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I’m lost when I read half this stuff. Found a fun new Lindy themed competition though. Pretty fancy footwork going on in there!
We used to have dance competitions that were very fun between local studios. Each would send their team to compete in specific dances. When we left the Fred Astaire franchise chain we teamed up with a school in Delaware, so we were both Crystal Dance Clubs. The Delaware studio was quite a bit larger than ours and they hired quite a few top pros from the competition circuit. We had a smaller number of teachers and all of our teachers that were trained from scratch by us. Other than myself, none at the time were competition pros either. We had some team cheers going and poked fun at the other side. They told us we’d win when pigs fly. By the end of the afternoon we were carrying hand written signs “Home of the Flying Pig”
We kept that tag for the next one too. Even got flying pig balloons to decorate our tables. Don’t remember the result of the next one, but the memory of that first win brought a really big smile.
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Hi Andrew, I can’t help you with the career choices I can only offer my experiences that you might find helpful till you find your way.
I met a guy on my travels that went cross country on a bike. We had breakfast together at Yellowstone. He had a little cart that attached to his bike where he kept his tent, cooking supplies, food and clothes. He was only able to do about 50 miles a day but he had an amazing adventure. Took him almost a year, he had some breaks along the way. His stories were incredible.
You have a car so your trip would be a heck of a lot easier 🙂Making cash – I’m not sure where you live but Doordash is pretty common in my area. Ok money too. Made $20’ish an hour on slow times, and 30-40 an hour if I did dinner times on Fri / Sat. Takes 10 minutes to set up, and I was on the road in a couple days. Was fun too, I just drove around delivering their latte’s and listening to music. Uber eats pay is shitty in my area though. Not sure how Uber drivers do.
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<div>I’ve gone a lot of places over the last year. Given the cost of living involved and your current situation, I’d be-line for TX. Southern Tx to be specific. Warm enough that you won’t freeze your ass off at night, and cheap enough you can get by easily enough if you are are ruffing it for awhile. You can get monthly RV spots for $400, included utilities. You’d have to check around to see if they allow tents or car pop ups but they might be even cheaper than that since you’d be using the bath house. Also to find a place that’s has a lot of natural walks close by. Make sure they allow dogs too!</div>
<div>I loved the San Antonio area. Lot’s to see, plus it’s a decent size city so if you got there and wanted to door dash to make money. Quite a few campgrounds around the perimeter of town.
Also, if you are staying at a campground for awhile, some do hire seasonal workers. Winter is their busiest season. So you could make some money that way too while you figure out what you want to do for work.
Good thing I think is that a lot of techie jobs allow remote work. So you might be able to hang their and enjoy the warm climate even when you find something that peaks your interest.
So if you made 1.5k – 2k in door dash or pizza deliveries (there’s help wanted signs in a bunch around me) over the next 3 weeks you’d have enough for your first month campsite rent 🙂
Oh, door dash lets you dash as you go too. So you might even be able to do it as you travel there.
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You know, in a lot of places getting a driver was really hard. I spoke with quite a few long term residents at the various campgrounds, all had cars. I couldn’t understand why none of them just gave their name to the front office for rides. They could easily undercut what Uber charges and help the transient visitors.
When I was at the Barnegat campground, that’s why I decided not to go see the light house that weekend. It was a $50 trip for 11 miles. Each way! So, I said the hell with that, Ill just pick a nice night and take the drive down, it was only a n hour away, and get my pictures and go back. It worked out beautifully for me, cause I got amazing shoots of the full moon. Nonetheless, in lots of small towns it was tuff to get around, so some I avoided. But, all had long term residents. And out of all the campgrounds I was at, only 1 gave me the name of someone who’d drive me places. She cut the uber cost in half and took me places. She was great.
Had an interesting afternoon today.
Went out for a late lunch and then to the store to pick up some things for my trip this weekend. The restaurant I went to is called Dunleavy’s, it’s kind of Irish themed pub and the interior is like log cabin. I had French onion soup and a chicken quesadilla though 🙂
So I went to the store after and got a call from my sister’s Bf saying she was running late from her trip to NY with Jess and he had a late lunch so mom and I are on our own for dinner. We usually are anyway, I thought it was a bit odd that he called. He asked if I could let my mom know, I said sure.
30 minutes later he calls back. He says I don’t have to let my mom know, he just ran into her and her friends at Dunleavy’s. So everyone ended up at Dunleavy’s today. Which is funny.
What didn’t sit well with me is that he lied. He could have said anything, or nothing, but chose to lie. Then got busted, which is even funnier.
