My salad has bite

Whenever I have planted Lettuce or Tomatoes in the Sims Freeplay game I get one of these monsters instead. The thing that I'm curious about is what happens if the sim loses the negotiation, as when one of these things pops up the choice is negotiate with it. I have won each time thus far.

Eruption News

So I'm going to talk about this as if it is relevant and people will be interested.

Last night I dreamed a volcano in the Mediterranean erupted. It was not specific about which volcano it was. Maybe it is a premonition, maybe it's not. The volcano was near a massive hotel. The hotel was mountain like and you entered at the top (like the crater of a volcano) and went down into the depths where the guest rooms are. The volcanic eruption happened in daytime and causes widespread panic and chaos amongst the nearby hotel guests. Some people rush back inside the hotel to seek refuge in the depths and others are caught outside, gripped by panic. Many people die and there are British nationals involved. It makes the news everywhere. But what nobody outside this hotel knows is that people survive. I think the outside gets swamped with deadly pyroclastic flows which cover the high entrance to the hotel. So those who seeked refuge inside are trapped. They survive but have no way out and nobody on the outside knows they are alive.
Now people who interpret dreams would read all kinds of things into this. I have no ideas about those meanings. There are definitely active volcanoes in the Med so anything is possible. I guess time will tell.

Before MH370 went missing I dreamed about a passenger plane crash. I'm not saying it is related, but thought it is an interesting and slightly relevant thing to relate here. I don't know what airline the plane in my dream was or where in the world it was coming from or going to. In my dream it came down on land in a warm part of the world, in daytime. The fuselage of the plane was severed. Not completely as far as I saw, but badly split near the front. The pilots, flight attendants and all passengers were either killed on impact or badly injured. One of the flight attendants was particularly worried about her belongings. She had brought something with her that was precious to her but nobody else knew she had it with her. She was very worried that this item would be stolen and wanted to protect it. She lingered in the area at the front of the plane next to the cockpit entrance because the small locker with her personal bag in was in this area, I'm not sure what her physical condition was at this point. She may well have been dead. The people who were not dead and were concious were not well enough to be able to summon help. This flight may have been destined for a warm place because I have the impression that this particular flight attendant (the one worried about her possessions) was dressed in either a short sleeved shirt or a t-shirt, paired with a knee length skirt, loose hair and flat slip on shoes, possibly with a lei round her neck. The area the plane crashed was wooded countryside. There may also have been people outside the plane, but they were not there to help. (It's been a long time since I had this dream).

I hope you found this interesting. Have a lovely day :)

Motivation

Hi folks

I'm feeling seriously demotivated today. I don't know exactly where it began. I got the news this week that I have to attend Job Club. Despite what my jobcentre advisor said it feels like a punishment. I've only just come out of a temp job. I have no idea why I was picked to do this. They can't expect me to secure a new job this quickly. It hasn't been that easy since I left college at 19 and walked into my first permanent job within a couple of months. The most annoying thing about that job is I walked away voluntarily. I didn't realise what a stupid move that was at the time. I remember it as me leaving so I could be closer to my boyfriend at the time who lived in the next town. I had recently become pregnant with my first child and this was my underlying motivation for wanting to be geographically closer to him. But after reading an old diary of mine I have questioned this memory. Whatever the truth it was stupid to resign. I have regretted it in the years since. Fast forward a few years, two children and a failed relationship and suddenly there are 500 people applying for the same jobs as me when before there was 5. Securing a job is now near impossible, How much did our population expand in those years?! All I've been able to get is temp jobs.

