Love the balloon surprise!
Me too! What a great surprise. How did he respond?
So glad he liked it!
I see your uhhhhhhhhhhh and raise you a gnyeh.
Buffy ,'Potential'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Jul 21, 2014 5:44:50 am PDT #2427 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Jesse - Jul 21, 2014 5:55:02 am PDT #2428 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So cute, Suzi!
ION, after watching my mother spend $700 on lenses over the weekend -- frames were extra! -- I now want to buy several pairs of Warby Parker glasses. Because now I know how much I'm saving by not having bifocals....
Sophia Brooks - Jul 21, 2014 6:00:13 am PDT #2429 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I just got 3 pairs of glasses from Zenni for $35.00 total.
Jesse - Jul 21, 2014 6:02:04 am PDT #2430 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I should definitely check them out again!
Zenkitty - Jul 21, 2014 6:58:31 am PDT #2431 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Zenni and Coastal are both good. Mine cost more like $90 because my prescription is so strong, but that still beats $700 at the optometrist's office.
lisah - Jul 21, 2014 6:58:55 am PDT #2432 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
I knew someone once who had hypnagogic hallucinations. She'd see strange things right before she fell asleep, or right as she was waking up.
I have hypnagogic visual hallucinations all the time. Usually they involve someone looming over me meaning to cause me harm. They are not awesome as they frequently make me scream in terror. Fun for me and anyone sleeping with (aka my husband) or near me (my neighbors, friends we are staying with). I haven't really figured out what makes them worse or better. I've tried some different relaxation techniques but nothing really helps. A few times I've woken up not only screaming but throwing punches. Fun!
(Hypnagogic are ones that happen as you are falling asleep. Hypnopompic are ones that occur on waking up.)
Anyway, didn't have one last night sleeping in super dark comfy hotel room. Maybe we should sell our house and just live out of Kimpton hotels?
Zenkitty - Jul 21, 2014 7:02:36 am PDT #2433 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
lisah, that's terrifying. Do sleep aids help, or make it worse?
(Hypnagogic are ones that happen as you are falling asleep. Hypnopompic are ones that occur on waking up.)
Good words!
Jesse - Jul 21, 2014 7:08:33 am PDT #2434 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ugh, that sounds terrible, lisah!
Sue - Jul 21, 2014 7:09:42 am PDT #2435 of 30000
hip deep in pie
There were always three knocks, always in the same steady rhytm, but different intensities. Sometimes a tapping, other times like someone pounding on a door. I heard those knocks for years, and eventually I just rationalized that it was my conscious mind asking for entry in to my subconscious dreaming mind. It got to the point where I would wait for them, and as soon as I heard the knocks, I would fall asleep.
>Her descriptions of her experiences gave me a new perspective on stories of ghosts and alien abductions
I was explaining them to someone once and they told me about a book where alien abductees heard three knocks right before they were taken.
meara - Jul 21, 2014 7:10:29 am PDT #2436 of 30000
(Hypnagogic are ones that happen as you are falling asleep. Hypnopompic are ones that occur on waking up.)
Oh! I have had the on waking up ones. I used to semi-frequently (mostly only in hotel rooms but I'm in those more often than most) dream someone had come Into my room, and I'd wake up and swear I felt someone get into bed with me, feel the weight as they settled in, etc, and I would be frozen, unable to move but knowing something awful was going to happen...and them I'd fully wake up and still be freaked out but be able to move and know there was no one there. It makes me feel like some weirdo who has repressed molestation from childhood or something, but I don't recall the dream/feeling happening until I was in my 20s.