Feb 15 2009
It came to my attention that my animation could be giving you a seizure and prevent you from reading this page. Easy answer: highlight the text and your problem is solved. Only half of a seizure for you!
Feb 12 2009
Oh wow, I can't believe I get to have a blog now. I really wanted one for a long time, but it has to be the perfect format or I lose interest. I did make a livejournal page at one point:
Mr. Spriggs 4eva
Of course this has to be heavily censored. I don't want anyone to know what I really think about all day haha.
Last night I dreamed that my mom and I were driving my sister to a deep sea diving class. It was on a metal boat at night in an industrial neighborhood. We were late, and when we got to the boat the divers were already gone. They went through a metal hatch in the floor of the boat that was still open, I was looking down there and you could only see the water. I sat down on a bench out of the way watching for them to come back. Then one person came back, and with them was a sea lion that was wearing a rain cape and a hood! I told my sister, "you can't go in that water, it's way too cold, they even had to put an outfit on the sea lion".
Friday Feb. 20th
Last night I dreamed I was outside a nice hotel, and they had 3 different swimming pools which were all huge and kept extending into the distance. One was the normal kind, the second one was salt water (and I was jazzed because I always wanted to go in one of those) and the third one had a pool table at the bottom (i.e. billiards haha) so you could play pool underwater. It was under a tent or something too. Then everything got confusing, I got distracted and I don't know what happened.
Feb. 22nd
Fact: Animals have good personalities. It's funny when you give them fucked up names and then you take them to the vet and the office has to take whatever stupid word you picked out seriously. This one is Frito:
I think this is funny from her statement at the vet, "1 injection small patient" haha
March 3rd
My adventures in dreamland continue, and this one is a real wtf. I was falling asleep last night and I was halfway dreaming but still sort of awake, and I thought of this poem and I wanted to write it down to see if I liked it the next day. I kept dreaming that I wrote it down, but I know from experience that if you write something down in a dream it doesn't count, you don't get to keep it. So I knew I had to wake up and finally I forced myself to wake up and write it down. Then of course I woke up today and found the piece of paper and it is so nuts what I wrote! Here is the poem:
Buried here
Lies a friend
Your life was brief
And is gone again
!!! what?
Thurs March 12th
I dreamed that I was sleeping in my bed, and out in the canyon behind the house someone was yelling, Frank! So I got up and went out there to look and there was a rhinoceros family playing in the grass, and the grass was 2 feet high and brown. A dude had moved in across the canyon and was keeping the rhinoceroses on the lower level of his house. Upstairs he was having someone paint Betty Boops all over the ceiling. He picked up the baby rhinoceros and showed it to me and it was only 8 inches big. He said it liked to be pet under the chin. Then he gave me a copy of his book. The spine of that copy was messed up though and a bunch of the pages fell out, so he had to give me a different one.
I also dreamed I was at a camp for autistic kids and I was hanging out with them while everyone was sitting around in chairs. Then it occurred to me that I was mute, and that maybe I was being dropped off as one of the campers!
March 25th or something
Today I remembered a dream I had when I was really tiny, it might be one of my first memories ever. I was sitting on the beach with my sister, playing in the sand and making sand castles. There was a giant lifeguard tower right there, it was taller than a skyscraper, it went up so far into the sky you couldn't see the top. Then a man's voice came out over the loudspeaker really loud in a scary way, who said "WILL THE TWO YOUNG GIRLS, LEAH AND NAOMI, PLEASE STOP WASTING SAND".
Some precious moments:
Sat April 11th
Last night I dreamed that I went into the future, and they had flying cars and someone took me for a ride in one. They also had a time machine, but you could only use it one time and never come back. So you could go live your life 10 years in the future or 30 years in the past, but you had to make a careful choice. I thought it sounded like a bummer, to go try to chill with your family in the 70s and they wouldn't even know who you were.
DISTURBING NIGHTMARES
Only read this if you want to hear about my disturbing nightmares.
