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If I were the boozing to deal type, I would be all up in the bar scene right now. Dreams, why do they suck so bad? The title of my memoir.

Anyone know a good place to get something bronzed?

I have found one thing I dislike greatly about America.

The sheer amount of paperwork.

My dreams have felt like a bunch of running back and forth trying to figure out puzzles in order to get anywhere in the Raccoon Police Department. It's strange, to say the least, but it's not been without incident. There's a lot of zombies, some of them mutated by the virus. Then I saw this little girl in the precinct. I'd started chasing after her, but I have no idea how in the hell she's managed to survive thus far. I guess I'll find out eventually.

I read this article about a robot that actually learns from its mistakes.

On one hand it's really awesome. On the other...well. Let's just be glad it's not named Skynet.

Feeling so much better. Apparently the megaflu has worn off. I'm glad to be back on my feet. Apparently I lost four pounds, too.

I did not expect vampires to explode when you stake them.

Disgusting.

I do have to say that it's interesting how the vampire world basically runs things their own way. The penalty for killing a "higher life form" is death or you can end up like fucking Bill Compton and have to make new progeny. This is going to be fucking hilarious.

Five jailed for stealing £20,000 worth of Jammie Dodgers

There are no words.

Note to self, do not spend your day off taking a nap that was originally supposed to be one hour and turned into five 'cause dreams are bad. Ever been choked by a dismembered hand before? Less fun. Rocket launchers though? So fun. How come that didn't pop out of my dream? Think a rocket launcher would like amazing next to my ridic shoe collection, just saying.

Among other things, we're going to be getting some new stationary bikes at the gym I work at and I'm unreasonably excited about this. New equipment always gets me excited, though. We must be doing pretty well financially. I guess we have to update some things, though, to keep up with all of the other gyms in the OC. If there's one thing Orange County isn't short on it's gyms.

I knew it. I knew I was going to have another Dream. Holy...crap.

[Filtered to Teen Wolf]
OMG. OMG. OMG.

Scott. Allison. Derek. You were all in my Dream. And I don't think it's just because I talked to you all last night. Danny too OMG.

Soctt?

Super excited about the Grand Opening of Baxter Bakery's second location tomorrow! Hope to see you all there!

Uh, so... blood rain is kinda on the apocalyptic side. I haven't had any prophetic-y type dreams though, so... Any bright ideas as to what's going on? Either way, I'm gonna go hunt a beastie. Weird news reports are my scene 'n all.

Something is up with this fog, and I don't mean just that it's here screwing up the county.  I'm like... normal again, which would make me happy if I weren't trying to... y'know. Survive. It feels like, I don't know... Like something else is out there, too.

Anyone else feeling it?

mi think i hadd too muhc to drink bvut they were so good eand i don't really care rhgit now.

Future Industries is doing a holiday event at our race track. We'll have some of our latest technology on display, an airship tour, and free rides around the track in a genuine race car.

We're also accepting donations of toys and jackets for underprivileged kids. It'll run from Monday until New Years Eve.

Yay, Thanksgiving is over and I'm stuffed. Do I get to grumble about what I'm not thankful for now? I seriously can't with these dreams right now.

It is way beyond time that I invested in a super durable punching bag. And cookies. And ice cream. And possibly some extra Kleenex.

I guess after I'm done boggling about the entire mess of dreamland, I can actually appreciate learning more of what actually went on during the monster war that took place a thousand years before current dream events. Ever since I started dreaming I kept writing down everything I could remember - history, legends, spells, charts and whatever else - and I've got several notebooks filled. In case there's ever a need to look back for reference.

Anyway, things got to the 'OH SHIT' point to where casting the Giga Slave was the last option. Except I got blown up before I finished, the team and I got separated, and when we re-grouped we found a graveyard of extinct dragons (also part of the reason why this entire goddamn mess even started), and discovered the last Dark Star weapon. Cue a present-time dragon massacre, I got the weapon out of its barrier then proceeded to get the weapon stolen from me, and I woke up with a pounding headache.

My involvement in all this can be attributed to my sister, the first human approached to deal with this mess, declined, and dumped the responsibility on me. In both worlds you're an asshole, sis.

ON AN UNRELATED NOTE, The Reeces Peanutbutter Cup Burger. I...don't know if I'd eat that. Drunk? Maybe. Sober? Uhhh. Depends how hungry I am. I mean, I've had bacon chocolate chip cookies before, that was some good stuff. But actual beef stuffed with peanutbutter and chocolate? Errr.

Nice to know that regardless of where you are, blokes will still decide it's perfectly acceptable to harass you on the street by leaning down towards your chest, shaking their head and growling. Really. Just how I wanted to end my day.

I've faced super villains and giant spiders and ancient gods but I don't want to go to the dentist.

