The only thing better than a weekend is a long weekend… Happy Victoria Day to my fellow Canadians! This probably wouldn’t be the best time to admit that I have no idea what Victoria Day is all about, buuuuuuut I do appreciate the extra day off regardless 😀 Edit: I felt like a bad Canadian so I just Googled it and apparently Victoria Day is “a federal Canadian public holiday celebrated on the last Monday before May 25, in honour of Queen Victoria’s birthday.” Yay!
Seeing as it’s a holiday and all, I thought I’d keep things on the lighter side here on Spoons. You guys know I’m a sucker for surveys, and I recently came across one over on Courtney’s blog that looked like it would be fun. So without further ado… some of my favourites 😀
Name your favourite…
Person… You 😉
Colour… I honestly can’t say that I have one. I like yellow bananas, red cars, blue skies, black clothes, white mountains, green grass, orange leaves, and brown chocolate. It depends on what I’m looking at.
Food… I could probably live off almond butter — I put that sh*t on everything…
Smell… Coffee! I’ve actually always loved the smell of coffee, even back in the day when I couldn’t tolerate the taste. I didn’t start drinking it regularly until my first year of university, and I remember thinking it tasted like tar that’s been scraped from the walls of a sewage pipe. Oh how things have changed…
Book… Impossible. There’s no way to choose one favourite book — I love too many.
Movie… Beauty & The Beast. I love all Disney movies in general, but Beauty & The Beast will always hold the number one spot in my heart… and Belle is my favourite Disney princess.
Time of day… The early morning. Peace, quiet, and breakfast 😉
Day of the week… Friday. Enough structure to make me feel productive with that beautiful promise of freedom waiting at the end.
Thing to do when bored… I don’t know if I would say that I ever really get bored anymore, but if I’m stuck in traffic or waiting in line then I’ll usually whip out the Candy Crush to pass the time…
Celebrity… I would normally say Johnny Depp, but Leonardo DiCaprio has been a long time favourite that’s been capturing my attention a lot more lately, so I’ll go with him this time around.
Drink… Coffeeeeeeeeeeee.
TV show… I’m completely out of the loop when it comes to current TV shows, but I think that Gossip Girl will always be my #1. Might be time to bust out the DVDs again.
Fruit… Bananas. I can’t even remember the last time I went a day without at least one — usually more.
Vegetable… The orange squash responsible for my lovely “glow” — kabocha.
Store/shop… Sephora. We’re not even going to talk about how much money I’ve spent there.
Workout… Anything that doesn’t feel like a workout. I may end up back in a gym one day, but for now I enjoy just being active in general without measuring anything like time, distance, weights, etc.
Quote… This one!
“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.“
Well said, Ralph Waldo Emerson… well said indeed.
Boy’s name… I’m gonna go withhhhhh… Ben.
Girl’s name… Amanda, obviously 😉
Potato chip flavour… Sour cream & onion. Or plain, if they have the crinkle cut.
Meal of the day… That would be breakfast; all day, preferably.
Ice cream flavour… I’m a simple vanilla kind of girl. Classic, delicious, and the perfect base for whatever toppings you want to throw in there.
Season… I love everything about fall. The colours, the smells, the flavours, and the much appreciated chance to slow down after the high energy of summer. The only downside is the looming threat of winter.
Dessert… Three words: chocolate.freaking.CAKE.
Lifehack… Did you know… that you can soften rock hard brown sugar by putting it in a container, wetting a dish towel, and placing the damp towel over the opening of the container? Over time, the sugar will absorb the moisture from the cloth and all you have to do is fluff it up with a fork and it’ll be as good as new!
Pick a handful and tell me YOUR favourites! 😀
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Sometimes, it scares me with how similar we are, but hey! It is totally okay with me! I’m starting to get better at tolerating coffee (which I’m excited about!), but I’ve always loved the smell. Belle is definitely my princess as well!
And mornings have become my new favorite. I changed around my daily schedule so I could get up and go to CrossFit early and still enjoy the “early” morning. And lastly, to finish off my rambling comment, Gossip Girl holds a special place for me as well, and I think once I finish the season of Scandal they just added, I’m going to restart it!
I agree with coffee being an amazing smell! Its intoxicating!
That Brown Sugar tip is fab!
this honestly remind me of myself so much!!!
Victoria Day? I’ve never ever heard of such a thing. But long weekends are always welcomed with open-arms. I’m glad your enjoyed your extra day off!