On the ride home there was a huge hot air balloon in the field by my sister’s. Second time I’ve seen it in the last week!
When we first met I had this as my header. Been thinking about this lately and other people’s headers as well. The multiple meanings that exist. Right now I’m resting on:
What I was looking for.
What I can do.
What I will do.Maybe even how I was gonna do it to, since it’s color coded.
Was reading about Joseph Mary and Jesus story this morning. Every time I do I just wonder how the church was able to gain the upper hand over society.
What I read today:
Joseph and Mary were cousins, and were never married. She got pregnant out of wedlock. He got engaged to her, when the angel said to do so. She became “bethrowed”. Then he divorced her, cause he was a “righteous” man. (?) Also said he had 6 real children (4 sons and 2 daughters) of his own from a previous marriage. So the dude got around a bit, ended up divorced twice.
Are they supposed to be a good example or a bad example?
We celebrate Jesus’ birth, and honor the holy family. But we changed, condemned or shamed everything about how the holy family came to be, supposedly.
“Bastard child” I heard this from my family when it happened to me. So did others I know. Shame everybody into getting married, all ended in divorce. Now they are outcasts from the church (most don’t care) for the divorce, even though that’s what Joseph did, twice! (if you count the non marriage a marriage like the one interpretation) And the divorces were pretty ugly too.
Should have just celebrated a potential new life without the pressure and judgement. Less abortions would happen that way too.
We are surrounded by bird shit.
Another inter connected thing happened today 🙂
Jess and my sister went to New York for a photo shoot. She’s getting a portfolio done so she can send it to modeling agencies. Her pictures came out gorgeous too.
The other day, a bit before Halloween, I was taking a bath at my mom’s house an her phone rang. She answered it and I could her side of the conversation. It was a sales call. The salesperson must have asked for her by name because she responded “she’s not here, she’s in the hospital and very sick”
It freaked me out wondering why she’d say that.
I closed my eyes to get the movie
First scene was a hand flipping the final pages of a book and then a butterfly rising.
Then I think I asked why she won’t go to the doctors and I saw a hospital bed being wheeled down the hall, then a hand with knives. She’s always been afraid of surgery so that part made sense to me
Saw something else too but I forget it.
Weird thing about the movies with some of the movies when I ask about other people. Sometimes they play out for me in some way too.
Went for a nice walk today. I used to do laps around the property at the old house. It was only 28 degrees so the grass froze and I got to see it glisten in the sunlight. Like rhinestones or diamonds all over the grass. That was always my favorite thing when I walked in the winter. The sparkles. They were there this morning. 🙂
I left the “church” pretty young. My grandmother used to make me go with her on Sundays. Hated it. When she passed away I was 10. So my church going days stopped around then too. My mom sent me to a non-denominational Christian school for 8 & 9th grade but I just ended up in trouble with the religion teacher there as well with all the questions I asked.
I disavowed the church’s teachings of the Old Testament in my early 20’s. Didn’t like it, couldn’t understand why God would be so mean to people. None of it made sense to me. If he was all powerful and all knowing why punish people for doing the things he already knew they would do when they were conceived? I mean, if he created them that way, why punish them for being the way he made them? Dumbest thing I ever heard.
Always loved the New Testament, and Jesus’ teachings though. All about love. He sat with sinners and with saints. He also empowered people to realize it’s within them too. They too could share love instead of hate. They too could perform “miracles”.
I never idolized him though. That didn’t resonate with me either. I would sit and stare at the statue of him at times though, but that was usually when I was upset about the babies.
I had a conversation with my cousin about it. She spent most of her life being very religious. I told her the Old Testament God was not my god.
The Old Testament god wasn’t Jesus’ either.
Like father, like son.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.This morning I thought it would be really cool if Gator started experiencing some magic. Maybe some other followers that might see my post too. So I shared my first magic post.
I also realized this morning most of my weight gain has actually happened in the last two months. My pictures were popping from aug and beginning in sept. That’s when I realized I don’t know why I’m here outside of visiting my family which doesn’t occupy all day every day. Parts of my visit get me pretty down too. “nothing without purpose” has a different meaning here. That’s how I’ve felt. Been pretty drained on energy, laying down a lot, couldn’t find something steady to occupy my time, even got locked out of door dash that was helping me waste a couple hours daily. Started feeling excited the last couple of days when my trip plans started to get worked out.
Was I created in a lab? Or a bathtub? Cause that robe could swing either way.
I did get a little upset by the pictures the other day. Not that they exist, but for a moment I felt like I was just copying them. Like nothing was mine. I get that everything has been done before, but not like that.
