Perhaps I am a little odd ........... perhaps I don't realise that maybe everyone dreams in the same way ... or maybe not everyone, possibly just a few ? None of us ever really know how another person views their dreams.
I consider myself quite lucky. I dream in "Movie picture motion". I can actually DIRECT most of my dreams ! On some nights I feel as though I have not slept as I have been "busy" directing my dreams .... yes I know it sounds silly but seriously it happens. I can't choose the start of a dream, but once in full flow I can manipulate the dream to prevent it becoming a nightmare or sometimes, just to make it flow.
I don't really know how long I have been able to do this for - but it seems like it has been all my life. More importantly, when the children were younger and had the occasional nightmare I think I may have helped teach them how to do this ..... so they could get themselves out of their nightmare. I advised them to choose an animal that could jump into their dream and rescue them - I always had 2 animals - a white stallion (no surprises there) and my tiger - Esso ! This always worked for me when younger - I have no need for them now but I know this worked for the kids too - Jess tells me to this day that she still "has" her animal!
I have only ever had a handful of nightmares in my life, 3 of which I still remember even though they were all many years ago (one I thought would make a great horror/action/mediaeval adventure movie - once I stopped it from being a nightmare it panned out that well in my imagination!). But for the majority of the time I make my dreams good ones. What I am finding as I get older is that I am tending to "dream" less - when my head hits the pillow I am out and just asleep, if I am dreaming then I no longer recall those dreams.
I actually find that sad ... as I am, by nature a dreamer ... and always looked forward to my dreams.
So what about you .......... do you dream in black and white? In colour? Like a film or just bits and bobs randomly put together? And - - can you too, direct your dreams ?????
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Confessions of a hoarder
My name is Jane ......... and I am a hoarder.
There - I said it !
I am not as bad as some of those you see on some TV programmes BUT I really do keep all sorts of rubbish! .......... The point is ... it's not rubbish to me !
I was sorting out the Office the other day. (It used to be the downstairs front room but since Gina left home I have transferred it to her room. The downstairs room has been restored to the dining room!) So ... in the first wave of clean out ... I did get rid of lots of stuff - mainly old documents from the business - things that had to be kept legally for a set number of years but now I could get rid of.
We transferred the filing cabinets and desk upstairs and then I began filing ...... and sorting ....... and attempting to throw away ....... but that just didn't seem to pan out !!
A job that should have taken maybe a couple of hours began to drag out and ended up taking the WHOLE day - and I'm still not finished !!!
I came across little notes that the kids had written for me, old Christmas lists of presents bought and to whom I was giving them, work I had done for the Pre-school 15 years ago ........ and I just couldn't bin any of it !!!
I know the little notes are sentimental and people will understand me wanting to keep those but - the work for the pre-school is now out of date and as for the Christmas lists...... !
Of course there was other stuff as well - more up-to-date information and paperwork from the business and my last job but why oh why am I keeping it ??
I think - "ooh - that might be interesting and useful one day" - but you just know that the only time I will look at it will be in 10 years time when that too, is well out of date !!! BUT I JUST CAN'T BIN IT !
I think its one of those things that happens not just to me but universally - When I have got rid of some old kitchen utensil or some previous information you can guarantee that 2/3 weeks later there will be "now, where did I put x - that would be really useful today!" IT ALWAYS HAPPENS as soon as I have got rid of the thing I need it !
Or is it just that old sentimentality - these days you can download any information from the internet - including old versions of documents I have - you can buy new goods readily (if not reasonably cheaply too, from supermarkets) - Why would I need a box full of old tea-towels and hand-towels (the Disney and children's ones the kids had when little).
Yes - most of it is sentimentality - one day I will sort it all out properly - but thankfully, at the moment we have enough room in the house for several storage boxes - some in the attic, some in the cupboard under the stairs and some just sat there in Gina's room (the Office) that will remain for a little longer, till I either have to move to a smaller house or reach the age of 90 ..... and decide that I'd better clear out the diaries before someone else does !!
There - I said it !
I am not as bad as some of those you see on some TV programmes BUT I really do keep all sorts of rubbish! .......... The point is ... it's not rubbish to me !
I was sorting out the Office the other day. (It used to be the downstairs front room but since Gina left home I have transferred it to her room. The downstairs room has been restored to the dining room!) So ... in the first wave of clean out ... I did get rid of lots of stuff - mainly old documents from the business - things that had to be kept legally for a set number of years but now I could get rid of.
We transferred the filing cabinets and desk upstairs and then I began filing ...... and sorting ....... and attempting to throw away ....... but that just didn't seem to pan out !!
A job that should have taken maybe a couple of hours began to drag out and ended up taking the WHOLE day - and I'm still not finished !!!
I came across little notes that the kids had written for me, old Christmas lists of presents bought and to whom I was giving them, work I had done for the Pre-school 15 years ago ........ and I just couldn't bin any of it !!!