It's so sudden but I feel so depressed today. What did I do? Where did I go wrong these last few days? I can't pin down why these feelings have engulfed me. I'm usually very positive and pretty happy, able to see the best in everything. Not today though.
I went to the football on Tuesday. Not sure if that's related. I support Norwich City and attended the home game against Tottenham this Tuesday just gone. I was so pumped before hand because I have not attended a match for far too long and really miss the atmosphere and stuff. I went with my two sons. We had a good time but Norwich got their butt's kicked. The first thing that felt wrong was walking down to Carrow Road in the crowd of supporters. They weren't glowing with yellow and green like I remember from previous matches. It doesn't feel right unless the crowd is awash with the team colours. Then during the match the crowd was pretty subdued in my opinion. The Spurs supporters on the other hand hardly kept quiet the whole game and made more than enough noise to compensate for their comparatively small numbers. The home crowd booed a lot because the referee wasn't doing a great job. According to the NCFC Twitter feed there were two disallowed goals during this match because the scorer was apparently offside. I did notice one of these. The crowd between me and the goal stood up (as did I) but I still couldn't see exactly what was going on. It seemed like someone had scored but it was wrong somehow. I didn't understand at the time. I was later informed by someone on Twitter that I had appeared on Match Of The Day. At the disallowed goal the camera panned to the linesman and there I was in the crowd behind him. He must have amazing eyesight because my appearance was so quick. It was nice to be famous for half a second. After losing 3-0 we went home disappointed. It seemed to me the team were scared to try and score. I watched Tottenham run rings around Norwich. They got possession of the ball and played with it passing it back and forth and the Norwich players couldn't intercept it. Then when they did get possession and ran up the pitch with the ball they darted into the corner and not towards the goal. Even then instead of trying to score they passed the ball across the pitch. The players then passed the ball back towards their own goal. The amount of times it was passed to our keeper for a goal kick I was concerned it would eventually end up in the back of the net. Thank fully this didn't happen. When someone, maybe out of boredom, eventually beat Lloris (the Spurs keeper) he was offside. They just couldn't get it right.

I regret missing out on tickets to the home game against Liverpool the previous week. I intended to get tickets for ages beforehand but got confused about when I was able to buy them. The match was amazing. Even though Liverpool eventually won 5-4, up to the last minute anything could have happened as the winning goal was put away in the final minute of the game. I would have loved to have seen it live.That must have be demotivating for the team to an extent though. They worked so hard and still came away losers.

I just don't know what's up with me today. Have you ever felt like that? It's Friday too. Even though I'm not working at the minute I should still be happy about the impending weekend.
Another slightly depressing thing is Valentines day. It's happening soon. For those of us who are single and not happy with the situation it's just rubbing in our faces that we are not in a loving relationship. I have been chatting with somebody and we have talked about meeting/going on a date at a time when we are both free. The way I'm feeling today I can't help say I'm not sure if anything will come of it. He seems like a nice guy. Who knows?

I'd better go and stick my head on the sand now. If I play camel and pretend everything is okay maybe I will feel better again. Hope you have a lovely day.

If you are sharing my depression today please leave a comment. Sharing is supposed to be theraputic. (Why can't I spell today?) x

Let's talk paranormal for a minute

Good day internet people.
I'd like to tell you a story. I make YouTube videos and talked about this recently but it's the first thing I can think of right now. This is a true story. It happened several years ago at the time of writing this. I can't remember exactly when it happened though.
So I was walking in Norwich city (where I live) and it was just a regular day. I was walking along the ring road near the part of the city called Anglia Square towards a roundabout on the footpath on the right hand side of the road. I was going to a building right on the edge of the roundabout. I don't know what I was thinking about but up ahead I noticed a woman. There was nothing special about her. She looked as if she had just stepped off the roundabout onto the pavement, which was a little odd. This woman was striding purposefully. There was nobody else around within direct view of me at that time. It's hard to estimate the distance between us but I was a little way back up the footpath. I didn't pay this woman any special attention because she was as solid as you or me but could see her because she was directly in my field of vision. Well she walked across the grass next to the path and vanished behind the high wall running around the edge of the property there. There was a part of the wall that jutted out at an angle with a tall tree behind it. I was on the side where the wall stopped and the tree was visible. She disappeared on the side where the wall runs along and then juts out.
Initially I wasn't concerned. I thought she must have gone through a gap in the wall or a gate or something. Even though I couldn't see her on the other side as far as it was visible to me. It was only when I had walked past the jutted out bit that I realised where she had gone was nothing but solid wall. There was no gap or gateway or anyway through. The wall was solid bricks and too tall for anybody to climb. I was left with the only possible conclusion. That I had just seen a ghost.
Sceptics would perhaps suggest that I was hallucinating or it was reflection of a real woman that was walking behind me or other similar explanations. All I can tell you is that I know what I saw.
It was a regular day. I don't recall the weather specifically but it wasn't raining or a clear sunny day. I'm sure of that. I wish I could have caught it on tape. That would be awesome. Then people could dissect it to their hearts content and come to what ever conclusions they want. Unless she would not have shown up on tape. In which case she would obviously be a vampire. Haha

