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-Recipe quote: "lg. chunked"-

White maggot-like creatures were discovered on Mars, and one of them attached to my arm. I didn't think much of it, but later there was a stir because I had brought it out of the containment area. This was all, of course, a dream.

Not a dream is the stew that's finally ready to eat today. All of my previous attempts at the stuff have been horrendous, so I decided, this time, to actually get a recipe and follow it.

Only problem is, it smelled so delicious as it was stewing away in the slow cooker that I had trouble sleeping last night. I have yet to try it, but all indications are that this one will actually taste good.

Reality check. Num num.

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-Mental quote: "Do you know how to swing dance?"-

I had another dream within a dream this week, which is sort of halfway to lucid, I suppose. After all, I at least realized the subdream was a dream. The subdream in this case regarded my treasured eraser (of which I only use 2 corners for erasing, so the other corners stay pristine and fresh-looking) being sharpened, which involved cutting off the untouched side of the eraser. When I "woke up" from this dream, I told someone how mad that would make me if it actually happened.

Strange pastime: rephrasing everyday activities so they sound peculiar. Prime example: brushing one's teeth. Sure, we do this every day (I hope!) but if you stop to think about it...

Step 1. Procure a miniature brush with a disproportionately long handle.

Step 2. Squeeze pasty, mint-scented soap out of what looks like a frosting applicator and cover all the bristles of the brush with a gob of it.

Step 3. Use your soapy, miniature brush to lather up your teeth.

Step 4. You can't rinse off the soap, so spit out as much of it as you can into the sink.

Step 5. Shiny teeth.

Reality check. Don't touch my eraser.

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-Buzz quote: "I think God actually has a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivatives license on that one, but the method is sort of open source."-

The most exciting dream I had this week had me watering plants. So, um, yeah, it was a slow week.

Actually, not exactly. After all, the week began in the mountains waiting for a tow truck because the vehicle I was in tried to go down the mountainside (the trees lining the road had other ideas, much to the relief of everyone in the van).

I made it home safely, and proceeded to have a pretty normal week. Now I have a cold, however, so I think I'll just wish you all a happy Valentine's Day / Chinese New Year and leave it at that.

Reality check. Admittedly, I was watering plants in my old house, so that was slightly different.