That Moment...

TWM the clock strikes 22:30 on the 23rd of December, and there still is not a single flake of snow on the ground. In Sweden...

 

Just a couple of days before Christmas we got a hell of a snowstorm, and since it's been below zero for days now, Helsinki is white with snow. Last year we had a black Christmas, so this is just amazing. I hope you get some too!

 

I don't think we've had temperatures below zero once (except for the occasional night)...
You wouldn't mind shipping some of that fluffy white snow over?

 

I'm not sure if posten delivers on Xmas eve.

 

TMW you enter the post office and try to send a box of snow.

 

That moment when you think you have the day off then realize you slept in.

 

TMW you suddenly realize that Hottie McSexypants from Divergent is the same dude that Thomas made an ill-fated move on and then Lady Mary Crawley shagged to death on Downton Abbey.

 

TMW you realize that you've never seen Divergent or Downton Abbey and you have no idea what @Wreybies is talking about, but Hottie McSexypants is definitely your 2015 Halloween costume.

 

TMW when an old movie makes reference to Russia as the military baddies and you realize that the reference no longer sounds anachronistic.

 

TMW the narrator in a first person POV novel series dies. For the second time...

 

T (panicky) MW a client emails you asking if you have sent project #12345, and all you can think is, "What project #12345??" Oh, you mean this one here in the original email that I totally forgot about. Fu......

 

TMW...

You make up a name for a city, look it up online only to discover that it's the capital of a department that shares its name with the city of a foreign country.

Yeah, um...I'm gonna go ahead and pick a different name for my city...

 

TMW your mom wakes you up after a little less than seven hours of sleep, you get really mad at her, and then you manage to doze off for over an hour without realizing it.

Not quite sure how I managed that.

 

I'm always worried of this whenever I come up with fantasy names, like, I end up naming the spunky side-kick of my gruff warrior Zizi, and then the French are like "teehee, she's called pee-pee." Or something to that effect.

 

Ah, with that I'd just play around with it. Maybe in her world, the name means 'pee-pee' as well and she is not happy with it. Sort of like how in our world guys like 'Dick' and 'Johnson' have to live with the fact that their names are also slang for male parts. Embarrassing names can exist in any walks of life.

 

That moment when your daughter sends you a pic, and you're scratching your head wondering why she expects you to understand the significance.



I'd best be finding myself something to put some of it in, in order to make a book end. That, as it turns out, is Game of Thrones fake snow. And there's me thinking it was a load of dried out, over cooked cous cous. But then again, I didn't have my specs on. I even know which particular scene it was used in and my first thought was: But that hasn't even happened in the books yet. I'm thinking I need to do a little distancing from the telly until Martin gets his ass in gear.

Love me some memorabilia.

 

TMW you give your dog something unusual to eat (a piece of banana) and she's confused as to what to do with it.

 

TMW you're watching an episode of the BBC's Planet Earth and you're taken in by the splendor and majesty and David Attenborough's plummy voice and then you have to turn away as the wonderfully cute and endearing offspring of Animal X is ripped to shreds by Animal Y right before your eyes. In HD. In semi-slow-motion.

 

I thought of a jar of dirt the moment I saw that picture.

TMW you read a book/series and you loved it so much that you start reading the whole book/series again right away

 

That's why I stopped watching natural shows, to be honest. I can't stand looking at the helpless animal getting attacked and eaten by the predators. I know the predators are just doing it to survive, it's not like they're getting a kick out of killing the animal for the lulz, but GAH! The feels!

 

Chimps and a Capuchin. I remember seeing a rather brutal dismemberment as a kid, and the image still haunts me.

 

TMW you leave your food alone and come back to find and empty plate and a happy dog.

TMW your dog stares at you until you give them food and they end up getting more then you.

 

TMW you feel bad for having given the dog the piece you wouldn't eat instead of the piece you consider the "good" piece of whatever you're eating.

 

TMW they make you feel so guilt that you give them that last piece.

@Wreybies See that sad face. Can I have it? Please... Please