I wonder what ghosts really are. Do they actually exist or are they just a figment of our imagination?
They are fascinating because it is not something we can physically measure and document and examine the properties that make them up. That is why sceptics are able to dismiss them so easily. I mean if they are either the spirits of departed humans or a remainder of departed humans reliving a part of their lives over and over then I can see why they remain mysterious. Lets say for a moment that they are real and are either one of the above. Lets also say for a moment that they are either aware of flesh and blood humans or able to interact with them. If I was the ghosts I would be picky about who I allowed to see and/or interact with me too (assuming I was able to control this). I also would not hang around long enough to be tested like some laboratory guinea pig. I mean who would?

Have you seen that movie The Sixth Sense? I think to a certain extent they are onto something. I mean that as far as the bit about dead people not realising they are dead sometimes goes. I'm sure you can see how that is possible. Theoretically speaking we are still saying that ghosts are real here for the moment. Some people die so suddenly that I can see how they might not know right away that they are dead. But you'd expect them to catch on sooner or later wouldn't you? You'd think they'd notice that something was different after a while. But it's quite a big leap between hey there are strangers living in my house, did I just forget where I live or am I dead?

But if the sceptics are right what does that mean for us?
I think the conclusions regarding that are far scarier than the possibility of that nice girl down the street being tormented by dear old departed Aunt Ethel because she never liked her niece and is pissed that she has moved into her house and not only rearranged everything but also hooked up with that no good hoodlum she always had a soft spot for.
So if the sceptics are right that means we are all a great big bunch of basket cases, all of us who believe or are open to the possibilities. It means that we are delusional. We forgot about the weed we smoked earlier in the day and then claim to have seen/heard/felt spiritual activity. (I don't smoke weed by the way. I have never touched drugs of any kind apart from prescription meds.) It means instead of being open minded there is something going on in our brains, something special that created these illusions of spiritual activity.

I don't think the sceptics can be completely right though. I'm not just saying that because I am a believer and not prepared to accept that I am mentally deficient. My experiences are convincing. For example I believe that I have precognitive dreams sometimes. An example of this involves my maternal grandparents. Both are now dead. They died at different times. I can't recall exactly the gap, maybe a year or two. My gran died first. Before she died I kept having dreams about both of them going up into the attic. Of course I could not make sense of them at the time. I rarely have reoccurring dreams. I can't remember if they stopped after she died or came back before grandad died. I think these dreams did return before he died. It was only after he died that it clicked. I realised the attic had been a euphemism for heaven and I was being warned that they were going to die.
But predictive dreams don't always come true. I think they are just a possible future if things keep going they way they are. A possible example of this is a dream I had a few years ago. Even though I don't recall exactly when I had it the dream sticks in my mind for reasons that will become obvious once I've explained what occurred. So in the dream I was a passenger in my dads car. My mum was in the front with him and I was in the back between my two children. He was just driving along a countryside road somewhere (it wasn't a typical skinny no white lines country road). There was a vehicle coming in the opposite direction and I realised it was heading straight for us. I screamed. The next thing I knew our car was upside down or on it's side and there was blood and broken glass all over the tarmac. I woke up after that. The thing that really made it stick with me was the scream. When I woke it was so vivid I felt as if I'd actually lived it. The scream sounded so real. But I didn't scream in my sleep because nobody else in the house heard anything (I remember asking the next morning). So yeah, that was a scary one.

I think I'll leave it there for now. Thank you for reading through my thoughts here. If you have anything to say about what I've said please leave me a comment. Hope the rest of your day goes well.

Time, The Future And Stuff

I haven't made a post on here in a long time. I guess I ran out of things to say. I feel like getting philosophical today. How about you?

