Weekly Short Stories Contest and Company! discussion

That looks like an awesome book, I just added it to my list.

TPBM wishes that they could be better at their hobbies

Nope.I actually am good at most of my hobbies.

TPBM already did the laundry (well most of it)

uhhh... It's sort of folded.

TPBM wishes it were summer.

Yea...no. It's already hot here in Jamaica so imagine the summer.

TPBM just ate an apple.

Yummy, but no. I wish I had an apple.


TPBM just wrote about a sad time and realized the old saying that time heals all wounds is true.

I didn't write about a sad time so I didn't prove the old saying.

TPBM is writing.

I'm not doing much of anything right now. It's 4:19 in the afternoon in Port Orchard, Washington and I just woke up. I might do some writing today, but first, I have to shake the cobwebs out of my head.

TPBM thinks Hell Yeah is a good name for a metal band.

Why not? It wouldn't be the weirdest thing out there.

TPBM thinks its cute when couples have people at their wedding hold up pictures of family members who couldn't make it to the ceremony.

I've only been to one wedding ceremony in my whole life and that was when my cousin Beth married a guy named Seth. Beth and Seth. Yes, the rhyming names make me giggle. But to answer your question, Angie, if I went to another wedding and they did that, yes, it would indeed be cute and cuddly. ^_^

TPBM doesn’t see the point in starting a riot whenever a sports team loses.

I didn't know there was an option to not start a loser's riot of losers, so I guess in that sense I don't see the point.

TPBM has taken a fully accredited university course on a North American sport.

Outside of physical education (which in my case would be karate and weightlifting), no, I've never done that before. Sports aren't really my thing unless you're talking about pro-wrestling, but that's more like entertainment instead of a sport.

TPBM has a character that they keep trying to recycle into different stories, but with minimal success.

Well, I have lots of unfinished stories and sometimes I really like the name so I'll use it in the next story again, even if the personality is different. Does that count?

TPBM enjoyed celebrating Super Pi Day on Saturday.

I liked Pi Day so much that I gave away my PIN number, which is the last four digits of Pi. Think about that one for a minute. ;)

TPBM once referred to someone close to them as their “gravity”.

No, but I wrote a poem about the gravity of secrets

TPBM enjoys chewy oatmeal cookies with warm tea.

Oh, I love me some oatmeal cookies, but I prefer my tea to be iced. I could drink that stuff forever.

TPBM has read at least one book by Sherman Alexie and enjoyed it.

No, I've never read Sherman Alexie.



TPBM is finding out that sitting around reading and writing is not a cheap hobby if you have to buy new clothes when the old ones won't fit!

Garrison wrote: "Oh, I love me some oatmeal cookies, but I prefer my tea to be iced. I could drink that stuff forever.

TPBM has read at least one book by Sherman Alexie and enjoyed it."

Hey, my sunday school teacher was Sherman Alexie's brother!

I'm still the same size as when I was in seventh grade, so that's not really a problem.

TPBM has met someone famous

No, not really. But I work with someone who met the Queen of England.

TPBM finds the adulation of celebrity uninspiring and oddly infantile.

I could see that, I mostly just think that they are just people like the rest of us.

TPBM Loves to eat large amounts bread, even though they know that it isn't very healthy.

Not any longer, as I notice a big improvement in how I feel with less bread.

TPBM drinks less water per day than is recommended.

Maybe... don't tell my mom! hehehe. :)

TPBM needs to work on that awful thing known as hand-eye coordination.

YES! (unfortunately I am beginning to think some people are just blessed with it and people like me NOT)


TPBM is glad it is finally warm enough to go outdoors long enough to vacuum out their car.

I am indifferent to the relationship between and car vacuuming. Of course I live in a condo and in a mild climate.

TPBM was recently surprised to get more than $200 in buyer rewards from their car service provider.

weather*

I don't own a car yet, so, no.

TPBM gets really nervous about job interviews.

Maybe a little bit nervous, but I don't shake and stutter through the interview, so it's not that bad.

TPBM desperately needs to pay a visit to a sleep clinic.

Yes. I'm trying to use herbal remedies though. Have you tried Organic Tart Cherry Juice?

TPBM wants to go on an adventure today.

Not today, but I do have "adventures" planned for the near future, particularly a Canadian vacation and a Cavalera Conspiracy concert. They're both going to be tons of fun! :)

TPBM wants to eat something from Vinnie Paul Abbot’s cookbook titled “Drumming Up an Appetite”.

Never heard of it, but it sounds interesting so I might.

TPBM is going to make double coated chicken

Nope, we already had chicken this week, in the form of hot wings.

TPBM is frustrated by the way women's clothes only come in pink, teal, beige, and white in the spring.

Yeah, a little. What ever happened to yellow? It is a great color.

TPBM wants to eat something sweet.

No, I don't really have a sweet tooth.

TPBM reads in bed while falling asleep, but doesn't recall what they read because of how sleepy they were at the time and has to re-read it.

No. I just stay up all night reading.


TPBM gets a headache from looking at the computer screen too long.

No, I can actually go pretty long looking at the computer. Not sure if that's a good thing or not.

TPBM is in some type of TV show fandom.

Not anymore. I used to be quite actively involved in a TV watching group at work. But now I watch almost no TV, and what little I watch is the spill over from what my wife watches.

TPBM is a fan of the TV show about TV addicts watching TV show fans.

Wait...What? We don't watch television, so I guess a defaulted no.


TPBM Hates when they wake up before their alarm and forget to turn it off. (Half an hour later you hear BEEP BEEP BEEP.)

No, but my husband does because I have usually left the room. (oops!)


TPBM dreams that they have woken up and started getting ready, realizes that it was just a dream gets up and hurries around, then realizes they are still dreaming!!
(Help, I'm trapped in my own dream!)

Yeah, I've done that before.

TPBM wonders why popular music is never popular for very long.

LOL! I don't, but this made me realize that SOME popular music stays popular for a very long time. Mozart was 'popular' music in his day, for example. And how long is long? Sinatra and Presley and the Beatles, for example, are still popular, even if it isn't on the radio as much as it used to be.

But having said all that, much that is a 'hit' today will be forgotten tomorrow. It seems to be the nature of the ebb and flow of things.

TPBM rolls their eyes when someone starts to ramble to them about nothing at all as if it were interesting.

I try to be patient when people do that, especially if they're excited about something I don't really care about. After all, I nerd out about some pretty weird things.

TPBM has teased a friend about really liking a TV show/movie/book and, after watching/reading it, promptly apologized for not understanding.

Yeah, that happens all too often

TPBM Eats cereal ate weird times throughout the day.

Not really. I have had porridge for supper once or twice, though. Does that count?

TPBM adds fresh fruit to their cereal.

Yes, to my oatmeal. I don't eat cereal.


TPBM is looking forward to slow dancing at a wedding this weekend.

Lol! No, but I am heading out now to dance to an excellent rockabilly group.

TPBM likes a wide range of music.

Mozart to Owl City, everything in between is my jam.

TPBM wonders why siblings can get away with being so rude.

I don't because it seems to me that siblings give each other a lot of slack or a lot of distance.

TPBM is an only child.

No, I actually have two brothers.

TPBM has a headache.

I used to all the time, but then I started doing Pilates and all my headaches are gone.

TPBM thinks that being competitive is a good thing, even if they get a little bit too aggressive. hehe.

So do I, and so I am about to do some to help everyone who has migraines tonight.

TPBM is about to do a pile of pilates and yoga before bed.