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Lol! Not as often as I used to do. :-)TPBM has become relatively calm listening to 'pleasant' on-hold music, regardless the real pleasantness.
Some of the on-hold music has been truly pleasant. So I have to say that I have become calm. But usually, I get off the phone. TPBM can't wait for the weekend.
Every day is like the weekend for me because I don't have work or school to go to. Don't get me wrong, I'm not bragging. Hehe!TPBM gets hungry for salmon fillets whenever hearing about a person named Sam.
No I can't say I have.TPBM's diet has worked out pretty well (so far).
I'm on a see-food diet. Whatever I see, I eat. And so far I have no complaints. :)TPBM likes to eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with three pieces of toast instead of just two.
Not usually but I have done that with ham and cheese sandwiches before. Tomato and some mayo too. Yum!TPBM thinks bacon is overrated.
Blasphemy! Bacon is awesome! I always get it with my double meat ham and turkey sandwich at Subway. :)TPBM believes that if people are allowed to wear cowboy hats and boots in public, then he or she ought to be able to dress like a Viking or a samurai.
Yes,but of course you are applying logic to a social more that doesn't care one iota what the head thinks.TPBM is often puzzled by what is and is not considered socially acceptible behaviour.
I get told how socially awkward I am all the time and I can never figure out why. Oh well. TPBM sees Christmas as a positive holiday instead of a reason to be overly stressed-out.
I feel much better after having a bowl of Quaker Oat Squares. I love a good bowl of cereal every now and then. :)TPBM will only write poetry that is emotionally significant to him or her.
Not always. And sometimes the significance isn't present until much later then while it was being write. TPBM thinks too much humour is genererally and in the long run more important in life than too much seriousness.
I don't think there is such a thing as too much humor. Laughter is the best medicine, after all. :)TPBM would never want to work in a call center.
Absolutely not! I wouldn't be able to stand it.TPBM has a profound respect for the patience of people who work in customer service.
I have so much respect for them that I always make it a point to be positive and polite when approaching them with a problem. Then again, being positive and polite is good for any situation, really. :)TPBM actually knows what a "suplex" is.
I wouldn't know anything about that, because I'm currently single. If I had an imaginary friend, then it might be a different story. Or I could ask my cat Smokey for advice. Hehe!TPBM had a wonderful 2015.
Maybe not writing, but I edited a short story that used to be called Ascension. I also read 30 pages of Silence of the Lambs, read 30 pages of The Girlfriend Wager, and drew a picture of Karlos Frostbite from my short story Acid O'clock. It's been a creative night to say the least. :)TPBM has read or watched "Silence of the Lambs" and was deeply disturbed afterwards.
Almost, but not completely. Maybe after the first few pages, I'll start to feel better.TPBM hasn’t been to the Photos thread in a while, but would like to go check it out.
I don't actually have any uploaded videos on You Tube anymore, so no. I used to have videos heavy metal songs and artwork, but the negativity of You Tube became too much for me, so I took them down. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.TPBM believes there’s nothing wrong with selling his or her soul as long as it’s to something that person believes deeply in.
My muse is crazy 24/7, so that ship sailed a long time ago. Hehe!TPBM jokingly calls Valentine’s Day "Singles Awareness Day", which coincidentally enough has the acronym SAD.
Nope, but they are thinking that which makes them manifest has lost his marbles. TPBM is starting something new and a little intimidating tomorrow.
LOL! Nope. The key word is 'never'. If you want to do something dare God that you will never do it.TPBM wonders if anyone else will use s/he when referring to TPBM.
I'm riding the fence on that one. I used "they" a lot during high school, but started using "he or she" around my late 20's.TPBM groans at the punch line of vacationing in Turkey (the country) for Thanksgiving.
I've heard worse Turkey/Thanksgiving puns than that, so no.TPBM laughed hysterically during the Doctor Who episode when alien tourists were taught that humans invade the country of Turkey for Christmas and then eat them.
I don't watch Dr. Who, so I wouldn't have remembered that episode. Sounds silly as hell, though. Hehe!TPBM looks forward to Easter every year because that’s when grocery stores put out Reese’s Peanut Butter Rabbits and Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs.
