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I sort of wish I could conveniently lose my passport and move to Paris. Paris at sunrise It's an odd feeling though, feeling like I belong here when I've never been before.

So a random news article has pointed out that the green gummy bear is not the flavor we all thought it was.

Green apple? No.

Lime? Afraid not.

The green gummy bear is in fact strawberry flavored. Really Haribo?

My whole childhood was a lie

Holy shit I'm married. I'm married. I'm in Gascony and am married.

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As most of our close friends know D'Artagnan and I were married in Paris on Saturday and it all went perfectly. Thankfully he was happily surprised.

We're currently in the town where D'Artagnan was born in the dreams and staying in a lovely quaint little place.

As my first act as adoring husband I have decided to share this picture with you all.

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Has anyone successfully been able to keep the dreams separate from their real life?

I thought I could, but thanks to the dreams writing no longer feels... right. Looks like I am taking a break for the time being.

I am useless when people are in bitchy moods. Like, completely. I just make them worse.

So instead I'm just going to link to this video of Ari cuddling with my coworker.

Cuz I dunno. When in doubt, cute cats. Right, internet?

Whilst watching Bridezillas, I have to wonder if these women have simply Hulked out and are absolutely unlike how they are normally, or if the men they've found are simply mental.

Am I so odd for wanting to get married in my garden and then have some people over for food? I don't want anything huge and stressful. That sounds like the opposite of fun.

Today was completely crazy. And I can't remember ever feeling this overwhelmed with any feeling in my life.

Our baby was born. On Sharon's behalf, I want to say that we're beyond happy to finally meet our little girl. Viviana Margaret Carter - du Vallon. She was born at 6:22pm, and she's 19.2 inches and 6.8 pounds, and she's perfect.

I've never felt so in love in my life.

And Sharon's doing well. And thank you to everyone that was there through it all. I'm so glad to know she's already so loved by everyone.

I finally did it. I couldn't take the empty apartment anymore and adopted a dog. He's the absolute sweetest animal I've ever met and I adore him already. His name is Gear and like a true mommy I leave you with a picture of our first outing at the park!

( Gear )

I can't seem to shake this crappy mood so

I have to admit the black lightning is kinda pretty. Bit mesmerizing to watch. I probably should be more worried, but it's Orange County we've seen weirder. Honestly by now how is that not on a t-shirt somewhere or welcome sign?

[Rose]
Sorry I sort of fell off the planet after texting you last time. Doing okay?

I had a very relaxing weekend, away from the noise and excitement of fireworks and barbecues. It was a nice reprieve.

Dreamwise, it's all coming to a head soon, I can feel it. The majority of the French court seems to be eating out of the palm of my hand and I've managed to get the king's twin out of the Bastille. He wants to love me like a father, which is something my dream self seems very affected by. I realize now it's not just the future of France I'm in control of, but also this young man's.

Given the great news that was provided to us by the Supreme Court, I feel like tonight is the night to celebrate with a few drinks!

Anyone want to go out tonight? Let's all celebrate the good news!!!

These formal fencing classes are a little tougher than I thought they'd be. I figured with all the sword fighting in the dreams I'd have a heads up, I have ideas but no real training to back them up so it doesn't always work out. It's a challenge but I enjoy them. It's really a lot of fun even if I do get used as the demonstration guinea pig often.

[filtered to Rose]
So, how about meeting me for ice cream or something?

Ok, social media, my doctor said I needed to "get out more" and "meet people", so I'm going to give you a try. I mean, this is considered meeting people, right? Shit, it has the word "social" right in the name.

So, ye-ah. My names David, though no one has called me that since high school and I'll thank you now to not call me David if you can help it. Washington works...or Wash if you want, that's fine too.

Up until recently I was a marine. Not that you ever stop being a marine. But it is sort of funny how a medical discharge can suddenly change everything.

God, I'm terrible at this.

Anyway, yeah, just moved to the area and am adjusting to civilian life. Its not been...as easy...as I would have thought. It hasn't been bad, really, just-

-wait, did someone mention an attack by a giant arachnid? As in spider? Seriously?!

