Kymber’s Get to Know You (May 1, 2025)

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Hi everyone. How is it May already? Time flies and the #AtoZChallenge certainly was a fun thing that made time fly. I really do hope I’ll be able to continue in the flow of blogging, but I won’t promise anything even to myself.

Today, I’m joining Kymber for her Get to Know You prompt. This week, it’s a This or That. Here goes.

1. Shopping online or shopping in-store?
For fun, I prefer shopping online, honestly. It allows me the ability to browse what’s available, whereas in-store I’m dependent on someone to tell me what they see. Because of this, if I could really do all my shopping online and package delivery here to the institution wasn’t as complicated as it is, I’d do all my shopping online. Yes, I do realize that town centers would be empty without stores, as they already are much emptier than they used to be. We’ll find a solution to that though.

Currently, I do go shopping in-store once a week with my best friend and I do love going to the supermarket with my staff. However, the latter is probably because the supermarket doesn’t deliver to the institution and I can’t access the website of the one that does.

2. Science fiction or mystery?
Mystery, although in all honesty I’m not that much of a fiction reader. I do read the occasional sci-fi novel but think mysteries are more my thing out of these two.

3. Movie adaptations or books?
Books. I don’t watch movies, because without audio description I can’t follow them because of missing the visual aspect and with audio description, I can’t follow them because I get overloaded. Then again, like I said above, I am not that much of a fiction lover in general.

15 thoughts on “Kymber’s Get to Know You (May 1, 2025)”

  2. I prefer to shop online these days.

    I prefer mysteries but I have enjoyed some books described as sci fi, even though I would not describe them as such. Usually I read neither type.

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  3. I also like online shopping, as I often find trying to get around shops can be exhausting for me and I can’t handle crowds I start to feel over whelmed although I do still like to wonder around the supermarket to see what’s new.

    I am a mystery gal and I prefer books over movies, I don’t watch a lot of movies and often when I do I like subtitles on which makes it easier for me to follow what’s said.

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    1. Thanks for sharing. I can completely understand why going to stores is hard. It is for me too. As for movies, now that you mention it, I realize I prefer to get my information through reading rather than listening too so I guess that’s one more reason I prefer books over movies, since obviously I can’t do subtitles. That is, screen readers can nowadays do subtitles on some videos but they tend to go way too fast for me.

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  6. I prefer to shop small local mom and pop stores. There are things I buy at big box stores … that’s ok. But if I can’t buy local I do like to shop and compare from websites online – Etsy is a favorite because it is still individual artists work. As for the others – books and mysteries amongst others.

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