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I'm almost afraid to say it, for fear of jinxing it, but I realized that it's been a couple of months now since anything strange has happened. I almost don't know what to do with normal anymore.

I am seriously suprised this is a thing right now.
Split California into six states

I can't believe people are still going on about how California is too big and should be split up into smaller states. Doing that would not solve the problems listed and just seems silly in the end. We have much larger issues to deal with and I could never see this going through Congress.

I GOT IT, TOO.

My legal license, I mean. Now I need an office.

I start on a new film project next week and it's looking like it's going to be super busy. But I must be doing something right since they want to increase my team. So if anybody has costume or make up experience please let me know and we can set something up to go through your portfolio.

Peeta, would you be interested? We could work it around your school hours.

I would have thought that running my own business would leave me with less time to do things, but I've actually got a surprising amount of free time still. Enough to feel like I'm not neglecting Loras or anyone else. I was worried I wouldn't have the time to continue to teach Myrcella to drive, but we've run into very few snags there.

Today We're signing a deal with a new production that starts filming next month so suffice to say, things are going well.

Now, I don't mind keeping things neat, but the fact is I already do a good job of that. Why this phantom organizer felt it was necessary to come to my aid is beyond me.

Furthermore, everything may be nicely folded, but nothing is in the proper drawer. It makes no sense to fold pants. They are meant to be hung.

Just my opinion. But it's true.

I love the looks I get when I participate in a Fourth celebration at the gym. The British girl with red white and blue on, we had a little party at the gym and did some things for local veterans, but the looks - you'd think by now that the idea of someone not from here celebrating the Fourth wouldn't be so weird.

I understand the history between our countries but that was hundreds of years ago. Pretty sure we're on decent terms now. I guess the accent throws people.

Still, was funny.

Anyone know of any good massage places in town?

All right, I'm curious about these Dreams. So many people have mentioned them... how do you know when you've had one? What are they like? And people say things COME FROM them? How does that work??

I'm sorry if these questions have all been asked before.

It's been pretty quiet around here lately. Although I do hear a lot of noise coming from where Obi-Wan's workshop is, which is great. I am trying to resist the urge to get yet another animal to add to the pack we have going - Anakin keeps giving me dirty looks when I snuggle with Artoo and let out that sigh of "I want another pet".

However, I did get to go find out the sex of the babies. We're going to be having one of each! Just like in my dreams, which is kind of freaking me out a little I'm super excited about that and I'm going to wait until the weekend to go looking around for some clothing ideas and maybe put together a baby registry at a few places. My mother has been hounding me to do it.

I hope this isn't as strange a question as it seems to me, but. Have any of you ever dreamed about being romantically involved with someone, and then had them suddenly be here? And also maybe wanted to be romantically involved in real life? How do you know if it's just the influence from the dreams or if you genuinely have these feelings?

I'm feeling a bit lost right now thinking about it.

I really enjoy taking the dogs with me on my runs in the morning. They have fun playing in the sand and get their exercise at the same time. Considering how rambunctious they usually are, they're pretty well behaved when I take them out even without leashes. I know that I probably should have them on leashes, but it'd be hard to run and hold leashes at the same time.

Check, check... Luxurious beard still in position. All is well.

Wow, I almost forgot that today is my birthday. So much has changed from this time last year. This also means that I've had my crown for a year. Yup, I got it on my birthday last year. Still strange to think that I have a crown, but also kind of cool actually. Might have to go take it out and put it on for a bit. It'll be quite silly, but it's not as if I'm gonna go out on the beach with it on.

There's a Renaissance Faire in Irwindale until the middle of May. Loras and I had talked about going last year, but never had the chance. I'm thinking about making the time this year. Not only would it be interesting considering my dreams, but I could also talk to the performers, do some networking.

Hello there, Valarnet. It's been a while. Just checking in.

Did anyone perhaps leave a costume hat in my apartment? I had the most interestingly vivid dreams last night - I dreamt that I was, I think, one of my ancestors. I was Courfeyrac - and had dropped the 'de', as my father did, due to strong Republican ideals. Not like ... American Republican. I mean, like, living twenty years after Napoleon's defeat Republican. French Republican.

I was a student, living in Paris, though I didn't seem to study much. In my dreams I mostly hung around with my friends at this cafe, the Musain. Flirted with the pretty boys and girls. But in the dreams, I was wearing a marvelous hat, and when I awoke ... there it was.

I swear to god, if one more person calls me the Easter Bunny this week for delivering their Easter crap, I'm going to do something drastic.

It's a little strange to be back, but good at the same time. I missed it out here, so I decided that if I'm going to start my own business, then I was going to do it out here. After all, what better place for a stunt business than near Hollywood? For anyone who is wondering, we're going to be called Storms End Stunts and we're looking for any stunt performers, trainers, anyone who is trained in sword fighting, weapons and hand to hand.

If you're interested, contact me, Renly Baratheon and we can set up a meeting.

