Weekly Short Stories Contest and Company! discussion

Belly, that is such a torture. I still remember your haiku about coffee with a roach in it.

No to both hehe

TPBM has forgotten what he/she is supposed to write here.

Yes. All I can think of is “having given His only begoaten Son . . .”

TPBM thinks it’s interesting that Leslie writes in English as fluently as though it were her native language, yet doesn’t talk much in English. (Someday I’m going to write fluently in French, yet I have no interest in speaking it.)

I am fascinated by it. (Leslie I only speak English and I never get as much grammar correct as you manage to do.)

TPBM thinks chocolate is better with caramel?

Of course, and now I really want some!

TPBM is exercising all the willpower at TPBM’s disposal not to go to the refigerator and see what looks good to snack on.

Yes. Some usually means several handfuls.

TPBM likes more than one olive in a martini.

Honestly, I don't know what martini tastes like. I love olives.

You are all wonderful :)

TPBM likes peanuts more than almonds.

(Cough. Cough. Cough. Cough. Cough.)

I do like peanuts, but I love smoked almonds.

TPBM will taste one of the closest things to heaven when she has a martini with half a shot of Noilly Prat and capful of olive juice.

why do i think that mixing drinks seems complicated?

TPBM likes to try yoga.

I have no idea what a corn hole is. Is it what's left after a herd of goats eats through a corn field?

TPBM knows what a worm hole is.

No, my robots name is io-ta.

TPBM has a vehicle that runs on bio-diesel.

Belly, I seem to think that everything you write here has something to do with goats :P

Would I dare? I might be too frightened to do anything.

TPBM had experienced dropping something into a toilet bowl.

Tell me it isn't so! You didn't lose your smart phone there! [LOL.]
On Monday, I couldn't believe my ears when, just like in a sit-com, some guy in the washroom is sitting on the can talking on his phone. OMG yuch!

Sadly, yes. That was a real lesson in keeping the toilet seat down.


TPBM finds cleaning the bathroom to be a soothing and satisfying exercise.

No, I didn't lol! I don't use/bring my phone inside the bathroom.

Yes :))

TPBM is craving for a mango shake.

No, but now that you mention it! I've cut up a mango and squeezed a lime over it. It is so SO good. Sadly, the mangos we get here are often not very good.


TPBM is falling asleep at their keyboard.

Did you? lol

Goodnight Guy!

No, too early for bedtime :)

TPBM will shut down his/her laptop/computer before s/he falls asleep at their keyboard.

nope.

TPBM is thinking about how a rumba type machine that cuts the grass would help to maximize the fun to chore ratio of their lives(patent pending).

No. iPOD already invented.

TPBM is concerned, tonight, about a friend's well being.

Not just tonight. I am concerned about a bunch of friends for different reasons.

TPBM most of the time, finds Leslie weird.

No. Leslie is refreshingly normal!

TPBM has an interest in watches made for scuba diving.

I don't know yet, I'm not sure. I haven't thought about it..

TPBM is looking for a good book to read.

No. I have a backlog of several hundred.

TPBM would like to be able to read more quickly and effectively.

Yes.

TPBM likes wearing hats/caps

In general, no, but I wear a bucket hat when I’m working in the yard.

TPBM wonders how Friday got here so quickly.

Is it Friday already? OMG I'm late for it.


TPBM has a friend with a genuine beaver skin fedora.

Hahaha, no.

TPBM watches House?

Ewww, no. I like them caramelized.

TPBM washes dishes?

Just finished! Nice meditative activity.


TPBM dries dishes.

(Belly, you don’t watch television? I thought I was the only one who doesn’t!)

No. I put them on a wooden drying rack.

TPBM will probably visit a bookstore today.

Hm... if I don't realize it, how can I respond truthfully?

TPBM probably spends too much time on the computer. (Most of that time is spent writing and on Goodreads, but computers are computers...

I’ve become a depraved addict of GR. I turn on the computer first thing when I get up, and turn it off last thing before I go to bed.

TPBM has a story idea for this week’s contest.

