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MollyConnor

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In local news, my new phone came yesterday. It is the current "world's smallest smartphone" and it does 4G, a critical lack in my former "world's smallest smartphone." So far I think I'll like it - which is a really good thing because if I don't like it I have no idea how I will get the SIM card back. Even tweezers probably wouldn't help.

With a name like Posh Mobile (Micro X s240) I thought it would be a rather wimpy phone built for the masses. You know, kinda like the Great Value food brand, which is neither great nor a value. But for such a small phone it seems to run programs... er, apps... pretty well.

LOL about Great Value! We bought a 12 pack of cokes from that brand on Monday. We made burgers for the Holiday. The cokes weren't that great. They seemed to be watered down.

I looked up the phone, it's tiny!
 
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overthechill

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I have never mentioned this to anyone but it's so silly I don't even give it much thought since it's in my mind.

When I was a very small child I would get these dreams as I were made of rock not solid rock I had arms and legs I could move but it was slow and I was feeling very very heavy and dense. Recently I was lying on the floor watching a show on tv and I felt this same sensation like I was infinitely heavy and my mind wandered instantly to the dreams I had when I was small and precisely too. Very odd I don't know if anyone else gets the sensation but there is times that I dream on it again.

~Fin
I guess I'd describe it as a heavy "fullness" when I'd feel it as a child. It was a feeling like I was stuffed with cotton only I could breathe just fine and move about at will. It would typically happen at that twilight between wakefulness and sleep, but it would happen other times as well. I think I related it to a fever or a sickness but I was never sick or felt sick from it. It was not a pleasant sensation, but not altogether unpleasant either and caused me no anxiety. There was an old woman that told me different, though.

Her name was Cora who lived not far from our family. She and her husband were both nearly blind and her husband sold brushes and brooms and cleaning stuff which my mother would buy. My dad would also take vegetables and fish to their house and I often went by to listen to her tell stories. She was a Christian lady and could practically recite the whole bible but she'd also tell me stuff like if a bird was in the house when somebody got sick and then got out on its own, the sick was going to die or warn me to never rock an empty cradle or to throw salt on a fire to ward off spirits. She was actually pretty good at weather telling. One that stuck with me was "for every August fog there will be a winter snow".

She also told me that feeling I was having was a spirit's presence. That kept me up a few nights but I eventually added it to the list of other things she told me that never came true. Then too, she gave my dad a pint jar of peach preserves to thank him for the things he brought. We opened it up and laying on the top was all these bug larvae. It was extremely gross but made us all understand how good we had it because Cora and her husband couldn't even see what all they were eating, ignorance being bliss in this situation. My parents had something of a debate of whether to tell them about it, but i think decided that their good heartedness in giving us their prized peach preserves far outweighed what amounted to a little protein in their diet.
 

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Spent Friday-Monday with my father-in-law and his wife where they live now (a few hours south of here). It was a lot better than I thought it would be...considering the history with both of them, and the fact that my husband, kids, and I stayed at their house rather than a hotel. Kids got spoiled rotten, candy and clothes and toys and cartoons and staying up extra late. We all went swimming a couple times, and shopping. SHOPPING. My...step-mother-in-law...took me to some department store and sent the kids off with their dad and grandpa. Then she started grabbing stuff off racks, and when her arms were full, she handed it all to me and sent me to the dressing rooms.

So...first, I have never been one to try on clothes just for the heck of it. If for some crazy reason I ever do try something on, it's because I'm buying something specific and expensive and let's face it, that just doesn't happen. I shop for clothes online. Maybe once a year. And I buy dark colors. Plain stuff. Functional.

The clothes she had me trying on were...bright. And fancy. I mean, for HER they were way casual, but for me...fancy. Anyway, I think I tried on every shirt in the store and half the jeans before she sorted them all out into two piles- keep, and forget about. The keep pile was scary big, and I told her I could really only buy one or two things. She said "No, no, my treat, let's get a pair of shoes too...women always need shoes."

IT WAS SO AWKWARD.

And generous. And unexpected. And...kind.

I thought she didn't even like me, or was at least indifferent to me.