Okay then. I will go on either way. I sometimes wonder about time. Like is it already set and the future is written already, kind of like a book. The idea of free will and choice is just an illusion. The decisions we make today or tomorrow were already going to happen that way. That's why some people can tell the future with accuracy, it is about probabilities. For example Mr X gets his fortune told and the medium says he will meet a beautiful blonde when he travels to Mexico in a fortnight. She is the one. He thinks it's complete twaddle because he has no plans to travel to Mexico in two weeks time. But his boss asks him to go to Mexico on the 29th for an urgent meeting to help secure an important deal and suddenly he has plans to be in Mexico. What happens when he gets there?
The future is fluid, always in motion, always moving away from us.

So about time. According to Edgar Cayce (if you don't know who he is Google the name) in the spiritual world time does not exist. I think he was the source of that idea. It's an intriguing idea. How can time not exist though? That's the only way we know how to measure the passing of life. Maybe it's not that time does not exist there, it's just that they don't care to measure it. Time just passes by unnoticed, so it may as well not exist.

I had a dream a while ago that I invented time travel. Dream researchers would probably tell me all about what it means, but I sometimes have premeditory dreams about my life. I'm not saying that's what that one was though. I'm just putting it out there. So in this dream I had invented this device and it was for travelling in time. But I couldn't tell anyone about it. People are human by nature and so will find ways to exploit and modify things. I could put safeguards on it to prevent abuse of the privilege of traveling through time and prevent people tinkering with past events. But people are brilliant and would find ways around this sooner or later. Even just keeping it a secret would be hard because people talk. This Area 45 that may or may not exist in Nevada is a good example of this. There would soon be rumors that someone had invented the ability to time travel. So it's best if nobody ever invents it for real, if it's even possible.
Then there is the whole thing with time. Is it possible to travel back or forward either within your own lifetime or beyond it? What if you did? You would change time just by existing in a time and place where you were not supposed to be. Maybe the Back To The Future thing would really happen and the universe would implode/explode. Who knows right?
I might just use the device idea I dreamed up and write a story about it. If I'm good at anything it's writing. Even if I haven't got published yet. That's not what matters. It's just confirmation of my skill.

We are all here to learn, that is the purpose of life I believe. So if you've been able to keep up with everything I've been saying I hope it's given you something to think about or maybe taught you something. Whatever else you're doing today I hope it's fun.

Herobrine Furby

I drew this a while back. My kids helped me christen him Herobrine Furby due to his spooky pupil-less eyes. I quite like it. Herobrine refers to that legendary Minecraft fella with no pupils, in case you didn't know.

 

 

 

 

 

People Come Into Your Life For A Purpose

Ever wondered why something happened to you or why you ever met a particular person?

Well I believe everything happens for a reason. People come into your life for a purpose. Sometimes it's for a particular reason, sometimes it's a chapter and sometimes it's forever.

Knowing which is which is probably near impossible at times.

Reason
That person is here to meet a need. You may have expressed this outwardly or maybe only internally, but the universe has answered you.
They are here to assist you through a hard time, to give you guidance and support and help you physically, emotionally or spiritually.
They might seem like a godsend and they are indeed.
They are here for the reason you need them to be.
Then without any wrong doing by you this person will say or do something to end the relationship. Sometimes they die, sometimes they walk out of your life and sometimes they act out and force you to take a stand. This is because the reason has been fulfilled, their work is done and it's time to move on.

Chapter
This person is here because it's time for you need to share, grow or learn.
They might bring you an experience, make you laugh, teach you something you have never done before or just give you an incredible amount of joy.
Believe it cause it's real, but only for a small chapter of your life.

Forever
Relationships that last a lifetime  are here because that person is here to teach you a lesson that will take that long or longer to learn.
These are things that you should build  on in order to give yourself a solid emotional environment.
Accept the lesson, love the person in whatever way you can and use what you have learnt in all other relationships and areas of life.

These were written to apply positively, only to positive experiences, but I'm sure the same can be said for the negative parts of your life.
The difference is the people that give you bad experiences are not there to give you a lesson that you have consciously asked the universe to provide. But accept the experiences any way you can and try to learn from them.

If someone is in your life for good and they do not seem to be providing any positive influence in a way that would fit under the forever heading above, then it is highly likely the two of you have some unfinished business from a past life. Either that or they have already served their purpose in your life and you have simply refused to let them go.

I could go on, but I will leave it there for now.
I will just leave you with this thought : They say that love is blind and if that's true then friendship is clairvoyant.