Back to Life, Back to Reality

While skimming through articles the other day, I came across this piece that said one of the most boring things a person can talk about are dreams. Unbelievable - this person must not know any creative minds. I can think of at least 6 people who have nightly dreams that are interesting and I've yet to meet a person with dull dreams who actually talks about them.

Perhaps the author of the article is not an insightful person and doesn't believe in interpreting dreams. That would make sense - I really can't fathom a journalist not knowing any creative people.

In my groups of closer friends, I think I might be one of the most creative. My dreams aren't all that spectacular, but then I find it difficult to remember. That could be because I adore sleeping so I'm usually sleeping too deeply.

Speaking of sleeping...I kept yawning through the last 20 minutes of The Lion King @ the Majestic the other night. I was so furious with myself. Who yawns during The Lion King! But it was just so cold and rainy outside and it was so nice and soothing in the theater. We parked in the garage - mistake not to be repeated. It's just not worth the wait when we left. Should have just stopped at one of the lots on Houston.

We did find a good spot on Losoya last night when we went for the riverboat tour. Of course it might not have been there when we were first looking - we had to check out 4 different lots before my friend would drive into the garage. The parents of one of our friends organized tons of events for his 30th birthday and the last thing was a private boat tour. I'm glad I went - I'd been thinking of strolling along the riverwalk just to see it lit up, but going along in the boat...amazing. No hustling and bustling along with the tourists, no pushing against the locals, getting to sit the entire time. Nice. I wonder if this is something I should make an annual Christmas thing of. See if my other friends want to do it - maybe do the dinner tour. Hm.

Went to see the 2nd Twilight movie today with Jennifer (does she even check her LJ anymore?!). I cannot believe that kid is 17. He looks really good and I'm glad he buffed up for the part - he seems to be the only actor who is true to character. I won't analyze the movie as it is really a teen flick, but let's just say it could be much worse and much better. Oh, and someone needs to work on cueing the music! It's like a dress rehearsal rendition.

I'm back home from Vegas.  Not much of a gambler.  I'm not sure if that's because of the ADD that I think I have or because I don't like losing money.  The thought of losing the money always precedes the hope of winning money.  Could be because I've been broke before and the thought of deliberately risking my money is preposterous.

Aspects of Vegas that I love: 
Walking down the street with liquor - bottle, can, glass...LOVE
Music everywhere!  Good music, a variety of music...LOOOOVE
Food - Well, who needs to say more?

Neutral/Dislike
Gambling - eh.  I can see maybe playing at the roulette tables once in a while.  Maybe black jack.  Nothing else.
Noise - no.  Sensory overload and it's so amazing to me that the sounds actually compel people to gamble.  I wanted to run. 
Lights - Overload again. 

Some of the things people really like in Vegas, I didn't understand how they could be appealing.

However, with all things said.  I liked it.  I think I could live there.   Music, drinking and tons of food.  I'm there.  Oh, Ferraris.   

Aging continues on...finally went roller skating.  Well, went to TRY to roller skate.  LOL.  I just realized I can use italics on LJ.  Oh, I've missed italics and have come under the spell of facebook.  Why! Facebook won't let me write a 10 page essay on the meaningless of meaning without any meaning.  Where's the fun in that!? 

Oh back to the roller skating.  Trying to roller skate (CNTL - I is awesome!).  I hugged the wall about 85% of the time.  I wanted so badly to let go and propel myself.  To use my arms for momentum, but when I did I hesitated and all but stumbled to the ground.  Skating used to be so easy...20 years ago.  I'll be the first to admit it's been 20 years and I am going to go try again, but I just don't know about actual success.

I remember the freedom of skating.  Didn't require much concentration - only a balance of weight.  And my distribution of weight - well, maybe that's what has changed.  Hadn't thought about that.  Hmmm.  We'll see.  I've "discussed" what I need to do to prepare.  One of my feet actually cramped up after the first round.  A friend mentioned that he heard it was good to wear double layers of socks.  I'll try it.  I was thinking I'd have to go get arch supports! 

My friend did not do as well as I.  I had at least a half lap more and lots more speed than she did.  I know, it's a small victory that I should not even mention, but I really want to skate again. 

Of course, this ruins my plan to be a roller derby girl for halloween in Vegas, but it's for everyone's protection. 

You know, really, I can't type all these thoughts on facebook. Only little blurbs which I end up having to explain to my friends because they aren't sure what it means.  I've gotten so use to limiting what I say so it'll fit in that little status box that even my text messages get a few ??? in response.  I've had to explain the last 3 messages (status updates & texts) to one of my friends.  He's all "I was going to respond, but I wasn't sure what the hell you meant."  Alright, he didn't say hell, but I would have. 

It's very hard for me to limit my thought process to one subject.  Tangent!