I probably did that the day before the 26th. I now want to make some coffee soon! Maybe ice coffee :D

TPBM is wondering where the day has gone. (morning anyway)

No, my morning has a couple of hours left in it.

TPBM would like to not watch TV, but s/he finds the quality of the writing of off network TV is so astonishingly good that s/he hasn't given it up yet.

That is true more or less for me. Some of the great shows out there even on regular tv I have decided not to watch because of the high violent content (I liked The Following but the last episode I watched got way too under my skin).

TPBM doesn't like the Following, Hannibal, Bates Motel competitive shows that are out there now.

By my own iconoclastic definitions of 'good' and 'like', yes. But that is not likely in any way how the general population would see it.

Belly, have you tried Game of Thrones?

TPBM has come to the realization that what is broadcast as 'news' has less truth in it than good fiction.

No, but the nuance and quality of the series has me thinking I may be giving it a try. Well, after I've read some of my backlog. (I didn't have much trouble following, although I'd heard that others did.)

TPBM finds the darkness and complexity of the writing and acting in the series 'The Killing' is enough to compensate for the occasional credibility gaps.

Can't say that I have as I've never seen the show.

TPBM still double spaces after a period even though, technically, is incorrect(Unless using an older typewriter or font that is mono-spaced ((courier)).

No, it took a great deal of effort, but have managed to break that habit. (I didn't know that about the mono-spaced fonts. Thanks for the tip!)

TPBM is looking forward to writing a letter, tomorrow, using pen and paper.

I haven’t written a letter by hand in years. I suppose I could still do it, but there would have to be an awfully good reason.

TPBM wishes Microsoft would make an uncomplicated word processor for people who know how to write and who use a word processor merely as a glorified typewriter.

Yes.

TPBM is likely to be reminded of M whenever Emily Blunt appears on TV.

Emily? (Swoon.)

TPBM hasn’t recovered sufficiently from an Emily-induced swoon to post a TPBM.

Lol! I saw her on HBO (Salmon fishing in the Yemen)

TPBM can't imagine M swooning haha

I don’t think I ever have, but I’m willing to try anything for Sarah Michelle. I mean, uhm, Julianne. I mean, uhm, Emily. (I’m doomed! Emily will discover that I’ve worshipped false goddesses.)

TPBM is having a relaxing weekend.

That explains why you know Sarah's type!

Not quite relaxing when I have to entertain my mother-in-law who's in town and to run errands for my mother whose birthday is tomorrow.

TPBM's least favorite month is July.

Yup. Ther's nothing to do except study Spanish and learn songs for HS choir. Bor-ing...

TPBM is dying of heat and humidity.

Not that I’m complaining, but I’ll be glad when fall gets here.

TPBM is still trying to come up with a story for this week.

No, but I still haven't found space in my writing day to put it down into my plain text editor, which I find allows me to avoid the pains of Word.


TPBM will be having having roast lamb sandwiches for lunch, today, while brainstorming his/her story idea.

Nope having some leftover baked ziti for lunchtime. And that is true Guy that what is broadcast as 'news' has less truth in it than good fiction. I hear that important events that are happening in my country the USA could mostly be found on foreign news websites because the media is so chopped down and exclusive to what they report and not much stuff can be heard about locally on news networks.

By the way...

TPBM hopefully has good foreign news website links that have articles in English for TPA him or her. :)

Unfortunately, no. I tell people that I’m not into reading fiction, but it isn’t true. I read Associated Press articles.

TPBM has a shortwave radio.

Yes, through my wife's father. I haven't turned it on in ages.

TPBM is listening to a radio station that is playing the old pop standards of sixty years ago.

No. I haven’t listened to the radio in quite a while. Sixty years ago, Percy Faith’s “The Song from Moulin Rouge” was popular, Perry Como’s “No Other Love,” Doris Day’s “Secret Love.” Those are records I’ve turned many a time.

TPBM has a frozen dinner in the oven, and the aroma of the cheese enchiladas, of the rice, the refried beans, is almost maddening.