March 20 -- Happy First Day of Spring!!
7What a beautiful day!! I love Spring…
So, today’s topic is about vivid dreams… This is why I avoid caffeine after 3 pm!!
Last night’s dream starts out with a debonair man who is running down an alley into the backdoor of a large factory area. It is an apparel factory, where they fabricate fancy lacework. Somehow, the man is related to the woman who owns the factory – he knows her nature and her secrets. His primary goal is to retrieve a weapons vault-like case and to do it undetected.
The owner of the factory is a robust, animated, older woman who fiercely protects her own and this case is valuable to her. It contains complex, one of a kind instruments…
But, as with all 90s era tv plots, it is not as simple as just retrieving the case, there is a bigger issue surrounding the factory – there is a turf war!
The rival family is trying to infiltrate the factory over of a long lost wedding gown. The daughter of the warring family is slowly deteriorating because she never married (think there is another story here).
The second family breaks into the factory at night, while our lead character is searching for his targeted case… He watches as they take apart the 3 drawer file cabinets, without making a mess. These are those cabinets that have the door that slides up and in over the files. Somehow, the marauders empty the cabinets without disturbing the order of the files!
After the third or fourth cabinet, they discover the hidden compartment behind the file cabinets and reveal the long lost gown and veil. AND WHAM I WOKE UP!
The bricks, the high vaulted windows, the cinders and dinge, the stature of the rivals, the orderliness of the search were all so vivid!
What was really in the case? Why was the rival’s daughter so sad? Did the hero intervene? I wake up wondering these things!! If I had more time, I would add in the descriptions of the setting in more detail…
So what crazy dreams have you had lately??? Where do you think this dream was going??
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I’ve had a very vivid reoccurring nightmare where a person who endorsed late night tv program marketing Ponzi schemes and wealth building seminars was elected President.
@cranky1950
@cranky1950
@cranky1950
Something’s cranky.
Maybe it’s me.
@f00l I actually had to do stuff yesterday, I’m too tired to be cranky today.
@cranky1950
Your dream makes me cranky.
@f00l Yeah I imagine it would especially if the president started talking out his ass more than not.
@cranky1950 You’re cranky.
@cranky1950
@hems79
I’m cranky, you’re cranky, everyone is cranky.
/giphy reasons
I’ve had two vivid dreams lately, but I didn’t write them down, so now I’ve forgotten. One of them my deceased father showed up. That was nice.
@RiotDemon I have had a few dreams with dead family members in them and we’d have a nice visit. Those were nice although sometimes I’d wake up crying because they were dead.
Being the first day of spring you can receive a free small water ice at Rita’s and a free small ice cream cone at Dairy Queen. If you want to experience a true nightmare, go stand in those lines.
@cinoclav
@mfladd I did stop at Dairy Queen. There were only 3 people in front of me. Rita’s was another story. Saw about 30 people in line and kept on going.
Finish your dream and you’d have a plot for a movie.
I almost never remember my dreams unless I wake up in the middle of them.
A friend called early one morning last week to see if I was alive.
He dreamed that I had died, and he was the only one who knew about it. And he didn’t have any of my family’s phone numbers. So he went over to the house where a close family member lived and sat and waited for someone to come home. Then he woke up.
First day of spring is nice! But I know we’re all looking forward to the First of May. The Jonathan Coulton fans among us are, anyway.
PS. Start of spring.
I tried to put on sunblock this am but the stuff is thick in the bottle and I was in a hurry and do I gave up, and left the bottle upside down for tomorrow.
I won’t be outside for more than 5 min per hour anyway. I’ll be fine, I’m just trying to get fanatic about getting myself to be habitual.
Later today I’ll go get some of that green bottle stuff (Bullfrog, thanks @shrdlu!) I like from Walgreens, and order some of that Australian stuff I like from Amazon (Blue Lizard).
PS I should do this year round. I know, I know, I know.
@f00l Just so you know, if your sunscreen is from last year (which I’m guessing at, due to its current state), you ought to look to see if it’s expired. They’re usually good for a couple of years, but yours is sounding iffy.
It seems early for sunscreen to me, but then, I live a lot further north than you. I admit that I ALWAYS have sunscreen on my face (Lancome moisturizers have SPF 15 or 30, depending on which one). This time of year, so little is exposed when I’m gardening that it would be pointless, in any case. I wear gloves, and a hat.
Why would you wear sunscreen year round? Serious question.
@Shrdlu
Got the habit of year round sunscreen in the Philippines. Where it mattered.
Had to get in mailed in and pay duty on it till I figured out that the Peace Corps people were getting it from soldiers on the American bases and would get some for me too.
Only, after that, for many decades after I came back, I skipped messing w sunblock, because I was young and carefree in such matters, and young people never ever get old or get skin damage, ya know.
But now … I have always barely tanned even when outside a lot (never had a nice tan ever). Even the one year I tried to get a decent tan in a rational & measured way, i flunked - I was a paleface. So sunblock.
I’m not outside a lot now. Run in and out of places, or am in the shade a bunch, at least midday. if I were ever outside for an extended time midday, and in the sun - for a couple of hours, say - I could burn slightly even in December or January here. I have done this.