I am so happy that the holidays are nearly over. But I will say that I think my Christmas Photos With Santa promotion at the clinic went over quite well. A lot of people came out and it was a lot of fun. Animals with Santa are hilarious - I found this LINK on buzzfeed with dog/Santa photos that made me cry with laughter.

I was also thankful enough to have my family come out to visit me. I'm sure they were pleased that it was slightly warmer here than Salem despite there being some snow still on the ground. And I think Marian did a great job of not being completely intimidated by them.

But my main point of posting is the excitement over having new dreams. I received a photo of my "cat" self and 3 other people and I had no idea who they were. But, now I do! So, let's see...it's been a quite a while since I last dreamed, but I remember I was turned into a cat by the witch. My dreams picked up on the oldest sister witch declaring that there was a curse in place that the sisters would come back when a virgin lights the black-flamed candle on Halloween. My family didn't realize it was me as a cat and rejected me, so I stayed around to guard the cottage.

Fast forward 90 years to the 90's and some idiot, Max, decides he wants to impress a girl, Allison, and lights the candle! The witches came back and thus began our battle with the witches. We went to a graveyard where a zombie rose out of the dirt to come after us, we went to a party to enlist the help of the kids' parents, but the witches put a spell on them, and finally we managed to lure them into the high school. We locked them in a kiln and burned them alive. Did I mention I can speak to these kids? They've taken quite a liking to me, especially Dani (Max's younger sister), and we all head back to their house in victory. She said she was going to make me a fat house cat. Goodie.

I don't think this is the end of the dreams though. It seems too good to be true to have defeated the witches this easily. But we shall see.

I don't know what to think after the dream I just woke up from. In a way it makes sense, but at the same time it's extremely disturbing and if it's true in the waking world....how could Robert not realize? How did none of us realize it?

Unfortunately, I will not be able to do any construction work today...and possibly for a few days longer. Weeks? I hope not very long at all, but there's no predicting how long my current circumstances will last. There too much of I risk I will injure myself in this state.

I regret wishing for a little more wisdom.

Holy stars, I'm going to be married in five days! Which means, yes, Evergrace will be closed until after New Years, while Harry and I are honeymooning and/or saving Christmas from Unseelie Grinches. Knowing how the universe and Orange County tend to work, it may well be the latter, and I don't even care. I'm so ready.

How the hell do you guys deal with not having snow? It’s December and I’m not falling on my ass every six feet. Hell, I’m still in a t-shirt and one pair of pants. I CAN FEEL MY NOSE. What is this? Where did winter go? Who’d you piss off to end up without a whole season? HOW DO YOU MANAGE CHRISTMAS WHEN THERE ISN’T ANY SNOW? Man, California. There’s something wrong with you.

This is witchcraft. Summer's gonna kill me, isn't it?

That's how that works, right?

You guys skip out on winter so summer's just gonna be a bajillion degrees in the shade and we're all gonna melt and it'll be awful.

Man.

I never thought I'd say this, but I think I might miss Winnipeg, and who misses Winnipeg? Nobody who's been there, that's for damn sure.

I can't even recall the last time I had a dream, but last night I dreamt about Brienne joining my Rainbow Guard. Loras was not too pleased with that. Then I met Catelyn Stark. She came to me to deliver a message from her son, who had also claimed the crown. She also admonished me for treating the war more like a game. I gave her a tour of my camp then had Brienne show her to a tent. It's interesting, because I've known Cat Stark for many years since even in the waking world Robert is friends with Ned Stark. Perhaps I should pay a visit to the Starks soon. After all, Myrcella is staying with them at the moment.

I can't quite believe that, not only is Christmas almost here, but I've been back here for a whole year now. How is it possible that an entire year has gone by? In a few months I'll be getting married. It's all so surreal.

Well, heavy-duty industrial equipment can chop lightsabers in half, that's good to know. Maybe not worth the likely impending lecture from Obi-wan about 'this weapon is your life' though. Then again he got himself captured so he doesn't have room to talk.

And next time, no matter how insistent Padme is, we'll go with my strategy. Getting captured isn't my idea of a successful mission.

They apparently make nail polish especially for dogs.

I think Charlie needs to be a pretty princess. Or maybe red and green for the holidays?

Planning weddings is hard. I mean half of this stuff, I just don't care about. But it has to be done. Why are there like a million shades of white? When did that become a thing?

Is it thanksgiving yet? I just want to stuff my face full of food and then sleep for the rest of the day.

Oh.
My.
God.

I am getting married tomorrow. We are in Tahoe right now and it's beautiful around here. Everything is coming together and I think we'll be able to pull this off without a hitch. I cannot wait to be Mrs Rebekah Salvatore. I don't think I'm going to be able to sleep at all - too many butterflies in my stomach.

I am going to go get shambolically drunk. Who wishes to join me and keep me from ending up in Miss Skeeter's column?