I rarely watch TV (ahem, I have no cable) but Gossip Girl will forever be my weakness. I have almost every season on DVD and re-watch them regularly. #sorrynotsorry
Almond butter, the smell of freshly brewed coffee, cake…yes, yes, and yes. (:
I too share your immense love for almond butter! It is part if my survival kit should I ever need one, along with my Sonicare toothbrush assuming I have electricity in survival mode:)
I just filled out this survey too! It was a fun one 🙂 I actually have many of the same answers as you! Breakfast = best. Morning = best. Friday = best. And heaven has to smell like a coffee shop 🙂
I miss Gossip Girl! And The OC. And Gilmore Girls. Sigh. Those were the days of good tv…
Also we are total potato chip twins. Sour cream and onion is my favourite flavour too! And I only like plain if they are crinkle cut AND if there is French onion dip around. 😉
Love this! I might just have to steal it! 😉
Definitely with ya on the plain crinkle cut chips…as long as there’s some french onion dip nearby to dunk them in! And can I just say that is one MIGHTY fine collage/shrine to the almighty almond butter! Lol
Seriously, the smell of coffee is one of life’s greatest things…in fact, if it was perfectly acceptable, I would wear coffee aftershave. Wait..why isn’t it acceptable 😉
Sour cream and onion chips? Just go be besties with my mum. She loves those, and in Iran, you dip them in must moussir (garlic sour cream!). Go kiss someone after..
My life feels complete with that brown sugar fun fact. HAHA. I love love love the smell of coffee, and I kinda love that I come home smelling like coffee. It could be worse right!? When I got my hair cut my hairdresser said to me as she was washing my hair, “Hmm, you smell like coffee shop.” I was like, “WELL ABOUT THAT!” hahaha.
Oh how glorious almond butter, bananas, Fridays, and coffee are. I see we have more and more in common. 😀
Gaston:
Who does she think she is?
That girl has tangled with the wrong man!
LeFou:
Darn right.
Gaston:
No one says “no” to Gaston!
Dismissed! Rejected!
Publicly humiliated! Why, it’s more than I can bear.
LeFou:
More beer?
Gaston:
What for? Nothing helps. I’m disgraced.
LeFou:
Who, you? Never! Gaston, you’ve got to pull yourself together.
Lefou:
Gosh it disturbs me to see you, Gaston
Looking so down in the dumps
Ev’ry guy here’d love to be you, Gaston
Even when taking your lumps
There’s no man in town as admired as you
You’re ev’ryone’s favorite guy
Ev’ryone’s awed and inspired by you
And it’s not very hard to see why
No one’s slick as Gaston
No one’s quick as Gaston
No one’s neck’s as incredibly thick as Gaston’s
For there’s no man in town half as manly
Perfect, a pure paragon!
You can ask any Tom, Dick or Stanley
And they’ll tell you whose team they prefer to be on
Lefou and Chorus:
No one’s been like Gaston
A king pin like Gaston
LeFou:
No one’s got a swell cleft in his chin like Gaston
Gaston:
As a specimen, yes, I’m intimidating!
Lefou and Chorus:
My what a guy, that Gaston!
Give five “hurrahs!”
Give twelve “hip-hips!”
LeFou:
Gaston is the best
And the rest is all drips
Chorus:
No one fights like Gaston
Douses lights like Gaston
LeFou:
In a wrestling match nobody bites like Gaston!
Bimbettes:
For there’s no one as burly and brawny
Gaston:
As you see I’ve got biceps to spare
LeFou:
Not a bit of him’s scraggly or scrawny
Gaston:
That’s right!
And ev’ry last inch of me’s covered with hair!
Longest comment ever! 😉
Aaaaand I just fell in love with you even more <3
I’m with you on the coffee. I love it! I didn’t start drinking it either until college. Guess that’s what kept us going:) I’m addicted to playing candy crush too. I’m one of those that change the dates ahead just so I can continue playing at times so I don’t have to wait for more lives. Favorite t.v. show has to be Sex and the City. I have the box set but find myself watching marathons of this all day on E on my days off.
Ahhh thanks for the lifehack! I have a container of rock hard brown sugar sitting in my cupboard. I’ve been avoiding it knowing that I’d have to chip it apart to toss it out. Avoidance no more!
My favorite day of the week is definitely Friday too, nothing better than knowing you have the weekend ahead of you. I need to buy some kabocha squash too, I’ve never had it before!
I love that brown sugar life hack I never knew that, but I’ll definitely try that one!
Ok, your life hack tip would have been SUPER helpful Saturday morning, when I found my brown sugar to be SOLID.ROCK. My solution? Dumped it into a bowl and pounded at it with a beater and slowly chipped away pieces. It eventually got into small enough chunks that I could crush back into powder. Oh the things I do to bake 😉
😆 I’ve done that before too, but the problem with that approach is that it lacks the moisture so whatever you’re baking doesn’t end up as moist. Too many details 😡
Beauty and the beast has always been my favorite Disney movie! I love al things Disney but like you said Beauty and the beast is the longtime #1! I even picked a prom dress that was Belle like! – I just started Gossip Girl last week an I am hooked! Only on season 2! Happy Monday!