Hello everyone! I'm Asato Tsuzuki. I heard about this website a couple of weeks ago and just knew I absolutely had to join! It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to verify my account. I should have asked Hisoka. What a great way to meet new friends! I work at [greenhouse] Where I get to garden all day, so it's more or less the best job ever. And I like apple pie, cupcakes, and cake!

Did anyone else see that huge spider the other day?? How scary. I hope there's not more of them hiding out in the ocean.

I'm very tired this weekend. I haven't been sleeping well, though, so I suppose that's it. Thank God the nursery is done and the basement will be done ... Soon.

When I do manage to sleep, I dream, and my dreams just make me anxious. Things have hit a snag, in the plot to swap kings. When putting in place such an intricate plan of treason, snags induce near heart attacks. And I still can't shake the ever constant presence of D'Artagnan, and now Athos, too. It's honestly as if you two have very little better to do with your time in Paris than make my life more difficult.

Someone drank all the Red Bull in my fridge right before finals started. Totally not fair. I was cutting back! Like I said I would! Now I'm all shivery and sweaty. Gross.

These dreams are like a damn roller coaster. I'm disappointed they ended first, but then relieved they stopped a while. Now glad they're back it seems, but annoyed at their trend of injuring or kidnapping of my friends in them.

First of all, I'm so, so happy that FIFA's finally getting investigated. It's been a long time coming.

Second, FC Barcelona is playing the Champions League final match this coming Saturday. Should anyone be interested in watching, my home is open. There will be drinks and food, and ball drop is at 11:45am. Also, I suppose even if you cheer for Juventus, you can still come.

ETA: Apparently Porthos is jealous of football, so I would like to add that, yes, I am happy to be married and I am just waiting now to officially have my name changed to du Vallon.

When you get to have your cake and eat it too. Like I got a girlfriend but I can still fool around with other people. The best things in life.

I've heard the most interesting stories about this network.

I suppose we're meant to introduce ourselves.

Adam Pierson. Scholar, collector, professor of religious studies. Now, what about all of you?

Anyone want to come help clean up a bit at the Cafe? I may have had a couple ... well I'll call them things because I don't even know visit last night and they trashed the place a bit while I was kicking their ass six ways to sunday. No stupid OC fuckery gets to fuck with the Cafe.

No major damage just... some broken chairs and a mess. Ugh

Headed out to DC today to get everything ready for the wedding. I could not be more excited, or more nervous. But mostly very very excited.

The hardest part (so far) was dropping Moose and Bazin off at the boarding house. There may have been a few tears shed, since this is the first time I've been away from the little darlings for any length of time. Had to make sure that Bazin slept in the same place as Moose, or the poor pup would get worried and try to go look for him. Or start crying and keep everyone up all night.


Anyway! I'll be available (in limited capacities) by phone, but otherwise very very busy with very very important wedding things for the forseeable future. Wish us luck!

Well, I've become the Superior General of the Jesuits in my dreams. That effectively makes me one of the most powerful men and Europe, which is good, because I'm playing a dangerous game. Still, dream Aramis is clever, clever, clever. At every corner, though, is D'Artagnan. He doesn't quite know what's going on, but he knows well enough that it's something, and I'll be damned if he isn't just causing me inconveniences to stall me until the end game appears. There's no enemy greater than a good friend.

In more pressing and relevant news, I'm getting married in nine days. I think I'm going to be sick. I can't believe how quickly time has gone. It seems ridiculous now to ever not be with Porthos, in any aspect. In every set of dreams I've had, he's had a vital role. I still find the idea of marriage both wonderful and terrifying.

We're flying out to DC tomorrow, to spend the next week making sure everything is ready and in order. I'm excited to see my family. I haven't seen them since Christmas, which I know hasn't been very long, but to me it feels like eternity. I hope you all won't get into too much trouble while we're gon.

I just realized I ate a plate of cookies for dinner. Didn't bother looking at the time, but can anyone really blame me? I found these at the pastry shop near work and cookie brownie things are my weakness.

No regrets.

Six horses sold this month. Two more leased out to students. Four shows attended. My girls brought back blues and reds, and one grand champion. I brought my own ribbons and silver platters back. Four open stalls to get booked for boarding, two new adult clients.

