Weekly Short Stories Contest and Company! discussion

I don't know what that is. (sorry I mean "who" lol)

And Garrison I LOVE the board game Clue. It might be my favorite out of the rest of them!

TPBM loves to listen to music on YouTube while writing.

I do listen to music, but my main source of music comes from iTunes, not You Tube. I like listening to wordless new age music while I write. And yes, CJ, Clue is awesome! :)

TPBM thinks it’s cute when sea otters roll over on their backs while floating in the water.

It is.

TPBM has listened to a book on Youtube.

I haven't. I prefer paperback novels to audio books.

TPBM has already done his or her Father’s Day gift shopping.

I can't say I have. Is it time for Father's day already?

TPBM isn't comfortable giving speeches in front of large crowds.

Yes that's because of training from High School. It was something that all people would have to do whether they want to do so or not. I would have died from faintedness if I didn't learn how to do it, haha!

And Garrison I haven't bought yet but I have many ideas!!! (a brand-new tie and a tasty home cooked dinner).

TPBM likes chatting with whoever is around.

Considering that I stumble over my words when I do so, yes, I'd say that's true.

TPBM’s favorite kind of soup is clam chowder.

Nope, but I enjoy it very much.

TPBM visited or will visit a health practitioner today.

I've been going to physical therapy sessions to tighten the ball and socket in my left shoulder if that counts. I will finally have my sleep study in June if that counts too.

TPBM’s stories take place in fictional cities so that he or she doesn’t have to do research on a real city and possibly get some details wrong.

Nope

TPBM has a paper due this week

Not 'due' exactly but I want to finish my overview of Paradise Lost this week... or possibly next week :)

TPBM has recently started to organize their notebooks.

Nope. I'm done with notebooks for now.

TPBM has already grown his/her wisdom tooth (totally random).

The last wisdom tooth I ever had was removed years ago. I spent the rest of the day after surgery eating macaroni and cheese with jello for dessert.

TPBM has been to Disneyland before.

Nope. The closest for me was Disney World and we never got to go there either, lol.

TPBM loves chocolate.

Yes, but i'm not supposed to eat it.

TPBM is a basketball fan.

Nope. Just pro-wrestling for me.

TPBM enjoys the song “Dance Like You’re Dumb” by Incubus.

I love "Pardon Me" but I haven't heard that one. Might try it out just not now it's way too late.

TPBM loves RHCP.

I like a few songs by them, but not their whole catalog. My favorites by them are "My Friends", "Give It Away", and "Under the Bridge". Good stuff!

TPBM once referred to a half-naked person as “Captain Underpants”.

Nope.

TPBM gets tired of his/her own talking, sometimes.

Yes. Sometimes I talk to myself too and I get on my nerves. :)

TPBM wishes people were less attached to games on their cell phones and more immersed with chatting to who's around them.

Absolutely. That's why I don't even have a smart phone.

TPBM once listened to new age and soft jazz songs on the Oregon-based radio station KINK’s “Lights Out” show.

I live in Arizona so I've never listened to that station.

TPBM wanted to write a story for this week's contest but was too busy to get around to it this week.

On the contrary, I wrote a crime story called "Kink Floyd". It was well received. :)

TPBM thinks that naming a cage fighter Brock McMann is the most obvious thing an author can do (Jamie McGuire did this when she wrote “Walking Disaster”).

Ooh. That is an epic name for a cage fighter! :D

TPBM cannot listen to a high school graduation speech without silently satirizing every line of it.

I've never sat through one.

TPBM thinks studying music is a good hobby.

Yes. And learning it can be challenging at times but fun!!!

TPBM has played a music instrument at least once before.

Yes. I played sax as a kid and now I play the congas.
TPBM likes to sing and dance

Yes. But I'm not very good at either.

TPBM wanted to go for a swim.

Absolutely! The sun is out right now, so it's a perfect day for one. :)

TPBM enjoys the song “Asking For It” by Shinedown.

I might have heard it before, but I'm not sure.

TPBM wonders why paintings of fruit are more common than paintings of vegetables.

Good question. Both foods are good for you, so why not? It is rather curious.

TPBM once used the term “barf-errific” to describe something disgusting.

Nope, but now I might :)

TPBM likes saying the word 'exotic'?

I do, especially when it applies to Dungeons & Dragons weaponry. I have a level 1 half-orc fighter named Ivan Blackstone who's currently using a Dwarven War Axe, which is considered to be "exotic". Ivan's going to be fun to play with. :)

TPBM doesn’t understand why some people are afraid of going to see the dentist.

I really don't.

TPBM has been to an amusement park before.

I've been to many in my lifetime. I've been to Disneyland, Water World, Wild Waves, Lego Land, and Great America just to name a few. I hope I get to go back to Disneyland in December of this year. That way, I could come home with mouse ears. ^_^

TPBM had a yard sale recently.

Nope.

TPBM ate cake yesterday.

Nope. Instead I had mixed berry cobbler with vanilla ice cream. Yum, yum, yum!

TPBM wonders what certain traditional board games would be like if they were played like Dungeons & Dragons campaigns (if Clue were played this way, you could beat a confession out of Colonel Mustard with the lead pipe and have sex with Miss Scarlet on the pool table in the billiards room).

Ok,,,,,,


TPBM loves peanut butter.

Everybody loves peanut butter. :)

TPBM has a hard time deciphering the dialogue in Shakespeare plays.

I'm pretty okay at it. But it might just be because I've had most of my high school English classes with friends who are really into theater and who are really understandable when they volunteer to read out loud.

TPBM wonders why people post selfies with captions that are completely unrelated.

It's definitely a mystery. Even Sherlock Holmes and Dick Tracy can't crack that one.

TPBM immediately thinks of Pink Floyd whenever he or she hears about politicians wanting to “build a wall”.

I think of Berlin, actually. But Pink Floyd makes me think of my Psych teacher's mug that says "Pink Freud".

TPBM wonders why the people who pick arguments with others are the first to say others have a short temper.

It is rather odd, isn't it. I've been trying to figure that one out for a long time.

TPBM is a Disney fan.

Sometimes, sometimes not. It really depends on the movie for me :)

TPBM has read book series that are left unfinished due to a publisher discontinuing them.

Not yet, thank goodness! *knocks on wood*

TPBM has read at least one series that started as a "trilogy" but finished with 4 or more books.

The only books from said trilogies (Fifty Shades and Hunger Games) I've read were the first ones. I wouldn't mind if Suzanne Collins wrote more Hunger Games books. Fifty Shades? That's a whole different story.

TPBM thinks that Roku sounds more like the name of a samurai warrior and less like the name of a streaming device.

It does.

TPBM enjoys drinking rooibos instead of tea.

I like tea, but I haven't had rooibos.

TPBM knows the cycle of 'discover new song'-'love the song'-'binge listen until you don't like anymore.'

I don't know if I ever stop liking songs, but yeah, that has happened to me several times, the most recent example being Edge of Sanity's cover of "Invisible Sun" by The Police.

TPBM enjoys the music of Michael Bolton and is not afraid to admit it.

I'm indifferent to Bolton.

TPBM enjoys doing routine household chores.