With a Home Tattoo

Do you ever get the feeling that the internet or something is stalking you? I have a friend who has recently been talking about how she has started to see advertisements for lawn care products immediately following working on her lawn. She claims that she has not even been looking at products involving lawn care or talking about it whatsoever online. When she told me that, I laughed her off. Now, I am not so sure. Remember last week when I wrote about a buzzfeed quiz asking Duran Duran fans if they were “obsessed”? Well, another one popped up in my world. That would not necessarily make me think that my paranoid friend was on to something until the new one had to do with creating a mansion, your dream home and how that creation would give you the Duran member to spend the quarantine. Does the internet know that I’ve been watching a lot of HGTV? Normally, I have the news on in the background but since the pandemic started, I have to limit my time with the news. Watching people fix up houses to create dream homes is easier to handle, emotionally. Psychologically.

Anyway, this quiz, which you can take here, involves you picking your favorite living room, kitchen, bedroom, etc. until each space of your mansion is chosen. I saw that a number of people took the quiz as did I and interestingly enough, all of the ones I saw all had Nick Rhodes as the winner. This, of course, got me thinking. Was he the only choice? What would it take to get one of the other band members? Did anyone get a different result? I am tempted to keep taking it over and over again to see. It isn’t that I have anything against Nick. I just would not think our styles would match. *Shrugs*

That said, I have to say that I enjoyed the quiz. Maybe it is because I have been watching a lot of HGTV and wishing that I could fix up my condo to have some fancy features shown in these photos. Perhaps, I also appreciated the less than serious aspect of a quiz like this, which is true of last week’s as well. It is just for fun and short distraction, which I need. (Too often my distractions become hours long, which is probably why my grading for the week is not done!) I have to say that I liked this quiz better than the obsessed one. One comment received said it well by saying that the obsessed quiz felt like a “I’m a bigger, better fan than you” type of quiz. I have to agree. It wouldn’t just separate out the amount of love people have for the band but also how they express it as well as the amount of time and money they can spend on the band. This one, on the other hand, has no competition to it. It is designed to just match one’s style to the band’s style. There is no harm in that.

On that note, does anyone have other similar quizzes or activities that people might do? I wonder if there isn’t a way for us to organize them (if there are many so that people can find them easily). Hmm…what do you all think?

-A