Show barns are always a busy, busy place. I'd be confused if it wasn't so busy, though.

Oh yay more Dreams. I've made it through all the proceedings of the Games and up to the start of the next Hunger Games.

I must say that meeting all these past Victors doesn't make this an easy Game to go into. Everyone is pretty much amazing, so the idea of having to kill anyone is terrible. And I think everyone agrees with that because we managed to piss off the Capitol by holding hands and showing solidarity against something we think is truly horrible. And, I announced that Katniss and I had a secret wedding and that she is pregnant. Seriously, Dream!Me, Seriously?

I do have to say the best part of the Dreams was going in for my evaluation with the Gamemakers and flipping a giant middle finger to them by painting a beautiful picture of a girl named Rue that lost her life in the last Hunger Games.

Oh, and I also received some of the paintings of the last Games that I had been doing in the Dreams. I'm tempted to burn them, but they're really quite interesting. I'm not sure what I will end up doing with them.

[Johanna]
Oh heyyyy, finally saw what you texted me about. You've got some balls, girl.

Anyone want to punch their Dream-selves in the face and stop them from following their terrible ideas?

I know that terrible things happened, but the idea of dropping out of school and running away to Russia to fulfill a promise is incredibly bad. This girl is not even fully trained to be running around on her own, even if she is a badass, but she's totally gonna get herself killed. I totally get why she's doing it, but ugh. She needs a good shake or something and I'm not really going to enjoy how this plays out.

Paris was so much fun that I almost didn't want to get back on the plane. But now that I'm home, I think it's good to be back. Vacations are wonderful, but I missed everyone. And I think there's something to be said for getting back to some kind of daily routine.

I have so many presents from France to people! It's going to take me all night to sort through everything. I think I'm glad I mailed some of this back home so I didn't have to worry about taking it on the plane with me.

How is everyone? I heard I missed some Orange County strangeness?

I have been in America for a couple of weeks now and my father has told me to get my arse in gear no less than 30 times. I realized that I haven't really missed that.

Hi, I am Eggsy. I apparently need to find a job and figure out where to go to college. Anyone know of a school with a good gymnastics program? Might as well get back into it since I am away from the prat back home.

Also I need to know where the best pint is ASAP.

Ugh, I miss my ink so much. No offense, Girl Whose Body I'm Borrowing, but I have some really sentimental shit on me, you know? Just... weird to look at my hands and not see anything.

You know what tastes really good after feeling under the weather for a few days? Soup and bagels. That's on the menu today, and don't worry, I got checked out and I'm healthy, just had a cold for a day or two. Totally skipped working.

Kitty
I'm still grateful for the other night, by the by

Came home to Grim eating my head phones. There was dog food in his bowl. What the actual hell.

Say something happens in a dream, an injury or something at that sort... they've been known to cross over, right? Like the random items? At least, I remember reading about it on here.

It's been a few hours and

Ah, home sweet home. At least almost. One short layaway and then I'll be back in my own bed! Nothing like snuggling with your own pillow, let me tell you! But then I'll be off again, only one day back home. Still, I think a vacation up north will be brilliant! Watch out San Francisco, here I come!

On my dream note, I'm scared I'm falling more and more into this time and space travel. It makes me wish it was possible here. The adventures and even the dangers I'm slowly becoming use to. And the Doctor...well, I feel like I'm starting to fall for him too. He's like no one I've ever met before, a mixture of brilliance and sadness. And I never want to leave his side.

I can only hope that never happens.

Okay, for the dreamers out there. Ever wake up.. hurt?

So I got my very first dream present, but I don't find it that impressive. At least not without the vehicle! For anyone that travels with the Doctor, I got my TARDIS key!

Any sightings of a big blue Police Box?

I'm not sure if I'm embarrassed or not that this show, Pretty Little Liars is the first show I've sat down and watched an entire season of without losing my mind with boredom. But now I actually hate A and I don't even know who she is yet. I've made lists of suspects. Lists. help.


[Filtered to Rose, John Smith, and Athos]
So, Rose mentioned wanting a dinner at some point? Discuss?

