Ultimate Blog Challenge - Day 24: Coffee & Chat

Today it's Day 24 for our Ultimate Blog Challenge, and here's the assignment - I couldn't be more excited:

If you were sitting on your front porch or in a coffee shop with one of your blog readers, what would you chat about? What would you like them to know? Or what would you like to know about them? 

One of our fellow ultimate bloggers, Lily, already did a post that she named if we were having coffee, and if the two of us really met for a cuppa, I'd want to learn more about her journey of moving to Canada. See, she was a little girl growing up in China and Hong Kong and imagined coming to a land of colourful balloons and cotton candy. 

If I had the chance to have coffee with Janet, I'd make her take me to San Francisco and show me all the sights she described in the 2021 A - Z, especially the hearts. In exchange for her being my tour guide, I'd help her finding her lost engagement ring.

Coffee with Martha would have to be extended to coffee and hot chocolate because I would definitely want her to bring sweet Lia, the princess.

I'm dying to hear how Jeanine's Thanksgiving went down. Has she recovered from her cough? What did she cook, and whom did she end up inviting???

It'd be a great pleasure to meet Cheryl for coffee. Not sure how easy or hard our communication would be due to her suffering from aphasia, but I'm sure we'd find a way!

I'd love to chat with Debi about how to make her delicious creamed corn and swap some baking recipes. 

Everyone else? I'm sure we'd find tons to talk about. At the very least we'd have this writing challenge in common, right?

If all else fails, I could just go on and on talking about the coffee we're enjoying. For several years in a row, I went through the process to become a Coffee Master with Starbucks. 

This involved acquiring a lot of knowledge in the field of coffee cultivation, processing and roasting. A number of coffees had to be tasted, described and assigned to their origin. Food pairings might have been as common as chocolate cake and as unusual and surprising as raw mushroom or Camembert cheese.

Successful completion of all requirements, allowed the participant to wear the black apron. So to speak, the black belt of coffee lovers.

Hopefully I would be smart enough to shut up in time though ;-)

There's another topic that is currently dear to my heart. It's the Elf on the Shelf. Ours will make her comeback tomorrow morning. 

Cookie - that's her name - first visited us in 2013. Every morning we'd find her in a different spot. Oftentimes she'd do pranks or bring a surprise.

Last year, what's with the pandemic and everything, things were a bit different, and I think she wanted some company, that's how Biscuit (so to speak Cookie's British counterpart, courtesy of my worldly son) joined the family. 

Let me tell you, this was twice the fun and double the trouble! At some point we couldn't find them for a few days, and Santa had to print a missing elves note on the milk jugs! Luckily, thanks to a clue on Barbie's instagram, we found out where they had disappeared to, and it didn't take long for them to return safe and sound.

Once back to their daily routine, they took "making a gingerbread house" a litte too literally, hahaha.

Speaking of gingerbread. Here's a fun psychology quiz for you:

Credit: Pip Wilson

Pick a gingerbreadman in the tree. Go with your first instinct. Let me know in the comments which one you chose!

That's it for now. I hope you enjoyed having coffee and a chat with me.