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[cleolinda]

Horoscope of Eerie Accuracy:

Quickie: It's time to expand your horizons. Leave the past behind -- explore new directions.

Overview: Don't be surprised if the day gets off to a slow start -- it might not ever really achieve any kind of significant velocity later, either. Push any deadlines back and spend your time staring out the window.


Hmmm. I should write up Look at Me (not to mention War of the Worlds), but suffice it to say that it was a quiet little snarky French movie and a lot more lighthearted than I expected. We also saw trailers for two new documentaries, and while Murderball (about wheelchair rugby) looked great, we all have to go out, right now, and find a theater playing Mad Hot Ballroom. A blurb in the trailer described it, quite accurately, as "Strictly Ballroom meets Spellbound." Seriously, little kids in the cutthroat world of ballroom dancing competitions? SO AWESOME.

Awww! I just got a beautiful charm bracelet in the mail! Thank you, aperrin2! (I should add that we're friends, so it's not Random Inappropriate Giftage from Strangers.)

Speaking of which, I cleaned off my dresser and reorganized my jewelry, which involved A LOT of dusting and throwing-away of random receipts and junkmail. I'm a terrible packrat, and the reason I got a Clean Your Living Space or Else ultimatum is because it's finally gotten really, really bad. To the point where it's understood that the entire room will take the better part of a week. It's mostly piles of unread magazines and papers and boxes and books without shelves to call home--all this stuff but nowhere to put it. So we're going to buy a couple of bookcases or somesuch once I've cleared out some space.

(Feeling better today. Oddly, I think what cheered me up the most was a new installment of the Anonymous Hate Meme at someone's journal, in which someone declared that I have a huge ego and "asslickig [sic] minions." I just found it really funny for some reason--particularly this one anon who was really, really persistent. That, and I don't know that I've ever even been mentioned before in a hate meme, so clearly I've arrived now. Anyhoo, the way I figure it, any writer who actually puts her work out there to be read has got to have a fairly big ego, just by definition, or she'd just keep her work in a drawer where it "deserved" to stay. I mean, you have to think pretty highly of yourself to do this kind of thing anyway. As for the minions, I wouldn't presume to speak for y'all and your proclivities [hee]. And no, I'm not linking to it, because there's no point in everyone going over there, piling on, and... proving that I actually do have "asslickig minions," whatever those are.)

(Random thought: Just had a Chocolicious Wonka Cake, which is a Hostess cupcake with purple cream and icing and a picture of Johnny Depp on the box. Now I just want a Swiss Roll to get the purple out of my mouth. Ugh.)

I keep having really, really bizarre dreams. Like, even the best ones are sort of bizarrely pointless, and the worst ones involve harm to my person. Another dream I had recently: Brad Pitt and Kate Winslet were married, and at a party, and I kept trying to get over to talk to them. They seemed to be friends of mine, but people kept handing me small children because I'm "so good with kids!" [Tcha!] And I kept being held up by these small children who, incidentally, threw up on me. At a party. Where Brad Pitt and Kate Winslet were married. Pretty happily, too. I have no idea. Before that, The Lovely Emily and I were trying to wrestle with a haunted washing machine. Today I dreamed about watching some cracked-out movie while a hurricane started up outside. Also, we were out of squeeze-bear honey. Clearly, my dreams suck.

I've been trying to work on this lucid dreaming stuff, where you're at least somewhat conscious you're dreaming and can therefore control what you dream about. I mean, I've been having nightmares for the better part of a year now, and I'm really tired of the guy chasing me down the hall with an axe and the grandma zombies breaking down the door. That last one--I was standing at a kitchen sink while a zombie was pounding at the door and about to break it down and I pinched my arm, and the skin was really elastic, and it didn't hurt at all, and I said, "This isn't real. This is a dream. You can make her go away." And it... kind of didn't work. I did wake up shortly thereafter, though. So I'm trying to work on turning the whole "wake up when bad things happen" thing into "dream about things that are actually worthwhile. Like really hot celebrities." Fortunately, a box of Better Living Through Positive Thinking-type books came in from twilight_zen yesterday (another friend of mine), so maybe I can, like, rule the world with the powers of my mind and shit. There is no spoon!

ETA: You know what else I dream about a lot, and which fits into the zombie/axe-murderer dreams a lot? Doors that won't lock. I'm always trying to get away from something or someone, and I keep locking the door and the lock won't hold. Curiously, my bedroom door lock actually does this--you can't lock it. I think I have denial-of-privacy issues.

Comments

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

Random gifting is fun. ::continues working on Cleogift::

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Awww! Really, you don't have to or else the anonyhaters will be totally right about my minionage!

[mandy0x.livejournal.com]

Mmmm Johnny Depp.