I was coming down with a cold, so I took a nap today and I thought it would help. Then I had these dreams which were NOT COOL. First, I was in the bath, and I stabbed myself in the breasts with knitting needles, which I left in there for a minute before realizing that that was gross and they needed to be removed. Then my phone floated by in the water. Then I was out in the desert, and I saw an old VW that had crashed on the side of the road. The passenger door was hanging open, and I was scared to look inside because I thought I would see a dead person. Then I looked out across the landscape behind the car, and there were rows and rows of symmetric, identical strollers that were the graves of hundreds of babies. Next, I was walking up a hill in a series of empty lots, and there was a funeral service business on the side of the hill. They had all these SUVs that they were using as hearses, and instead of wheels they had coffins. The coffins were not even round or anything, they were just full size coffins instead of wheels. Then I realized I also had been driving an SUV, and there was a guy going through my stuff since I had walked away. I went back and told him not to mess with my stuff, and I realized he was a funeral worker, and he was telling me to go through my belongings, because I was going to die and they had to put them all somewhere. Then I woke up.
April 15th
Remember that one time when I scanned cat food? That was funny. I miss that scanner, I feel like I could have scanned a lot more things with it if were still alive. Its body still lives on the floor by my desk.
May 26th Tuesday
I dreamed there was a flock of giant birds of all different species that flew in a swarm and hunted together. I saw a group of cranes that dove down and ate all these green parrots in one bite, & I thought that I personally would be emotionally conflicted if my meals were so violent. Then there was a group of young redneck guys yelling - kill all the birds! And I decided it was important that I write a paper about it called "Vigilante Wildlife Control". Some girl was there who I never really was friends with and she wanted to co-write the paper with me.
Then I had another dream that some guy was going to do a presentation for a bunch of kids, and he wanted to give out sticks of gum. So he and his friends spent all this time taking the gum out of the outside packages, and they filled a huge industrial sink with individual sticks of gum, so that it was overflowing. Later I tried to find the gum at this party, I thought oh yeah there's a lot of gum over here, but they had already taken it with them.
Wed May 27th
I dreamed I was going down a river in a glass bottom tour boat with a big group of people. At first it had all these vinyl booths and seats, but then it was just a giant fish tank halfway under the water. There were 5 or 10 sea lions swimming in the river that kept banging into the glass, because they were trying to look inside. Then all these gray and black apparitions of whales and giant sea lions started coming towards us, and they weren't just underwater, they were in the air over the river! They were all dark and flattened out and dried up, and it was freaking me out, so I decided only to look at the trees and houses on the sides. Then I guess it wasn't a boat anymore but a train going to the top of a hill, and when it got there, there was a statue of some cartoon bears on a statue of a little mountain.
Monday September 7th
Dear diary, sorry I haven't had time to write in you. You are at the bottom of the list after my facebook and twitter, as well as my written journal to myself that has all the embarrassing thoughts in it which I would not write here on the internet, if you will.
Monday September 14th
Last night I dreamed that I blew up part of a train, just one of the cars, using a can of helium that I lit on fire? Nobody was in the car at the time, it wasn't a regular train, each car was a separate apartment with doors only to the outside, no hallway connecting them together. I escaped undetected, and then later in another dream, I was at a bar with 7 other people, and I said You guys, I have a crazy secret to tell you, I just exploded a train. After that, I dreamed that my sister's driver's license was found at the scene and could be evidence, so I told her to get rid of a giant metal statue of a dolphin she had (??), which I thought was related in some way.
1/23/10
I dreamed about renting office space in a tree house. Then I was supposed to inherit a white castle with red and blue flags.
1/28/10
I dreamed I was the teen star in a film, like a cheerleader, and I got killed by Rutger Hauer who drained all the blood out of my body through a tube.
1/30/10
I dreamed that Shannon gave me a hand puppet she was getting rid of, it was a white cat face on one side and a black cat face on the other side. When you put your hand inside it, it would make a tiny swallowing sound.
6/8/10
Here's a personal account of my recent experimental foray into the world of stock photography, which threatened to kill my enjoyment of life:
http://bit.ly/dzLXFR
http://prettycoolland.com/?p=818
All I can say is, it was gross!