Clean-Up #dreamdiary 218

I’m sitting around a large oval table. It’s supposed to seat eight people but there’s twelve of us. Some of us are sharing chairs. We’ve just celebrated a great final night of our festival but there’s a bigger day that awaits us tomorrow. Our primary objective is to clear everything down. We don’t only have the festival to take down; we’ve got to pack our own equipment away and we’ve got to get the public off site too. There’s still some vendors who want to trade tomorrow to cook breakfast for the campers, who won’t be early risers. Then we’ve got to sort between the rubbish, useful stuff that’s been abandoned and stuff that we think belongs to someone who’s not here. We have to do all this while people are out with their families enjoying the rest of the site. We see people we recognise from school with miniature versions of themselves on bikes while we’re wandering around with black bags.

The Fades

We could be blipping. We’re fading into nothing. It’s as if we ceased to be. Luckily, someone’s managed to time a picture of our demise. It’s all getting very red and we’re starting to blend into the background already. You can see more of me, but that’s probably because I’m bigger. Her head’s began to fade back to turn into a spear. She’s going to skewer me to stop me from fading away, even if it sacrifices herself in the process. I might even be beheaded while she fades away into the TV as a perfect getaway vehicle. It’s the perfect crime. She might even have the power to rematerialize in front of another screen. Or she might drag me along with her. It could be a better world where I’m not being threatened by giant skewers. Or I could be facing something much worse by her design. Like miniature skewers.

 

My landlord just sold the house I'm renting from her. She included all fixtures that I bought and installed. Does she have this right?

No. she can try, but she’d be in the wrong. The key thing is to provide evidence. You should take photographs of the property before you move in. This is also useful if your landlord decides to charge you for any damage. You’d need to keep all receipts for the items that you’ve purchased. You’d need to arrange for somewhere to store them if you can’t move out in time. If you’re replacing things that are already there, you need an agreement with the landlord beforehand on what is happening with the old items. This information may already be in your rent agreement. Many new items can be registered with the serial numbers on government-backed websites to prove that they’re yours. If you can’t get the goods back off the landlord, you can demand that they supply you with replacement ones or demand compensation. Likewise, they can do the same if the property isn’t returned to its previous state.

Speed

We’ve ducked just in time. It’s as if there’s a little unseen hand running round with a piece of thread pulling everything down. The camera might have been attached to her head and it’s struggling to keep up. The green thing could be a dragon so she could be preparing a sheet for us to hide behind. It could be the dragon’s tongue. To the left of the dragon could be something sop point y that it could be a batman mask. Perhaps we’re being overshadowed by a bear in a portrait on the windowsill and it’s summoned the beast outside. Meanwhile, we’ve been forced to abandon our game and get out of the way so that we don’t get anything wrapped around our necks. She might have had to pull me down. I’m moving so fast that I’ve left half my hair behind. Even the radiator is beginning to separate from the wall. At least she’s joining in now, but for how long?

Verning Around

What a bitch. She’s small and skinny and slightly tanned, and she’s not afraid to show off her skin, which is brown with eyes to match. Then there’s straight hair and inflated lips which are always emphasised with lipstick. Short skirts are the preference even in winter, and high heels make her trot along and pull attention. She’s got an attitude to match as if everyone is below her. She maintains a professional attire, but she’s not afraid to flirt to get what she wants. She’s young and she thinks she’s got experience, but she doesn’t realise how actions affect people. We’re all just pawns on paper. When you try to tell her a situation, she’s unwilling to try and help change it or prevent it from reoccurring. God forbid if she should ever have to leave the office to pick something that isn’t a piece of paper. She’s just hanging around for experience before applying for a better position.

Shaken

Everything seems to be separating into two. We can already see two guitars beyond the sofa. There’s now two symmetrical media units, and the photo on the wall has given birth to a second one below and it looks shaken up enough to be able to produce a third. The painting on the left seems to be doing the same thing. The lights have also shaken as the wall’s not usually that bright. Maybe the fourth wall has fallen down. Certainly the bunting has, or the lens has cracked too much from being shaken up and down. In the meantime, you’ve managed to fit a GoPro to yourself to film the action. Either that or something’s fallen on you. The glass is intact, though it seems the photographer has caught the moment it merges. Either that or it’s about to shatter. The stereo’s giving birth to another unit, and Mom might follow suit.

“We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.”

-Tim S. Grover.

It’s one of those things that we  can’t get rid of but don’t want to give in to. It’s that little voice thar wants us to stop and do something else as the task is too hard. There’s a possibility that we might not get our way, but if we accept it straight away then we know that we’ve lost and we lose our ability to fight. You have to accept that it’s a possibility, but you also have to fight to change the outcome. There’s a possibility that you can win, but you have to invest in effort to make it happen. You cannot give in and need to believe that you can do the task. There may be many factors against you, but the earlier you tackle them, the easier the task becomes. But you can’t allow fear to get the best of you, otherwise you’ll never achieve anything.