Thwarted by apricots...

[msfledermaus]

I spent 20 minutes this morning desperately trying to open a new jar of apricot jam. (I'm usualy pretty good at getting jars open.) I twisted and twisted and twisted, used the textured rubber thing, (quit giggling!) banged the sides with a knife to break the seal, ran hot water over the jar, repeatedly stabbed the top of the lid with a pair of scissors, (I barely dented it--it was a tough jar!) and finally as I was about to forget about jam with my breakfast...it opened with an anticlimactic pop.

Grrrrr...French people and their tightly-sealed jars....it's all their fault...:)

I dreamed someone took me to this cool Voudoun botanica somewhere to help her combat this horrible magic foe. It was full of people and chairs and interesting painted murals and furniture. My job was to get some 3 by 5 canvasboard and paint one only yellow and one only green..I was painting the yellow one with an even brighter yellow sun and was figuring out heiroglyphs when I woke up.
(This is the kind of dream I get when I paint before bed. I may try to do the painting in real-life, just to make things interesting.)

...The end of the week is drawing near...Huzzah!!! Huzzah!!!!

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[joei.livejournal.com]

Good morning, Ms. Mausi. Maybe you should paint the yellow painting of your dream, if you remember it clearly enough. You sound as though you are filled with artistic energies the past few days. I wish I could say the same. I've not even started on Christmas cards and feel I'm going to have to resort to store bought cards to send out to friends and family, without even writing personal messages inside. Oh well.

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I think I do..:)

And I know it's hard to be creative this time of year...so much to get done:(
I've got lots of new ideas, but won't get to implement some of them for a little while.

Yaaaawn....G'morning, Joei!!

[joei.livejournal.com]

For the first time in a long time I'm wide awake this morning. Yay!! Happy happy one-day-away-from-Friday. *grin*

Did you get your package from the office yesterday?

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Not yet...every time I get there it's *closed!* But I'm going at lunchtime to get my damned package!!!


Was it you?!? Is that something you sent me? *I suspect it is...:)*

[joei.livejournal.com]

Darn, blew my cover. *L*

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

OOOhooohohhhh!!!
I can hardly wait!!!

(Your package should be coming soon...it's full of fun!!)

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

Huzzah and Happy Thursday!

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Woot!!!! Friday is coming closer and closer!!!!*does a happy dance*

[spooble.livejournal.com]

What cool dreams you have! Alas, I never remember mine. And they're boring on the random occasion when I do remember one. :(

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Awwwww...

I know a trick for remembering your dreams, if you're interested...keep some paper by your bed and the second you wake up grab it and scribble down whatever you can remember before you shuffle off to the bathroom to brush your teeth. After a couple of days it gets easier and easier, and for some reason the dreams get more interesting..or maybe it's that you don't miss as much of the good stuff...I dunno:)

Dahling, sweetie

[(Anonymous)]

Good happy Thursday to you!!
~Va.

HEY!!!!!

[(Anonymous)]

I just got a really cool present in the mail from a little Mausie!!!
Delux Sushi Note Card Set!! With little pencils (complete with erasers!) in a chopstick sleeve!!
COOL!!!! (mmmmmmmm... sushi.....)

Thank you so much!!
And I *LOVE* the wrapping paper!!

WHEeeeheeeeeeee!!!


Hey, whatcha doin' Sunday afternoon? I'm working (as a boardmember - just supervising the kids) at a show put on my Youth Performance Company (the company I grew up in)at 19th & Nicollet (Plymouth Cong. church). "The Velveteen Rabbit". You wanna join me? 2pm. We can maybe get SUSHI for lunch before...

~VA

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Heeheehee...it was the perfect thing:)

OOh that sounds fun!!! lemme check my social calendar and get back atcha, missy!!!

[aimlessly.livejournal.com]

when i was a waitress, we had to open large jars of jam sometimes...I would hold the jar and bang the side of the lid on the wall a few times.....works everytime...for furture reference! :P

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I wonder if the neighbors would mind..:)

*Grabs jar of pickles and gets that determined look on her face*

[banana.livejournal.com]

> I wonder if the neighbors would mind
...if a jar of apricot jam came through the wall? 8~)

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I think they might be a little miffed...and sticky:)

[banana.livejournal.com]

I *will* delivery your groceries, I *will*!
Now, do I have to bring this espresso machine in the same way, or will you open the door?

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

What a vision!!!*heeheehee!*

Okay, who ordered the 2-seater bicycle?!?!?
*Crash*

[banana.livejournal.com]

I don't know what you said to the salesman, but it says here the bed's a double. Now, which wall do I go through to get to the bedroom?

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Live giraffe? I've got the invoice saying you wanted the live giraffe here!!! Do you know how hard it is to get this guy up 8 floors?

[banana.livejournal.com]

Do you remember you once posted a "fill in the blanks" story? I think I had a giraffe in my coffin.

Time to post another blanks story?

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I think so!!!

[aimlessly.livejournal.com]

*giggles lots* oh, i love you Maus!!!!!

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I love to be loved:)

[banana.livejournal.com]

I drifted back into a light sleep this morning and dreamed that I had thought of a device to test if food would taste nice. It had lots of little wheels that you ran over the food and, um, then you could tell. This was such a brilliant idea that I was astonished that no one had thought of it before. Then I woke up, and my idea was nonsense. How disappointing.

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I think it's kind of a good idea, in it's way...don't know how you'd build it, but I bet it would sell like crazy!!

I love it when dreams are *that* real, and you get this cool idea that works perfectly...in the dream-logic you use. Never mind that this world doesn't quite work like that...

[banana.livejournal.com]

I could see it so *clearly*, and it was *such* a good idea...

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

It sounds like it would make a good short-story:)

[banana.livejournal.com]

I heard a story about a film writer who would wake up with brilliant story ideas in the middle of the night, but never remembered them in the morning. So he took a pencil and paper up with him. When he looked at it in the morning, and he'd written "Boy meets girl".

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

*Big grin*

I'd never thought of that one before...