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I woke up this morning with the realization that there will be a wedding that I'm very much a part of in exactly two months to the day. I then proceeded to panic for about three seconds, then remembered that I'm Lucy Lyon-almost-Nikolaev and if my day-to-day life has taught me anything, I sure as hell can plan a wedding without a meltdown. So the panic abated, for now. I might need to come back to this in a few weeks for another pep talk.

In the meantime, though, I get to look forward to the knowledge that I get to see my dress on Saturday for the first time since I said yes to it months ago. Oh, that gives me a heavy dose of feelings.

Well, this took a hard turn to sappiness. If the me of two years ago could see me now. (She wouldn't have believed it.)

JUN

I was wondering if I could ask you a favor. It's not even relating to work, if you can believe that.

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Though he isn't officially 1 for two more days (and I will almost definitely post pictures of him and probably write something sappy that will make me cry then, too), I feel as though it would be a tragedy if this cake picture wasn't shared immediately. ( Cut for image! )

Thank you to everyone that came to celebrate Yuri's first birthday with us. He is very lucky to have so many wonderful people in his life to love him. ❤️

Hi, everyone! Another post so soon? Thanks to Naomi's brilliant idea, I'm going to put together a resource accessible to anyone dealing with the Dreams that essentially just lists who is being dreamed of and any other pertinent details you might think need to be included for others to identify that they're at least sharing dreams about the world even if they don't know the name. For example, it might look like:

Leia Organa-Solo - From Alderaan, daughter of Breha and Bail Organa
Han Solo - Made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs, from Corellia

Just leave a note here, anonymously or not, letting me know the name of who you are dreaming about and anything else you want to mention. If you want YOUR name attached to it, as well, for shared dreamers to more easily get in touch with you, let me know. Otherwise, I'll attach your Anon ID so that others can filter you anonymously!

This is totally optional, but I hope you'll consider doing it, at least anonymously!

FRIENDS & FAMILY OF LUCY & MIKHAIL

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Don't even get me started on just how many feelings this gives me.

But please come, if you're free! We'll have food, all sorts of lovely things, and we'd really just love having all of you under the roof at one time to celebrate our boy two days early. (Also don't get me started on how I can't have a party on a weekday, because I'm old and tire easily.)

( Sent to Friends and Family of Lucy Lyon & Mikhail Nikolaev )

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Baby Boy Perkins is going to be arriving in less than two months! However, just in case he gets any funny ideas and decides to turn up early, our nursery is officially ready for him.

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WHO: Lucy Lyon & Mikhail Nikolaev
WHEN: Thursday, August 1, 2019
WHERE: Their house
SUMMARY: Lucy fesses up about her particularly difficult dreams
WARNINGS: Mentions of child loss

( You don’t have to suffer her memories alone. )

BASH

I am not her, so don't you dare punish me for her actions.

MIKHAIL

Do you think you could get some time off work?

JUN

Can I ask a favor?

Time for another anon post, if you're so inclined to jump in. Your responses can, as always, be public or anonymous, whichever makes you most comfortable.

Is there anyone from your other life that you wish was here with you, that you could see and talk to in whatever capacity? Assume for the purpose of this post that your response does not come with the unintended consequence of wishing dreams/memories on another individual. This just piggybacks off of the last post when we talked about things you wish you could say to someone back there, or here.

Guess who's survived most of the summer without accidentally on purpose punching her husband? That's right, this girl.

EVAN

I want to hear all about Amsterdam, please.

I'm feeling particularly exhausted today thanks to the all too predictable government news coming out of my homeland this morning, so I wanted to do something that might serve as a pick me up for others. If you go to Java Chip today before noon, literally anything you order is on me. I just request that you do something nice for someone else today. It doesn't have to be big. Just pass on some goodness, that's all.

How's everyone's Monday going so far? Do I need to bring donuts back from DC for anyone?

ASH

I didn't dream last night, did I?

XING

So...I've got news for you that will be incredibly shocking and unexpected, I'm sure.

LUCY

What are the odds that me dating again could still garner bad press at this point? It's been long enough, hasn't it? I mean, your answer won't change anything, either way, but I'm just wondering how much extra work I'm going to need to apologize to you for.

For everyone who's received more than they bargained for with these dreams, have you only gotten bits and pieces of these "extra" things, or all of it? Sorry [...] I know this is vague.

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Hi, friends.

It's been a long while since we've done one of these and, though I no longer need the data for my sociology class, I do think they've been very productive in terms of discussion. So here's another anonymous post for you! Again, you can turn on the anon filter and no one will know who you are, or you can just respond as yourself, whether because you're not ready to reveal who you're dreaming about, or whatever the case may be.

Tonight's question is: If you could say something to someone you knew/know in your dream world that you can't say here for whatever reason, what would it be?

One of my classmates in my developmental psychology class did a series of videos for their final project where they talked to couples and people at varying stages in their life. All of the videos are great, but my personal favorite is this one, not just because my grandparents make an appearance (57 years!), but because it gave me some warm fuzzies that were most welcomingly distracting during the chaos that is the end of the semester and finals week. Because of that, and with that classmate's permission, I had to share, just in case there were other people that needed such a distraction.

And on top of that, I feel like I'd be remiss if I didn't open this up as an opportunity for some additional warm fuzzies and general sappiness to be spread around. So tell me, couples of Dunhaven. When did you know you'd fallen for your partner? Alternatively, have you heard a particularly good falling in love story from family members or something of that type? My brain can't handle anymore studying, so I want to hear some stories. Make me awww.

ANNIE

I had a dream about Catherine. She did something awful and I can't get it out of my head. I'm trying very hard to act as though it isn't bothering me and I think I'm mostly succeeding at work, but I just keep thinking about it. I don't know if I want to even talk about it, but I felt as though admitting that it's a thing is a first step.

MIKHAIL

I'm sorry if this is a daft question, but I don't want to assume. Do you have a current passport?