[mandy0x.livejournal.com]

I made a Rosie the Riveter (I didn't know she had a name) Heroine Addict icon! It got sort of grainy when I saved it, but whatever:

[much-reality.livejournal.com]

You're very funny and from all indications a truly decent person, which is why you're the only BNF I know of I'd bother to have friended. And Jesus, people who are willing to hate anyone on the BNF basis alone need to grasp that it is *they* who take the phenomenon too seriously, not you.

Bleugh.

[(Anonymous)]

Y'know, I think most people who accuse others of having a big ego just wish that they were as well-liked and talented as the accused.

Anyway, your dreams really made me laugh (not the nightmares, though; I've never had a nightmare and I'm really glad now after reading about the grandma zombies). One thing that works for me when I want to dream about something is to think about it, right before I fall asleep, several nights in a row. That way, your dreams can consist of you talking to dead relatives about that new book you really want, or reading the summary on the back of HBP. Whee!

And I have a spoon if you need one. ^^

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee!

(I saw "Somebody replied," i.e., anonymous, in my email and immediately thought, "Oh God, it's a hater from that meme come to tell me what a bitch/loser/egotist I am, just in case I didn't get it the first time.")

[oasis-beatles.livejournal.com]

Everybody I know has been having zombie dreams. o.O

Okay, ont EVERBODY I know...but...a few.

Odd.

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

As the girl who skips over all the rimming scenes in her slash fiction with a muttered "Don't think about the arse thing!" - hey!

[sapphsmum.livejournal.com]

Happy to hear you're feeling better!

Doors that won't lock? I had dreams for years about phones where I couldn't see the numbers or the dial part would go around and around. Eventually I had to take a antidepressant that caused vision problems and my nightmare became reality and I couldn't see the numbers.

And I can relate to controlling dreams. Many times I've been aware of the fact I was dreaming during a nightmare and worked my way through it. But then I don't sleep at a deep level according to my doctors.

Hopefully no zombies in your future!LOL

Hugs, Christina

[sinsense.livejournal.com]

I work in a video store that sold tickets for our local film festival. Customer reaction to Mad Hot Ballroom was fanatical, to say the least. Some people chose to see it twice. Apparently quite good.

Murderball wasn't talked about much, but I know I'm excited to see it. It looks pretty badass.

And now I really want to find out what asslickig is. Is it more fun than asslicking? Maybe it's not even like asslicking, maybe it is a sort of cheese. I do like cheese.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Cheese just wants to love you, you know.

[wicked-goddess.livejournal.com]

I am so making an icon that says "One of Cleolinda's asslickig minions"

[delle.livejournal.com]

oh! can I steal it when you've made it? will credit.

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

Hate...the barometer of success. I'm so proud! :o)

[arayuldaiel.livejournal.com]

Hey, at least you don't try to convince the people in your dreams that they are, in fact, dream-people like I did a couple nights ago. The dream-people just looked at me weird. I wish I remembered why I was telling them that...

That Wonka Cake sounds delicious. *waaaaants*

[notashamed.livejournal.com]

Mad Hot Ballroom is so very much fun. I was literally cheering.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Ah, hate meme. I don't understand why anyone would hate you. Like, I can see, superficially, "Ooh, she's so popular and gets so many comments and writes funny things and people send her stuff (EVEN THOUGH SHE TELLS THEM NOT TO) and she makes them do things for her (LIKE DONATE TO CHARITY) and hold on a sec, why is she bad again?" From what I've read, you're an incredibly nice person who hasn't let her exalted position go to her head. I probably have more of an ego than you do. As for minions...well, minions are fun, and it's not like we don't have minds of our own. And besides, part of the reason your journal is so fun is because of the people who read it. I come back just to peruse the comments.

Dreams are weird. I don't recall dreams where I've recognized that it's a dream. But I remember one dream where Dream Me specifically went through a bunch of thought processes that convinced him that it was, in fact, reality. But. I also think that I noticed Dream Me's erroneous reasoning, knew it was a dream subconsciously and was surprised that Dream Me was calling it reality, but I couldn't do anything about it. It was more of an observation, not something that needed to be addressed. Very strange.

My scary dreams all involve being chased. I hate being chased, oh man. I'm always being chased, through hallways, in rooms, in amusement parks. I mean, isn't it weird how some dreams/nightmares stick with you for years? I don't even remember how old I was when I had the nightmare about being chased by a monster in an amusement park. That must have been over ten or fifteen years ago.

Nightmares

[promise19.livejournal.com]

OK. I promise I'm not making this up. This really happened to me! I started having bizarre, Stephen King-worthy nightmares. It sort of happened out of the blue, and were bad like no bad dreams I had ever had before. After about the third one of these, I remembered that I had taken Advil (plain old over-the-counter at the drugstore Advil) before going to bed. I asked my doctor about it, asked the pharmacist about it, and neither had ever heard of any side effects like that. They didn't really blow me off like I was stupid to think it, but just very matter of fact that they had never heard nightmares associated with Advil as a side effect. I decided that I just wouldn't take it before bedtime anymore and voila! the nightmares stopped!

