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Posted in Bingeworthy Posted 5 years ago
What's a show on Netflix/Hulu/Amazon Prime that you love to binge, and why?

I'm looking for some recommendations for this week, while work is slow due to the holiday. I'll give anything a go, but would prefer something I don't have to watch *too* closely, since I'm at work. So no fast-paced animes or anything, please!

Right now I'm watching The Man in the High Castle. It's fairly slow-paced. I'm curious to see what happens to the characters but I don't enjoy seeing Nazis in power so I'd rather watch something else.
Posted in Debates Episode 1: Too many people. Posted 5 years ago
Senator Warren KILLED it in the first hour. After that I kept wondering if she'd fallen asleep. lol Two hours was too much. I was finished after one hour of that debate. @_@

I greatly appreciated that Senator Booker and Julián Castro both talked about transgender rights without prompting. I like that Governor Inslee was so focused on climate change. Overall my opinion is unchanged; I still like Senators Warren and Booker best of this first debate group. They are fighters and I feel like they've shown their actions match their words.

I think I liked Congresswoman Gabbard the least. As a woman she should NOT have completely disregarded the question about pay inequality for women to talk about her military service. She talked about her military service in response to every single question. She made it sound like she didn't care or think the issue of equal pay for equal work for women is important. I wasn't very impressed by O'Rourke, either. I cracked up a little when Castro told him he should have done his homework. LOL!
Posted in Kim Petras Posted 5 years ago
Any Kim Petras fans? I heard of her years ago because she was the youngest person to undergo gender confirmation surgical procedures but I was watching the news earlier today and they had a story on her being a major international pop star. I listen to older music, 60s-90s, so I haven't been aware she's charting.

Any fans? What are some of her best songs/videos? They played a couple clips on the news and they were in English. Does she record in her native German, as well? Any other languages?
Posted in Victoria Beckham designs £90 Pride tee Posted 5 years ago
I actually like it but it's not really that gay and I would never pay that much money for a T-shirt, anyway.
Posted in Debates Episode 1: Too many people. Posted 5 years ago
So this is what we're talking about now... lol

Well, regardless, the tube is on and I am parking it here. Just over 10 minutes to wait!
Posted in What were you convinced of as a kid? Posted 5 years ago
Two things I can remember clearly.

One, I thought vampires were real. My mom was showing her kid off to her coworkers and this one guy had very prominent canines. Like maybe he had bad dental hygiene or he'd been injured or something. And I asked my mom, in front of everyone, if he was a vampire. The guy got really upset (I guess it was a touchy subject) and my mom was so embarrassed. She said that man never spoke to her again.

I also remember thinking that if I didn't get off the elevator on my floor, I could never get off. I had been hospitalized for pneumonia when I was maybe four, and the doctors had me sealed up in a tent with some kind of mist spraying on me nonstop. It must have been pretty bad. But when I was finally discharged to go home and my mom took me onto the elevator and pressed the "G" for ground floor or whatever, the elevator stopped at another floor to let some man on and I tried to run off but the doors closed in my face. I started screaming because I thought we would be trapped in the elevator forever. LOL!
Posted in Jungle Jim's International Market Posted 5 years ago
I know where it is. I travel that way at least once a year because there are a lot of awesome concerts around the Cincinnati area. But I'm not very food-adventurous so I never visited. From those pictures it looks like fun, though, just to see it. I'm be there in July so I might stop by, depending on how much free time I have.
Posted in The day just started Posted 5 years ago
My beauty boy was a feral kitten. We used to have a lot of black feral cats who would sun themselves on our back deck. One day one of their babies just walked right into our house! He had a silver ring around his neck and a white patch on his chest that looked like a cravat. He looked so fancy and fluffy and regal that I decided to name him Prince Charles.

He has lost the silver ring around his neck and the white "cravat," but he has really long, silver fur on his heels. lol If you dig through all the floof, his fur is actually white at the roots, but black on the ends, so he looks like a solid black cat but his fur actually has like an ombre effect! I'm completely in love with him. When he came into our house we cleaned up him to give him away to a friend who wanted kittens, but he was just too sweet. "Charlie" is my feline soulmate, I'm convinced! He'll be 4 years old in September.
Posted in The day just started Posted 5 years ago
sunny:
    @Tuijp: my cat is black and loves laying in the sun too. Does yours turn brown when he's been in the sun too long?

Mine has some brown sun-fade! lol His fur is so, so long but he does love his sunshine.
I'm bi but I just say "gay." I don't identify as "lesbian." I mean, I guess I kind of wish I were, cause lesbians are so cool... But I don't feel very feminine and actually get irritated with people who refer to me as a "lady," and in general I find males more attractive than females. But I have a wife and I don't go out of my way to make myself look masculine especially, so I just say, "I'm gay, here's my wife," and don't make it any more complicated than that. The details just stay between my wife and me.

I think the bi pride flag is the most beautiful, though, so that's the one I like best. My second favorite is the trans flag and third is the rainbow flag. I would like to hang something outside of my house for pride month each year, but I am nervous to. I don't know my neighbors very well, and even though it's a nice neighborhood, there are bigots everywhere, it seems... It doesn't feel safe.
Posted in I'm going to Ikea tomorrow! Posted 5 years ago
The nearest Ikea to me is 3 hours away, and I don't have a truck, so I can never buy any of their cool furniture. (Their shipping prices are absolutely outrageous. It costs more to ship a couch than to buy the couch itself!)

I mostly like to just roam around and look at their fake room setups. Individual pieces don't look that impressive, but the way they connect things together is awesome! I especially love their teen department. I wish that had been within a reasonable driving distance when I was in college!
Posted in Debates Episode 1: Too many people. Posted 5 years ago
OMG, this is fantastic. I'm bookmarking!

Last time I was really favoring Bernie Sanders. I'm still on his mailing list cause he wants my money. lol But right now I'm undecided. I liked a lot of what he had to say last time. I've seen him speak in person twice. I still think he's an inspiration but...we'll see. I like some fresh blood, too. I would definitely like to see a female or racial minority claim the victory from Chump (as I like to call Dear Cheeto) but I'm not counting Bernie out.
Posted in Physical or digital? Posted 5 years ago
Do you like physical copies of games or do you prefer digital?

I prefer physical for console, but digital for PC. I don't play many PC games, but it's the only way you can play Sims anymore (through Origin) and there's a site I love called Big Fish that sells really high quality point-and-click type games for cheap, and the more you download the more free stuff you can get!

I'm still not sold on console games, though. I have a few when that's the only way to get them, but I like having a disc on hand. Then I've got something to sell, too, if it sucks. XP
Posted in Ever connect with authors you love? Posted 5 years ago
Have you ever gotten to connect with an author you love?

I am a pretty shy person, but since I started going to Comic Con and meeting my favorite actors, I've grown bold. lol Not so much these days, but back in the early 2000s a lot of authors would actually put their email addresses in the backs of their books so fans could contact them as an alternative to sending fan mail to their publishers. Sounds kind of crazy to think about that, in today's world of cyber bullying! But I did reach out to a couple authors I enjoyed, and they both wrote me back!

These days, I "meet" a lot of my favorites on social media. Some of my absolute favorite authors of today have friended me on Twitter and Goodreads. And I feel blessed.

Do you reach out to authors and tell them how much you appreciate their work? Have you ever become friends with your favorite authors?