Seven Purple Elephants

- you've just learned three things about me! how about you?

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Every time I see an adding machine like this I always think in my head, 'This is what the adding machine for the First Order would look like.' Hux would def be the one using this. Just thought I'd share this with the world.

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I don't know why I hadn't thought of this before, but greenhouses are a great place to take photos of unique flowers! Idk what these are called. Sorry. I was too distracted by the beautiful variety.

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Neon Purple

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Solomon's Seal This lovely hosta grows easily and sits about 28 - 32 inches tall (in my experience). It has cute, dangling plops for flowers and the green color is a calming shade. Speaking of shade, these plants do great on the north side of your dwelling (where there is the most shade); or if you live in the southern hemisphere, the south side.

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Bun

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Rusty

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Cat Noir

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Glamour shot

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Just took our rabbit Marge to a cafe. She hid under a bench outside most of the time.

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My fav pic of a cat thus far. Zoom in on the eye. Idk what this expression even is. (I did take this myself, fyi. Use how you want.)

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You know summer is coming when the SunSetter retractable awning commercials start playing.

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Dream (truly, I dreamed this. Dialogue and all)

In my dream, Kylo had turned good and was running a business similar to his father's. He had married Rey. But she wasn't always around because she was having fun exploring the galaxy with her friends. They'd had a child but he wasn't force sensitive which they were absolutely okay with and protected him fiercely. (I think his name should be Hanei, a mash of Han and Leia). Kylo by this point in life had a bit of grey, and he kept the top half of his hair in a bun (or pony tail).

So, at some point, Hanei was kidnapped by a rival smuggler group. They didn't know his dad used to be Kylo Ren, they just knew him as their rival, Ben Solo. Well, Ben gets a message that his son is being held captive, and he needs to meet these terms, and no rescues (the usual). Well of course Ben heads out with his crew and goes to get his son back. But for some dream reason they are driving on the road, not in a hover craft (brain, that's dumb). So they're going down this main road on the way to the place. At this point it's a bridge over a body of water. They're speeding (obviously) and this planet has a crazy procedure for speeders. They block of the road ahead of the speeding vehicle with an energy wall, and then come up from behind to arrest them. They stop at the blockade and Ben is like,

‘I don't have time for this.’

and he gets out of the vehicle and turns on his blazing red lightsaber. So people around him are like,

‘oh, no.’

and he just carves through the barricade and keeps going. Then the dream goes to the tall fortress the kid is being held in. He's in the control room at the top with the leader. The leader has a two prong hook on one arm in place of his hand. He sees a disturbance at the front gate on his monitor. He brings up the image. It shows Ben stopping everyone in his way, lightsaber brandished.

"Who's that?" the leader asked, angry and worried.

The boy laughs and says, "You don't know who my dad is, do you?"

"Of course I do! He's Ben Solo!"

"Do you know who that is?" He points at the screen.

The leader looks at the monitor. The man had vanished. He's somewhere in the building. "He...he looked like that Kylo Ren from the old First Order. But he can't be. That man is dead."

"Haha, you're toast."

The leader sticks his hook in the boy's face. "I wouldn't get so cocky, or you might lose that tongue of yours!" Then Ben blasts into the room.

"Give me back my son!!"

The leader has Hanei in a choke hold, with his hook at the boy's face. "You'd better back down if you don't want something bad to happen to your boy." He snarls.

"Dad! Don't listen to him! He's just scared."

Ben turns off his lightsaber. But then he goes to force pull the hook off of the leader, but someone stops him in his tracks. He can't move.

"Ah, good. My associate is here." The leader smiles.

A person in a mask is standing to Ben's left, force holding him. Ben is struggling but then stops,

"Rey? Is that you?"

The person takes off the mask. It is indeed Rey.

"Ah, well. I guess my cover is blown. Hi, sweetie." Rey smiles at Ben.

The leader is super confused. "Wha-?"

"I'll take my son back, thank you." Hanei gets pulled into a hug by his mother.

"Mom! That was you!? So cool!"