Fast forward some time... I don't remember how long... I was visiting someone who had a PDR. So I looked up ibuprofen (generic name) and at the bottom of a very long list of the rare side effects, it listed "hallucenogenic dreams" or some such. I swear. My son has the same reaction to it, so we just don't take Advil before bedtime.

I mention this only because I hope that it's some random thing you've eaten or drunk that is giving you the nightmares so you can put a stop to them! I hate bad dreams... they're in my top ten list of things I hate.

Keep trying on directing your dreams. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes it doesn't. Get a lock for your bedroom door and see if the doors that won't lock dreams go away. That'd be a kick!

Take care.

[tania.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to be a minion, but I draw the line at licking your personal body parts. ;)

[thaliakat.livejournal.com]

Your icon is from the mac parody video, isn't it?

You are officially my hero.

*bounces like a Jack Russell terrier*

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

I dream about graveyards. I'm either walking through them or driving past them. And usually they're decorated with Christmas decorations.
This has been going on for years.

Recently I had a graveyard dream (one of the ones without the Christmas lights) and I ended up getting chased by a scary zombie priest.
I don't even want to know what that one was about.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

See, lucid dreaming is all Good and Fine until you're having an unbelievably good dream and dream you says, "Yo, this is AWESOME! It's like a dream! I don't ever wanna wake up!" and you do. And that has totally happened to me, which sucks.

You have "asslickig minions"? I object! I do not lick ass; I kiss feet. Errr.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Well, since you're transitioning from BNF to author/BNF, it's a fact that the position comes with minions. The trick is to set up a hierarchy of minionhood so that, when the time is ripe, we can have us a Million Minion March and kick some shit.

Here's my recommendation. The Stooges will squeal to the Flunkies, the Flunkies will fawn before the Lackeys, the Lackeys will rat to the Varlets, the Varlets will snitch to the Henchmen (and Henchwomen), who will go straight to the Gofers. The Gofers will gabble to the Stewards and Stewardesses (who prefer to be called Attendants), the Attendants will squeal to the Drudges, the Drudges will sing to the Old Retainers, who, at last, will report to you. (Of course they might not remember to tell you, since as everyone knows, an Old Retainer is always fuzzy.)

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

And a partridge in a pear tree.

[elbales]

Weird dreams can be entertaining. Last night I had a dream that was partly in Miyazaki-style animevision. Yay!

As for "asslickig," that's just gross. I mean, really. Someone needs to learn to spell get over him- or herself.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

I'm stealing your haunted washing machine. Just so you know. So on the up side, it shouldn't turn up in your dreams any more, but on the down side, it may one day make me incredibly famous. Actually, that doesn't seem like much of a downside, now that I think about it.

Good grief, but your horoscope is eerily accurate. You must be feeling so anchorless, now that study is over and the bulk of work on the book is over.

[kittenscurious.livejournal.com]

i moved into my apartment two months ago and still have (officially) 5 boxes, plus a bulliten board and chalk board left to put away. the problem, i have found is that i moved out of a place that had DRAWERS GALORE! and into a place that is seriously lacking in it's drawerage. even my desk doesn't have a real drawer, and that's all two of those boxes are, stuff that would go in (or around) my desk. its very frustrating. and packratting happens to the best of us.

[kaytethinks.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I think what cheered me up the most was a new installment of the Anonymous Hate Meme at someone's journal, in which someone declared that I have a huge ego and "asslickig [sic] minions."

On the other hand, you were mentioned in ohnotheydidnt last week (I think) for being an internet celebrity with m15m.

[sagitare.livejournal.com]

ETA: You know what else I dream about a lot, and which fits into the zombie/axe-murderer dreams a lot? Doors that won't lock. I'm always trying to get away from something or someone, and I keep locking the door and the lock won't hold.

I have that one a lot myself, actually. Fucking frustrating I must say, because there's always a part of me in the dream that *knows* the damned door won't stay shut and that I won't be able to get it to stay shut, and yet I can never do anything about it.

[maliekai.livejournal.com]

I definitely have the door-that-won't-lock dream a lot. Just thinking about it is causing me to have a near panic attack.

[librisia.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, Cleo, but under no circumstances will I lick your (or anyone else's) ass. I don't want to spend that much on mouthwash.

I think your M15m stuff is hilarious. If that makes me a minion, then the Harry Potter fandom has some serious lickage going on out there. So you (and we) are in good company.

[tangerinee11.livejournal.com]

Mad Hot Ballroom was awesome...I'm working with one of the teachers from that over the summer. I highly suggest it. And thanks to you, I am craving Wonka bars like no one's business.