Weekly Short Stories Contest and Company! discussion

My head feels fine today, which is a blessing for a schizophrenic like me. Hehehe!

TPBM feels guilty whenever they don’t get any work done throughout an entire day.

Yes! Always with the guilt!

TPBM misses riding horses.

NO. Let's just say for your first horse back riding experience don't drink a bottle of Sloe Gin with your boyfriend first. Not only will you not be able to dance at Homecoming, you will be lucky that you could walk well enough to attend.


TPBM is tired of going outside when the air is too cold to breathe without hurting!

I'm not a big fan of cold weather, but I don't think I've ever been in weather where it was painful to breathe.

TPBM has multiple creative projects going on at the same time.

Yes I do but it seems I haven't got enough time in a day to complete them

TPBM just finished cooking dinner

Maybe not cooking, but I did just eat dinner. We had steak and rice along with green beans and homemade apple sauce. Mmm-mmm-mmm!!

TPBM has at least one character in his or her stories named Sam whether it’s a male or female.

No, no Sams in my stories!

TPBM is having a hard time finding a new title for a novel. The one I have now is horrible.

If you need title suggestions, do what I did with "Watch You Burn": listen to your favorite music and allow the lyrics to inspire you for a title. In the case with "Watch You Burn", I've heard that line in songs by Three Days Grace and Papa Roach, both of which were coincidentally called "Burn". What do you have to lose?

TPBM has a strong urge to go on a New Orleans vacation.

No. New Zealand


TPBM has wanderlust but is having difficulty expressing it in words.

I have wanderlust, but I'm pretty sure I know where I want to go: either California, Hawaii, New Orleans, or Canada. Those are my favorite vacation spots.

TPBM frequently visits the Movie, TV Show, and Book Reviews thread.

No, but I do read through them occasionally.

TPBM wants to start watching a TV series, but is so far behind that they fear ever catching up with the current season.

Yes that happens alot,but if I really want to catch up I will.

TPBM is hungry.

Nope. I just barely at an hour or two ago.

TPBM can never get pictures to sit straight in a frame.

I have to,or else i'll just forget about putting the picture in the frame.

TPBM wonders why some people who are born and grown speaking English find English as a subject difficult.

I understand it pretty well. You speak your first language innately and to force yourself to be aware of the sentences you form instinctively is difficult. It makes you slow down and think about not only what you're saying, but how. My grammar significantly improved when I started taking French because I suddenly became aware of conjugation and verb-subject-pronoun agreement.

TPBM always spends much longer on the internet than they originally planned on.

Yes I do.Sometimes I look at the clock it's 8 o'clock an I say to myself just five more minutes,then a few 'minutes' later I look at the clock 'wow!midnight already?'

TPBM loves to cook.

Yes! I have taken it up as a hobby just this past year.

TPBM has a recipe that they can call their own!

I do have a recipe. It's clearly printed on the side of the TV dinner box. Hehe!

TPBM dislikes small talk.

Hey I have an interesting story about something like that. My first "Real" meal I cooked up was from looking at the ingredients to an empty tv dinner box and made it all from scratch. I was surprised how well it turned out!

And to answer yours I don't particularly dislike small talk. I feel like a person should always start with small talk when they speak to everyone before they can get to the real chatting! I think of that as an unwritten rule of society, I guess.

TPBM hates it when they write out a message or say a lot to someone and get a response back equivalent to "...'kay."

I hate that too. Until I find myself doing it because I just have nothing to say back, they covered it!

TPBM thinks the new Ghostbusters movie is going to suck big time.

Yeah. I don't usually like it when Hollywood does a re-do or a remake of anything!

TPBM finds independent movies more entertaining than the stuff that is out there lately.

The last time an independent movie affected me more than a mainstream one was when I saw "Obselidia". I saw a lot of myself in the main character (George) and he ended up having his heart broken in the end. I spent the rest of the night listening to Seether's cover of "Careless Whispers".

TPBM has at least one character in his or her stories with a color for a last name.

Nope. Actually, most of my characters don't even have last names. I realized this recently going back through a lot of my works.

TPBM wants season 4 of Adventure Time on DVD.

I'm not a big fan of Adventure Time nor a lot of Cartoon Network shows these days. I did watch The Looney Tunes (2011 reboot) and MAD for a while, but that ended when I kept forgetting they were on TV.

TPBM doesn’t understand why youth is so important when starting a career in acting or music.

