friday 5

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the question there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. When did you last experience something that was totally tubular?
2. When did you last see something that was grody to the max?
3. What’s your damage?
4. When did you recently feel like a neo-maxi zoom dweebie?
5. When did someone bite you, and when did you bite someone else?

Thanks for participating, and have a def weekend, word? Word!

Here’s to the new year and to fresh starts. I love the new year, and January is my favorite month. I like hellos so much more than goodbyes, sunrises more than sunsets, beginnings more than endings, and first chapters more than concluding chapters*.

Alas, sometimes the freshest of starts are a little slow out of the gates. I did get to bed earlier than usual — but still half an hour later than my goal. I got up exactly when I intended, but took longer getting ready for work and only got out the door half an hour earlier than usual, which was half an hour later than I planned.

(speaking of planners, i did also manage to give mine a look before bed and after i got up — a first step toward what i hope is a slightly more organized existence. if you’re a primary or secondary educator, you’ll know what i mean when i say most of the complications in my daily living are issues related to executive function)

And although I’m sharing this seven hours earlier than last week, it’s a full 25 hours later than my weekly deadline. Yikes.

Still, I am determined to make 2026 better than 2025, and so far it is! May it be thus for us all, whatever our experiences from last year and whatever our hopes for this year.

Welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What is your favorite movie about a fresh start?
2. What is your favorite post-apocalyptic movie?
3. What is your favorite animal movie?
4. What is your favorite me-against-nature movie?
5. What is your favorite movie about forgiveness, atonement, or mercy?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful, safe, happy new year.

* (although lately I wonder if there’s ever been an opening line as good as this closing line by A. A. Milne: “But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.”)

Oops. That was the least Friday-feeling (speaking of superlatives) Friday ever. Sorry about that. In my defense, I have utterly nothing to say for myself. However, it is still Friday here at Friday 5 HQ — 10:49 in the evening, to be exact. The post’s date will show December 27 because I have it set to GMT, which is my standard deadline for posting these. Haha. Ha.

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday (in Hawaii) 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What were your favorite songs of 2025? If you don’t know any 2025 songs, just pick songs you especially liked this year, whenever their release.
2. Who were the most interesting musical artists of 2025?
3. Who’s your favorite musician among those you heard for the first time in 2025?
4. What song best serves as the theme song for 2025?
5. What song best expresses your hopes for 2026?

Thanks for participating, and as you wiiiiiiiiiish!

I’m watching this film as I type these questions.

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What brought you the most joy in 2025? If your answer this year is the same as it would have been last year, what brought you the second-most joy in 2025?
2. What’s the best discovery you made in 2025?
3. What’s the best feel-good story of 2025?
4. What was your best small win in 2025? If it’s the same as your answer to #5 last week, what’s next on the list?
5. What was the kindest thing a stranger did for you in 2025?

Thank you for participating! Have a wonderful weekend — and get ready for music questions next week! 🙂

I’m seeing Tool in concert Friday and Saturday nights. A band I love, whom I’ve seen before. It was a slow year for concerts in this city, so I’m extremely stoked. I may even have to journal about it online. When I do the Friday 5, of coruse.

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What’s the best film (new or old) you saw for the first time in 2025?
2. What’s the best thing you read (not necessarily a book!) in 2025?
3. What’s the best meal you consumed in 2025?
4. What was the best day (so far) of 2025?
5. Which of your 2025 accomplishments are you proudest of?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, safe weekend!

PS: I’m saving music questions for the 26th, if you wish to prepare now!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Boy, Friday really sneaks up on you sometimes, doesn’t it?

Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. At work or school, what tasks do (or did) you find strenuous, while everyone seemed to find them easy?
2. Do you prefer difficult tasks that don’t take long, or easy tasks that take hours?
3. What are the ideal conditions for doing your work (defined however you want) best?
4. What kinds of tasks have you performed under the “other duties as needed” part of the job description?
5. What other duties as needed are likely to fall to you in your personal life this week?

Thanks for participating, and have a restful, safe weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. Which of your area’s holidays (local or national) is, aside from its being a day off from work, is least meaningful to you?
2. Where in the calendar would you like to see a holiday created, not for any special reason other than its being a good time for it?
3. Do you prefer get-together holidays or just-a-day-off holidays?
4. How are you feeling about the coming holiday season?
5. If you could start a holiday tradition this year — communal or solo — what would it be?

Thanks for participating, and have a restful weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. In your personal or professional life, which ship has sailed?
2. What are you testing the waters in?
3. When did you most recently swim against the current?
4. What’s gotten you into hot water?
5. Which current pop-culture topic has you out to sea?

Thanks for participating, and may someone float your boat this weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

I’m still a little swamped and I am still behind on reading your 5s. I will get caught up this week!

1. If you were Santa Claus, what might you change about your job without destroying the season’s traditions?
2. If you were Santa Claus, what snacks would you like children to leave out for you?
3. If you were Santa Claus, how would you spend December 26?
4. If you were Santa Claus, what would you put under your own tree?
5. If you were Santa Claus, what songs would be on the playlist you listened to in your sleigh Christmas Eve?

Thanks for participating and A Ha Ha!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. Under what circumstances might you deliberately fail at a task you were perfectly capable of completing?
2. Under what circumstances might you choose to completely cut off contact with a family member you currently love and respect?
3. Under what circumstances might you willingly give up every piece of modern technology you own and move to an off-grid location?
4. Under what circumstances might you leave your job to take work paying half as much?
5. Under what circumstances might you agree to live the rest of your life without ever using spoken language again?

Thanks for participating, and have a morally unambiguous weekend!