I dreamt there was a bug that I used as part of a magic trick. It was some kind of beetle or large cockroach or waterbug. It wasn't a pretty beetle like a scarab. This was a big brown bug with legs that ran very fast, and its shell was more segmented, not round-ish and shiny.
I was afraid of this bug and would squeal just like everyone else who saw it. But it was also part of my "magic trick" so I would try to make sure nobody stepped on it. They'd just back away quickly screaming. As, pretty much, did I. Then I guess I'd put the bug back in its box, the trick would be over, and life would go on.
During the dream, at some point, my logical mind intervened. - It does this sometimes and totally messes with my "dream world" logic. When my "real" logic stepped in, I thought "wait a minute... this is a living thing. Why would I have never thought of that before? I've used this bug as part of a trick for years, as a "thing," but it's alive... it's a living being..." And then I thought "What is wrong with me?!" In this dream, I had 'memories' of the trick and bug that went back years and I was confused about how none of this had occurred to me until that moment.
NaBloPoMo Guide - Unofficial
Almost two weeks into NaBloPoMo, some people are still feeling lost and overwhelmed by the new site, and some have given up altogether. This saddens me. I've created an Unofficial Guide to NaBloPoMo, for old participants and new, to address some of the confusion. Please take a moment to swing by NaBloPoMo Guide - Unofficial and let me know what you think (preferably in this post.) Feedback of any kind is welcome.
Functional Wardrobe
Sometimes I visit a site where people post a lot of quotes.
Some I save, some I ignore, and some I feel compelled to comment on.
Like this one:
(So I should wear red?)
My ears are ringing
I was playing around with some phone apps that make high frequency sounds. The kinds that only dogs can hear etc. - Don't ask. They were free.
I found I could hear all the tones marked for various age groups (only people under 30 can hear these... only kids under 10... etc.) but one let me crank up the frequency to a point where I really could not hear it anymore. - But it made me feel ill. And now, (from the tones I could hear, I think) I have an annoying "after ringing" in my ears. - And yes the app is OFF! :P
I need some kind of "anti-tone" app now. To get rid of the ringing. Wonder if someone makes that...?
* Searching.... *
They do!
Not surprisingly, they charge for those! >:o|
I found I could hear all the tones marked for various age groups (only people under 30 can hear these... only kids under 10... etc.) but one let me crank up the frequency to a point where I really could not hear it anymore. - But it made me feel ill. And now, (from the tones I could hear, I think) I have an annoying "after ringing" in my ears. - And yes the app is OFF! :P
I need some kind of "anti-tone" app now. To get rid of the ringing. Wonder if someone makes that...?
* Searching.... *
They do!
Not surprisingly, they charge for those! >:o|
Silly question...
Sometimes I visit a site where people post a lot of quotes.
Some I like, some I ignore, and some I feel compelled to comment on.
Like this one:
(What fits my busy schedule better?? - Being fat 24 hours a day! - Duh!)
Totally Kid Carousel
A friend and I decided to check out a park we'd never been to. I was particularly excited to learn that there was a carousel in the park, though from the few pictures I'd seen, I thought it looked kind of… odd.
It was obviously meant to be whimsical and quirky, but all I could think was "Seriously, dude… what was up???"
(I didn't notice the guy in the video until after I uploaded it. "Hello Mr. Parks Person!")
Read more about the Totally Kid Carousel.
Seeing the carousel in person did little to change my opinion of it - initially.
It was very bright, very colorful, and I couldn't help thinking WHAT THE HECK DRUGS WAS THE DESIGNER ON WHEN HE MADE THIS??? These were the scariest, most brightly colored, misshapen, creatures I'd ever seen!
It was obviously meant to be whimsical and quirky, but all I could think was "Seriously, dude… what was up???"
And then… I figured it out.
Above each carousel animal was a drawing. A child's drawing.
And at the base of each animal, was a signature.
The artist, Milo Mottola, had brought the children's drawings to life - exactly as they'd been drawn.
- I love this, and now think it's coolest carousel EVER!
(I didn't notice the guy in the video until after I uploaded it. "Hello Mr. Parks Person!")
Go back through the pictures and try to guess what the animals are. Roll over each one for the answer.
Read more about the Totally Kid Carousel.
What's with the smurfs again?!
This time I dreamt somebody painted their child blue, then stuck them in a white dress and floppy hat.
NaBloPoMo - A Brief History
- For new people who don't know what NaBloPoMo is, and for old people non-new people (Stella!) who haven't figured out why NaBloPoMo's site looks so different this year ;)
Dream
Last night I dreamt I was in a room and a woman came in looking for something. I was annoyed by her suspicion that I might be hiding something, so I pretended to be caught off guard when she entered. This led to her smugly opening a bunch of cabinets looking for "whatever" which of course she didn't find. Eventually she left. But while she was opening cabinets, she opened two I'd forgotten existed. (How this would be possible I'm not sure but it was a dream!)
I looked in the cabinets after she left and found, among other things, a musical smurf toilet brush holder. It supposedly belonged to my friend's husband, who in real life (and dreams too it seems) saves all kinds of stuff.
I was going to ask if I could have it, because I thought it would be funny (and because, you know... I didn't have one) but upon further inspection I found that it played a song called "PLEASE love me!" which in the dream was a catchy upbeat song that was surprisingly popular with teenagers - boys too. One of those songs people gleefully sing without paying attention to the lyrics. Then I looked at the wide blue base of the toilet brush holder, and it had a plastic smurf in a convertible, DESPERATELY reaching its arms up to another smurf, begging it to marry it. - And I mean desperate! Like its little plastic life depended on it!
I decided this was a very sad little toilet brush holder and, with my tendency to anthropomorphize things, I'd be better off not bringing it home!
I looked in the cabinets after she left and found, among other things, a musical smurf toilet brush holder. It supposedly belonged to my friend's husband, who in real life (and dreams too it seems) saves all kinds of stuff.
I was going to ask if I could have it, because I thought it would be funny (and because, you know... I didn't have one) but upon further inspection I found that it played a song called "PLEASE love me!" which in the dream was a catchy upbeat song that was surprisingly popular with teenagers - boys too. One of those songs people gleefully sing without paying attention to the lyrics. Then I looked at the wide blue base of the toilet brush holder, and it had a plastic smurf in a convertible, DESPERATELY reaching its arms up to another smurf, begging it to marry it. - And I mean desperate! Like its little plastic life depended on it!
I decided this was a very sad little toilet brush holder and, with my tendency to anthropomorphize things, I'd be better off not bringing it home!
Guess what I did today?
I changed my blog template :)
Credits
- Modified Blogger Awesome Ink template
- Graphics from Graphic Garden
- Label Cloud code by Phydeaux3
- Label Cloud "number of results per page" tweak from Hackosphere
- Code fix for Awesome Ink templates, that allows posts from the same date to appear as separate posts instead of one long post, from Southern Speakers
- Author Comment Highlight code (slightly modified) from Tips for New Bloggers
- "Break out of Frameset" code from MediaCollege.com
- Additional Favicon code (since Blogger's wasn't showing up in all browsers) generated at Happy Blogging
- Hide/Show, Expand/Collapse, Peekaboo, Sidebar code from: Blog U
- NaBloPoMo sidebar "Leaf" badge (date changed): By Tracey Delaney
- NaBloPoMo Mini badge, at the end of posts (date changed): From Growing Happiness
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