Wednesday update

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I am chilled this morning and cannot get warm. I've shut the door to my office to trap the warmth my PC and lamps generate* - in twenty minutes or so, the temperature in my office will have risen appreciably. I'm hoping it will help. Come lunchtime I'll have to go foraging out in the cold. I'll face that when I have to and not worry about it now.

I dreamed last night that we moved, significant for me given I've never lived anywhere else since I was four years old. The house in my dream was a blank slate, full of potential and floors that didn't bounce or squeak.  The basement of this "new" house was my real basement, which says something about my state of mind about the work we've been doing downstairs.

The downstairs is cleaner, and with a lot of stuff either put or thrown or donated away, it's more open, more inviting. Almost cozy. If I could find a place elsewhere to store all my leftover fabric I could clear out a LOT of space.

Thanks to the kindness of friends, we're expecting a new dishwasher this weekend. I need to get the old one out and curbside for whoever wants to try their hand at fixing it. Maybe tonight, depending on what's on the schedule.



* I don't use the office fluorescents. I've a "can" light in one corner pointed up at the wall, and a torchiére next to my desk, also pointed up. Both are incandescent and produce quite a bit of heat.

In every office I've ever worked since I started consulting, I arrive early one morning and pull the bulbs from the fixture directly over my desk. People say I love the dark, but actually I hate glare. Big difference. I strive for strong but indirect light.

Comments

[juliegocrazy.livejournal.com]

Yay for new dishwasher!! As for your dream...it is said that a building, especially a house, represents yourself, where you are in your life.
Just a thought.

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

That's a fascinating line of thought, the kind of thing that, were I prone to it, would keep me up at night. And it just might... :)

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

A lot of times, the house may not represent the self, per se, but how we view our lives and the rooms and objects represent the items and events that we have experienced.

If, for example, we dream of a new, empty house, quite it may be our subconscious letting us know that we have moved into a new phase of our life or that we NEED to consider doing some house cleaning in our lives and do some simplification.

A house may also represent a Family, if Family is how one defines their self. In other words, not an individual at all, but a part of the whole.

The basement in this dream, since that is where Bill holds his physical soul (I think I have that pretty darn close, William - and I'm not counting music here), at least in dream representation, might mean that he's fairly secure in his representation of himself, regardless of changes that he perceives occurring at this time in his life.

Basically, a not a bad or good dream, just a dream of change with stability at it's base. Sort of like drawing the Death Card in Tarot, or the Blank rune.

Of course... I could be wrong...

[glesyn.livejournal.com]

I *constantly* have dreams involving WAY bigger homes than I've ever lived in. Rooms upon rooms upon rooms, sometimes rooms I had no idea even existed. I have zero idea what my subconscious is trying to tell me.....

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

As friend JulieGoCrazy points out, when we dream of houses, we're really dreaming of our selves.

An interesting thought, no?

[glesyn.livejournal.com]

It is indeed.

I always thought it was because I grew up in cramped quarters and wanted room to stretch.

:D

[iarraidh.livejournal.com]

Back when we were in the office, there was a flourescent fixture directly overhead the center of our cubes. We always unscrewed the bulbs. We could tell when the maintenance guys had been in because they'd be reconnected :P

Flourescents beaming down on CRT's will give me a headache in about 20 minutes.