Did this last year to a really close friend of mine.  Unbelievable how he thought he could get away with sounding like an ignorant bigot for the sake of a joke.  When Michael had to explain to a mutual friend why we weren't talking, he said "oh, it was a joke that ended badly."  I was like "It started off that way as well and you should have shut it before you finished."

Usually I would laugh at everything he said.  But this was just distasteful and  I found no humor in it.  So, yeah, if I can confront Michael about it, than anyone else is capable of being told off by me.

Oh, and I definitely jump in for people who won't or can't defend themselves.  I actually protect them faster than I mention my own personal disagreement.

Went to the Cross Canadian Ragweed show @ Floore's last night.  College kids all dress the same still.  I might have been one of the 20 oldest people there.  In mindset and in actual age. 

It was very chilly and I kept commenting on the little girls who dressed very scantily.  Oh, wait, I've always done that haven't I?  I was saying to my friend that I never did that.  It never occurred to me to dress up to impress people instead of worrying about myself.  We were like, ohh, that's probably during the time period where I should have learned to dance.  He laughs at me that I lived in West Texas and never learned to dance, at least to two-step.  So I've never dressed like a hooker or learned to dance.  I can still learn to do both!  But, eh.  Dancing perhaps.

On the way home, I realized I might have been a bit buzzed.  Not under the influence of alcohol by any means as I did not finish my 2nd beer, but there was definitely stuff to have been inhaled at the concert.  I was just too frozen to have noticed it. I think my nostrils stopped registering smells at 9:30.  CCR didn't play their usual mix of upbeat/new/crowd pleasers until the end.  Sad, but it makes me think they are tired of the college crowd scene.  I don't blame them.  Me Too!!

I actually realized that last weekend when I stayed out drinking after an open bar wedding reception.  I'm too old to put these extra worries on myself and help others with their extra worries - "where's my phone! i've lost my phone!  we need to go back, I didn't close out!"  Drama.  Understated drama. 

Maybe it's just that one of my friends is getting a divorce and some things, just from conversations, have been put into perspective for me.  Or maybe I'm growing up.  It was bound to happen. 

It's 1:30 a.m.  I drank a coke earlier and now no sleep.  I haven't even tried to go to bed. 

So what's going on...Saturday I'm going to the races!  Woohoo!  Also, Saturday (crap, why did I agree to these things?) I'm going to Medina Lake(?) for some Cajun Fest and then to celebrate a friend's birthday late night. 

Making plans with my aunt to go to Lion King in December!  YAY!! 

Going to Vegas for Halloween. 

Oh and I HAVE to get the passport for Ireland/Sao Paulo/Japan/Spain...I know none of these places are near each other in the large scheme of things, but it's wherever my friends decide we're going.  Oh, we're not going to all of them, just one.  I need to get my passport and then they'll decide so they say. 
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I was on facebook earlier and friended someone I knew when I was about 10 years old.  Turns out he knows quite a lot of my familia and half of West Texas.  I'm praying that my familia does not want to add me.  They're mostly my 3rd and 4th cousins that I saw.  Was really excited to see some of them, but it's been a while.  Okay, really what I did was to look through all his friends and said every single one of the names in the thickest accent I could muster.  I'm a dreadful person, but it bit me in the ass, alright?  Not only did I run across lots of family that made my heart sputter, when I was on the phone later I couldn't stop my voice from lilting, especially on the i's.  Damn those i's!
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Had a dream the other night that I took a friend to meet my family.  Surprisingly, it went over well in the dream.  Actually, the only other time I dreamed of something similar it went fine as well.  Delusional even in my sleep!  I think it's because he was one of the last people I was talking to that day.  I tend to dream of those people the most. 
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I just yawned!  Apparently, thinking about what in the world I'm doing and transferring it to LJ has started the shutdown mode!  Better get ready for bed. 

What happens to my LJ when I die?  Does it just go into the abyss?  Are people leaving this info in their wills? 

I bequeath my CDs to so and so & my collection of photos to blah, blah.  Also, here are my blog passwords for the world to have.  Or please have Facebook delete my account.  Thank you. 

???

I'm heading back to Virginia this summer.  Will be there for three weeks starting next Monday.  Flying back on my birthday.

You know what I wanted to do for my birthday?  Rollerskate.  I wanted to get some friends together to go roller skating.  Ol' school roller skates.  Maybe I can find a place while I'm out of state and take care of it around total and complete strangers.  LOL. 

I'll take pictures. 

Nope, but odds are I would not like this person.  I usually don't do well with people who have the first same name as me, so I'm thinking the last name is not gonna help them one bit. 

I have this quote of the AD script posted at my desk at work.  It makes me giggle.  That's why I keep it there.

George, Sr.:  You weren't thinking clearly.  I mean, none of us are.  We need bread.

Michael:  If this information is so damaging, why didn't you just shred it?

