Earlier this week, Ally Bean of the Spectacled Bean revisited a prompt she had first done in 2011. Said 1/3 of her responses had remained the same but that time had given her a new perspective, if you will. I figured why not? Interesting subjects…
If I were a month I’d be October
If I were a day I’d be Sunday
If I were a time of day I’d be Twilight
If I were a font I’d be Georgia
If I were a sea animal I’d be a Dolphin
If I were a direction I’d be be Up
If I were a piece of furniture I’d be a Mirror
If I were a liquid I’d be Gin
If I were a gemstone I’d be an Emerald
If I were a tree I’d be a Weeping Willow
If I were a tool I’d be a Level
If I were a flower I’d be a Sunflower
If I were an element of weather I’d be a Light Breeze
If I were a musical instrument I’d be a Cello
If I were a colour I’d be Orange
If I were an emotion I’d be Joyful
If I were a fruit I’d be a Pear
If I were a sound I’d be a Bubbling Stream
If I were an element I’d be Fire
If I were a car I’d be a Comfortable Sedan
If I were a food I’d be Pasta
If I were a place I’d be a Cottage with a wrap-around porch
If I were material I’d be Cotton
If I were a taste I’d be Spicy
If I were a scent I’d be Petrichor
If I were a body part I’d be a Heart
If I were a song I’d be Jazz/Blues/Soft Rock Mix
If I were a bird I’d be a Chickadee
If I were a gift I’d be Just right
If I were a city I’d be Not too big, with lots of green spaces and farmer’s markets stalls
If I were a door I’d be Solid wood, painted bright red
If I were a pair of shoes I’d be Hiking boots
If I were a poem I’d be a Cadralor
Wonder if my answers would change in ten years’ time? I think many probably would…
Interesting. I have similar answers to several, but I don’t know if that’s because I like them and agree with you, or if I would have come up with different answers on my own. Cadralor definitely. 🙂
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It was interesting to do. I had to erase Ally’s responses, step away and then come in “fresh”! Something about that Cadralor that I like (and I have to attempt it!!)
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My Cadralor were all rejected by Gleam, so I’m not an expert, but I think it fits life in that we–at least adults–have so many different episodes in our lives that randomly fit together.
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Yes! That’s why I chose it (I’m limited in my knowledge of forms but it seemed to fit best).
And what? How can they be? Hmph!
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I think mine weren’t dark enough. 😏
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In that case… Good! 😉
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Oh, I so love ALL your answers and in many I’d choose the same.
Happy Monday, sweet CNL! 🌻🧡😘
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Thank you, my friend! Glad you enjoyed…
Happy Monday to you, lovely CNL! 💞🌻
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Oh, very very much!!!!
Mouwah!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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MOUWAH! xoxoxo
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💗🌷🌸
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Dear Dale,
This is so much fun. I love your answers and, of course, your photos.
Shalom and lotsa creative hugs,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
I thought it would be and am glad you think so, too!
Shalom and Lotsa creative love,
Dale
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What an interesting thing to do. I must try it and see the outcome.
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Glad you thought so, too!
Looking forward to your responses.
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Very interesting! I don’t think I have answers to many of these…but they do cause me to think about them!
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I thought so too (and more insightful than we realise….)
I’m sure you could come up with answers 😉
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That was exceptional! I had to look up Petrichor and I learned a new word. It is a scent I am most familiar with and find most compelling. What a great exercise.
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So glad you enjoiyed, Pam. When I first heard it, I did the same and I thought THAT’S what that is! It was a fun exercise to do 🙂
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Oh this is fun. I love Weeping Willows and Sunflowers, plus Petrichor is a wonderful scent. I’m not familiar with Cadralor so of course I’m going to follow your link and learn about it. I’m glad you did this and thanks for the shoutout. Happy Monday!
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Thank you for posting yours which inspired mine! So glad you enjoyed it. And yay to clicking on the link 😉
Happy Monday to you and yours!
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This is fantastic. I’m sharing with my family right now. Hope they respond, but I suspect not.
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Glad you think so! It was fun and made me stop and think. Hmmm… Would love my sisters to partake, too 🙂
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Excellent my fiery, spicy, orange chickadee.
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Hahaha! Love it!
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Well, that was fun to read, Dale. While some of your “I’d be” did not surprise me, many did (Cadralor). Wonderful 🙂
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Glad it was, Bill. No, I guess some of them were rather obvious 😉 Glad that I was not completely predictable! Thank you, kind sir.
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Of course.
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😊
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There you are to a T. 💜💜
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You think so, eh? 🧡🧡
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I do 😊
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😁
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Very interesting. I would imagine some of the answers would change after ten years. It would be fun to try it again and see. Thanks for sharing!
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Glad you think so. And I imagine so, too. 🙂
Thanks for reading and commenting!
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Good one … especially since some of the were not surprising. 🙂 Then again, gin was a surprise.
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Thanks, Frank. Some were not surprising, eh? Why was gin a surprise?
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Maybe I was expecting wine … so why gin?
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Haha! I love gin and Quebec has so many varieties from small distillers. Wine, now that I’m alone, I drink less often as I hate having to put a cork in it (even if I have a Vacu-vin)
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Another example of learning something every day.
