The Not Happy Thread

In his defence North Dakota is bitterly cold for like 7 months. I lived in Fargo for a couple years and just...no...It's so awful. High winds and massively sub zero temperatures. I love cold, but that's something else. The Northern parts of the state is even worse. And it doesn't help that it's miles of open prairie with no trees to stop the wind.

 

No need to defend him, but I'm touched that you identify with his predilection for the Arctic Chill setting on the swamp cooler. He says NoDak is a good place to be from... far from. He lived a few miles south of Canada out on the plains.

We used to get blue northers in Texas, cold fronts that swept down the plains unimpeded. My dad used to say there was nothing between us and Canada but a bob wahr fence, and it was down.

 

That sounds like the Minot area. It's the Wild West out there. My dad always goes up there with his gun at his side because the pipeliners are something else.

 

He taught school at Edinburg.

 

Never been there, but I know that sort of area. Looks like a prime place to have to endure the extensive spring flooding. I don't miss that state in any way.

 

He says he spent a grim two years there teaching instrumental and vocal music to all grades K to 12. He abandoned NoDak and teaching at the same time, though he only retired from instrumental music this year. He still directs and sings with a men's chorus. I quit singing some time ago. It was one thing to lose my high D, but now my vocal chords have followed my joints into retirement. Alas. Freezing up body part by body part.

 

I like cold weather. It's because I'm fat. I'm insulated like a Walrus.

 

Scrolling through a list of authors one agent represents.... And im feeling really negative about my own work now....

 

News announced today all the roads that are closed because the surfaces are buckling, and the commuter trains are on a limited schedule because they have to go slow on overheated tracks. 105F and climbing for the next few hours and while tomorrow is only supposed to be in the 90s, it still won't be cooling off tonight which means I can't cool the house down much.

 

Goodness, @GingerCoffee. Where is this taking place?

 

Seattle suburb: Bellevue. We hit 110F but now it's down to [checks website] 108F. Dog's sitting in front of the room air conditioner but it's so hot outside it's barely cooling the air. I'm good now wrapped in wet towels sitting in front of the fan.

I know, we're heat wimps here.

 

no basement?

 

I've gone through phases like that. I go back and work on it some more and I'm confident. Then I worry again and edit some more. That has gone on for a number of years now. I'm in confident mode right now. I'm trying to get the query just right with an empathetic fantastic protagonist. Just writing what happens to set the crisis off needs spicing up.

 

Nope. Though the one room under the upstairs is cooler than the rest of the house. Trouble is it's full of clutter I'd have to move if I wanted to sit in there and no couch.

 

Today is a mixed bag... So ill start here with my "Not Happy":


I have a 5K race over this weekend, so ive been preparing.
My legs ache so bad ive been hobbling around all morning and avoiding stairs.
Diet wise, i ate a ceasar salad and am STILL HUNGRY!! stupid rabbit food! Who just looks at lettuce and thinks "yep, thats a meal right there"

-sigh-

 

it is a meal if there's chicken on it

 

Teeny tiny bits of chicken.... I was robbed

 

Spoiler

it's always when they're drunk and horny that I become an option

 

Anyone else have nightmares that put them in a bad state of mind the rest of the day? :C Why does our brain do this?

 

Lol, I always seem to take these posts personally when people ask about dreams, at least if it's something I have some knowledge about. Brain science researchers believe the brain frequently gives you bad dreams and nightmares largely just to test the emergency system, like those "This was only a test" things you hear on the radio. It's to make sure the right hormones are being squirted into the bloodstream at the right times and similar things as I understand it.

So often they don't mean anything in particular, though sometimes they do. If you're experiencing some inner distress strongly enough to make it show up in a dream, and if you fail to understand or react properly to the dream, you'll get more dreams telling you the same thing over the next few nights, though probably expressed in very different ways. The unconscious speaks in symbols, and it will keep trying to get your attention for a while. Though sometimes even if you don't consciously understand a dream or a sequence of them, you will still do what they were telling you you need to do, because you'll also be getting other messages telling you about the same issues. IE you'll be feeling bad, sort of knowing you're doing something wrong and need to fix it, maybe people will be telling you "Dude, you really need to..."

Jung said (quite rightly I believe) that a dream is a correction of a wrong conscious attitude. Not all of them, some are just pretty random, but when something is really going wrong in your life and your attitude toward it is wrong, your dreams will reshape themselves to tell you about it.

 

My invite must have gotten lost in the mail.

 

A character in a long-running series, who was just beginning, got killed off.

Kinda sorta hoping it's a red herring, but I doubt it.

 

I do occasionally have nightmares but not very often, I tend to have upsetting dreams usually about someone who has passed away and I miss and that puts me on a serious downer for the rest of the day. I find my dreams really do reflect things in my life.

I made this friend recently after we both went through a horrible day together that was so traumatic. She just seemed to attach herself to me ever since, and while she's not over-bearing and does give me space she has quite a few irritating tendencies. One being she likes to invite herself into my house. I don't always want company who just show up on my door step. She lives opposite me and I do feel like she watches my house because she always knows when I'm home and it's happened too many times to be a coincidence. I stopped letting her in and just stood at the door and she said: "Well, I'll come in and have a coffee."
I've let it slide a few times and I probably shouldn't have. So she does this even in my dreams now!! How do you deal with someone like that? She's sensitive and I don't want to hurt her feelings. Then she decided to start bringing her dogs round. I love dogs but she didn't even ask. Just let them barge through the door knocking paint off my wall. Then allowed them to sniff all around my house, even in my bedroom. Considering she never lets me through the door of her place, it felt a bit...rude. Last night I had a dream where she had an arguement about it.

So weird how dreams work and sometimes seem to focus on really tiny things...can my brain think up nothing better?