Cynthia Kuhn

Just Wondering

Welcome to Election Week, where there are big questions to be answered!

In the meantime, here are a few tiny and random ones. Please feel free to answer any or all of the following:

  1. What is your favorite (Halloween or otherwise) candy of all time?
  2. What is something you’re watching on tv right now?
  3. What is one food or drink you’ve recently discovered and would recommend?
  4. What do you do when you find a cord but you don’t know what it’s for? Do you keep it or pitch it? If the former, how long do you keep it until you can pitch it?
  5. Do you vote in person or via mail-in/drop-off ballots? What do you do with your “I voted” sticker? 🙂

(my answers, just in case you’re wondering)

  1. Salt Water Taffy
  2. Loot season 2 (Maya Rudolph is fabulous, as always)
  3. Celestial Seasonings Throat Cooler tea
  4. Currently sorting a box of unrecognizable cords saved for two decades (advice welcome)
  5. Drop-off ballots…and our stickers are stuck to the back door…makes me happy to see them collected there.

31 thoughts on “Just Wondering”

    1. Baby Ruth
    2. The Marlow Murder Club on PBS
    3. Nothing comes to mind. I’m boring that way.
    4. stray cords are dropped into a box in my office to be kept there until the end of time.
    5. Early, in-person. My wife and I voted October 27.

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    1. Three Musketeers
    2. Binge watching Murdock Mysteries on Roku and Curse of Oak Island on the History Channel app
    3. Wensleydale Cheese
    4. I keep it WAY too long
    5. Mail in, we don’t get stickers. so cheap…..

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    1. Thank you, Nani! I honestly have never heard of Wensleydale Cheese and am instantly obsessed.

      (Our ballot sticker blends in so much that unless you knew it was there, it might not jump out at you…wonder if yours is similarly camouflaged?)

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      1. Cynthia, Wensleydale is made in the north of England. It is very similar to Stilton. They sell it here in my grocery store with cranberries, blueberries and a honey lemon. It is full flavored and WONDERFUL.

        I will have to look closer next time, but I don’t think they sent anything but the ballot. Where we voted before we moved didn’t give stickers either. They put a bowl of hard candy on a table by the place we turned in our ballots.

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    1. Mini Hershey bars
    2. Just finished Marlow Murder Club – hi, J.C.!
    3. fresh mango. I’ve never been a fan of fresh tropical fruits but I’ve recently discovered I do like mango
    4. keep the cord for waaaaay too long
    5. Usually we mail in our ballots – ever since it’s been an option – but we cut it too close this year, so I’m dropping them off at a polling place. California has a ton of propositions and measures and it takes forever to go through the ballot. I don’t remember any of this in New York!

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    2. Thanks, El!

      Mini Hersheys are adorable. Like little kids wearing suits.

      We had tons of propositions and measures too and it seriously takes forever to go through the fine print and all that too, so I get it! Every time it seems longer and longer…

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    1. Snickers
    2. Blue Bloods final season (& reruns)
    3. Had my first bialy yesterday with bacon, cheese & onion (I removed the egg). Yum
    4. Oh gosh don’t ask about the cords. It’s spontaneous generation at our house. We threw them into a cabinet but are slowly getting rid of them. Some go back to the 90s.
    5. Voting in-person tomorrow at our town hall! NH doesn’t do early voting, other than absentee. All votes are counted on election day, no matter where they came from. Feels as if the whole country has already voted, so I’ll be happy to finally be able to cast my pencil and paper ballot in the antique wood box.

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    1. Thanks, Lisa! I thought of you while we were watching Dixville Notch, the first New Hampshire town to vote…is it like that?

      sidenote: When there are only six votes, it must be INTENSE since everyone would be trying to guess who did what in there!

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      1. Ha, I bet their neighbors know, Cynthia! The funny thing is, they aren’t always the same 6 people (4 Rs, 2 Indies this year voting the 3/3). The current residents are involved with a grand hotel that changed ownership, I think.

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      2. PS We got a choice of stickers this year–kids drew them. Mine has a cute green ghosty sort of thing (maybe the state of NH with a smile?)…fishing. I’m wearing it here in my office.

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    1. Chocolate almond clusters
    2. Mostly reading, but also inserting sporadic bursts of watching Only Murders in the Building to catch up
    3. Not purchased, but I’ve been making homemade granola bars and nut butters
    4. We keep the cords forever in a big box!
    5. Drop-off ballots & usually I wear the sticker, but I’ve paused on that since I keep losing them while traipsing around

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  7. Candy corn 2. The Perfect Couple 3. Vanilla chamomile tea 4. Save it until I move again and then pitch it. 5. I voted by mail and didn’t receive a sticker. 😎

    Loved getting to visit with you at the SinC Co book club! Best wishes, Margaret Mizushima

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  9. You can add me to those watching Marlow Murder Club. I really enjoyed last night’s episode. I’ve also been enjoying Tracker on Sunday nights, although last night’s was a little overly gruesome for my taste.

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    1. See’s
    2. About to start season 2 of “The Diplomat”
    3. Kewpie mayonnaise (the kind made in Japan–not the American version)
    4. Keep it! Forever! It will go in the box of forever cords!
    5. Mail-in, as we’re usually in Hawai’i by the time elections roll around (and yes, we’re registered in CA). Sometimes I wear the sticker for a day, but I don’t keep them

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      1. They are! I have a ceramic Kewpie doll from way back when. But the Japanese love all things “cute,” so I guess they took the name for their mayonnaise. It’s got a higher egg-to-yolk ratio and is full of umami flavor–delicious!

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    1. Twix
    2. Watching “Gyeongseong Creature”
    3. Ginger turmeric herbal tea
    4. The day after I discard a cord will be the day that I discover the identity of all-important thing to which the cord belonged. And then I’ll have to buy a new cord. So, gotta keep it.
    5. Vote by mail.

    P.S. That was fun 🙂

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    1. An answer that will surprise no one: licorice. In fact, I just visited a licorice shrine!
    2. Well, I just finished The Lincoln Lawyer. Does that count?
    3. I’ve fallen (back) in love with horchata. Whole lotta yum.
    4. I keep it around for years, often moving it from house to house, until I can bear it no more and pitch it.
    5. We have mail-in ballots here, so I never snag a sticker!

      Thanks for this fun post, Cynthia!

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    1. Thanks, Kathleen! And what is a licorice shrine? I NEED DETAILS PLEASE!

      Yes Lincoln Lawyer counts for sure. Someone else was talking about that last night…feels like a sign that I should try it…

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