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Indeed!
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You had me at gin. All great answers and many were how I would answer.
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Of course I did! We are peeps of a discerning sort 😉 Glad you enjoyed, John.
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Yes, indeed.
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🙂
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You make a good point, Dale. Ten years from now, or ten years earlier, would the answers be the same? Fun read, and we have a bit in common as I’d agree on a few of these for sure.
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I think certain things like music and cars would change (at least) 😉
Glad you enjoyed, Bruce 🙂 I think these silly things reveal a lot more than we think!
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We are very different…LOLOLOL That’s what makes things like this so much fun. I’m still trying to think of a fruit. Hahahaha
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That’s hilarious… It took me FOREVER to come up with a fruit!!!
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LOVE it!
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So glad you do!!
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And I wonder: why a dolphin? Of course they’re absolutely awesome, I’m just curious why you chose a dolphin!
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Ahhh… Well, dolphins are playful and friendly yet sharks are scared of them! 😉
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And smart, too! Did you see that video of a great white shark that got between an orca mom and her child? Within seconds there was no great white shark, and the baby orca was safe and sound, back next to mom…
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Yes, they are 😉
Oh! No, I did not see that one! I saw the Humpback whale that saved a scientist from a Huge Tiger shark, just yesterday!
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Q
I couldn’t get past “If I was a food, I would be a bag of potato chips and eat my whole damn self and then keel over in a lesson to my undisciplined self,” so yanno . . brava!! For nailing this in a much more eloquent fashion than that. And umm, thank you for nailing it in a much more eloquent fashion than that.
Where the hell did I stash my chips?
B
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B,
Hah! Potato chips ain’t a bad choice. I just chose pasta because it is so versatile and can always be different 😉
Glad you enjoyed… saving them for Saturday night?
Q
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They have to be the russets for me. I want to be a russet if Imma be a chip. I would be as badass as Denzel in those Equalizer movies!
With dip, of course.
No chip policy is in effect . . . NOW!
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Well, obviously. We won’t be giving you no mushy pretend wanna-be chip!
Of course, with dip.
Oh. Really? None? Sigh…
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No Lays. They’re full of shit. They follow the Dominos Pizza model, where they make 35 million different varieties and not a single one of them is worth it.
Not sure which kind but I’m thinking jala.
No, holidays and such.
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No. I never really did dig on Lays, to be honest.
Mmmmm… Jala is good.
Okie dokie. Gotcha.
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Me either. It has no real personality. It’s like that restaurant with a million different menu items, all of which are meh.
Very.
😉
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Ugh. Gordon Ramsay has a field day with those ‘uns.
Or black pepper and lime…
Maybe Saturday, I might splurge. On good stuff.
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Oh no! Black pepper and lime are good, but somehow Lays can fuck up anything!
The good stuff! It’s on Prime isn’t it?
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Oh, wait… Black pepper and lime NOT from Lays! From Miss Vickies 😀
Ummm…
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That’s different.
LOL
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Of coures 😉
MWAH!
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Delish
MUAH!
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Mmmm..
MWAH!
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LOVED THIS! But if you were a bird, I think you’d be a Macaw!
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Why thank you, DK… Wait. Why a Macaw?
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Pretty, unmistakable, loud! Laughing!
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Whoa… alrighty then… I kinda like that, now!
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Good!!!!!
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You’ve got me al verklempt now! 🙂
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I had to look that word up. Still don’t follow what you meant!
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I exaggerate just a tad, but you’ve got me all in a tizzy 😉
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awwwww!
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One of those days where the smallest of compliments means the most. Thank you.
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Well then, I’m extra glad!
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🤗
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I like your answer for shoe the best. Well done!
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Thank you, Dan!
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All you…
❤️
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Ya think? 🧡💞
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An interesting questionnaire à la… (pas Proust)
Comment ça va? J’ai été un peu absent. Mes excuses les plus plates chère amie…
Tout va bien chez toi?
Biz
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Ouais… J’aime beaucoup le Proust (ai répondu, si ma mémoire est bonne, sur un autre blogue). Arrêtez, mon cher Monsieur Brieuc! Suis une présence des plus minimes sur les internets ces temps-ci.
Oui. Je crois que je peux aménager en haut en fin de semaine…
Bizous!
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Il faut que je cherche le Proust qq part… Me rappelle plus.
“En haut”? Voilà un progrès, mais pour le bas?
Zibous.
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Voilà mon cher ami … https://www.philo5.com/Penser%20par%20soi-meme/QuestionnaireMarcelProust.htm
Oui m’sieur! À l’étage! Je sors de mon dongeon!
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Merci. Je viens de le (re)lire… C’était vraiment très complet… (Même si j’aime pas beaucoup Proust…)
La sortie du dongeon! Sonnez hautbois, résonnez trompettes. (Ou quelque chose comme ça)
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Hah! Le questionnaire est intéressant.
Et, pas t’encore, mais ça bin l’air que ça va t’être samedi…
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Y manque encore Vendredi ma grande. Patience.