My daughter has decided to be Wednesday Addams for Halloween. We're going to a Halloween party at her school Friday night then trick or treating Saturday afternoon and she's staying at my parent's after that so I can go do whatever I want after and don't have to try and find a babysitter. Cause really, what teenager doesn't already have plans for Halloween and would rather babysit? None and my parents never pass up a chance to spend time with Lian.

Less than a week away from Halloween and I still have no idea what I want to be. Ideas?

Yknow, when life is giving you enough lemons that it gives you perma-bitter beer face (my references are incidentally becoming '90s dated, thanks dreams!), the solution, Dream PtBs, is not to send me dreams of what Billy Idol might be like as a vampire. Got caught humming Mony Mony at work, which is possibly even worse. I haven't decided yet.

But yeah. Instead of sitting here and typing about how sucky things enjoy being in Buffyworld, I'm gonna... listen to a cheerleader and spank my inner moppet. ...in a... non kinky way... and say: here endeth the sulking, followed by a TBT (aka less dated reference) to a once happypish Buffy who didn't know what was in store for her when she first joined this network.

Tell me something fun you're gonna do for Halloween. Calling a moratorium on any and all pessimistic replies.

My birthday is less than a month away!!

[Private to all of Anna's friends/family]
Sooooooo to celebrate my birthday, I'm planning on a Disneyland Weekend. I want all my friends to join me in Disneyland (well, California Adventure, really) for lunch at Ariel's Grotto. Then we can party all day until World of Color, and close the park!

NOVEMBER 21! Put it in your calendar!

Freedom is sometimes in the last place you'd expect to find it.

Believe it or not, I have never seen any of the Saw movies. Eleven years after the first one came out and I'm watching it for the first time now. Ya know, this would never happen to the Dread Pirate Roberts.

Nothing beats homemade pancakes.

( Pancakes )

My Dreams are so weird. So weird. I can't even ... I was buried under a bunch of rubble during a battle, and managed to use explosive arrowheads to blow some debris out of the way, and then dig my way out the rest of the way. With Eli. That's confusing. I hate being a teenager again. It's.. hormonal and disgusting.

The rest was just playing at the Avengers Mansion. Thor's a lot hotter in person, by the way.

It's that fun time of year where Lian starts thinking about what she wants to be for Halloween. She also keeps asking when we can carve pumpkins. She knows we do it closer to Halloween, but she just gets so excited about it and I love that about her. I never want her to not want to do holiday stuff. I get worried sometimes that as she gets older she won't want to hang around with me anymore, but luckily I should still have a few more years before that happens.

I should have started a pool on how long I would last in the dream prison, because it wasn't very long. Leave it to my friends to plan an explosion as a distraction during a funeral to help me escape. And my taste of freedom takes me away to West Virgina of all places, really?, whatever. The interesting part of going to West Virgina is meeting this group of people called The Keepers who are humans, Moroi, and dhampirs all interacting together and living "in sin" according to our world.

Oh and we changed another evil vampire back into a normal one. This place is all kinds of weird.

In normal news, Tom and I are all moved into our house now. I'm going to start planning a house warming party - how does a beach party and bonfire sound?

This song gives me an instant headache and it just came out.

Also it sounds like a Katy Perry song but that's not really the point.

Things you shouldn't do while out of town on a less than fun work trip: break your phone. Also? Forget your laptop. Can't decide which is the worst offense. So, hey, hi, howdy? Back in action with a shiny new phone. And I mean new. Like, the kind of new that makes me feel kind of old. Not cool, 'cause I'm so not even close to that. Anyway! I'd say it's good to be back, but I had a dream right away, so, y'know. Didn't totally miss the OC. Missed you guys though! What's the haps?

I had one of those dreams that just...I'm still shaking and I've been awake for hours.

Hey, hi, howdy! Kinda overdue 'cause I've been back for like a week or something. But, I'm back? Pretty sure I was supposed to send out like a million texts (she exaggerates completely), so I thought I'd just, y'know. Say, hey! I'm back. Sporting souvenirs, so come 'n get 'em. Or tell me when you're free so I can come give them to you (especially you, Partner at law!). Really digging the excessive distractions. For reasons.

Anyway! I've had all the bad news I can take, so gimme the good stuff. Please?

I can't keep this a secret any longer. The proper people to hear this news first have been contacted and seem....excited? I have no idea because I really don't care.

I'm excited to announce that Tom and I are getting married! Surprise!

He was incredibly nervous about the whole thing and it was adorable. We put an offer in on a house, so hopefully we will be hearing about that soon. And I don't think I'm going to start wedding planning for at least a month or two, we haven't even discussed when to get married. We're terrible at this, but whatever, we do things our own way.

Drink it up, people. There have been weirder things. When a freak storm always hit my parents broke out the vodka, so I'll be upholding that tradition. Happy Sunday. And don't do anything stupid in the next couple days, sheesh.

