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Wish I saw that in my town; when it is concerning old abandoned businesses, it's like a ghost town!For whatever reason TPBM loves to hear the subject on recipes!
It'd be nice to know how to make something other than microwave hotdogs, so yes, that might be true, CJ. :)TPBM will eventually look up the song “Meadows of Heaven” by Nightwish on You Tube and think it’s the most beautiful thing he or she has ever listened to.
Sounds heavenly. :)TPBM has listened to Simon & Garfunkel or other mellow music.
EDIT: Just listened to it. Like a power-ballad but preceding with a very pretty piece of music. It was good!
OOC: Glad you liked it, CJ! :)IC: "Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again..."
TPBM prefers having wooden floors in his or her house instead of carpeting since the former is easier to maintain.
Totally. It also looks better.TPBM likes making smoothies.
That'd a bit more work than I'm willing to go to. If I want a smoothie, I'll go to Jamba Juice. TPBM feels old when they realize a friend's child has grown up.
I feel old knowing my niece Reina is now in middle school. I've known her since she was only a two-year-old. Now she's this big girl who is only a few inches shorter than me. Holy cow!TPBM lives in a place where bald eagles live.
I do. One of the largest collection of them congregate less than an hours drive.TPBM has seen a raven in the wild.
I don't go out in the wild that often, so all I see are the bald eagles in Port Orchard and the crows in Chehalis.TPBM is a Good Reads Author who recently had one of his or her books reviewed.
No on both accounts. TPBM is stuck in the middle of "Sleep is for the weak" and "Sleep is for the week".
As a heavy sleeper, I'm leaning towards the latter of those two. Although, I woke up at 1:30 in the morning last night to write "Flipped Off" for this week's "Flea Market" prompt, so I could be leaning towards "Sleep is for the weak" as well.TPBM enjoys sleeping in a cold room.
Yes, because I can wrap myself in the comfort of a blanket without getting too hot. TPBM doesn't like being in crowds.
True. It get's hot and rowdy pretty quickly.TPBM just had takeout.
Nope. I had homemade spaghetti a few hours ago though. TPBM makes to-do lists often.
Yes but I never follow through. I do what my time allows and soon enough everything is accomplished.TPBM knows someone who is sick right now.
I do.TPBM will clean their bedroom Sunday.
My bedroom is already clean.TPBM has a fear of public speaking.
I can't even speak in front large groups of people I know.TPBM takes forever to read a book of short stories because they just read a story here and there in between whatever they're more actively reading.
It depends on how big the collection is and the quality of the writing. But I am taking forever to read everything these days as I am nibbling from about ten books right now and not really reading anything continuously. TPBM remembers the first 'big' book that they read on their own.
Yes I do. I read all of the Redwall series in the 4th grade. TPBM hates when they procrastinate and have tons of stuff to do because they put everything off.
I do not. TPBM did yoga this morning, or will do some later.
I am in the reclining praying mantis pose right now, typing with my nose.TPBM can cook the perfect soft boiled egg.
... I can cook a perfct hard boiled egg? Half credit? TPBM is awesome.
Nope, just an average joe, sort of, sometimes, in a limited way for an off night.TPBM knows I know what I know and knows it is good.
It just so happens I already have that song on my Windows Media Player. I love Paul Simon.TPBM doesn’t understand why getting vaccinated as a child is supposed to be a bad thing (other than the obvious needle pain).
I do understand why there is a problem with vaccinations. It relates in a large part to the use of mercury as a preservative in the vaccine. For those who oppose it, their concern is that some people may be hypersensitive to the presence of mercury being put directly into the blood stream. To those selling the drugs, they pooh-pooh the fear as being unscientific because the amounts of mercury are so small that there can't be any such effect. But this is where science shows its hypocrisy, because it relies on the hypersensitivity of the human olfactory system to use tracer gas in propane and natural gas tanks. The body can smell that gas at 3 parts per billion, I think. So, we use the hypersensitivity of the body when it is convenient, and ignore it when it is inconvenient. [I have a friend and his wife who swear that they saw and experienced a transformation of their son's behaviour after his first vaccinations. Their observations are dismissed, but their son is quite severely autistic. And my friend is not prone to exaggeration or false perception.]TPBM is surprised that that relatively simple explanation about the fear of vaccinations has not been made public.
In my home country of America, we don't exactly have our priorities straight to where such an explanation would be widely seen. It's sad. It really is.TPBM likes to nap during stormy weather.
I prefer to listen or go into stormy weather.TPBM is enjoying the fresh smell of the air after a strong wind and rain storm.
In order for that to happen, I'd have to have my bedroom window open. But if I do that right now, I'm going to get soaked by the rainy weather outside. Plus, I have a bunch of electronics near my window that don't need to be fried.TPBM recently had a storm where he or she lives.
Yup. Lots of wind and rain. Especially wind. Lots of trees blown over and 400,000 people without power at it's peak.TPBM has used a chain saw to clear brush and make firewood.
Nope. I just occasionally hold it and walk around the house with it to look cool.TPBM has the stomach flu.
[LOL!]Nope. But it is starting to want something in it besides tea.
TPBM uses loose leaf tea to make tea.
If I knew what that was maybe.TPBM is hitting the sack now.
(Goodnight Guy!! :) )
Nope, not yet. It's still early here. [Good night Lee-lette!]TPBM is enjoying music while doing whatever it is they are doing right now.
That music is in the form of "The Diary of Jane" by Breaking Benjamin, so yes, I am. :)TPBM would read a fantasy genre book where the orcs were benevolent and friendly instead of evil and nasty.
I would, as I prefer characters over caricatures in my reading in general.TPBM has found that the ease of accessing movies and series via the internet has promoted binge-watching.
The internet has brought us a lot of things like that, hence why my generation is referred to as the "Instant Gratification Generation".TPBM doesn’t understand why testicles are supposed to be a symbol of bravery when they’re the weakest and most sensitive part of a man’s body.
Nope, but I like to wander in small circles looking for big fish.TPBM is happy being a small fish in a big pond.
Not exactly exactly, but somewhat exactly.TPBM laughs when people pretend to misunderstand metaphors.
What a strange metaphor! I truly don't understand it.TPBM feels a little embarrassed when s/he doesn't understand what s/he thinks is supposed to be an obvious metaphor.
True.TPBM is even more embarrassed to learn that what s/he thought was a metaphor was in fact not one than when s/he thought s/he'd fail to understand it.
Hmmm. Not adorable, but tending towards cute, in a limited way for an off night.TPBM just experienced a fushigi.
Well, I wasn't until I read TPAT's comment, because ... well. There are people in the WSS who don't know what a fushigi is?TPBM is about to turn off their monitor to go and to something else before midnight tonight.
Well, begun the process of writing for this week's prompt.TPBM began reading a new book today.
I wish! I started a series before the first week of school and I finished the first book, but I won't have time to read the rest for a few months. TPBM wishes that books came with pause buttons so reading would not take time.
That'd be great!TPBM has a chronic disease?
For me, that would be schizophrenia. I've had it since 2002.TPBM enjoys going on ghost tours.
No diseases that I know of. *knocks on wood*TPBM wonders why some parents name their children after food.
TPBM enjoys going on ghost tours. Nope.
TPBM wonders why some parents name their children after food.
I never wonder about that. WIth the way in which our generation is going, I kinda expect that to happen.
TPBM is going offline soon.
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TPBM sees creative merit in using old buildings for new businesses (an example would be an abandoned Wal-Mart in Texas being turned into a giant library, thus turning Wal-Martians into wallflowers).