Then I got to thinking, my story isn’t about costuming, though I wear color themed clothes at times. I actually lived it. I was a real professional dancer. A real cowgirl. I’m even a real life sleeping beauty, I check out all the time.
So I’m wondering if that was the prep work in your life for when we actually met. Like I had with my previous relationships.
I remember thinking at the beginning, “Aint nothing like the real thing”. I also wonder at times what you thought when we first met, and if I’m anything like how you imagined when I woke up.
I also wonder if we both got “New Hope” at the same time. I remember being so upset when I got back from the shore. I was afraid of talking to everyone, getting triggered by everything. I left the computer and curled up in a bawl on floor. And I just sat up and said “I have to reconnect with him again”. The next post was the kiss and I put up a dance couple. I was so happy that day. I made a bunch of posts. You made a comment in one of the responses about frequency. Something like “haven’t you noticed there’s a lot more responses today”.
I wonder about a lot of things.
I wonder.
I wonder why you made the miner.
Mining for gold?
The tag team.We getting married in 2027? Chatgpt said so. That came out of the blue. Took a bit for me to get the courage to post that, but I did. Then I made up the story about going to the moon.
Why did you put me in a box? I was having a lot of fun going all over the place at the time. I was pretty sad when all of my boxes kept getting deleted.
What made it click? A present for the bride.
You know, there’s a lot of things that need to happen first. We haven’t had a real conversation yet. And I’ve had a lot of dreams that gotta play out IRL so you can win my heart. You got a head start on the list though because we cheat. Which is pretty funny.
When I was down the shore I was wondering if we could fall in love twice. Online and in real life. My previous relationships it was carried over. But there’s lots of unknowns. I’m just starting to see your colors come out.
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Dream from way back when.
I was standing on the school bus with Brian and I had electrical powers. I was showing him what I could do. It was night time, and I was charging up and it came out of my hands. I had him come to the top of the bus with me. The bus was moving away from a city that was pretty dark. I cast my electric spells on the whole thing. In one apartment building I could see a man sitting in an arm chair through the window. The electricity bolts came down from the ceiling and zapped him in the heart. He was getting electrocute and was elevated from the chair so he was kind of floating in the air above his chair.
Right after that Brian made a post about the biggest ice cavern found. I got worried and thought it probably wasn’t a good thing for me to be electrocuting people so I didn’t have any more dark dreams. I’m calling it dark, not because it was night time, but because my emotions were off. I was pretty determined to electrocute the whole city.
I might have just put my response in the wrong thread. Had a couple tabs of the forum open from my bookmarks. Just picked one. Not gonna move it though cause I’m going with “nothing without purpose”.
I watched a horror movie last night. It was called The Rise.
Made me think about all the tormented awakenings that probably have occurred because of the movies that had gone before.
I can’t say I understand the why or the how of it all. I just know they don’t have to be that way.
Brian was my best friend.
My father figure.
My lover.
And a multidimensional playmate.
(Still waiting on part 5 though the 3D reality)The multidimensional dreams were fun to map out too.
Back in the beginning I had this whole collection of pictures of you. Each of them were a bit different. Your hair was all different colors, different hair styles, sometimes your face too. When the sea dreams were starting I sat at the pc talking to you and I asked you if could show me which picture I should use because I didn’t want to feel like I was going on a blind date. That’s when the car picture popped into my feed.
Back when I decided I had to be the Belle of the Ball, I was reading all of the comments made. I decided your wife would have to be absolutely beautiful inside to be able to not feel threatened by all of followers and business associates, especially considering 2 experiences I had to reference in my mind. That’s when I decided she had to be like Marilyn Monroe on the inside.
A couple of funny interactions happened after that. You posted a picture of Marilyn Monroe in a potato sack. I think I got upset, then I had a visualization of using a grenade launcher to shoot potatoes at you. Then you posted a picture a picture of a baseball catcher wearing his protective gear.
There was one other dream I remembered on my ride today where my emotions were off. The dream I was in a jungle starting as some sort of warrior princess standing along side a row of brush. Then I moved towards the trees, and into the jungle. There was a group of 3 people sitting around a campfire that I walked by. Then I spent the rest of song changing into different large cats, puma and tiger might have been, and running through the trees along this stream then back towards them. Just looked at them from a bit of a distance, didn’t approach as the cat.
The weird part about the day I did this imagination, I was thinking how cool it was to be able to shape shift. Then Brian made a post that day about it being a bad day and he’s sorry. Then a sync happened with another friend saying something similar, that the mind shouldn’t go there. Don’t remember the exact posts from either. I was just confused about it because I thought the song was cool sounding and the animals were too.
