YOU GUYS

Indulge me briefly my friends--this is a survey for all of you.

I would like to ask y'all about your dreams. Specifically, I want to know about houses.

For every home in which I have ever lived, there is an alternate version that exists in my dream-brain. Sometimes the dream version is only slightly different than the real life house, sometimes there are really huge differences--either way, these dream houses remain consistent from one dream to the next. 

My current apartment for example: the dream version is larger, and set in a completely different location. Same with Mumsy's condo when I was living in the basement: my basement space looked almost exactly the same as it did in real life, but the backyard outside the sliding doors was totally different (flat fields/farmland instead of the fenced in moss-and-grass). The dream version of my old apartment had a whole section of rooms behind the kitchen that did not exist at all in real life. The dream version of my childhood home had a crazy huge attic space that also did not exist in real life.

Do any of you readers experience this with your homes and your dreams? If you dream of your homes, are they different than real life? What about them is different? I want details.

And now the second half of this survey......

Lil Bro#2 and I had this discussion last weekend and it has made me very curious. Do you guys have a house--NOT a house that you ever lived in outside of your dreams--that shows up in your dreams over and over and over again?

I do. Lil Bro#2 does as well, and for some reason both of our Houses remind us of my step-grandparents' old house, and both of our Houses have a whole section of rooms (living room, bedroom, bathroom) accessible only via a secret hidden door.

Idk why my House reminds me of my step-grandparents' house, because my House is freaking enormous. Like complete with a belltower (the interior of which is only accessible via secret door) and a massive ballroom/library with two big curving staircases that lead to a balcony that encircles the entire room. I wish I could do like architectural drawing, but I'm pretty sure there are parts of the House that defy physics, so that might be kind of hard to illustrate...

This House has existed in my dreams for as long as I can remember, and it has not changed. Lil Bro#2 said the same of his House.

I've tried looking up what the *experts* have to say about houses in dreams, but of course everyone has a different explanation. Lil Bro#2 and I thought that the most likely explanation of the House is that it is basically a visual representation of everything you have ever retained in your mind. Like if someone took your brain with all of its knowledge and memories and weird personality traits and turned it into a building.

Which brings me to the second question--do any of you have a House that shows up frequently in your dreams? What is it like? Has it changed, or does it stay the same? Details!!!

Inquiring minds want to know.............

This is not a dictatorship. This is America. Give me liberty, or give me meth.

I realize it is no longer winter here in the northern hemisphere, but I am too lazy and too unmotivated to make a new banner. 

Eleven is a mummy.

(From right to left: Coffee, Contemplation, and Barbara.)

For Easter last week, I went to Savannah, GA with the fam to visit Lil Bro#1. I have discovered that my vertigo is extremely unhappy with long train rides, and Savannah is really freaking hot. 

Here's a nice family photo, which may or may not be taken down depending on how paranoid I feel about it being posted here.

(from left to right: Lil Bro#2, Mich, Step-mom, Dadum, Lil Bro#1, and Lil Bro#1's girlfriend.)

It has been observed that if you ignore hair and eye colour, Lil Bro#2 and I are almost identical. 

Lil Bro#2 has started making podcasts, I think the first one is pretty hilarious. 

Savannah is beautiful though, even if it is too bloody hot.

I enjoyed the Spanish moss.

Art has picked up again. I've been trying to expand beyond mushrooms and four-seasons-trees. I'm rather proud of this one:

I had intended to give it to Dadum for Fathers Day, but I kind of want to keep it...


SOME EXCITING NEWS: ~*~*I FINISHED A BOOK*~*~*

It still needs some editing, and I think it might be a little too short, but it is done. YA fiction following a 17-year-old recovering from a heroin addiction. Anyone out there willing to be a guinea pig?



In other news........

Some really good TV shows I have recently discovered:

The 100 - the only TV show in the history of forever where I actually really really like almost all of the female characters. That one's on Netflix, and new episodes are on the CW app.

Shameless (the US version) - on Netflix. Lil Sis was nagging me for ages to watch this, and I kept ignoring her until I discovered Zach McGowan is in it. 

Black Sails - on Hulu. Big Sis#2 was nagging me for ages to watch this, and I kept ignoring her until I discovered Zach McGowan is in it. Also Maggie Smith's son is in it and he's brilliant. (And gorgeous.)

Black Mirror - on Netflix. Most of the episodes have left me deeply disturbed, but I can't stop watching.


newly discovered band: The Bad Light. Listen.




Have a good week, y'all.