Snapshots from my life

[apple_pathways]

audiopineapple was talking about the dream she had last night, and it reminded me of my own. (Forgive me for talking about dreams! I do believe this is the first time I've subjected you all to one of them, and at least it's fandom-related and therefore mildly along the lines of some of your interests?)



It was a Doctor Who dream (AWESOME!), but naturally it was all twisted in ways only my subconscious can manage.

So, Rory was dead or gone (AGAIN!), and Amy and the Doctor had travelled to this alternate universe where Rory is alive, but he's some kind of crazy technology genius who invented the internet. (Literally!) Instead of being a Bill Gates-like figure, he pretty much rules over the planet like an autocrat and keeps a tight stranglehold on the citizens and the economy. (My conscious brain is filling in some of the details; dreams have such an annoying habit of being vague and imprecise regarding details about socioeconomic structure.)

AU Rory falls in love with Normal Universe (NU) Amy. (AU Amy was nowhere to be seen.) Amy is terrified and appalled at this unfamiliar version of Rory, but also kind of drawn to him: after all, he IS (more or less) her husband. AU Rory tries his best to woo her, but when his methods fail to work as quickly as he'd like, he switches to trying to trap her using all his crazy technology. The final bit of the dream involved him making a broadcast to the planet and then walking through a giant wall-sized holograph screen as if it were a portal and trying to grab Amy.

Also: even though the technology was crazy advanced, everyone was dressed like it was the 1980s FOR NO GOOD REASON. Rory had a rattail/mullet-type haircut and crazy glasses. Subconscious brain: ILU SO MUCH! ♥



I got my nails done today for the wedding and, as is to be expected, the woman who did them was rather surly and put-out about it. This isn't really a problem for me: I figure if I am paying someone to scrape calluses off my feet, file my nails, and otherwise perform personal grooming activities I should damn well be able to do myself, I have no good reason to expect they should be happy about it. (At least I got to read a magazine while she did my feet. It just served to remind me how out of touch I am: it was Entertainment Weekly's "Best Entertainers of 2010" edition, and I didn't know who 4 out of the 10 entertainers even were.)

I'm never comfortable about other people grooming me, so I kept tensing up, prompting the manicurist to swat me with whatever tool she happened to be using at the time and snap, "RELAX!" (I'm not quite sure how that action is meant to relax me, but whatev.) My favorite part is when she tried to upsell me into other services:

"You know, we do waxing: eyebrow, upper lip, bikini area...RELAX! Relax...why you so tense?"

I'm sorry: it's usually under a different set of circumstances that people request to see my bikini area...

I picked up my dress yesterday from having alterations done; I just needed the straps shortened. I don't know if you can have "short shoulders", but I must, because I ALWAYS need the straps shortened on every dress I buy. I bought a new strapless bra, some "supportive undergarments", and stockings, so I think I'm all set. Wedding, here I come!

Comments

[planejane.livejournal.com]

LOLOL! What kind of a bridesmaid's dress requires a bikini wax? Did you get the straps shortened so much the hem's now around your waist?? I mean, I think of you as avant garde but that's taking it a step too far.

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

Did I not mention that my future sister-in-law is a huge Lady GaGa fan? ;)

I have no idea why she brought it up. Though as far as the eyebrows go: I AM TAKING CARE OF IT TONIGHT, OK LADY? So back off! :P

[lemniciate.livejournal.com]

I always figured the strap thing was just because I'm only like a B-cup and there's no support for the extra strap length...what, uhhh, you know what I mean!

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

See, but I'm a D cup, and I STILL always need the straps shortened! I've heard of being "short-waisted" (I'm that as well), but I have no idea what the strap issue means...

[sabriel75.livejournal.com]

Woman... you best be taking pictures!

And you know what?! My sisters are planning on coming to visit me for my birthday and I was all like you know what would have been awesome is if you could come too. I know your month is crazed and all, but know that I'm liking that someone on LJ shares a birthday month with me. :D

We should have an LJ party! What do you think?

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

I will not be taking pictures. I will be drinking A LOT of wine and getting my dance on.

Pictures, however, will undoubtedly be taken! I will share as soon as I can get my hands on some.

I want to take a vacation SO BADDDD! But I am so very, very broke right now.

DID SOMEONE SAY PARTY??? I am so in. I don't know how it would work, but I am open to ideas. (Oh, BTW, what day is your birthday again???_

[sabriel75.livejournal.com]

Not today like everyone at my work thought. :D

It's the 16th of January and yours is the 23rd, right?

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

You got it! Ooh, birthdays one week apart! I have another friend whose birthday is exactly one week after mine.