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OOC: Goodnight, Lee-Lette. Pleasant dreams!IC: No, I don't have plans to visit New Jersey this week. That would require a six-hour plane ride.
TPBM believes a good name for a brown and yellow puppy is Reese (which is short for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups).
I can already imagine his fur pattern! That WOULD be a neat name.TPBM has travelled by plane before.
On one occasion, when I was about five. TPBM enjoys traveling of any kind.
I imagine I would, but have done almost zero traveling so don't know for sure.TPBM has traveled by train on a trip more than 500 miles.
Maybe not 500 miles, but I used to take the train between home and college from 2008 to 2009. Much better than the Greyhound Bus.TPBM has trouble getting noticed on the internet by his or her audience outside of this group.
I haven't really posted anything outside of this group. But I imagine that could be the case.TPBM spent over seven hours at church today.
As an atheist, I don't have a need to spend seven hours at church, let alone one.When TPBM wants to relax, he or she listens to "All I Have to Do Is Dream" by The Everly Brothers on repeat.
Nope.TPBM dislikes it when people act like social problems are mutually exclusive.
No. Hatred contributes to the problem. Hating a problem actually promotes or perpetuates the problem.TPBM has read too much ancient philosophy and tends to misquote it at inappropriate times.
The closest thing I have to ancient philosophy is "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne, which isn't exactly ancient since it was publsihed in 2006, but it's based off of ancient ways of thinking positively. I'm proud to say that "The Secret" has changed my life for the better.TPBM would read a book written by Kevin Smith.
Maybe if I knew who that is.TPBM loves the smell of dirt when it's about to rain.
Oddly enough, I do.TPBM was surprised to find a copy of one of his/her favourite books at a yard sale this weekend.
I didn't go to a yard sale today or yesterday. Instead, my family had one last week and we sold those books. I can't remember how much money we got for them.TPBM has posters of musical groups all over his or her bedroom walls.
I am posterless at home. Being married pretty much precludes posters, I assure you.TPBM has their office space festooned with small art cards and wise words.
Nope.I'm not a big fan of coffee unless I'm stressed or studying. TPBM will go to bed in a few hours.
I will, after I finish writing letters to friends I haven't talked to in a few years.TPBM has never seen a manual adding machine.
I am. TPBM has woken up with keyboard imprints in their face.
Maybe not keyboard imprints, but imprints of some kind. My chest and stomach looked like a road map after I woke up today.TPBM is anticipating the release of the third Clerks movie.
I haven't seen the first 2 movies so not really. TPBM knows that that smell of rain is called petricor
I did not! TY. (But my search revealed that it is spelled with an 'h' — petricor. TPBM loves learning new words!
Yes.TPBM will stop reading a book when they find a word they don't know and look it up before continuing.
(Thank you, Guy!)Yes, I do do that; it helps to build vocabulary.
TPBM has a vocabulary that exceeds their spelling skills.
Yes, I do indeed.TPBM has a little sister who uses big words.
In my family, I am the younger sister who uses big words, to the annoyance of my older sister. TPBM is always sad when they think of all the wasted potential we've lost over the many past wars.
Hmm. Not sad, I don't think. Fascinated that something most everyone claims to not want is what we continue to embrace, promote and fund.TPBM is fascinated by human behavior, and sees themselves as a kind of experiment in process.
Yes.It's amuses when I watch how people react in certain situations.TPBM has plans for the evening.
Yes. Yoga with my group.TPBM will start a new book tonight but will find it disappointing.
Nope.No reading tonight.TPBM will make dinner in a few hours.
My step-dad Dale does all the cooking and damn, does he make some good dinners! Mmm-mmm-mmm!TPBM thinks the blowtorch scene in the first Home Alone movie is hilarious.
Almost everything in that movie is funny!TPBM is going offline soon.
Maybe.TPBM knows that when you try to show someone how well something works, it will fail for the first time in front of that person.
It always happens! Making people look at me like i'm crazy!TPBM has run out of things to write in this thread.
I'm not quite there yet, but close.TPBM feels depressed whenever he or she sees a grown man screaming, "I want my mommy!"
I don't mind, as long as he genuinely wants his mom (and not in spoiled way). Everyone needs a mom.TPBM sometimes feels sad without reason.
I do, but I figure that there is a reason, but it is unconscious. TPBM sometimes gets awed at how much bigger the unknown is to the known.
In other words, we all have a lot to learn and I couldn't agree more.TPBM is a positive thinker.
Sometimes, but not always. I guess that makes me an ambiguous thinker.TPBM is basically ambidextrous.
I'm right-handed exclusively, so no.TPBM dislikes coffee.
I don't know if I dislike it really. but I refrain from drinking it to avoid forming a caffeine dependency. TPBM sometimes pities a character's existence so much that they hope the author will kill the character off.
If the character was being tortured or kept hostage over a long period of time, then yes, a mercy killing is in order.TPBM refuses to join the military.
Hmmm... not really refuse, I guess. I don't think I'd be well suited for it, nor would I ever be drafted for it, but if it ever became necessary, I wouldn't mind being a medic or the like. TPBM wishes they knew martial arts.
It'd be nice to know martial arts, yes. Plus, it'd keep me in physical shape. The question becomes, which martial art would I like to study?One of TPBM’s pet peeves is people mispronouncing his or her name (I’ve been called Jarrison, Grayson, Erickson, Garson, god knows what else).
I don't particularly like it, but I've gotten used to it. Most people say my name with the Spanish 'g' so that it's "An-hel-ica".TPBM thinks insects are fascinating.
Insects are interesting as long as they're not buzzing in my ear or crawling in my bed at night. Yes, the latter has happened to me before and it was freaky.TPBM owns at least one Lego set or mini-figure from the Chima series.
I don't own any Lego sets anymore. actually. Gave them all to younger cousins when I got older. TPBM finds it exhausting to be around people who act like every human error is a personal affront to their social rights.
More exhausting than having sleep apnea and then moving furniture the next day, which I've done before.TPBM snores like a machinegun.
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TPBM is going to the New Jersey shore this week!