Hoorah, I have a week off of shooting. Apparently, I have been struck with the truth problem going around. In the middle of filming, I started wondering aloud what we were having for lunch, which made the three girls with me start laughing and ... we couldn't use the take, so we started over, and I talked about sandwiches. I am going to lose my reputation at this rate, so I said I was feeling ill.

I'm gonna be that person for a moment. I'm quite happy that my house is now mine and Loras' house. He officially moved in about two weeks ago or so and I can't he happier right now. Knowing that he's going to be here every night instead of mainly on the weekends and being able to fall asleep next to him and wake up next to him every day is so much nicer. And we've also made some more progress in our wedding planning. Every now and then I still can't believe this is real and I have to pinch myself.

I've decided to stay in tonight. Perhaps that makes me some sort of Halloween-loathing old man, but the truth is I've never enjoyed. Never enjoyed the fireworks, never enjoyed the ridiculous dignity-destroying costumes, never enjoyed children rapping my door at night. The fireworks are particularly loathsome, a series of bright lights that makes idiot stand and gawp like chimps.

I still can't get over the books and maps that came along with my tent. Histories of Westeros and histories of my family in the dreams and so much more. Then the maps are so detailed and the fact that they're hand drawn is just fascinating. Has anyone else gotten books from their dreams?

[Those who don't want to be punctured in any way can ignore this.]

I am still alive and everything is purrfect back to normal. My apologies to anyone I worried during my absence. It wasn't exactly within my means to contact anyone until now. No opposable thumbs, no ability to type.

I had a run-in with... someone with magical powers. I spent a few weeks licking my wounds, afterwards. Not to mention licking myself clean.

Cat. A cat. A witch turned me into a cat.

Still coughing up occasional hairballs...

Okay, seriously, marriage is one of the most awesome things ever. Seriously, I keep looking at my ring like I've never seen a ring before.

So much has been going on lately. I think the hardest thing has been trying to figure out how to start wedding planning. Obviously neither Loras or I have been married before, so the most we've been doing is looking at various wedding planning sites and none of them are really very helpful, so this wedding planning is harder than I'd thought it would be.

I've just booked a flight for next week back home. I need to have a discussion with my husband and some things are better left in person.

It should be noted that I have always used condoms in literally every one of my scenes at work (if you do not know what I do and you are curious, Google me). I also get tested for all STIs and STDs every three months. I have funded campaigns to make this standard practice, actually! I know there is a lot of panic right now surrounding things - I had to film a scene in Arizona, of all places, due to new legislation here.

Never let it be said that Zevran is not sensible.

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who attended our wedding and the still ongoing reception. Kitty picked out a beautiful place.

There's someone around here named Renly Baratheon, isn't there?

I know this is very odd, but I had a dream about you the other night. I mean not a dream but a Dream. With swords and fighting. Not anything untoward.

If there isn't, then just ignore me for talking rubbish.

Now for something completely different! To get our minds off of what's going on I know a few people should be interested in this.

Who wants to go to the Orange County Fest of Ales and join my team for the "Beer Run 5K" next weekend?

I did not realize that selling marital aids to old European women would be quite so exhausting! I feel it mostly in my calves and my hip flexors. I do wish I had someone to massage them for me, but alas.

I will need a show of hands: who missed me?

Any kind of last hurrah for summer things going on this weekend? I have an urge to grill and go to the beach again. Maybe we should make a big party out of it. Especially for those poor kids who are back to school or going back very soon. I will say that I'm kind of excited for school to get back into session because it makes it a lot easier to go have lunch around town when there's not a lot of tourists or families there. Thankfully only five drinks were lost in the battle this summer.

im not as think as you drunk i am

stupid intrenet

midgets

left my car somewhere its gone now

If you die in your dreams, do you think you'll die here?

And now there is a tent behind my house. Not like a tent you camp in, but one from my dreams. It's huge. There is an actual ornate, king sized bed and a large table with actual maps of Westeros and hangings and candles and it's all exactly like in my dreams. Completely authentic. I'm glad I own the part of the beach behind my house, otherwise this would be harder to explain.

Aside from the tent, I dreamt about laying claim to the Iron Throne with the assistance of Loras' father. I have this feeling that my dreams are getting close to the end.

I got up to go to the loo just now and draped over my bed was one of the banners with my sigil from the dreams. The last time I had a dream or got anything from them was in April. Funny thing is, it's slightly different from the banners at King's Landing. Instead of it being yellow with a black stag, it's green with a golden stag, almost like Loras' sigil with the green and gold. Well, now I have to figure out what I'm going to do with this. It's quite large.

I am beginning to believe I cannot escape the Stark last name no matter where I go.

I never was one to really talk to a lot of people, but one thing the Valarnet has helped do is to pull me out of that and make me sit up and take notice of things. Well, the net and Portia. But mostly the net, really, with it's crazy stories and interesting people. Portia is just awesome because she's Portia.

I like this place.