That Moment...

When you're obviously dealing with ESL, and you understand what they said, what's the flippin' point of correcting minor spellings mistakes? Introducing your own in the process? That's a bright red target for me ;-)

 

TMW you finally snap and swear at the 900th website today that has popped up a subscribe dialog over their content as soon as the page finishes loading. Does that ever actually work?

 

TMW your husband leaves for Ireland (your bucket list destination you've yet to mark off; his second time visiting) for two weeks and you're stuck in Texas during the hottest weeks of the summer. 110 degrees versus 60 degrees. Blah.

TMW your mom asks you to stay with her while he's gone, and in the spirit of convenient childcare, you accept. Though it means that, even though the guy who sucks most of your attention will be gone, you will have even less time alone.

TMW your mother is an extrovert and doesn't understand why anyone would ever need a moment to unwind after a stressful day before being chipper and ready for conversation.

It's going to be a long two weeks ...

 

TMW 9,144 words only come out to 20 pages in MS Word.

 

TMW you determine definitively that puns are an underrated comedic form. To wit: I stayed up all night wondering where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.

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TMW you find a novel in the exact same genre and domain you wish to write. $0.99 at Amazon. Wooooo

 

That moment when you eat one steak and it just wasn't enough so you have to cook another!

 

TMW you watch this and remember what an amazing TV series it was. Ah, my youth!

 

TMW you remember a song mesmerising you, so you go seek it out on youtube and listen to it again. And think, really!? This used to grip you!!?

 

The moment you realize tonight is the beginning of the new football season!

 

TMW

 

TMW...

You want to share joy with others at your being able to power through a character development problem on your own, but you've talked about it so much now that you wonder if you're being redundant.

 

TMW you find writing mock TV Tropes entries a useful way to construct character sheets.

 

T(hose) M(oments)W you keep passing a church on the road where your mom lives that has a sign out front advertising their current series titled, "Deliver Us from Me-ville", but you keep reading "Deliver Us from Melville" and you think to yourself, "Woah, woah, woah. It's not that kind of dick. Everyone just calm the hell down."

 

TMW you bust outta' the prison you find yourself in because it's hellish death grip was too much to handle.

Today I took care of my own two kids, plus helped my my mom with my two nieces and took them all to the pool and out to eat. Then I get back to her house that afternoon, put my daughter down for a nap, and proceed to lay down and watch something on Netflix for precisely one hour. The last straw was when she stormed upstairs, told me I looked horribly pale and asked me why I have such a hard time functioning in life and feel the need to sleep "all day."

Yeah. Screw that. Ain't nobody go time for that.

 

With all due respect I'd be kickin' that to the curb right there.

 

Sigh ... I just don't really know how, I guess. I come from a huge family, and my mother is Jewish, so there is a ton of guilt involved, and I've become really starved for approval (which I never get) as a result. The only way I can think to cut it off is to run away and move thousands of miles from her. Hence the urge to move to Colorado as soon as humanly possible. Lol.

 

That's a good choice too

 

TMW your child's goldfish dies...

 

TMW you see people who combine support for gay rights with Lost Causer-ism.

 

TMW you take a bite of your cereal before you're awake enough to realize that's no longer milk, but cheese.

 

TMW... You learn that it's OK to stop reading a book you used to enjoy because it's filling you up with too much negative emotions that hit too close to home.

On a lighter, more random note...

TMW... You see a tub that people from the 1800s used to bathe in and suddenly imagine your MC stark naked bathing in that tub. Thanks, Imagination Center of my Brain. I needed to imagine them naked. All of them. Completely naked. Thanks.

Not.

 

Were they giving a speech? That's when people get naked. Oh wait no they imagine the crowd naked. So were you giving a speech?

 

Heh, no, more like one of them is either fighting some bad guys stark-naked, or they're taking a bath in those 19th-century tubs and another character enters the room and...has a polite conversation with them despite the awkwardness of it all.