Category: Wednesday Blogging Challenge

  Well I guess we made it through another year – welcome to 2024, and happy new year if it means anything to you! We’re back with the first topic of the year – hobbies I used to enjoy. This could very well be quite a long post if I’m not selective – as you READ MORE

      I never used to really do that much, but I have to admit I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for Christmas. I’m not religious, so that wasn’t it, but I do like the sort of cosy feel of it. It’s partly the time of year, it’s partly the twinkle READ MORE

  Okay, so I’ve been looking for days and it’s not going well. I’ve stopped spending much time looking at memes that would apply to TV shows in favour of funny posts about the reality of raising tiny humans, having mental health issues (only somewhat related), hitting middle age and being neurodivergent. It’s where I’m READ MORE

  Just a quick question. What does this mean? Does it want me to comment on how I feel about seeing my favourite things criticized (generally I’d say my reaction is on a spectrum of “okay that’s a good point,” to “don’t really care,” to vaguely annoyed, depending on the thing and the critique)? Does READ MORE

  I don’t really know where to go with this one – I never even remember believing in Santa Claus or the tooth fairy or the Easter bunny or anything – so I’m going to go with the first thing that pops into my head. For a long time I thought the words to Rudolph READ MORE

  I don’t get this a lot. I’m not really one of those people who is the spitting image of any famous person, and I don’t even evoke them with how I dress or act. I’m pretty much just boring old me. I guess I’ve seen pictures of a young Katherine Hepburn that look a READ MORE

  This is such an easy one. Because obviously I’d create a day in which everyone got a paid day off work in which to do nothing but read. This may be a think in another culture out there (if so, please share in the comments!) because I’m sure there are some out there with READ MORE

  Nope. Nooooooope. I do not do horror movies, I do not like scary. I am a firm wimp, and that will never change. Monsters? Not for me! I did go through a Walking Dead phase, but I liked it in spite of the zombies, not because of them. I’ve never read Frankenstein, or I’d READ MORE

  So here’s the thing. I like Halloween well enough, aside from the fact that I can’t do scary or horror, like, at all. But I don’t do costumes. I hate them. They’re fine on other people, but I am not a fan of wearing them. I did a few when I was a kid READ MORE

  Hmm. I guess the answer to this is yes… and no. I first have to acknowledge that the concept of karma I hold may not even be accurate, as it’s appropriated from another culture that I don’t have any knowledge of and am not part of. So my idea of karma is the westernized READ MORE

  For a long time in my life the answer to this would have been simple: I don’t. But over the past several years, with some hard work and (a lot of) therapy, I’ve made a lot of progress in feeling ownership and some modicum of control over my emotions. I can’t will myself out READ MORE

HAHA nope. Not even a tiny chance. For so many reasons, but if I had to bring it down to basics, I don’t like small spaces and generally space travel is quite a cramped affair. I also don’t love wide open spaces… so you know, it hits on both. I also quite like this planet, READ MORE

  I’m not really a fan of the fairy tales I read as a child – the European Grimm’s fairy tales being the majority of the genre from what I’ve experienced. Generally I find them problematic and upsetting, particularly if you look at the originals (like how in Cinderella the step sisters actually hacked off READ MORE

  It’s been years since we didn’t have the internet to look song lyrics up on, so I don’t really remember. I know there were lots. I think I mis-heard Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and thought it was “his story” instead of “history” – let’s just say I was a precocious feminist and was afronted READ MORE

  Seriously, where do they get some of these prompts from?? The inner depths of my repressed psyche? Cos that’s how it’s starting to feel. Weird things I liked as a child? I mean, I’m neurodivergent. So mostly it was weird things I didn’t like as a child. Can I do that instead? Yes because READ MORE

  This is the kind of prompt that makes me want to hide under the covers for a week. Fun stories? About me? I mean. Like what? I don’t have a fascinating job or a bunch of travel tales. I don’t have any special skills. So this is not an easy one for me. Let’s READ MORE

  This is a tough one because there have been several. I go through phases of niche interests and I try to go on a deep dive for each one. So over the years I’ve had several favourites on different topics. But when I look back there have been a couple that have stuck with READ MORE