"What are you doing here?" Ben asks.

"Oh, I was infiltrating this syndicate so you could take them over. But then this bonehead went and kidnapped my own son! What a predicament! He sent me away on a job right after, so I couldn't do anything about it until now. Sorry. He didn't hurt you, did he Hanei?"

"I'm fine, mom."

"Honey, we don't need more work. We're getting by fine."

"I know. But these guys are mean and criminal. People would be a lot happier with us running things."

Ben sighs. "Rey, we can't eradicate evil from the entire galaxy."

(I love my brain!)

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Dream

12/29/17

A prince was not interested in a physical relationship. The prince was lean and had sandy blond hair, he seemed melancholy. He married a girl who was okay with just being friends (she was peppy). She was fishing with him and a servant guy(50s). At first they caught small fish, then the prince left and she caught a large fish. I think they were fishing for dinner. They were eating dinner with his side of the family and in another room was his cousin’s side of the family (opposing royal? He was older, beefier, had dark hair and a groomed beard, I think he was shorter tho). The girl secretly wished the price liked her more. The cousin was trying to ruin their relationship, and poison the prince. Another girl, who was pretty, was interested in the prince. That put his current wife in danger. The wife found out about the poisoning; she also knew about the crush, but was despondent about it because he seemed to get along with the girl better than her. The girl made him happy and laugh. But she herself seemed to just annoy him.

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Dream/Idea

There were two warring races, a fish/snake like race that lived mostly in the water, and a race that lived above ground and looked like hairy short people (basically hobbits with some bear thrown in). There was a father who lost his last remaining son, all he had left was his daughter. Women didn't typically fight, but he wanted revenge and he wanted her help. So he made her suit up and in the cover of darkness they traveled to where a troop of fishmen were last seen. Apparently there were other races because the people that let them stay on their land weren't quite the same, at least they didn't seem like warriors. The two of them pitched a tent and waited to find the troop. One day, they found them. There were 6 fishmen, 5 adults and one adolescent (18ish). The father threw rocks and called down a challenge to the fishmen.

"You have taken four of my sons! Now I will kill four of you to avenge them!"

"You are mad. There are six of us and only two of you. You must want to die!"

The youngest fishman was training so he just watched. He had a cool, observing look on his face. One of the fishmen launched up out of the water onto the bank of the river, it was about five feet above the water level. The father struck him down. Then two more came up and flanked him on both sides. His was being pushed steadily to the steep bank of the river. The daughter stood quivering with her lance at a distance (near the bank but further down, about 20 ft).

"Daughter! Help me! Attack these monsters!" He was pushed closer. "Daughter!"

"No! Stop! Please don't hurt him! I can not kill, father! I cannot end a life! Please, leave him be and go on your way. He is deeply grieved. Please!"

The father slipped. "Daughter!"

"Father!" She backed up in shock. The two fishmen dove after him to help their colleagues finish him off. She backed up too far and tumbled into the river. The adolescent watched her fall. She screamed and plunged in. She could not swim and struggled under the weight of her armor. The adolescent saw this and went after her. He plucked her out of the water and noticed how cute she was. She finally took in air. Sputtering and coughing. She looked up at who was holding her and saw a beautiful face. Then she saw the fishmen drowning her father and passed out.

Next, she's dreaming. She's at a shallow river bank and sees something glinting in the water. She drops down on her hands and knees to see what it is. Suddenly a figure rushes up at her from the depths. Two slimy hands grasp her by the shirt. The decomposing face of her father cries, "why didn't you save me, daughter?" She screams and wakes up screaming. At first, she doesn't know where she is but then realizes she's back at her tent. It is night. She fumbles for a light with her shaking hands. She turns it on. A figure appears in her doorway. It is the adolescent fishman. She freezes in shock.

"You're okay. I'm glad." He comes closer. She sits into a ball on her bed.

"What do you want? Are you here to kill me?" She squeaked.

He stops. "No. I saved you. In the river."

"Why?"

"You would not kill my companions. Some would say that is cowardice, I say you are very brave."

