Dreambiscuit

Besides my mom’s miraculous fried chicken, I also like Chinese chicken, which is kind of sweet-hot and very nummy.

Crystal Pony, but I honestly have no clue what the ranking requirements are anymore, now that they’ve been changed again. There should be an official thread explaining this in detail.

I know one member here in real life, even though she seldom shows up here anymore.

Best friend of course. Why would I want to commit myself to someone I don’t even know and may have nothing in common with? A friend is someone I already know and connect with. This should be a no-brainer.

I wouldn’t change anything. I had my gameplan and stuck to it. I saved my affections for the one I was going to spend my life with. It wasn’t as hard as people tend to think.

Plan ahead and make reservations. While at the destination, play hard and don’t slow down until you’re ready to collapse from exhaustion. Keep as many details as possible out of the hands of others because they’ll always screw something up. Pack light, but bring lots of hand sanitizer and travel-sized Lysol.

105,728 as of this moment.

I don’t have a current pet, but past family pet names include: Danny (Black Lab), Bailey (Border Collie), Vesper (Hound), Groucho (Golden Retriever) Morton (Turtle) Snavely (snake) Guido (chameleon) Fred and Ginger (Geese) Mischa (a cat who has taken up residence on my doorstep lately, but not a pet).

Bone Soldier is a classic, but this time I'm liking the Beast of Bray Road. That sounds pretty cool and creepy.

I’ve already started. I listen to it whenever I want throughout the year; it doesn’t have to be Christmas.

I don’t really say much that would be considered unusual for any locality. I do often spell things the ‘English’ way though, like using two Ls for words like ‘Travelling’ instead of the American version, ‘Traveling.’

Bathrobe. I needed something warm and comfy.

Phones ringing, loud, sharp sounds that make me jump, people chewing loudly, barking dogs, people yelling at each other and playing their music way too loud just to show it off to others who don’t even care.

Learning Japanese has been a big one for me but to be honest I’m starting to lose interest.

I have arthritis and something wrong with my heart that no one seems able to identify. These are old problems though and I'm quite used to both.

Awesome idea! I'm thinking of going as Stephanie from Lazy Town. I'm a little old to play that role but it's just for fun and I already have a costume I started last year.

Most frustrating? That’s an easy one. The most frustrating thing lately has been trying to book a trip to Japan that I’ve been planning for two and a half years. I spent the last couple years learning the language (not an easy task), getting a passport, vaccinations, armloads of necessary materials for the trip, and waiting for the country to open its borders to foreign travelers. Now, after all that, I finally book my trip only to find that 80% of the places I wanted to visit there are now permanently closed (we’re talkin’ major attractions that Japan is famous for). Naturally I was informed of all these closures AFTER I spent the $2500 I’ve been diligently saving for airfare, and booking my hotel. So now I have to shorten my trip, cancel reservations and change my flight (which cost me another $300). To make things worse, my travel agent booked all the wrong seats on the flight in both directions, and didn’t run it by me before she charged my card and rendered it non-refundable. Now I have to change the flights again and spend even more money. One thing I was adamant about was having window seats on all flights; not the seats situated over the view-blocking wing of the plane, but seats with an actual view (this is important on a 14 hour flight) but she put me over the wing on every flight, including connecting flights, from end to end. And instead of connecting me through the airports I specified, she put me on a roundabout route that adds hours to the travel time. But wait, there’s more! Now that I scrapped everything I wanted to do in Tokyo, I cut the trip down to four days (from the original seven) and made it strictly about the Disney parks there. So naturally the geniuses running those parks decided that they’d pointlessly restrict every service and amenity they used to offer. No more Park Hopper Passports, no more buying tickets at the ticket booths (they’re closed now) and I have to be a guest at their (now reduced) list of hotels just to guarantee getting tickets to the parks at all. Standby lines in the parks now need a reservation (and these are just the regular lines, not Fastpass!) All the little extra things that used to make these parks magical are gone now and I’m left with the bare bones and paying full price for them. And for this I spent years in preparation and saving. Thanks to all the overblown covid stupidity, the world realized it can cut everything down to nothing because they can get away with it. No more extended hours, or businesses open at all. The only people working are the ones sitting in their little board rooms dreaming up lame ideas to restrict more and more things without even realizing why. I mean, how does it help anyone to restrict customer service that doesn’t even remotely involve human contact? And let’s get real folks, we’re not gonna rock the covid excuse forever just because it makes life simpler for those who don’t want to work. I’m not going to say these frustrations are important in the vast scheme of things; this is just a silly vacay and I’ve been planning it forever, so why should it feel like I’m trying to get to the moon?

Hugh Laurie. I already answered this thread but I want to add this guy to my list. He has a good sense of humor and a really nice voice. While I'm at it, Vincent Price. He's good at narrating horror.

Bought airline tickets to Japan. Got royally ripped off and my travel agent messed up the whole thing, costing me even more money.

Good: Writing song lyrics. Bad: Singing them.

It was school, and like every school I’ve ever been to it was evil, not conducive to learning anything except swearing, getting beat up and being ignored by teachers when I needed them. Disgusting to know that it’s even worse for kids nowadays.

Just Gramma and Grampa. I get more creative with my parents and call them Poppy (dad) and Mims (mom).

I don't see the fun in watching other people play sports. I'd much rather do the playing than watching others do it, and I don't even like playing them! I'm a terrible athlete and it just ain't much fun.

Here she is, the plague of my childhood dreams (details in previous post). Madame, a ventriloquist dummy from the '70s. I actually like her when I'm awake, but when I was asleep as a child, not good at all.

Heck yes I’d accept! Even though I was born in Pennsylvania, the first place I actually remember is Blacksburg, Virginia. I LOVED Blacksburg when I was little, and I even had a chance to revisit it in 2009. It was a bit different looking to my adult eyes but I still loved it and would move there happily, especially with a 10K check clutched in my sweaty little fist.