The person below me

[southern crone]

Yes, and in the closet they will stay with the exception of my forest Santa feeding the animals, a mini optic fiber tree and a mini nativity set in a lead crystal box.

TPBM's house and yard will show up on satellite video Christmas Eve.

[Eric]

No house, no yard (apartment building & sidewalk), so no.



tpbm doesn't decorate for "the holidays"

[Simon of the Playa]

does sticking my dick in a box count?

TPBM wonders what i wear around for casual fridays...

[shroom]

why yes...what do you wear?
TPBM is wishing they had more nap time today,

[BeeWeeDee]

I wish I had more nap time every day

TPBM is on box two of their candy cane stash.

[robbidobbs]

The candy hasn't breached the werk beachead. Only jolly wraed Hershey's kisses.
The werk environment is not just enervating, it is downright volatile.
We are not impressed.
I made impossible Apple pie last night to succor my angst. Today I made sunshine carrots, a nostalgic look at Xmas past that had some semblance of compassion and fuck all, humanity. My mother unloaded a rash of (what is the word for a glue like substance that douces the recipient with negative feelings, the breadth of which only Wikipedia could list)
So yah.
TPBM is so close to stabbing someone verbally in the face that they have to drink alcohol to make sure they have thought this one thing through.

[theCryptofishist]

Actually, no.
tpbm thinks "q" should be pronounced "kwoo", not "cue" (or kyoo).

[southern crone]

What was the question?

TPBM is watching it rain, rain, rain.

[theCryptofishist]

I have a lake in my back yard. A while ago, it was a pond. Before that, a lake.
tpbm thinks that's a few too many geologic ages for one day.

[Eric]

I'm not actually sure that we can have a geologic age in a day.



tpbm wishes they were sleeping under a tin roof while the rain thrumped away on it.

[fernley1]

It would be nice once in a while. Don't get much rain out here in the desert.

TPBM has seen the playa covered in water.

[Thecatman]

Saw it covered in a few inches of snow last year when I took a new hire on a drive test.


TPBM can open a bottle of beer/soda with their teeth. (the kind that you need an opener for. a church key) I did once when I was in my early teens with a soda bottle. Never again.

[lucky420]

Nooooo! My parents paid good money for my braces back in the day and grateful they did. Yep, full on metal mouth!

Tpbm had braces as a kid and brushed their teeth really good because they were afraid of getting striped teeth

[shroom]

no, i wish i did. i want to get braces now,
TPBM likes to watch series on netflix instead of 'real' tv.

[gaminwench]

Yup. No 'real' TV since 1989.
I binge-watch my series (which are few and select).

TPBM snores.

[ranger magnum]

Sadly I do. Not chainsaw bad, but enough.

Tpbm loves all the food during the holidays

[fernley1]

Yes, a little too much. Got lots of jogging to do after the first of the year.

TPBM is starting an exercise program soon.

[Eric]

Yep. Same one I've been this close to starting for 3 years now.



tpbm has unusual New Years Eve plans

[robbidobbs]

Quite! I'm getting to spend time w friends I haven't seen for 6 years. Pretty stoked.
TPBM does unusual things frequently.

[Ratty]

Well yea I do. Nobody usually knows about them.

TPBM needs to give Christmas shopping a second thought.

[ranger magnum]

Uh, you have no idea. I just can't get into Christmas....

Tpbm loves their job

[shroom]

currently looking for a full time job. my part time job for the last 9 years has been substitute teacher and I do love it, just not enough hours.
TPBM is thinking about new year's resolutions.

[Eric]

Nope. I don't see the need to lie to myself.



tpbm has actually kept a New Years resolution for an entire calendar year or longer.

[MFOB]

I did, but it wasn't a very Resolutiony one. Have a young child we were always hum drum around the house. A NYR we set was to go on a date night once every two weeks. We never faulted and it was great for the relationship to not have a tiny person with us ALL the time. Thursdays...

TPBM Loves seasonal beers.

[theCryptofishist]

I don't drink all that much. But I like the idea of seasonal beers. It cheers me no end to think that all over the country people are setting out to make drinkable beer on a small scale, and succeeding. And that makes it a little depressing when I hear that you can get Sierra Nevada in England. I believe in a landscape full of local and specific delights, not the tentacled trap of hemisphere-wide conformity.
tpbm cannot see the name Francisco Vasquez de Coronado without evoking an earworm, and having the next half hour involve avacados and Colorado in nonsensical verse.

[ranger magnum]

I have....

Nothing. No idea about that guy. Is he the mayor of Oxnard?

Tpbm has their own sense of style

[theCryptofishist]

Yes. And I think you just proved it.
tpbm is jealous of tpam for never having heard "Desparado" (although there is the slight discomfort of historical ignorance unveiled, although it's not hard to see how with a narrative so contradicting the American self-image that it wouldn't be taught in schools.)

[Eric]

Hmm. I've heard Desparado, totally didn't catch the link. Maybe the song had to be in your head when you read it.


tpbm should be "work" working

[robbidobbs]

I'm enjoying a second day off in a row, have one more to go then back to the coal mine. I have, however, been working my ass off all day getting the outdoor plants prepped for the pending frost. Now it's beer o'clock.
TPBM is really annoyed that there is an ear worm in their head now from the above discussion. Thanks a lot!

[theCryptofishist]

You're welcome. (All it has to do is rhyme with Desparado, Eric. Maybe it's genetic; my mother has a habit of singing random phrases from advertising and the like to the "Ode to Joy".)

tpbm has never dipped their toes into the Pacific.