I know the little notes are sentimental and people will understand me wanting to keep those but - the work for the pre-school is now out of date and as for the Christmas lists...... !
Of course there was other stuff as well - more up-to-date information and paperwork from the business and my last job but why oh why am I keeping it ??
I think - "ooh - that might be interesting and useful one day" - but you just know that the only time I will look at it will be in 10 years time when that too, is well out of date !!! BUT I JUST CAN'T BIN IT !
I think its one of those things that happens not just to me but universally - When I have got rid of some old kitchen utensil or some previous information you can guarantee that 2/3 weeks later there will be "now, where did I put x - that would be really useful today!" IT ALWAYS HAPPENS as soon as I have got rid of the thing I need it !
Or is it just that old sentimentality - these days you can download any information from the internet - including old versions of documents I have - you can buy new goods readily (if not reasonably cheaply too, from supermarkets) - Why would I need a box full of old tea-towels and hand-towels (the Disney and children's ones the kids had when little).
Yes - most of it is sentimentality - one day I will sort it all out properly - but thankfully, at the moment we have enough room in the house for several storage boxes - some in the attic, some in the cupboard under the stairs and some just sat there in Gina's room (the Office) that will remain for a little longer, till I either have to move to a smaller house or reach the age of 90 ..... and decide that I'd better clear out the diaries before someone else does !!
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Jezza
Thursday 24th November was a great day --- really good fun, despite the few panic moments when we thought we were not gonna make it !
Jess, Gina, Nikki, Zoe and I set off just before 10am to travel to Manchester Granada TV Studios, to be in the audience for a Jeremy Kyle show! The journey was ok until the junction where the M6 turns off into about 6 different lanes - yes - we took the wrong turn ........ I had printed off directions BUT ................................
Zoe to the rescue (well and all the others cause they all have smart phones LOL). Zoe had bought her Sat Nav and we plugged it in.
UNFORTUNATELY - That didn't help much ...................... not initially anyway - the SatNav gave some directions a little late .......like "turn left now" when we had already gone right !
OK I ADMIT IT AND I OFFICIALLY CONFESS ..... I am rubbish with directions !
I regularly get lost when presented with somewhere to get to and there must be a scientific calculation that doubles the chance of getting lost when I have a time limit ........
The directions to the studios that I had printed, suggested that it would take 3 hours to get there - we naturally thought that if we left at 10am and had to get there by 2pm that left us an hour for any distractions OR for us to get lost ...... hoping that we wouldn't - and could then stop for lunch or coffee.
Well .......... forget eating or stopping for a coffee - we took the first wrong turn from my printed directions - then another wrong turn from the SatNav each taking us about half an hour out of the way and to get back on track.
With 2pm fast approaching we got to the right location .........only to find that the car park shown on the reverse of the ticket was just for Granada employees
ARGGHHHHHHH - (we do have a suspicion that the car parking attendant was having us on actually but had no time to argue the toss)
THANK GOODNESS for retail parks and massive Sainsburys stores - we parked within a 10 minute walk. it was 1.50pm and the priority tickets stated that although doors open at 2pm we should be there 10 minutes early!!!
CUE frantic race across town - crossing horrendously busy and wide roads - teetering on high heels and with one very unfit older lady (that'd be me) and one who has just had a baby - huffing and puffing like we had reached the end of a marathon.
Nikki and Zoe (the fitter amongst us) ran on and got to the doors - they signalled to us to slow down and as we turned the corner we realised why - it was 2pm and we had rushed for nothing ... as everyone - even in the priority line - was still queuing.
This was, in fact, a godsend as The Unfit amongst us had chance to breathe and reduce the colour in our cheeks. We queued for another 10 minutes, (losing half a packet of biccies on the pavement during the course of queuing) and EVENTUALLY we were let in.
NOW - bear in mind we had just travelled for 3 and a half hours - had run miles (well maybe a mile at best) had queued for 10 mins ......what would be the first thing on your mind ...... THE LOO !!!
We were searched (I had to hand in my mini Swiss pen knife) and then we made a bee line for the conveniences .......... only to find that there were just 2 cubicles and the queue for these was out of the door !!!!
WHY oh WHY were there only 2 and WHY OH WHY were both blocked ..... yes honestly - epic fail Granada !!!!! (oh must just mention seeing both Michelle Collins and the actress who plays Sally Webster - bet they didn't have to wait for the loo!)
SO finally - we had refreshed ourselves in some not too pleasant facilities - and went into the Studios.
We were sat right next to Jezza'a entrance and sorry to announce this but ...actually .... he is not very tall!
I am not sure if this was the reason they asked Gina to sit down when he came in, or whether it was genuinely the camera angle, but whatever the reason - as the rest of the audience stood up when he came in - she had to stay sitting.
I will not reveal details of the show - in fact the guests themselves were not that exciting. JUST will mention that Jezza is actually SOOOO much funnier than you imagine - he has a good sense of humour and kept the audience entertained in the breaks.
