Weekly Short Stories Contest and Company! discussion

No.
But maybe tonight.

TPBM attended a yoga class today.

No, I didn't.

TPBM has his/her drivers license.

I do. But I was relatively late getting it at the age of 17 in 1978.

TPBM bought something new, bright and shiny today.

No, not today.

TPBM had a busy day?

Crazy busy! My car broke, so had it towed to the shop and then promptly bought a new one for the first time in my life. And I went to work, led a meditation group, and the usual supper stuff. Fun day.

TPBM wears eye glasses.

Yeah- but only during class...i feel weird wearing them all the time:(

TPBM drives?

No, not yet.

TPBM prefers eBooks over paper-backs.

yes...though I still like the feel of a traditional book. If I read something on the kindle that I really liked I'll buy the printed version.

tpbm has a job?

No, but hopefully I'll work for/during the summer.

TPBM likes spontaneity every once in a while.

Yes true.

TPBM has hobbies they hope will help them with jobs in the future!

(Oh and Garrison, now I'm curious too. What exactly is the "Huh" Challenge? It makes me think of College Humor lol)

I used to, but I gave them up to pursue things I enjoyed without an end goal, per se.

TPBM finds the YouTube recommendations puzzling, at time.

Very puzzling.

TPBM is a social media guru?

Not even close. Everybody and their uncle has a Twitter account, but I don't need one, not even for promotion.

TPBM knows how important art classes are and doesn’t want to see them cut from schools and colleges.

OOC: CJ, the Huh Challenge is where you record a video of someone with a smart phone and roast them before saying "Huh?!" in a prolonged voice. Daniel Tosh made fun of this challenge on his show Tosh.0 if you want to watch that on You Tube.

Yes, art is of great importance especially with the increase of children being born talented or evolving greatly with technology even at a tender age.

TPBM likes to keep active?

If by active you're talking about constant exercise, then I only go for walks whenever someone drives me to the gym or it's a non-rainy day outside. There's no sense in being cold and wet for the sake of physical fitness.

TPBM uses Indian music to relax at night.

Nope. I don't listen to Indian music.

TPBM is tanned.

Only sometimes... then I look my mom (lol)!

TPBM would if they could help support the arts at schools to keep them afloat.

Yes, I would.

TPBM has been to the Caribbean before.

Wish I have but nope.

TPBM has never been outside of the continent where they live.

I've been to parts of South America during a 2011 cruise and I've been to Japan to connect to a flight to Guam in 1989/1990.

TPBM has a college degree in English.

I wish but nope.

TPBM has a huge goal in life they wish to one day achieve.

For me that goal is to make a living off of my writing. I'm already a self-published author, but I haven't sold a single book and I'm relatively unknown. Baby steps.

TPBM wants to write a story with a skeleton as the main character.

Not a bad idea. (I wrote a poem with a cadaver as narrator. Is that sort of close? ;-) )

TPBM finds acupuncture to be very helpful and healing.

I hate needles, so there's no way in hell I'm letting an acupuncturist stab me with those things. I'd rather get stung by scorpions. Hehe!

TPBM is expecting someone to write a Pink Floyd themed story or poem for this week's prompt (Writing On the Wall).

Now that you have mentioned it, that seems a reasonable expectation.

TPBM is going to make an apple pie today.

Sounds like a great idea! It could happen! :)

TPBM has a college degree in theater arts.

OOC: In the words of Pink Floyd, "Hello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone home?"

No but I kind of wish I did though.

TPBM has been outside of their home country before.

Nope.

TPBM has hugged a stranger before? (it's the first thing that came to mind!)

No, I haven't done it before. I wouldn't be against it, though, since I'm a natural born hugger-pie! ^_^

TPBM enjoys the music of From Ashes to New.

Lee wrote: "Nope.

TPBM has hugged a stranger before? (it's the first thing that came to mind!)"

[Hello Lee! Nice fushigi. Last night I was telling a new yoga student about my experience of hugging a stranger as an indirect result of the regular practice of yoga and meditation creating an openness within to living spontaneously in the moment. :-) ]

Garrison wrote: "No, I haven't done it before. I wouldn't be against it, though, since I'm a natural born hugger-pie! ^_^

TPBM enjoys the music of From Ashes to New."