That cake looks spectacular! Did you make it? I really need to commit to watching Gossip Girl – I think I left off somewhere in season 2. I’m terrible at quitting tv series halfway through. Commitment probs.
My favorite store is Target! I always walk out of there with things I don’t even need!
I like pistachio or lavender ice cream. And salted caramel with chocolate… Ok, let’s be honest.. This list can go on and on!
I would probably LOVE Target if I lived in the States, but the ones we have up here in Canada pale to the ones you guys have down there. I think even Walmarts are better 😯
Time of Day: Morning! I love the quietness and peacefulness too! In fact I get a little cranky when others decide to join me haha
Tv Show: Grey’s Anatomy! I love the drama and suspense with the whole doctor thing they have going too.
Ice Cream: I’m with ya on the simple vanilla girl! Yea some caramel chunks or chocolate swirls are nice too but vanilla I can always eat and love!
Movie: Oldie but goodie it has to be Forest Gump, I have watched this too many times to count in fact!
I ♥ surveys! I like your taste in meals and time of day 🙂
Favorite…
smell: pumpkin bread
celebrity: Tori Kelly or Ellen Degenres
potato chip flavor: salt and vinegar (kettle cooked preferably)
dessert: apple pie a la mode!
This is such a fun blog post!
Smell: Rain
Time of Day: Morning like you! I love the still, quietness of morning and the soft light.
TV Show: Downton Abbey. The only show I watch and am obssessed with!
Book: A Clockwork Orange! I wrote my college admissions essay on it.
Workout: Running will always be my favorite way to stay fit while freeing my mind
Thing to do when bored: Also play candy crush! I’m so addicted to that game – I’m at level 577
Store: Lilly Pulitzer, but I can hardly afford any of their stuff. Other than that, I love any good running store.
Oh this is fun! Breakfast is defiantly the perfect time of day. Like you, I could eat but butter and breakfast for most any meal. Almond butter and dates has been a new daily lunch dessert for me, so good 🙂
Someone the other day asked how I am so tan, and I was like, “KABOCHA!” They looked confused 😉
Love this, so fun!!! I’m with ya on the almond butter and coffee girl.. my favorites!
why have i not heard of this life hack for brown sugar before?! i MUST try this immediately haha i actually do have a bag of hard brown sugar in my cupboard. 🙂
To prevent it from happening in the future, you could also toss a few marshmallows or a slice of bread in there!
Oh yes. I LOVE the smell of coffee.
I am currently obsessed with gelato right now, so I’ll go with that being my favorite dessert. Or anything salted caramel.
A perfectly ripened mango is probably my favorite fruit.
I don’t think I could pick a favorite food though. I love them all!
Cute survey! My favorite day is definitely Saturday. Sleep in (or… 7AM) and stay up late without the threat of needing to be up early. And between you and I, I’m pretty sure we could take out the population of monkeys with the banana consumption. Those guys better watch out!
I love this! I’m a nosy person by nature so these kinds of posts are right up my alley! Thanks for sharing 🙂
I absolutely love your answer when it comes to favorite colors! Different when it comes to everything. Brown chocolate all the way… darrrkkk, dark brown for me! And I also have the lovely kabocha glow 😉 my friends and family make fun of me for it so much. But OMG… on the real, I pinned that almond butter collage of yours to almost all of my Pinterest boards just now. And on that note, I need to go eat some almond butter!
Happy Victoria Day!
I share some of the same favorites (day of the week, season, and ice cream flavor.)
My favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird
Favorite quote: “One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.”
Love your answers, especially food and color. Almond butter is just the best and there are so many great colors!
I’m officially an almond butter addict as well. Damn Justin. We should buy stock in that shit…and Sephora too. 😉
Oooo girl! I love the way you think 😀
Almond peanut butter <3 I would just eat it by the spoonful sometimes when I'm hungry and am too lazy to make a snack haha
Well you already know how I feel about almond butter. We might have to fight over who loves it more 😉 And I hear you on the vanilla ice cream thing. I used to be into all sorts of fancy flavors, but now that I am older I mostly crave a simple vanilla flavor. Cake batter ice cream now and then doesn’t hurt either though 😉
Oh come on! At least you can have peanut! So give me almond 😛
I’m almost through season 4 of Gossip Girl on Netflix and I just can’t stop. Also, almond butter and breakfast foods all day every day, yes please.