Love-Hate challenge

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Celine Jeanjean

Sammy tagged me in a fun challenge: to list out ten things I love, ten things I hate and ten blogging buddies I’d like to involve in the challenge. How could I refuse?

So here are ten things I love:

Breakfast in France with hot chocolate, home-made jam, baguette, and a croissant (no surprise for anyone who ready my A to Z posts)
Opening a cardboard box that contains a delivery of books
Old libraries
Drinking Pimms on a sunny summer afternoon in England
The smell of popcorn on entering a cinema
Early mornings when the air is fresh
Exploring new places with the Hubs
Badgers
Red Velvet cake
Sitting around and talking about nonsense with family or close friends

Ten things I hate:

People revving their car or honking their horn outside our bedroom window
Rudeness or any lack of manners
Shoes that hurt my feet
Spinach and coffee (not necessarily together. I hate them independently too, although I imagine they’d be even worse together!)
People who wear so much perfume/cologne I can taste it when I walk past them
Intolerance
Being rushed or running late (I’m that person you see at the airport, sat at the gate two hours before the plan is due to take off)
Spiders
Ironing
People who are always negative or complaining

Ten blogging buddies I’m tagging:

Over to you guys!

30 thoughts on “Love-Hate challenge”

Lori L MacLaughlin on June 23, 2015 at 2:42 am said:

Thanks for the tag, Celine! This should be interesting. Great love/hate lists. I particularly love the old libraries. I could have written the same hate list you have, too, except I would have put spiders at the top. 🙂

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- Celine Jeanjean on June 24, 2015 at 12:56 am said:
  
  I’m curious then, since you had those scenes with the spiders in your book — was that fun to write or horribly spine shuddering?
  
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  - Lori L MacLaughlin on June 25, 2015 at 2:11 am said:
    
    It creeped me out big time. And Book 2 is even worse. Yes, more spiders.
    
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  - Celine Jeanjean on June 26, 2015 at 1:40 am said:
    
    Haha you are a glutton for punishment!
    
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Sammy D on June 23, 2015 at 2:54 am said:

OH yeah that greasy movie popcorn smell!!

What does Pimms taste like? I’ve always wanted to try it because I love the name.

Thanks for playing 💞😘

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- Celine Jeanjean on June 24, 2015 at 12:49 am said:
  
  Greasy AND sweet! What’s not to love!? 😉
  Pimms tastes like….uh. Well to me it tastes like Pimms and like summer. Which isn’t helpful. It’s kind of sweet and a bit fruity because you have the strawberries and citrus fruit in there. It’s honestly the nicest drink to have in the sun.
  Well that and G&T, but Pimms wins because it’s a bit special will all the bits of fruit floating around in it 😉
  
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saracsnider on June 23, 2015 at 5:15 am said:

What? You hate spinach? Nooo…. 😉 I love that you love badgers, though. Yay, badgers!

Thanks for tagging me. I’ve been getting tagged lately for various activities, I’ll probably bundle them up into one mega-post hehe. 🙂

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- Celine Jeanjean on June 24, 2015 at 12:46 am said:
  
  I know – too much spinach as a kid means I hate it now. And creamed spinach the worse – ugh.
  Haha I love that you like badgers too! Most people when I tell them I love badgers give me a lecture on what a pest they are (I don’t think anything that cute could be a pest)
  Sarah of The Old Shelter said the same – lots of challenges floating around at the moment!! 🙂
  
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emaginette on June 23, 2015 at 5:32 am said:

Love the lists. I agree with most of them. 🙂

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jazzfeathers on June 23, 2015 at 6:13 am said:

Ah, I love your list.

So, I’m supposed to write mine, right? How is it that so many people are tagging me these days?
I’ll do my best, as soon as I can… but it’ll be hard to beat your lists 😉

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- Celine Jeanjean on June 24, 2015 at 12:45 am said:
  
  Well only if you want to play along – no pressure! 🙂 Sounds like there are quite a few challenges floating around at the moment which is quite fun!
  
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  - jazzfeathers on June 24, 2015 at 6:17 am said:
    
    Oh, no, I’ll be game. Just don’t expect a post tomorrow 😉
    
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  - Celine Jeanjean on June 26, 2015 at 3:30 am said:
    
    Oh, no rush at all! I was surprisingly quick to do that challenge, normally I end up posting months after getting tagged! 😉
    
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Dan Antion on June 23, 2015 at 10:52 am said:

I’m with you on the perfume thing – even worse in an elevator 😦

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- Celine Jeanjean on June 24, 2015 at 12:44 am said:
  
  Yuck – getting stuck in a crowded elevator with someone like that would be horrid. The thing that gets me is the ‘ninja perfume attack’ where someone walks past you, they seem perfectly normal, and after they passed you, you suddenly get this surprise perfume attack that makes you gag. Ugh
  
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Chrys Fey on June 23, 2015 at 3:07 pm said:

This is a fun challenge! I also love old libraries and hate people who are always negative.

Thanks for visiting my blog! 🙂

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jetgirlcos on June 23, 2015 at 9:38 pm said:

Great lists! You got me, I’ll play along 🙂

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- Celine Jeanjean on June 24, 2015 at 12:41 am said:
  
  Great! Looking forward to your list then! 🙂
  
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Liz A. on June 23, 2015 at 11:44 pm said:

Interesting. I hate coffee, too. And intolerance. And I love opening cardboard boxes of any sort of delivery.

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- Celine Jeanjean on June 24, 2015 at 12:40 am said:
  
  Always good to know someone else who hates coffee, people are sometimes a bit surprised to hear that I hate it. Might be because I’m French and I should therefore be chain smoking cigarettes as I down endless cups of coffee 😉
  
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Susan Scott on June 24, 2015 at 12:08 pm said:

Celine, loved reading your list and the comments and thank you for tagging me! Forgive me if I don’t rise to the bait – I was asked before and I declined so I would feel ‘guilty’ if I now accepted! I hate feeling guilty. I hate not being able to respond to such requests! I’m not good at the rush of time. I love food, even spinach! Which reminds me I haven’t even had time to have breakfast yet (and it’s 2.06 p.m. already) I love croissants and coffee, chai latte, beautiful gardens and mother nature, cats and dogs, no to spiders and snakes though I would never kill them… books and reading I love love love .. now I’m off to eat! (bought a croissant yesterday to eat today and it’s still in its brown paper wrapping)

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- Celine Jeanjean on June 26, 2015 at 3:32 am said:
  
  What a lovely spontaneous love-hate list! 🙂 Hope you enjoyed the croissant – I don’t know how you can make it so late in the day without eating, I can’t function until I’ve eaten something.
  And I’m so with you on loving food. That and reading are my great pleasures in life 🙂
  
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Misha Gericke (@MishaMFB) on June 24, 2015 at 4:30 pm said:

We’ve got quite a few of those in common. 🙂

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- Celine Jeanjean on June 26, 2015 at 1:40 am said:
  
  Haha, great minds and all that 😉 Which ones have we got in common?
  
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Eileen on June 25, 2015 at 8:04 am said:

Thanks for tagging me Celine. I’ve just added my lists here: http://in-my-playroom.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/lovehate-challenge.html

I agree with lots of the things on your lists except for hating coffee … I love coffee!

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- Celine Jeanjean on June 26, 2015 at 1:40 am said:
  
  Haha yes a lot of people like coffee, I’m one of the few 🙂 I can’t even eat tiramisu or anything with a remote coffee taste, I really hate it! I’ll go check out your list in a bit 🙂
  
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