I suspect it has a lot to do with the idealism of youth, the idea that you still have your whole life ahead of you, and I guess if you're insecure with your age, it's hard to accept that maybe you've missed your chance at certain things. So by presenting this image of youth in the media, you can appeal to the young and those afraid of aging. Just a theory though.

TPBM admits that they're a preener (that they like making themselves seem more important/better than they are) and are working on improving it.

I have no delusions about what I do, so no, I'm not a preener. I have a long way to go before I reach the top of the mountain. But you know what they say: it's the journey, not the destination that matters most.

TPBM can think of at least one example where a writer didn’t become successful until he or she became a middle-aged adult (it happens more often than you think, so this should be an easy one).

Yes, most of my favorite authors are like that.

TPBM has an idea of what I can write in a Star Wars themed birthday card.

"May the force be with you." It's not the most original thing I can come up with, but it seems to be the best at the moment.

TPBM doesn’t understand why saying the alphabet backwards proves sobriety to a cop when even clear minded people struggle with it.

Yes. It's totally stupid.


TPBM is to tired to think.

That was the case earlier today when I woke up at 3:00 in the afternoon and napped from 6 to 8:30, but I'm awake and alive right now and plan on catching up on this week's "Wanderlust" contest entries.

TPBM has no idea why hard rock bands like to say, “You’re my favorite disease.”

I have no idea. It's probably meant to be a thought provoking metaphor.

TPBM likes to stay bundled in their blankets after waking up on a cold morning.

Yes!


TPBM really needs to get our of their pajamas before noon. Oops! Too late.

I just woke up a few minutes ago, so my time limit is long overdue. I'm still shaking the cobwebs out of my head.

TPBM has at least one character in his or her stories named Rex.

Nope. That name always makes me think of the dinosaur in Toy Story, though.

TPBM always gives food to someone who has done them a favor, even if that person didn't ask for anything in return.

I do it with my best friend Susan when we go for drives either to Taco Bell, Jack in the Box, or McDonald's. It's not the healthiest idea we could come up with, but it's something we can bond over while we listen to foo-foo music.

TPBM pronounces the German metal band Rammstein’s name “rahm-shtine” instead of “ram-steen“.

That must be the correct way to pronounce it, I'm guessing? Well, I've been saying it "ram-steen" all this time.

TPBM has played any game from the Guitar Hero series at least a handful of times.

After being frustrated with trying to play a real guitar for so long, I don't think I'd fare any better against Guitar Hero's challenges. The answer to that one is no.

TPBM is hungry for ramen noodles.

I'm not huge on ramen. But I'll eat it if I can put a tablespoon of Tabasco sauce in it for flavor.

TPBM has a specific set of friends they go to with good news, and a separate set of friends for bad news.

I don't keep a-lot of friends so I don't do that.

TPBM has exams tomorrow.

Seeing as how I've already graduated from college, exams are a thing of the past. That's one of the many things about school I'd like to keep that way.

TPBM gets grossed out whenever their parents kiss.

Not really. Honestly, I wish they'd do it more often so the rest of us don't worry about one choking the other to death in their sleep!

TPBM really loves how different The Walking Dead comics and the TV show are.

No. But only because I've never read the comics. I do love the show though!!



TPBM thinks some books should never be made into movies.

An example of that is the "Fifty Shades of Grey" movie. Then again, the movie probably doesn't have descriptions about Ana's face being "the color of the Communist Manifesto". God, that was awkward.

TPBM believes in the legitimacy of chiropractic medicine rather than calling it “urban voodoo”.

Absolutely. Frankly, I'd take chiropractic therapy over filling my body with dozens of painkillers.

TPBM enjoys hiding under couches and grabbing the ankles of people who sit down.

Yes that is fun.

TPBM has a headache

Yes, but it's probably because I went to sleep at 1 am and got up at 6:30.

TPBM is a horrible dancer but dances anyway.

Actually, I'm pretty good at dancing.

TPBM is reading.

I just finished reading an article for my English class, but I wish I had time to be reading a good novel right now.

TPBM is getting ready for dinner.

I already had dinner just a few minutes ago: a bowl of Quaker Oat Squares, a handful of wheat crackers, leftovers from a Mexican restaurant, and four slices of provolone cheese. Mmmm-mmm-mmm!

Even the most minimal form of exercise makes TPBM feel happy afterwards.

Yes! I need exercise to stay emotionally stable. I can get moody and lethargic if I skip out on my runs for too long.

When TPBM is working on something on their computer, they feel a moment of panic if the page has to reload, fearing that their work did not save.