The Friday Five for 10 April 2020

[anais_pf]

1. What’s the weather outside your window doing right now? If that’s not inspiring, what’s the weather like somewhere you wish you could be?

2. What’s for breakfast? Lunch? Dinner?

3. What are things you can’t go without?

4. How did your parents choose your name?

5. If you could travel back in time, where and when would you go?

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[senmut]

1. What’s the weather outside your window doing right now? If that’s not inspiring, what’s the weather like somewhere you wish you could be? -- Sun and Wind.

2. What’s for breakfast? Lunch? Dinner? -- Skipped. Rice and bacon in sauce. Whatever is up there when I get off work.

3. What are things you can’t go without? -- Writing... lol.

4. How did your parents choose your name? -- I'm named for my mom's ex-boyfriend. But that's fair. My dad is named for his mom's celebrity crush.

5. If you could travel back in time, where and when would you go? -- As a potential carrier of a novel virus, how about I don't?

[brin_bellway]

https://brin-bellway.dreamwidth.org/52952.html

[lovepeaceohana]

I did the thing!

[catness]

Done! https://catness.dreamwidth.org/402868.html

[elle]

1. What’s the weather outside your window doing right now? If that’s not inspiring, what’s the weather like somewhere you wish you could be?

It's beautiful out this morning; sunny and in the low 60'sF. It's meant to get up to almost 70F.

2. What’s for breakfast? Lunch? Dinner?

I had cinnamon rolls and tea for breakfast. Lunch will probably be soup of some sort. Dinner is undecided. Possibly burgers.

3. What are things you can’t go without?

In terms of non-human/non-animated things, probably my allergy meds right now, and my anti-depressant meds. I also couldn't go without a shower and deodorant but perhaps that's more basic than what this question is asking. My fountain pens, my journals and my books. I'd find it incredibly difficult to live without those things.

4. How did your parents choose your name?

I don't know. My mom said my dad chose my name. When I asked him, he didn't really have an answer. He said he just liked it.

5. If you could travel back in time, where and when would you go?

Questions like these are always a bit tricky because if you travel back in time, there's the possibility of changing things and potentially change history and maybe that's not as good a thing as may seem. This said, I feel like I'd love to travel back to about 1917 and meet my great grandmother. She died in the Spanish flu pandemic a year later. I wish I could get to know her a little bit because I know so little about her. Even her name is sketchy because records were so poorly kept back then.

[lilly_c]

1. What’s the weather outside your window doing right now? If that’s not inspiring, what’s the weather like somewhere you wish you could be? It's still trying to be sunny and it feels warmer than when I was out for my walk earlier, I've got all of the windows opened.

2. What’s for breakfast? Lunch? Dinner? Brekkie was rice krispies and toast with two cups of extra strong (leave the bag in) tea.

3. What are things you can’t go without? music is oxygen. Toast and crisps just not together, crisps do not belong anywhere near bread.

4. How did your parents choose your name? I'm named after a family friend, my godmother and my auntie. One of my middle names is my confirmation name, I forget which one though.

5. If you could travel back in time, where and when would you go? Not fussed for time travel.

[intothisshadow]

My answers are here: https://intothisshadow.dreamwidth.org/499342.html

[semielliptical]

https://semielliptical.dreamwidth.org/146238.html

[archersangel]

https://archersangel.dreamwidth.org/294262.html

[sallymn]

1. What's the weather outside your window doing right now? If that’s not inspiring, what’s the weather like somewhere you wish you could be? It's cool - has been warm earlier - with a clear, starlit night sky. We had some fierce-ish gusts of wind earlier, but they seem to have died down, so a light, quiet breeze.

2. What's for breakfast? Lunch? Dinner? It was one of our vegetarian days, so we had home-made hot cross buns for breakfast; toasted cheese and tomato sandwiches for lunch; vegetable biryani for dinner. And all very nice too :)

3. What are things you can't go without? I have a feeling that most people, after the past month, would put loo paper first… but we can, we just really really really don't want to.

And actually, there is very little (obviously apart from food and sleep and such) that I haven't discovered at one time or another I can - as apart from won't be very very unhappy if I have to - go without, with the exception of my BP tablets, my Nearest and Dearest, and my glasses. And electricity. Oh, and money... I may not need a fortune but being the diametric opposite of a survivor of any stripe, I need to be able to fund being me. And my imagination to keep me happy being me.

Stuff I would really really really don't want to go without would be my laptop Libby and the Muddle, lots of pen and paper, fluffy socks and blankets, coffee, vegemite (I spent six weeks missing it on an overseas trip, since then I pack it), my big bed (when we stay at hotels, I always pay for a queen or better because smaller beds and dodgy knees don't get along), and plenty of reading material.

Okay, I'll be honest... and probably toilet paper {g} I can, I just really really really don't want to.

4. How did your parents choose your name? I honestly aren't certain, I know they told us once how they chose the names for all ten of us, and I can recall most of them... and I have this feeling my first name (which is not Sally, that's middle, for family and friends :) was an actress Mum had a liking for, slightly different in spelling.

5. If you could travel back in time, where and when would you go? That depends on how quickly and safely I can get back, and how many of the comforts of modern life I could take with me. The temptation is always to say "just before X happened, so I could warn people," but the rational part of my brain knows that [a] no one would listen to a small, scatty fluffy-looking woman spouting gloom and doom, would they? - and [b] I firmly believe that even with time travel you can't change the past, because when you actually go travelling it has already happened. You can't change the past because you can't change you past.

I'm also tempted by "I can bring forward and revive X from extinction!!!" but there are just too many, from tiny Permian beasties to Sis's beloved ammonites to some of the most recent, man-made disappearances. Mind you, if I did weaken and bring some back, Jurassic Park it wouldn't be. I love dinosaurs but prefer safely loooong-dead ones.

So just to sightsee -? Maybe prehistory. So I could leave something inexplicable modern in the million-year-ago rocks that could be discovered in 2020, just to give the world something new to go bonkers over (Lego? Toy aliens? A giant plastic gnome???) Though knowing my luck, I'd end up with continental drift landing it under the deepest ocean rift...