Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine Sigh. I'm bored

Does anybody want to play with me?

So the BF is out of town AGAIN, with another trip already being planned after this one. I don't have a car, there is over 30 cm of snow on the ground, most of my friends and family live out of town, my one good local friend is at work, I have no work to speak of, I'm broke and I'm bored and feeling very sorry for myself.

Oh don't get me wrong, I have a million things I could be doing. I even have a list. But none of them are much fun and I don't feel like doing them. So I'm just gonna sit here and complain instead.

So, anyone have anything amusing to share? Trivia, jokes, anecdotes, life altering personal revelations? Look around the room and list your five favorite things. Or the five strangest. Play with me!

Five favorite things in my office (so much to choose from!):

Nightmare Before Christmas bookends, one is Jack, the other is Sally.

Darth Vader Burger King toy, complete with heavy breathing sounds.

Little stuffed toys: two monkeys, a cat, and a cold microbe.

Winnie the Pooh coffee cup.

Casablanca lunch box.

Oh man, if I had your skills I would so be out in the snow with batches of food coloring.

What are the mice doing? Maybe you can get up a poker game?

Five things in my tv watching room.

Lazyboy
Left sock
Right sock
Rabbit ears
Notre Dame self destructing.

Tim Burton related merchandise in my possession:

Nightmare Before Christmas bookends
NBC coffee cup
NBC book
Corpse Bride book
Cropse Bride figure
Victor figure
2 Jack Skellington figures
The Mayor (NBC)
the complete collection of Tragic Toys
NBC journal
NBC nesting dolls
NBC shot glass
book of poems (can't remember title!)
Tragic Toys stickers
note cards
Jack fridge magnets
DVD's

Oooooh, a participant! Snow and food coloring? The mind races!

The mice have been relatively quiet. I hope that means their numbers have dwindled, but I'm not optimistic. Besides, I only play poker with dogs.

Hmm, 5 things...

A computer gargoyle
A giant stuffed toy spider named Eeks (not my idea)
3 beaded spiders
A stuffed owl
A stuffed bat named Nibles (also not my idea)

Not exactly your typical cuddly stuffed animals!

Bats, spiders, gargoyles, and an owl?

Now that I look around, and don't hold this against me, I've got stuffed animals mostly gotten free from subscribing to Wildlife Foundation but some from traveling, all sitting on the curton rod above my head.

There's a red fox, green turtle, lion cub, falcon, two panda bears, a royal canadian mounted moose, and a lock ness monster.

I think they'd be intimidated by your pets Arachne.

Car? Who outside of NYC doesn't have a car these days?

Oh, I forget the spiderman bobble head.

and two pez containers.

Self-employed people who don't qualify for bank loans and couldn't afford to replace the old beater after it was hauled away to that great junk heap in the sky.

Shawn's (the BF) car is sitting in the driveway, under several feet of snow, but I don't know how to drive a standard transmission. Now you know my shameful secret.

LOL I'm the last person to be holding something against people with stuffed animals. I used to get one every year for Christmas until just a few years ago. I was completely off the wagon until this Halloween when I decided I needed a spider.

I have a Wolverine bobble head, but I keep it in the kitchen.

Yep they're addictive, I'm about to re-up my NWF subscription: polar bear!

Ah, and probably doomed to stay that way. I've seen more than one relationship hit the down slope after the BF tried to teach the girlfriend how to drive a shift. I learned the hard way, I've not the patience to teach another how to drive a stick shift.

Hmmm, where are the bosses? I seen that both of them are logged in?

When I was home for Christmas, my Mom asked me to go through all my childhood stuffed animals to see if there were any I wanted to keep. There must have been 5 big black garbage bags filled with them! Unfortunately most were not salvageable since they smelled of mildew, but it was fun to see them all again. I took their pictures.

I must have at least 20 more that I've received as an adult. I'm still guilty of buying them occasionally ofr myself, (so...damn..cute!), but I try to limit myself to small ones. I tell myself it's okay because I'm a "creative" type.

My dad tried to teach me how to drive a standard, but I never quite got the hang of it.

The "bosses" generaly have a lot to do around here, while we're enjoying ourselves.

LOL I'll have to remember that one.

I'd say so!

I was just noticing some of the things here we can click on that I didn't know were clickable. That "recent visitor's" link is an information junkie's creme de la fixes.

I imagine Nightcrawler at his work table cackling, "Links, links, hey bud I got your links here. Premo stuff, heh, heh."

Well I'm off to rustle up some dinner. Thanks for humoring me guys! TTYL

Glad we could help.

Notice she still didn't mention anything about getting back to work?

One of my Halloween prezzies from Scott was a Jack Skellington head compact filled with vanilla scented, flavored lip gloss. I just love it, and when the product runs out, I'm going to try to find a similar product to substitute so I can still use the compact.

Five things around my computer:

A limited edition small poster of the vampire from Anita Blake Vampire Hunter graphic novel comics 'Guilty Pleasures.'

My 2006 and 2007 editions of Llewellyn's 'Witches datebook'

Christmas present from Scott, a Senseo coffee pot and two cans of 'coffee pods'

A brand new bottle of 500 count generic Ibuprofen, which I eat like M&M's

A credit card for Lane Bryant, which lets me buy for many stores. This card feeds my fat girl fashionable clothes habit. I am terrible about using retail therapy to ward off depression.

******** this was a fun game, let's do more

Last 5 websites you visited?

The Onion
Slate
Legion World
Google
Dark Horse Comics

It's never too late to learn to drive a standard. I got my first one in November. It was gruesome for a couple of weeks but I sure wasn't bored. More like terrified.

Five new things to do this year:

Scuba diving lessons
Read The Odyssey
Transfer the old vinyl to MP3
Hike in the Cape Breton Highlands
Defeat the raspberry-eating pocupine