George, Sr:  Well, Saddam owed us money.

Michael:  And you didn't realize he wouldn't pay?

George, Sr:  Your mom had a good feeling about him.

....(then the very end of the scene)

George, Sr:  That's great.  I'm going to get a lethal injection because my son won't eat a potato.

I'm having a dead duck day.  Or week.  Where's that loaf of bread that I can throw into the pond? 

It'd be okay if I have to off a duck in the process. 

Things bothering me:
1)  I'm still not to page 100 of Neuromancer.  Not that there's anything significant about that page, but it is taking me forever to read the book.  There's so many words that have different meanings than I'm used to that I have to glance back quite often. I'm also reading it with a dictionary sitting underneath it.

2) Something I'll have to talk to Lumi about.  We should have lunch or dinner sometime.  Lumi?  You there?

3)  Need to do lists.  There are three things I need to do that I keep procrastinating about:  taxes, dentist, insurance

Things that happened this week:
1.  Flat tire - fixed
2.  New phone - nice
3.  Overtime - jeez

I loathed the "seal walk" part of gymnastics.  Dragging the lower half of your body in a sort of military-crawl.  I guess I've never had the upper body strength to actually enjoy that.  Somehow, I managed to suppress how much I hated it because I liked the rest of the gymnastics unit.  My favorite activity though was square dancing.  LOL.  The entire time I lived in West Texas I treated everything about it with condescension, but not the square dancing.  that I loved.  Even had a little costume for it.  Hehehehe. 

Random Soundtrack to My Life.
Put Music on random and fill in as you go.

Opening credits: The Blower's Daughter - Damien Rice

Waking up: Day Dreaming - Aretha

Average day:  Stand By Me - Ben E. King

First date: 19th Nervous Breakdown - The Rolling Stones

Falling in love: Love Rain - Jill Scott

Fight scene: Here Comes the Rain Again - Eurythmics

Breaking up: My Perogative - Bobby Brown - Hee, seriously, it is on random.

Secret love: Sugarless - Caviar

Life's okay: Fannie Mae - Buster Brown.  I like this.   I do associate the song with things being okay.  Not the words.  Those are messed up, but the music.  :o)

Mental breakdown: The Way You look tonight - Frank Sinatra.  Well I suppose if I must have a breakdown, Frank would be one to have in the background.

Driving: Good Times, Bad Times - Led Zeppelin.  Of course. 

Learning a lesson: Liar!  - Three Dog Night

Deep thought: Leaving so Soon - Keane

Flashback: Tained Love - Soft Cell

Partying: It's Your Things - Isley Brothers

Happy dance: Foxey Lady - Jimi Hendrix (LOL) 

Regretting: Hard Habit to Break - Chicago

Long night alone: Long as I can see the Light - Creedence

Death scene: Lights - Journey.  Seriously, I'm gonna die to Journey?  I object.  Okay, it was either that or La Bamba. 

Everwood.  It was an unassuming, but likeable series.  The characters were flaky, honest, quirky...real people who made mistakes.  Not everything you wanted to happen did, but things were believable.  I wasn't a huge fan and I don't really remember watching a lot of episodes, but each one I watched I enjoyed.  If the WB and UPN hadn't merged (or whatever happened) and canceled a helluva lot of shows I had planned to start watching every week. 

I finally used a Red Box DVD rental and quickly became addicted.  Within a week I'd rented these movies:   

Pan's Labyrinth - I liked it.  Of course I had to watch several parts through my fingers as they covered my face.  Those were the parts that were in reality scary.  The fantasy world...not so frightening as the nightmare going on around the girl.

Vantage Point - After 3 flashbacks, I might have turned traitor myself.  I kept watching, thinking "surely, there can't be more than 3 flashbacks."  Many flashbacks later, I continued watching because I wanted to see broader repurcussions for the characters.  I should have listened to myself after the flashbacks, but I wasn't having any of my own.  :(

21 - Not up to all the hype.  I enjoyed it.  Didn't make me want to learn to count cards.  Even Gone in 60 seconds made me want to steal cars.  

Jumper - Amazingly, I enjoyed it.  There's a scene with a car where it's flashing through traffic.  I stopped the DVD and watched it again.  I yelled out "That's the Knight Bus".  Then I explained to my friend that the effects used in that scene should have been used in HP3 POA.  At the end of the film, I went back and watched the car scene again.  Awesome.  I want to teleport.  And with my guilt, I'd pay back the money. 

Atonement - Was I supposed to feel gratitude in the end?  Pity?  That girl got nothing from me.  Nada. 

27 Dresses - Some good lines.  Funny scenes.  

Untraceable - Uh, I don't remember this at all.

10,000 BC - Once again, not up to the hype.  Maybe if there'd been an IMAX screen in my apartment...