"My father-"

"Is dead. They drown him and buried him under a pile of rocks at the bottom of the river. If you go to retrieve his body, they will kill you."

"I can not swim anyways."

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Dream

12/24/17

There was a lion trying to get me. I ran into a large (about 20x20) sized room and shut the French doors, turning the small lock (it was an antique lock, a small flat nub, gold in color). I put a chair up against it for good measure. I think there was a tiger outside so I couldn't escape that way. I sat up onto a queen sized bed and right in the middle sat with my knees to my chest. I want terrified, just trapped. Maybe hopeless feeling. Which is different for me because I always find a way. I think I knew I was alone and no one was coming to help me. (If they did I suppose they would get eaten). The room had the french doors on one wall. I was facing them sitting on the bed. The rest of the room had a slightly curved wall with several floor to ceiling windows. The day was light and airy. The walls were a light grey, wood. The bed was white metal, with white bedding, slightly frilly. The floors were wood, pine maybe. There was a slight breeze ruffling the sheer curtains.

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Dream

3/30/17

I had an interesting one. A girl arrived at an institute for mutants, but it was larger and different from Xavier’s (like a large boarding school in the country). It was still run by him though. She was getting to know people and had gone to a few classes. The scene switches to outside at a road that leads up to the school. This wispy, ghost-like creature shows up and takes out the guard and heads toward the campus. The alarm is sounded. Some people see the thing. Everyone runs in panic. Some older ones and teachers go out to face it. A group of girls tell the new girl to follow them. They run into a neighborhood like area and go up to what my dream interpreted was a morgue/funeral home. Perhaps that was foreshadowing. They get into the basement and lock themselves in. Later somehow the creature finds them, but there are more creatures? Aliens? It's like they are sniffing out mutants. They tell the new girl to hide in a closet. The new girl sits in there and has to listen as her companions are destroyed. Then it's quiet and the creatures are searching. She sees the door knob turn on the closet door and covers her mouth to keep from screaming. Then she hears a garbled noise from farther away, like another one talking to it, and the creature leaves the door. Then they leave the campus entirely. The X-men have arrived. But it's too late. There are very few survivors. The girl is too scared to leave because she's worried the creature will be waiting, and also what she will see out there - the carnage of her companions. Eventually a search party finds her many hours later. She is stiff from not moving for so long. All of the survivors are treated, interviewed, and put together in a safe place. Everyone lost someone they knew. Except the girl. She feels out of place, guilty that those girls died and not her; they mattered more than her. She considers running away so that she won't be responsible, in her eyes, for anyone else’s death. She doesn't want to be a burden. She doesn't want to feel that pain again, or anymore.

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Story idea

(Real-life would actually be great, too.)

A woman runs a mechanic shop that is employment/a half-way house for newly reformed criminals.

An early client, John, was a man who worked at her father’s shop while she was in high school. When he had been released from prison, her father decided to take a chance on him. She was shocked to hear how hard it was for him to find a job because of his record.

After a bit of college and lots of research she opens her own shop to exclusively hire and reintegrate newly released criminals. This was after her dad tragically died in gang cross fire.

John is her partner.

He’s stylish.

The shop works on all types of machines, custom work, and sourcing. She also has computers for the guys to take online classes. There are dorms upstairs.

They build trust in the community by their hard work and quality repairs.

Eventually they earn their freedom to work on their own and move up through a company. Apparently having this experience speaks volumes on an app.

At first they don't earn money, they are just fed and boarded. After a probation period they can earn a wage per hour. Depending on how much they want to earn they can work as much or as little as they want.

Some have been there for a couple of years.

They don't drink except once a month those who want to can go to a bar.

They don't play crude music, but I can imagine them singing to 21 Pilots. lol.

There's a lady that stays with the boss (the woman who owns the shop) sometimes, her name is Honey. She used to be a prostitute. She's still kind of promiscuous, but the boss tries to keep her in line.

So, let's be real. It would be awesome if more programs like this existed. People would have more hope after incarceration. Just an idea.