So for an epic journey there we spent just 3 hours at the Studio and then it was done - Maccy D's for tea (Manchester Maccy's was excellent! - probably because we were all starving by 5pm having had nothing to eat since brekky other than biscuits) Then the journey home.
All in all a fantastic day and the girls made the journey such fun - the conversations home shall never be repeated again or put into print !
Now all I can say about the journey home was that it was SIMPLE - why is it always the way NO WRONG TURNS at all - straight run through and home before 9pm !!!!!!!!!
Like I say - there must be a calculation regarding lost directions and time constraints !!!
The 6 hour travelling time thought was so worth it and I recommend anyone to try going to a Tv show - any show - just for the experience - I can cross that off my list and we will very probably be going again !!!!
Jess, Gina, Nikki, Zoe and I set off just before 10am to travel to Manchester Granada TV Studios, to be in the audience for a Jeremy Kyle show! The journey was ok until the junction where the M6 turns off into about 6 different lanes - yes - we took the wrong turn ........ I had printed off directions BUT ................................
Zoe to the rescue (well and all the others cause they all have smart phones LOL). Zoe had bought her Sat Nav and we plugged it in.
UNFORTUNATELY - That didn't help much ...................... not initially anyway - the SatNav gave some directions a little late .......like "turn left now" when we had already gone right !
OK I ADMIT IT AND I OFFICIALLY CONFESS ..... I am rubbish with directions !
I regularly get lost when presented with somewhere to get to and there must be a scientific calculation that doubles the chance of getting lost when I have a time limit ........
The directions to the studios that I had printed, suggested that it would take 3 hours to get there - we naturally thought that if we left at 10am and had to get there by 2pm that left us an hour for any distractions OR for us to get lost ...... hoping that we wouldn't - and could then stop for lunch or coffee.
Well .......... forget eating or stopping for a coffee - we took the first wrong turn from my printed directions - then another wrong turn from the SatNav each taking us about half an hour out of the way and to get back on track.
With 2pm fast approaching we got to the right location .........only to find that the car park shown on the reverse of the ticket was just for Granada employees
ARGGHHHHHHH - (we do have a suspicion that the car parking attendant was having us on actually but had no time to argue the toss)
THANK GOODNESS for retail parks and massive Sainsburys stores - we parked within a 10 minute walk. it was 1.50pm and the priority tickets stated that although doors open at 2pm we should be there 10 minutes early!!!
CUE frantic race across town - crossing horrendously busy and wide roads - teetering on high heels and with one very unfit older lady (that'd be me) and one who has just had a baby - huffing and puffing like we had reached the end of a marathon.
Nikki and Zoe (the fitter amongst us) ran on and got to the doors - they signalled to us to slow down and as we turned the corner we realised why - it was 2pm and we had rushed for nothing ... as everyone - even in the priority line - was still queuing.
This was, in fact, a godsend as The Unfit amongst us had chance to breathe and reduce the colour in our cheeks. We queued for another 10 minutes, (losing half a packet of biccies on the pavement during the course of queuing) and EVENTUALLY we were let in.
NOW - bear in mind we had just travelled for 3 and a half hours - had run miles (well maybe a mile at best) had queued for 10 mins ......what would be the first thing on your mind ...... THE LOO !!!
We were searched (I had to hand in my mini Swiss pen knife) and then we made a bee line for the conveniences .......... only to find that there were just 2 cubicles and the queue for these was out of the door !!!!
WHY oh WHY were there only 2 and WHY OH WHY were both blocked ..... yes honestly - epic fail Granada !!!!! (oh must just mention seeing both Michelle Collins and the actress who plays Sally Webster - bet they didn't have to wait for the loo!)
SO finally - we had refreshed ourselves in some not too pleasant facilities - and went into the Studios.
We were sat right next to Jezza'a entrance and sorry to announce this but ...actually .... he is not very tall!
I am not sure if this was the reason they asked Gina to sit down when he came in, or whether it was genuinely the camera angle, but whatever the reason - as the rest of the audience stood up when he came in - she had to stay sitting.
I will not reveal details of the show - in fact the guests themselves were not that exciting. JUST will mention that Jezza is actually SOOOO much funnier than you imagine - he has a good sense of humour and kept the audience entertained in the breaks.
So for an epic journey there we spent just 3 hours at the Studio and then it was done - Maccy D's for tea (Manchester Maccy's was excellent! - probably because we were all starving by 5pm having had nothing to eat since brekky other than biscuits) Then the journey home.
All in all a fantastic day and the girls made the journey such fun - the conversations home shall never be repeated again or put into print !
Now all I can say about the journey home was that it was SIMPLE - why is it always the way NO WRONG TURNS at all - straight run through and home before 9pm !!!!!!!!!
Like I say - there must be a calculation regarding lost directions and time constraints !!!
The 6 hour travelling time thought was so worth it and I recommend anyone to try going to a Tv show - any show - just for the experience - I can cross that off my list and we will very probably be going again !!!!
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