The Other Boelyn Girl - Oh, honestly.  

The Bucket List - Oh, I liked this one.  It made a lot of sense to me. 


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Then we got a pass to Blockbuster.  In the first 2 days we rented 8 movies.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Death at a Funeral - HEEEE!  I am buying this one eventually.

21 (see above)

Gone Baby Gone - I'll have to watch it again.  I fell asleep ... apparently while there was a lot of gunfire.  :(

In the Name of the King - This movie made me want to watch Lord of the Rings.  I like Jason Straitham(?sp), but the story line was a bunch of fairy tales linked together.  Valkyries, Ninjas, Burt Reynolds as king (LMAO!!), Ray Liotta in a leather trench coat as a sorcerer?  Lelee Sobieleski as John Rhys-Davis' daughter?  So many things wrong.  Casting, plot, dialog!  No valkyries!!

Becoming Jane - After the initial thought of "this dialog is so familiar" as actual lines from her books were used in the movie, it is worth seeing.  

Charlie Bartlett - Could have been more to make it better, but I liked it.  :D

Donnie Darko - yeah, I'm gonna have to buy this.  

I'm missing one here.  Hmmm. Must be an older film. 



 

The first time I've traveled for work and i'm setting up laptops and teaching people how to iron.  LOL, how to iron.  

I'm writing that in my monthly report.

The weather was really nice and lots of clouds the entire trip. 

I love clouds!  Today they were puppies!!  Yes, I said it that way.  Mastiffs, scotties, poodles and mutts.  I kept trying to find other things in them...I found hippos and rhinos.  LOL.  It looked like they were dipping into water.  My imagination was on the level of a seven year old.  I don't know why.  

Cloud formations were also iceburgs toward the end of the trip.  So we ran into iceburgs on in the sky!  Hee.   

Now, I just helped someone find the water glasses in the room.  I'm ever so helpful.  LOL!!!

I start my vacation in 2 hours.  LOL.   Where am I going?  Museums, Sea World, Fiesta Texas, Downtown, SouthTown, the missions, The Missions (baseball)...all the things I never do the rest of the year.  I'm gonna be a tourist in San Antonio.  

Yes, it will be hot, but really, I'm gonna worry about getting a sun burn when I don't have to be in the office for a week?  Please.  Nothing that a few mimosas and some advil won't take care of.

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But what am I doing now?  Checking work email.  Let it go, let it go, let it go.... 

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My home computer is freaking out right now as I just signed onto IM.  It's like "really, you usually just exit out of that program!" 

1.  One Step Closer - Linkin Park
2.  I am the Walrus - The Beatles
3.  Puff (The Magic Dragon) - Peter, Paul & Mary
4.  Who's Minding the Store? -Dianne Reeves
5.  Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money
6.  Lucille - Little Richard
7.  The Very Thought of You - Billie Holliday
8.  These Days - Rascal Flats
9.  You'll Never Get to Heaven (If you Break my heart) - Dionne Warwick
10.  Riot Coming - Elliot Smith
11.  Stop the Rock - Appollo 440
12.  Jack and Diane - John Mellencamp
13.  That's My Little Suzie - Ritchie Valens
14.  Peaceful Easy Feeling - The Eagles
15.  Vuelve - Shakira
16.  Sh-Boom - The Crew-Cuts
17.  Low - Foo Fighters
18.  Dificil - Juanes
19.  Girls - Beastie Boys
20.  Saturday in the Park - Chicago
21.  I Feel Free - Jefferson Starship
22. Just for Me - Karen Clark-Sheard
23.  San Francisco Nights - Eric Burdon & War
24.  Together Again - Janet Jackson
25.  Slow Ride - Foghat
26.  Sherry - Frankie Valli
27.  Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Guns N Roses
28.  The Lionness Hunt - Lebo M (From Broadway's The Lion King)
29.  You're All I Need - Mary J. Blige
30.  Chances Are - Bob Seger & Martina McBride 
31.  Everyday - Buddy Holly
32.  Nashville Blues - Corry Morrow
33.  Possum Kingdom - The Toadies
34.  Tu y Yo - Thalia
35.  Stir It Up - Bob Marley
36.  Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
37.  Hollywood - Los Lonely Boys
38.  I'd Really Like to See you Tonight - England Dan & John Ford
39.  Let's Go Crazy - Prince & The Revolution
40.  (ooops, there's lightning...gotta go...)

Ridiculous headline over on MSN:  Why Easter is Non-Commercial.  

LOL.  I'm not sure the person who wrote the headline knows the meaning of Non-Commercial.  Or perhaps hasn't heard of Peeps, The Cadbury Bunny, solid chocolate in the shape of a bunny, cascarones, easter egg dye, easter baskets, easter dresses or the freakin' Easter Bunny.  No, none of that is commercial.  None of it.