THE LOUVRE WAS AMAZING.

I love this. I love this trip so much! Caroline and Buffy are the best. THE BEST. Totally not thinking at all about

And after two weeks away, I come back from holiday and the dreams seem to have started up again. But definitely a good one to have, even with having been given a hint beforehand. Still, it's a bit strange having new ones after a couple months of nothing but repeats.

FILTER: Friends

Hey. Um. So... you've probably noticed I've been kind of, oh, say... unBuffylike (adjectives of choice may vary), and I kinda got stuck in the bitch-fu. Don't really want to talk about what's been going on, 'cause I've kinda had my venting and bone smash fest '15, so the worst is kinda behind me. I just... I know I haven't been myself and I'm sorry. Nobody deserves a grumpy Buffy.

..yeah.. so. There. 'Kay. Bye.

FILTER: Gale

Hey.

Thank you.

I'm so sick of these dreams, but at least I haven't woken up covered in blood lately. Dream me was kidnapped by her evil vampire "boyfriend", managed to run away, finally learned who her dad was, made it all the way back to school to help save her bestie, and then received a death threat with a bloody stake from the evil vampire "boyfriend". I am so grateful that I didn't receive either of those items when I woke up.

Oh and I found out I'm going to have to go break some asshole out of prison in an attempt to potentially turn evil "boyfriend" back to normal. WHAT IS MY LIFE. Utter shenanigans.

Does anyone want to train in some martial arts or something? I'm really looking for something to help get my mind off this stuff and packing up my apartment isn't really cutting it anymore.

I... can't fly.

All right, this is California. It's a lot like Florida. Sun. Ocean. Tourists. Just across the country.

Right, I'm Claire. From Florida, obviously, I worked at the Disney World resort there. They sent me here, to take up park operations at Disneyland, because apparently in May there was an incident that caused the former operations manager to not work there anymore. Which isn't ominous at all.

I guess I'm looking forward to it.

Yay, she lives.

Filter: Zee & Lina
Hey. So, recent extra fun dream gave me the wig again. Quick question: did anyone find bones where I slayed the Master? I dunno if you government types have a cleaner crew or something, but it's really important for reasons.

Public service announcement courtesy of dream!Buffy? Don't stay out late. Possibly carry a cross. Actually, do that. Gonna go ahead and jinx things by saying: I've got a bad feeling about this. The... this being my not-so typical dream Dream. It's so fun being me.

Did not take me long to give up on the super optimistic posts, geez. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe nightmares are just nightmares.

Filter: Friends

What's your stance on the legitimacy of prophecies?

It seems that I'm not alone in finding myself not terribly excited for Mother's day. But I do wish those out there with children a Happy Mother's day all the same.

I should also introduce myself since this is my first post to the network.


I'm Quatre Raberba Winner. I'm currently completing my sophomore year at UC Irvine, studying business. A classmate of mine gave me the information to this social site stating that it should apparently help improve my social life.

So, today's been fun. I took tomorrow morning off so I can go somewhere tonight sans Dawnie. Gonna go [ To this bar ] and have some drinkies, 'cause wow kid sister was in rare form today. Let me tell you. Except not tell you, not really looking to open that can of worms.

Anyway. Hope everyone else has a fab day. Hug your moms if you can and stuff.


(*Close friends of Buffy know her mom passed away a couple of years ago. Triggers possibly in comments about parent-death.)

In preparation for the much anticipated, my most hated, upcoming holiday, Mother's Day, I've purchased a fair quantity of wine. Since my own mother is dead, both versions, I will be spending the weekend drinking enough to forget this fucking holiday even exists. I give fair warning of possible drunk texts. I know. I know. You can't wait. :P

Working here would be the best job ever.

It's rather nice to be added to the ranks of people who have had their dream pets show up! Nana was really our nurse, back then, because all our neighbours had one though we really were too poor to afford such a luxury - but my father wanted to be like everyone else anyway, so he brought Nana the Newfoundland to us. Isn't she adorable?

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She's even got a frilly white nurse's cap, it's so sweet. She had the best knack for knowing how to treat coughs too!

I also think my dreams have ended, at least for now. I ended up with a daughter who is absolutely lovely, and she'll get to see Neverland for herself as well. It makes me think if she's out there somewhere, which is odd, because I don't have a daughter now so I'd probably never know.


( Private to Justin Taylor )

Protip: Try not to get flogged in your dreams. Because if you wake up with your back looking like raw meat, it kind of hurts.

I'm just going to show my dog, because at least she's smiling.

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If I'm awake, I'm working, rebuilding and moving my company forward. When I'm dreaming, I'm working, planning and restructuring the transportation network of a whole city. It's like I've forgotten how to have fun.