Yes, but any time of the year is good for Reese's!TPBM actually highlights when they read ebooks.
I wish I knew how to do that with Adobe Acrobat Reader. My e-books are in PDF format.TPBM doesn’t make New Years resolutions because he or she can never keep them.
Aww! That would be so cute! But if I got a rat, I'd have to keep it away from the cats and dogs.TPBM wants to spend Halloween in New Orleans.
Hadn't thought of it, but that does sound like fun.TPBM likes the idea of a pet right, but thinks that some kind of reptile may be a better choice.
Reptiles make better sci-fi/fantasy monsters than they do pets. I'll pass.TPBM wonders why Halestorm lead singer Lzzy Hale spells her first name without an I.
I have no idea who Halestorm is, and I do not think reptiles are creepy.TPBM enjoys atypical grilled cheese sandwiches.
If by atypical, you mean buffalo wing-flavored cheese quesadias, then yes, I love them a lot. Damn it, now I need a midnight snack.TPBM celebrates St. Patrick’s Day by having potatoes and corn beef for dinner that night.
I mostly drink beer that's been dyed green, I don't really like corned beef.TPBM has spent other holidays in a similar way, maybe with different color dye.
Not really. I don't celebrate holidays that much. Although, there is the festival of colours in India which you celebrate literally with dyes. TPBM is an absent minded person. (I forgot what I was going say.)
Only when I have a schizophrenic attack. Other than that, I'm pretty sound of mind.TPBM cannot stand people who have no respect for his or her personal space.
Yep. So much. My friends annoy me a lot because of this. TPBM knows Latin.
That would be a nice skill to have, especially since I plan on publishing a poetry book called "Necrograph", which is a Greek word meaning "Death Writing".TPBM has a large Christmas list, but only to make him or herself easy to shop for, not because he or she expects everything on that list.
Up until now, I would have said yes. And knowing me, it's still going to be yes. Too tired and lazy after chores. TPBM thinks that "Semper scribentis" is a good motto for writers.
Yes, I can agree with that.TPBM thinks "semper discentes" is a good life motto.
I wish I knew what that phrase meant. TPBM thinks it’s silly that there’s an organization called “The Food and Drug Administration” when the only drug that will make you hungry is marijuana.
I'd never thought about that. I'm hoping that they do some relevant research. TPBM dislikes "news" nowadays.
That sounds pretty accurate.TPBM laughs at how much their dominant hand can do, while their other hand can't even hold a spoon properly.
It's weird how that works out. I never could figure that out.If TPBM owns a cat, he or she doesn’t like it when said cat walks on his or her ribcage.
I have not minded cats walking on me.TPBM thinks that conspiracy theories are contrived by the conspirators as a red herring to distract people from the real machinations.
Most conspiracy theories are whacked out anyways. I've had just about all I can stand of people saying that Barack Obama is secretly from Kenya. Ugh!TPBM would like to vacation in New York someday.
I wouldn't want to travel all the time, especially to places that require me to stay seated for hours on end either in the car or on the airplane. But yeah, it'd be nice.For the “Blunderbuss” prompt, TPBM had to go to either Wikipedia or Dictionary.com to find out what that meant.
No. Playing Assassin's Creed 4 helped a bit. TPBM likes xkcd.
I wish I knew what XKCD was.TPBM believes in the motto “come what may”.
"Bring it on!!" That's one of my mottoes and I hope that answers that Garrison. :D[xkcd is an amazing webcomic btw]
TPBM has to sleep now or have a tough week.
[Good night everybody!]
Goodnight, Deepak! Pleasant dreams! And no, I'm not ready for bedtime yet. I've still got more to do when it comes to languidly surfing the internet. Hehe!TPBM knows how powerful self-talk can be whether it’s positive or negative.
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I've got a weird accent as such (my American friends call it a mix of British, Indian and American). So the other accents that I mimic or take on don't last long.
TPBM keeps forgetting to check if someone else has posted before posting a comment on the TPBM thread.