I AM SO ANNOYED

I MADE A TUMBLR

IT JUST KEEPS FORCING ME TO SEE THESE TIPS

"YOU HAVE A BLOG" I KNOW I JUST MADE IT

"REBLOG THINGS" NO THAT IS NOT RAD, TUMBLR.

oh my god, sorry I really needed that off my chest.

I am so happy that Drag Race is back. I have plenty of guilty pleasures in life but that show takes the cake.

So as you all know D'Artagnan and I are engaged and we'd like to invite our friends to our engagement party.

It's going to be a casual thing at our home, BBQ, pool, that kind of thing.

March 14th so let me know if you're coming just so I can get an idea of numbers. If you want to bring food please feel free though there will be plenty.

I've noticed one trend in these 'dreams', though lately they seem to have left me be but it's been on my mind. Why don't I get a hat? Athos, Aramis and Porthos all have these fancy hats.

Sucks that I had a broken hand and nose for like, a few days. But yay for being healed! Going through midterms when there are bombs going off is killer. No, sir. I don't like it.

Looking forward to the end of the school year. I have so much work to do to make sure I keep my grades up. That being said, I'm having the world's largest Mocha Frappe ever made with my lunch. I might not sleep for three days, but it's worth it.

Turning thirty was a great success. Thank you to everyone who showed up, it was every bit the classy engagement I'd hoped for. I am tremendously hungover and wish there was an IV drip of coffee.

Ah well. Back to bed soon, I think, then I've been promised a pancake feast. It's a shame Lent starts tomorrow. I've decided to have a more traditional practice of it this year, and I got so many cake and pastry molds that will have to wait for April. Unless I break them in tonight.

So much going on this week! I can't remember the last time I've been this busy. Tomorrow is Valentine's day, and then we have Aramis's birthday party on Monday. I think I've got all the arrangements for that down, it should be a blast.

And beyond that, there's a new addition to our little family, which we've mentioned to a few people. But I wanted to introduce him to the group at large.



This is Mousqueton, who I'm calling Moose because that's a little easier to pronounce. He's an absolute sweetheart, and he gets along perfectly with the kitten. He likes to curl around Bazin when he sleeps, to keep him safe I think. Melts my heart.

So with all the traveling I've been doing for work, I need some new music suggestions! I've only filled up about half of my space with music so I'm taking suggestions to download! I like all sorts of music, open to anything really! Music helps those long waits at the terminals between flights!

( Private to Will )

( Private to D'Art )

Things that happen when I'm left alone in the office for the day. Sometimes the internet is a fantastic distraction. The pizza puns. I haven't laughed at anything like this in a while. Occasionally the internet is great and this is one of these times.

I think I'm going to have to start refreshing my European history because of these dreams. I have a decent knowledge of important things, in passing, but dreaming about all these historical figures and being involved in all of these pivotal moments really makes me realize how much I don't know. And, truthfully, it could be interesting to see what varies from my dreams and what actually happened. Though, can you believe it, Athos and I got knighted by King Charles I and then we got taken prisoner by Cromwell - and, of course, who should be agents of Cromwell but D'Artagnan and Porthos. Naturally we're all rather sick of England and are devising a way to save the poor king (a lost cause, I know, but our dream selves are so optimistic) so we can return to France.

And it's a good thing that my last dreams saw fit to give me this locked ebony box. My dream self has a habit of receiving very nice gifts and I like having a proper place to put them. This diamond cross looks quite nice next to the cross from Queen Anne.

Back from my first flight! Very successful, no needing to jump into the pilot's seat or anything! Some turbulence here and there, but nothing terrible! Let me tell you though, it was a long weekend! Hopping between aircraft and then staying in a new hotel every night...it was something! But I think I'll enjoy it.

Seems like I've been missing a lot here, but not in a good way. To all my law enforcement friends, please be careful out there! There's got to be something in the water, yeah? I don't feel safe going outside anymore...it feels like the snow, but in a completely different way!

( Private to Clara )

( Private to Gwen )

So D'Artagnan recently surprised me with a New Year gift, which happened to be a chocolate Labrador rescue puppy. We're still working on a name for him. But I wanted to thank D'Artagnan and let everybody see him.


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