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N’ai pu…
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J’en connais un autre… Mais bon. Thank God it’s Friday at last… 🍻
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T’en connais un autre? Que veux-tu dire? Et YES… Thank God it’s Friday at last!!
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UN autre? Euh. Chais plus. Fait que je regarde le comment… be right back
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Haha!
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Je voulais que j’en connais un autre (ma pomme)
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j’en connais un autre (ma pomme) qui n’a plus de patience. 😉
(Et avec tout ça c’est Samedi. Biz
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Oh boy…et là, on est dimanche…
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Et ouais. Et demain ça recommence… 😬
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Effectivement. 😶
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Ça va? Ton Lundi s’est bien passé? C’est le jour le plus dur… (MDR)
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Salut.
Ça va. Ma cuisinière et mon lave-vaisselle sont installés! Le foyer semble avoir un petit hic mais je commence le ménage afin d’aménager! Woo hoo!
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Ouaiiiiis! Champagne! 🥂
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Ouiiiii! Il reste la balustrade à poser (que j’ai sablée et teintée). Me sens pas mal bonne!
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Bien joué. “Sablée”? Sanded? J’adore.
Au passage le travail du bois est un des plus agréables.
“De toutes les matières
“C’est le bois que j’préfère…”
(Non? C’était la ouate?) 😉
Tous mes compliments…
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Je sais que le bon mot est poncée but yanno…
C’est vrai. J’ai bien aimé. J’ai “rushé” pour rien parce que rien ne sera posé pour kek jours. Oh well.
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I know. J’aime bien sablée. Ça rappelle le champagne. 😉
Ça attendra? Pas grave. Comme ça c’est fait.
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J’me l’disais itoo.
Exacte. Pas grave. C’est fait!!
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👍🏻
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[Site logo image] A Dalectable Lifehttps://adelectablelife.com/ If I Were….https://adelectablelife.com/2022/11/28/if-i-were/
Dale
Nov 28
Earlier this week, Ally Bean of the Spectacled Beanhttps://thespectacledbean.com/2022/11/22/simply-fun-revisiting-the-if-i-were-prompts-playing-mash-online/ revisited a prompt she had first done in 2011. Said 1/3 of her responses had remained the same but that time had given her a new perspective, if you will. I figured why not? Interesting subjects…
If I were a month I’d be October
If I were a day I’d be Friday
If I were a time of day I’d be Sunrise
If I were a font I’d be Lucida Handwriting
If I were a sea animal I’d be a Sea Turtle
If I were a direction I’d be Up
If I were a piece of furniture I’d be a Mirror
If I were a liquid I’d be Liquid Mercury
If I were a gemstone I’d be a Ruby
If I were a tree I’d be a Western Cedar
If I were a tool I’d be a Level
If I were a flower I’d be a Sunflower
If I were an element of weather I’d be a Light Breeze
If I were a musical instrument I’d be a Thunder Drum
If I were a colour I’d be Green
If I were an emotion I’d be Joyful
If I were a fruit I’d be a sun-ripened tomato
If I were a sound I’d be a Bubbling Stream
If I were an element I’d be Fire
If I were a car I’d be a Roadster
If I were a food I’d be Soup
If I were a place I’d be a Cottage with a wrap-around porch
If I were material I’d be Cotton
If I were a taste I’d be Spicy
If I were a scent I’d be Petitgrain
If I were a body part I’d be a Heart
If I were a song I’d be Jazz/Blues/Soft Rock Mix
If I were a bird I’d be a nuthatch
If I were a gift I’d be Just right
If I were a city I’d be Not too big, with lots of green spaces and farmer’s markets stalls
If I were a door I’d be Solid wood
If I were a pair of shoes I’d be Hiking boots
If I were a poem I’d be a Cadralorhttps://gleampoets.org/about/
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Well, well, well… Looks like some of my answers suited you, Alicia 😉 Love that you responded!
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It was fun! Always interesting to discover what other people think about themselves ~ if that makes sense.
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Yes, absolutely. 🙂
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This is beautiful, Dale. Amazing answers. Myself, I’d have to think long and hard before I answered any of these. Though I can say Colour: Rainbow/Spectrum and Animal: Octopus
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Thank you, Crispina! I had to think long and hard on some of them. Others, like the colour were a no-brainer for me.
Love the Octopus 🙂
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It comes from my eldest daughter. She had popped in to see me at work one day and afterwards remarked that to her I looked like a multicoloured octopus. It stuck! And the reason for the rainbow/spectrum is cos I’m always changing, I couldn’t possibly stick with one colour
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I live that!
Some of the items were difficult to come up with a proper representation of me. I think I did OK.
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Seems comprehensive and realistic
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I felt I represented myself rather well.
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Indeed you did, Dale! 😊 😊 😊
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💞
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😊
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So, we are in sync with Pasta and cotton!
Cool list of revealing IFs! ⚡️💥
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Thank you, Sorceress!
We are easy-going peeps! 🧚♂️🌟
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xoxo
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xoxo
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i wish you a merry christmas
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Thank you. To you as well, Julio.
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thank you very much dale (if i where a month i’d be julio)
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if i were a month i’d be julio (were and not where)
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