Mr. Brooks- movie review

Mr. Brooks is some of the best work we've seen from Kevin Costner in a while. It's a psychological thriller, becoming one of my favorite genres, with enough unreality to make it interesting. We're going to watch it again tomorrow.

Bonus: It's set in our soon-to-be new city, Portland.

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Particulars- dream journal

I went to some kind of fair with many of my family members. They promised to save me a seat in the small auditorium while I went to check something else out. When I got back, they had given my seat to Rodney Fisher. I turned around and left, and Rodney followed, offering me my seat back. I refused, instead finding a place to nap in the shade. Rodney sat nearby talking to an old man and then singing a beautiful prayer.

Later we were in the airport. We wanted to catch an earlier flight to Las Vegas than the one we had booked, and I went to all the airlines asking, but none were available for the same price. Finally we went to the boarding area to wait.

Sronnoc Esor

Friends

We ran errands today and then went to Coney Station with Ki'il for dinner. After we ate, we sat around drinking beer and smoking clove cigarettes and Swisher Sweets, listening to music and talking about everything from art to suicide.
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Good times.
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Rose

Planning

Port Orford

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We made a trip to Gold Beach for work last night. It's a beautiful drive, and I always enjoy getting in a twelve-hour shift.

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We're in the planning stages of a move to the city. More to come on that, but I can't wait to have the delights of civilization at my doorstep.

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Rose

Wonky in the Conk

Due to The Heiress's duplicitous ways and inability to compromise and Dahlia Man's complicity, it has been agreed that I will end my association with Dahlia Man, effective immediately. I can't say that I'm not sad about it, but I agree that it has to happen.
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Beautiful

Beauty and joy and laughter surround me today. Sunshine streams brilliantly over the landscape, which is already budding with the new life of a promised spring. The love of family near and far buttresses me. Today I soar on the wings of hope.

Rose

Comfort

Grandma Comfort came to visit with me in my dreams last night. We sat at her kitchen table and talked. She couldn't have come when I needed it more. Her visits are always so tangible and credible to me. It was like a warm hug.

Rose

Giving up on Words

The pictures do a pretty good job of conveying how everything irritates me and I just want to stay in bed and cry, don't they?

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More Frustration

The Heiress, Dahlia Man's niece, is at it again. Sending me a 10-99 for what was originally supposed to be a cash only arrangement. Well, I finally told her what I should have long ago: "I'll do it for nothing. What you were paying me was laughably small anyway."

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Dentist

I had my regularly scheduled, uneventful, dentist visit today. I've come to really hate the dentist, but for no good reason. Anyway it was no big deal.

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Off to work in a few hours.

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rc

Red Alder

Frustration

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I foolishly accepted a one-hour home interview this week. The interview was fairly simple and straightforward. It was faxing the documents that turned into a huge frustration.
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I sent them yesterday. I got two calls today asking for corrections and re-faxing. By the time it was (hopefully) over I was ready to spit bullets.

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rc

Wave- dream journal

I was walking on the beach when the tide started to come in. It came in fast and soon there was no room to walk before the dune. I started to scramble up over the dune when a wave overtook me and knocked me down. Waves were washing over me repeatedly. I was terrified and screaming, but somehow I finally reached safety.

Mother and Father stopped to visit on their way to San Francisco to travel on the Green Tortoise. They said I could come along. I told them I would have to wait until I left Dahlia Man's at seven to leave. Later I realized that it is a ten hour drive to SF, and we could never make it by eleven if we only left at seven. I told Mother and Father and they were very disappointed.

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Sun

The sun finally came out today. It was a welcome change after the recent rain. This appears to be a writing slump for me. Better days will come.

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rc

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(Confidential to Robin: We'll talk soon. I miss you. Kisses to A.E.)

Relax

We watched the movie Once with Ki'il and the Scholar tonight. The music is amazingly beautiful; an excellent recommendation. It continues to rain.

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rc

Bad Food

I've never sent food back at a restaurant before. I'm generally the kind of understanding diner who will even overlook an occasional hair. But tonight I ordered top sirloin, medium rare and got coarsely grained chuck, cooked through. It was the kind of thing I would chop up and put in a stew to simmer for hours. There was a big, mangled hole in the middle of the piece of meat. I considered eating it, but instead sent it back after one bite. The waiter was completely befuddled by my explanation of why it wasn't acceptable, but I did get half off my dinner.
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On a brighter note, I got called in to work last night and tonight, so I'm pleased.
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rc

Happy

The blog really wasn't meant to be a running log of my psychological condition, or to give my readers the impression that I'm in danger of demonstrating manic depressive tendencies. That just seems to be what it has digressed to in the past few days. (sorry)

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Ki'il and I attended our first rock-climbing class last evening. Our continued participation is dependent on the class becoming less full than it currently is, however.

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Coming up: the new Bourne movie should arrive today via Netflix.

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jc promises a new lense will be arriving for the camera, and quite probably a remote as well. Who knows what wonders are in store?

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rc

Like the Weather

I usually like this weather, but today you could say that I feel like the weather instead: dark and rainy.
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rc

Still Dark

After another power outage during the night, today dawned windy, dark and rainy with intermittent snow and hail. We have a fire blazing in the pellet stove, and are settled in just like we're waiting for Saint Nicholas.
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"And the cat by the fire where it's warmer and drier has the best winter home of them all."
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Rose

Windy Day

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I was driven out of the house by a brief power outage, so I rode around town looking for birds to start my 2008 list. I got this image while chasing Bonaparte's Gulls on Halfmoon Bay. Home now, and with the power back on, I'm studying my newly arrived Rosetta Stone Korean program.

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Rose