When we left Monday morning, my father-in-law hugged me goodbye.

Basically, the weekend ended in a lot of confusion and a new summer wardrobe that I feel weird wearing. But, you know, all in a good way.
Ah, culture shock for the win!

A friend of mine came up from Texas for a visit. She's a hugger, likes to hug people. People around here are downright friendly and they'll shake your hand in a heartbeat but we're mostly not huggers around here. Dunno why. My friend was at my church and was talking to a lady at church, and hugged her. Not attack-hug, but hugged her with no indication. The local lady froze for a minute, then hugged her back gingerly.
 
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Ah, culture shock for the win!

A friend of mine came up from Texas for a visit. She's a hugger, likes to hug people. People around here are downright friendly and they'll shake your hand in a heartbeat but we're mostly not huggers around here. Dunno why. My friend was at my church and was talking to a lady at church, and hugged her. Not attack-hug, but hugged her with no indication. The local lady froze for a minute, then hugged her back gingerly.
someone randomly tries to hug me, id prob give them the right hook. thou shall not toucheth.
 
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MollyConnor

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I was at a thrift shop this weekend while taking my grandma back home. Anyways, they had a knock off MLP coloring book. LOL I thought it was funny.

And it reminded me of PFUDOR...
 
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GAOH

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Before you criticize someone you should walk a mile in their shoes, that way when you do criticize them you are a mile away from them in their shoes.
 
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crosstweed

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The smell of baking brownies is torturing me. >.>
 
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missy2014

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Zero digging the glasses *you cool cucumber*
 
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missy2014

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To mention yester year... Which was first polly pocket or those micro Machines? Cause if polly was first then I'm happy polly pockets were so cool, grand design
 

PopClick

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I have never mentioned this to anyone but it's so silly I don't even give it much thought since it's in my mind.

When I was a very small child I would get these dreams as I were made of rock not solid rock I had arms and legs I could move but it was slow and I was feeling very very heavy and dense. Recently I was lying on the floor watching a show on tv and I felt this same sensation like I was infinitely heavy and my mind wandered instantly to the dreams I had when I was small and precisely too. Very odd I don't know if anyone else gets the sensation but there is times that I dream on it again.

~Fin
I have dreams sometimes where I can move only very slowly, like you describe. I have wondered for a long time if it has anything to do with the mechanism that paralyzes us to keep our bodies from acting out our dreams, like running in our sleep or whatever. I thought maybe sometimes we are juuuuust cognizant enough to realize that we can't move like we normally do when we are awake, and that causes the odd, "can't move" sensation within those dreams. This is just a theory though.


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In other news, did everybody else know that Bruce Willis can sing? For some reason that cracks me up. I couldn't stop laughing. Yes, the guy from Die Hard. He can sing. Why did nobody ever tell me this?

Also, I found a dubstep remix that I like better than the original song. I didn't think that would happen if I lived to be one hundred. What is going on. Seriously.
 
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Just watched The Finest Hours on dvd. Great movie!! :)

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This is a really great movie!

In other news, did everybody else know that Bruce Willis can sing? For some reason that cracks me up. I couldn't stop laughing. Yes, the guy from Die Hard. He can sing. Why did nobody ever tell me this?

Also, I found a dubstep remix that I like better than the original song. I didn't think that would happen if I lived to be one hundred. What is going on. Seriously.
Didn't he sing Fly Me to the Moon in a movie once? I haz vague memory... he was a crook on a heist or something...
 

Dino246

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This is a really great movie!

Didn't he sing Fly Me to the Moon in a movie once? I haz vague memory... he was a crook on a heist or something...
I think you're referencing the end of a movie where he's stuck on the moon? It was Frank Sinatra singing. :)
 
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I think you're referencing the end of a movie where he's stuck on the moon? It was Frank Sinatra singing. :)
HA!!

Okay, I looked it up. I was close! It was Swingin on a Star, in Hudson Hawk. :p

[video=youtube;D8KvM3vZo0w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8KvM3vZo0w[/video]

It gets really good at about 2:00. :rolleyes: