LJ Idol Presents:

Frist?

Also, I am still sick. Running a temp. Trying to write my Idol post anyway. I'm sure the results will be amazeballs.

Edited Date: 2012-06-23 02:55 pm (UTC)

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You should take pseudoephedrine. Then the results will truly be amazing!

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I am contemplating taking leftover pain pills from my oral surgery a few weeks ago. Ibuprofen is not helping and we don't have any acetaminophen in the house (other than what is in my Lortab). Pain pills made writing OH SO EASY the last time I was on them. LOL

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Pain pills (opiates, in particular) make me trip. I feel as if my body and my mind are two separate beings, and that if I don't hold onto something, eg the bed I'm lying on, they will part company. Kind of like the visual of a soul leaving the body, in movies, you know? Oh, and also, they make me vomit.

I don't tend to take them anymore.

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Hahaha, they don't make me trip. They just make me sleepy and chill and stupid. Which means my writing is probably going to suck, but due to the fever I've been sitting here staring at my screen for an hour and doing nothing useful anyway.

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<3

Hope you're feeling a bit better and more lucid, soon!

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Thanks! Me too.

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ashgaelsonaria.livejournal.com

Last time I put my back really bad they gave me valume as a muscle relaxer and corine for the pain. Still really hurt but I so did not care.

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You've just had a lot of crap thrown at you lately, huh? Oral surgery, that trip, now being sick.... You have some stamina to still be fighting this out!

Hope you feel better soon.

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I'm freaking stubborn. Come to think of it, you must be too because you have been wading through a metric asston of shit the past few weeks. *hugs and back pats to both of us*

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I'm dang stubborn. I've posted during really crazy circumstances too because there's no way I'll quit.

*hugs*

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Me neither! There have been a handful of times when I have been all "oh noes, I'm going to have to drop out" but I always find a way. Never thought I would make it this far and if people want me out they're gonna have to vote me out. ;-)

*flashes Top 25 icon*

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*grins* I'm much the same way. There's been a few times when I thought I'd have to drop, but I always find a way. It's usually through crazy means like writing an entry from my phone and posting it directly from there, but I never miss a deadline.

I only go out fighting. And I always fight until the very end :)

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*hugs* I'm glad you're still here! Hopefully life calms down for you. :)

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Thank you!

Life will never calm down for me. I always warn people that my life is an adventure, I've always got something ridiculous happening to me :)

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*hugs* Well, I hope it's a good adventure next. :)

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FRIST!! ^_^

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Where my cookies?!

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Santa's eating some, but I'm sure he'll share. ;p

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Yay! Thanks, Santa! :)

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I'm all out of cookies (gasp!), but would you accept a cupcake as a substitute?

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Sure, thanks!

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ellakite.livejournal.com

YOU'RE *DEAD* TO ME!

And before you snag a cookie -- Get some COLD-EEZE lozenges from your local pharmacy. They're an over-the-counter zinc supplement that has done wonders for me whenever I've had a cold. Just remember one thing: Don't have any citrus products about an hour before or after you have a lozenge; citric acid neutralizes the active ingredient.

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Yay frist!

*hugs* I hope it passes quickly, and good luck with your entry!

I'm about a paragraph into mine and stuck.

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Thanks! I did what any sane (??!!) person would do and took some of my leftover pain pills from my oral surgery. Ibuprofen wasn't helping with my fever and I didn't have any Tylenol, but the pain pills have acetaminophen in them. Kind of like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer, but it's helped some. I now have about half of a very, very rough draft and a general idea of my characters and plot for the whole thing.

I hope you get past your block soon! Anything I can do to help?

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I'd've taken them, honestly. I take too much ibuprofen as it is, though, so perhaps I'm not the person to compare with. ;)

Thanks! I don't suppose you'd write it for me?

Lol, I'm doing better; I have a second paragraph now. At this rate I'll make it to four of them before the deadline, lol. ;)

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1) FIRST?

2) Get low VOC paint.

OK, not first. But you should still get low VOC paint, if you can.

Edited Date: 2012-06-23 02:56 pm (UTC)

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Yes to low VOC paint! I second this!

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ashgaelsonaria.livejournal.com

News is depressing. I gave it up.
I is hassing bad day.
Dog got me up at 2am and couldn't get back to sleep. Asthma all muck yucky and I think I try to sleep now.

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Sorry your day is bad. Mine too. Hope they both get better.

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I've gotten several entries started but due to personal ick, I'm struggling. I'll hammer through it though..

I had another creepy dream last night, but I only remember a small section of it and I'm not sure it'll fit the topic (it could if I had an idea for it), but still... I can't get the image out of my head. I don't know why my dreams go in such horrible places. Again, I was just watching (I'm often a spectator or narrator to my dreams) but we were in some dystopian type society where a family was punished for something ridiculous and being sentenced to death by drowning (tied to a contraption and held under water, but they periodically brought them back up to breathe before taking them down again). Including a little girl. It was horrid and I was crying in the dream and helpless to do anything since I was there, but like I wasn't. Like I was watching but not really able to communicate with the people or interact with anything. So I just had to watch as it happened.

Yeah... My brain seems to like nightmares that go beyond bumps in the night or monsters under my bed.

I have a feeling I know what some of this means, I've started interpreting it already.

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I hope it can help you to work through it. kids in danger or pain are part of some of my worst dreams these days.

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Come to think of it, this is the second dream where a child was being killed and I was merely watching but unable to interact. In the first dream, it was the clowns killing kids dream... I managed to change that into a movie, telling myself it was fake and pulling myself out of it (I'm a lucid dreamer and while I can't always do that, I do have the ability t either change the dream or understand it's a dream and separate from it somehow).

I know you're not on my flist, but I just posted last night about some things that have made me feel invisible and insignificant.... I have a feeling that's what this meant. I was invisible and couldn't help anyone.

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that's such a helpless feeling - if there's something causing that, I hope you can find a way to work it out. <3

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Thank you. I'm working through it.

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Oh, those are the worst. *hughughug*

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*hugs*

Your unconscious is simultaneously horrifying and amazing. In a way, I envy its creativity, as mine doesn't usually produce anything near as interesting.

I have to rely on converted Mary Sue daydreams for my stories. My unconscious is lazy and makes my conscious brain do a lot of the work. :P

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My subconscious is horrifying at times, my nightmares can rival the most gory of horror movies. But I wouldn't trade it for being normal either because I wake up amazed at times at what my brain thought up. I have written several stories that people have loved, all thanks to the crazy nightmares of mine.

What I find most interesting is that yes, this totally fits the topic now that I see it clearly. My brain always manages to do that as well, somehow come up with creepy stories that fit the topic while also showing stuff I'm dealing with at the time. If my other ideas fail, I may end up trying to write this one :P

I've never even told you about the dream I had once where a group of people were sent on a mission to find a bubble wand that when blown into it, turns everything into liquid. My group is sent from a black and white world into a cartoonish colored world where there's an angel statue holding a bubble wand. It blows into it and the scene before it turns into a waterfall of rainbow color as it liquefies. I still see it in my head and it was absolutely beautiful the way the colors all worked together.

That's my brain not on drugs, I swear.

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do you know what color(s) you're going to get? I can usually only narrow it down to 2 or 3 and then let my husband choose the final one.

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am still kind of like, "Top 25? GODDAM."

I thought for sure that I would have either byed or been voted out by now.

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*hugs* It feels kind of unreal to me too.

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Me too (about myself, not you)! *fist bump*

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Being Top 25 feels unreal for me as well. I'm all "O_o, you want me here?"

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Yay no new topic yet!!! :D

Ooo, nice! What color are you going to get? What are you painting? Are you doing it plain or using an effect? I always liked the tissue paper one best but sponge painting is nice too and there's definitely something to be said for the traditional look. :)

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LOL I know - I am also terrified that he's going to randomly put up like 5 more topics before the deadline.

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