Besides, I’ve read some of some dermatologists who recommend it year-round. And I’m guessing that the intensity of the winter “north Texas sun” is as different from the “close to Canada sun” as it is from the “south Florida sun” or the “Philippines sun”.
There were days in Jan and Feb this year when I knew I should have put on sunscreen. I could feel the sun’s strength even at 10am. Didn’t have any on me, so just hurried around a lot.
I wonder if there’s any way I could persuade myself to use foundation every day. Hmmm.
@f00l Not foundation. Moisturizer.
/image lancome moisturizer with sunscreen
@f00l Not foundation. Moisturizer.
/image lancome moisturizer with sunscreen
@f00l Just in case the image doesn’t stick around. It’s not too bad (that one is $49). It’ll last for quite a while.
http://www.lancome-usa.com/skin-care/bienfait-multi-vital-spf-30-day-cream/990785.html
@Shrdlu
Wow. $49 for moisturizer?
I admit I liked Lancôme a lot when I was in NYC and had a “source”.
Now hardly ever use moisturizer unless it’s very windy or cold. Because my skin hardly ever feels dry.
This is prob unwise.
Re moisturizer vs foundation. I remembered, I thought, that you said something about sunscreen foundation in addition to sunscreen moisturizer over on Deals.woot. Only I didn’t feel like going over to the Wayback and looking it up.
But that was in my head when I typed the reply. So I screwed it up.
@f00l You didn’t screw it up. There’s also sunscreen in the foundation I use, but I don’t wear foundation every day. It would be disgusting, in the middle of the summer, with all the sweat and the dirt, and all. When I wear the foundation, I use a moisturizer without sunscreen. Yeah, yeah, I know, it seems a lot of bother. Then again, I’ve been wearing cosmetics since I was 12 (when I had to sneak it to school, and put it on the the girl’s bathroom, along with all the other wannabe sophisticates).
Where you live, it’s humid, and kinder (because of the humidity) to your skin. I only live in desert places, which I prefer. It’s startling to realize that I’m so very close to 70, and still vain. Ah, well, nobody’s perfect, right?
@Shrdlu
Why not use foundation w sunscreen and moisturizer w sunscreen?
Re makeup. I used it in middle school because everyone did, and I was already thoroughly ignored and rejected enough without doing something independent regarding makeup. During those frosted white lipstick years, tho never did that look much. Middle school was a form of daily misery for many of us. Certainly for me. A lot of subtle and overt bullying.
In HS cut way back to just mascara or something. By then I had started to dislike the bother. But then I had stopped caring about social rejection - it was obviously inevitable, so fuck 'em. The social nastiness was also slowly going away in HS. People got nicer. Even the ones who had been serious awful started to turn into decent souls.
College: By that era only sorority members wore more than the minimum. I wore none.
My 20’s and 30’s - only when I went out at night, and then skipped it as often as wore it. If I were going out someplace trendy I would wear it, usually.
After that I just stopped wanting to mess w it.
Not sure I now remember how to apply it. Have no clue what “look” would work for me now if I worked at it.
I suppose that’s lax in spirit and an indicator of a character flaw or something. I have never, to my memory, held a job where wearing makeup mattered tho.
PS. None of this means I’m not vain.
I most certainly am vain.
@f00l I don’t bother with moisturizer with sunscreen under foundation with sunscreen because it isn’t logical. They aren’t additive. The moisturizer without sunscreen is lighter on the skin, and it works well that way.
I’m sad for your wretched experience in the early teen years, truly. I simply ignored boys at that age, and probably didn’t pay much attention to them until I was perhaps 15 or 16, and then only as to what car they drove, and whether they had a job or not. I was in my early twenties before I grew past that.
I do not miss those years one tiny bit, though.
@Shrdlu
Middle school was wretched because of the girls, not the boys. Mean girls by modern parlance, but they were quite subtle about it - and also quite deliberate about targeting their inferiors. You had no doubt when they sneered at you (hourly, daily), but adults couldn’t see it. They used a private language of slang, gestures, expressions, for early teens.
According to the adults in the picture, those girls were successful, so they were obviously in the right, and anyone who didn’t get accepted by them was obviously wrong and not trying. “What did you do to make them dislike you?” Etc.
What I and others did to become targets was simply not start playing the hi-concept social game on Day 1. If you caught on by Day 3 perhaps they would accept you as a lesser one among them. If you only caught on and started trying by Day 5, or you kinda didn’t want to play the game but wanted to maintain your friends, prob you were marked as a loser for life.
The kids who didn’t care or didn’t try at all did better than the ones who wondered what they hell happened to the friends and buddies you used to have in elementary school. It was just a middle school thing.
In elementary school these people had been fine. In HS they became fine again.
I have read that the middle school age - say 11-15 or so - can be incredibly tribal and incredibly cruel. Children grow past innocence, but often have not yet developed empathy and compassion, and they want constant visual and social reassurance of their position and status, and sometimes they want to exercise power.
Much of the Khmer Rouge leadership and remote leadership out in the countryside was that age, as older kids were seen as being too compassionate.
A friend of mine who didn’t go to my middle school was at her HS reunion once. And some guys were drunk in a corner talking not about how much they missed HS, but rather how much they missed middle school!
I can kinda understand missing HS, but who the hell misses middle school for any reason?