I haven't, to the best of my knowledge.

TPBM finds re-organizing and paring down their library cathartic and refreshing.

Guy wrote: "TPBM finds re-organizing and paring down their library cathartic and refreshing"

I find it fun to rediscover stuff in my pile of collections too!

(And Lee YOUR TPBM has got me thinking. I have done that only once. It was kind of an experience that happened like in a scene in a movie called The Garden State with Zach Braff. Maybe I should put it into part of a story. Hmmm).

TPBM likes to do Listopias here on Goodreads!

LOL! I do not, despite one of my all time favourite books being The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon. She wrote this in 11th or 12th century Japan, as a book of lists.

Tonight TPBM is exploring music s/he has not heard before.

I got Roger Waters' latest album (Is This the Life We Really Want?) for my 32nd birthday yesterday, so yes, I am exploring new music. Familiar artist, new material.

TPBM watched Mr. Rogers’s Neighborhood when he or she was a kid (no relation to Roger Waters, by the way).

Maybe not a week, but I keep getting the opening theme song to the SNES game Bram Stoker's Dracula stuck in my head constantly. It's worth looking up.

TPBM enjoys drinking Perrier.

I don't drink coffee due to its bitter taste, so I'd have to disagree with that.

TPBM is a generous tipper when eating at restaurants or ordering pizza.

I am a very generous tipper, frequently more than 20%.

TPBM is very curious about naturopathic medical theory and practice.

If chiropractic counts as naturopathic medicine, then yes, I've always wondered about it. I always feel great after a neck and back adjustment and I'm told it has to do with nerve signals being unblocked after the joints are popped. Cool stuff.

TPBM enjoyed the movie Wonder Woman.

Yep; every time I see Homer look to the stars on the hood of his car.

TPBM has a tattoo related to Fahrenheit 451...

I have not seen the current Wonder Woman movie, and am old enough to remember Linda Carter's Wonder Woman TV show and read the comics. Nor do I have a tattoo of Fahrenheit 451.

TPBM enjoys small independent live performance plays or shows.

The last play I went to was a family drama called "Tribes", where deafness and dysfunction are both heavy themes. I wrote a review of that play in the "Movies, TV, and Book Reviews" thread and gave it a mixed grade (three stars out of five).

TPBM thinks Falcor the Luck Dragon from The Never Ending Story looks like a flying puppy.

I do. A dopey flying puppy.

TPBM has begun the practice of intermittent fasting.

Considering I just ate a whole large pizza with bacon, mushrooms, and white sauce, I'd say that isn't the case.

TPBM laughed while watching the movie “E.T.” during the part where Elliott called his brother “penis breath”.

I may have. I watched that when it was released in 1980(?), and don't remember that sentence.

TPBM is listening to an old queen song, and is enjoying it more now then when it was current 30 or so years ago.

The last time I listened to a Queen song was when I watched a You Tube video of the crowd at a Green Day concert in England sing along with the radio. It was "Bohemian Rhapsody" and it was beautifully done by these concertgoers. I had chills listening to it.

TPBM has an obsession with combining different Greek prefixes and suffixes to form interesting words (examples include Kleptomancer (thievery wizard), Necrocosm (death world), Psychography (mind writing), and Pyrology (fire science)).

No, but I do love playing with words and etymologies.

TPBM packed dishes today to get ready to move in the very near future.

For the time being, Port Orchard is my family's permanent home, so no, we're not moving nor did we pack dishes.

TPBM one time embarrassingly mispronounced the name Dumas as “Dumbass” rather than “Doo-MAH”.

Not embarrassingly so, but yes.

TPBM has dreamt that they only had one leg.

The closest I've come to that being true was when I was struggling with my schizophrenia in the early to mid 2000's. Sometimes I would dream that my limbs were paralyzed and that I could only hop around on one leg or both of my hands. I don't have those dreams anymore. Mostly these days it's about school, concerts, or travel.

TPBM would never want to try an extreme exercise plan like Cross-Fit or Insanity.