Threat to Humans?
17. What Good Can Come from Disagreements?
18. Is Modern Culture Ruining Childhood?
19. What’s the Most Memorable Thing You Ever Got in the Mail?
20. How Did You Learn About Sex?
21. How Often Do You Interact With People of Another Race or Ethnicity?
22. Do You Suffer From Anxiety?
23. What Are Your Thanksgiving Traditions?
24. Will Your Family Members Disagree With Each Other About Politics This Thanksgiving?
25. What Do You Look Forward to Most – and Least – During the Holiday Season?
26. What Does Santa Claus Mean to You?
27. What Is Your Most Prized Possession?
28. What Are You Grateful For?
29. Did You Take Part in Any Post-Thanksgiving Shopping?
30. Under What Conditions Do You Do Your Best Work?
December
1. How Often Do You Leave Your ‘Comfort Zone’?
2. With Whom Would You Share Your Passwords? How About Your Debit Card and PIN?
3. What Would You Do if You Won the Lottery?
4. When in Your Life Have You Been a Leader?
5. How Should You Handle the End of a Friendship?
6. What’s the Best Advice You’ve Gotten?
7. What Is Your All-Time Favorite Piece of Clothing?
8. What Small Things Have You Seen and Taken Note Of Today?
9. How Should Parents Discipline Their Kids?
10. How Do You Get Your Nature Fix?
11. When Should You Compromise?
12. How Important Is Keeping a Clean House?
13. Does Stress Affect Your Ability to Make Good Decisions?
14. What’s the Best Gift You’ve Ever Given or Received?
15. What Annoys You?
16. If the World Was Ending, What Would You Want to Do?
17. What Role Does Procrastination Play in Your Life?
18. Have You Ever Changed Your Mind About a Hot-Button Issue?
19. What Are the Best Things You’ve Watched, Read, Heard or Played This Year?
20. Was There a Toy You Wanted as a Child but Never Got?
21. Have You Ever Given, or Received, a Perfect Gift?
22. When Is the Last Time You Did Something Nice for a Stranger?
23. Do You Ever Eavesdrop?
24. What Things Did You Create When You Were a Child?
25. What Are the Best Things in Life and Are They Free?
26. How Stoic Are You?
27. As A Child/Teen - Where Did You Think You Would Live When You Were an Adult?
28. What Role Will Robots Play in Our Future?
29. If You Had Siblings - Did Your Parents Treat You Differently? If Not, Did You Wish You Had Siblings?
30. Do You Look Forward to New Year’s Eve?
31. Do You Make New Year’s Resolutions?