Weekly Short Stories Contest and Company! discussion

I already submitted my story this past Sunday. It's called "Honey Bunny" and has been described by Edward Davies as being aww-worthy. That makes me happy. :)

TPBM has a case of the blahs today.

Quite the contrary.

TPBM went to the doctor recently.

Nope but I need to go to one soon.

TPBM loves drinking a good soda on a hot day.

For me that soda is either Cherry Pepsi Max or Diet Coke. Mmm-mmm-mmm!

TPBM wants to take a nap with "Desert Skies" by Scott August playing in the background.

Nope.

TPBM is sleepy.

A little, but I am out for a long walk to the store, so no napping.

TPBM enjoys walking at dusk.

I used to enjoy it until cops started pulling me over and questioning me for reasons I never understood. It only happened to me twice, but that's two times too many.

TPBM gets easily frightened or annoyed by Emergency Alert System screens.

Not particularly.

TPBM knows that calico cats are always female.

I used to have a calico cat named Beatrice and she was female. But I didn't know they were all female until you told me. The more you know!

TPBM wants to go on a vacation to Hawaii.

The only way for a cat to be calico is to have a specific pair of genes in two separate x chromosomes, which makes it impossible for male cats to be calico. :)

I'd like to vacation in Hawaii because it's beautiful there, but too expensive to live full time in.

TPBM is on the last chapter of the book they're reading.

Not even close. I'm only on the 24th page of "Star Island" by Carl Hiaasen and the book is 350+ pages. But I'm not worried about that, because it's a fast-paced and enjoyable read.

TPBM gets lethargic when the barometric pressure is low.

I don't/can't really detect barometric pressure.

TPBM has been called stoic.

I'm anything but stoic most days. Either I'm really grumpy from waking up or answering the phone or really happy from petting the animals or getting creative work done. There is no middle ground with me.

If it was actually released as a book, TPBM would read a memoir written by In This Moment lead singer Maria Brink.

I don't know who that is. so probably not.

TPBM loves finding nerds in their fandom (s).

It'd be nice to find someone who was in my fandom, but so far, it hasn't happened yet.

TPBM has nostalgic feelings for the cartoon "Ed, Edd, n’ Eddy".

no.
TPBM likes snail mail!

Yes! I love getting it and creating it!

TPBM takes the time to find fancy paper and/or snail mail paper/envelope collections to write to friends with.

Snail mail can be fun under those circumstances, Guy, but only if I type the letter on my computer and then print it. My handwriting is so bad that even the most voracious readers can't decipher a lot of it.

TPBM actually knows what the following analogy means: "What’s a good plate with nothing on it?"

Yes, but I would have enjoyed it even more if it had been written "What good's a plate with nothing on it."

TPBM does not like it when TPAT twists his/her words.

As long as you're not a journalist who wants to publish my words, that's okay with me. :)

TPBM is a slow reader.

No. I was blessed in grade six with a profoundly forward thinking school and teacher who brought in a speed reading instructor for the 'advanced' kids. I am a very fast reader.

TPBM would like to read faster with better retention.

That would be lovely, but I'm not exactly agonizing over my reading speed, so it can wait.

TPBM enjoys receiving fan art of his or her creative writing projects.

It's never happened to me before, but then again, I've never finished any of my projects and therefore don't really have fans. But it would be flattering if it did happen :)

TPBM thinks that alarm clocks would be more effective if they got louder every time you pressed snooze.

LOL! I do not. I find the sound annoying, and so get up after just the first sound. Much less egregious way to start a day.

TPBM gets up around 5am every morning.

Yes, because I have to go to work this summer and during the school year, my first class starts at about 6:45

TPBM loves cloud watching.

Yes. And taking pictures of them. OMG, they are hard to photograph!

TPBM loves to take pictures of interesting or unusual rocks or rock formations.

I don't care much for rocks when it comes to taking pictures. Most of my photography centers around toys and animals. What a life I've led. Hehe!

TPBM would be freaked out if he or she played a D&D campaign where he or she had to venture into a place called The Frozen Dome, a frosty mountain with randomly and liberally placed dead bodies of different fantasy races packed underneath the ice and snow. Oh, and those corpses can come to life whenever they feel like it.

Yeah, I would probably be pretty freaked out. That sounds perfectly dreadful.


TPBM only has a vague understanding of what D&D happens to be.

I've never played it, but I understand it.

TPBM has read a book based on D&D in some way.

I've read "Of Dice and Men" by David M. Ewalt. When I reviewed it, I gave it a perfect five stars because it made me want to play D&D again.

TPBM has nostalgic feelings for Robotech, either the anime series or the adapted novels by two guys writing as one author named Jack McKinney.

I'm not familiar with it, so no.

TPBM should probably stop checking Goodreads threads around other people because they make embarrassing snorting noises when they read something funny.

Nobody hangs out in my room, so it won't matter if I chuckle or not. Everyone else CAN hear me swearing at my computer for being too slow, but nothing else.

TPBM had a productive day today, either with creative projects, work, or household chores.

I'd like to think I was productive, since the day kind of drained me. I'm still at a loss of what to write about for this week's contest though.

TPBM hates writer's block.

Writer's block is no fun for anyone. But when it strikes, I usually pick a different creative activity to do until the block is gone.

TPBM is proficient with Adobe Photoshop.

I wish! Tried it a couple times, hasn't really worked out yet. I want to learn, though.

TPBM is lying down on their bed, back facing the ceiling, using GR on their computer.

I'm horrible at photoshop, sadly

TPBM would like to help me choose between sappy or mysterious for this week's story contest.

To Janna: I'm sitting at my computer desk instead.

To Angie: Be brave and do both!

TPBM wants to go on a vacation to New Orleans.

Especially during Mardi Gras!

TPBM is torn between eating a bowl of fruit or a bowl of ice cream.

Never. It depends on the fruits but otherwise ice-cream all the way.

TPBM should't eat ice-cream.

I've been trying to eat healthier, so that's probably accurate.

TPBM knows that the language of Japan is known as "Nihongo", not just "Japanese".

In the same way that German is known as Deutsch and Spanish is known as Espanol.

TPBM refers to thinking about something funny as "tickling the brain".

Never have,but maybe i'll start so I can seem sophisticated.

TPBM likes writing Haiku.

I can't say that I do. The format is too restricting.

TPBM agrees with Zig Ziglar when he says, "You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

Yes I do. You can't just do nothing and become great.

TPBM hates it when he/she replies to a comment the same time as someone else and his/hers shows last and becomes totally irrelevant.

I do not. I see it as an opportunity for a double-post for me or for someone else. [As I am fully aware of my general irrelevancy in the bigger scheme ofLlife anyway, there is a certain calming effect in being reminded of it from time to time.]

TPBM Is looking forward to sleep.

I'm not particularly bothered by it, though it can lead to some confusion.

When writing, TPBM often feels that there is a certain word to describe what they're thinking of, but can't think of it.

[There is much irony in this^^]

[Yes! The opportunity for laughter and a gentle schadenfreude.]

I do not, actually. Not sure why not, now that it has been brought to my attention.

TPBM knows the word for having a surprising sudden realization triggered by someone else's innocuous comment.

I'm drawing a blank, Guy. Sorry!

TPBM has a themed keychain.

I do not. But the answer to Guy's was an epiphany, right?

TPBM is ready for the cool of fall to overtake the sweltering heat that now reigns.