January 10

I spent a day finding and creating backgrounds for the pillow book.  A true labour of love, looking at images of Japanese fabrics and papers.  I thought originally I would go with a seasonal theme, and start the January entries with some austere background, but I can't.  Red is my favorite colour, and as I enter into this new venture, it's one I can't resist.  I want to celebrate with colour! So expect a good week of red at least.  

What I spent most of my time doing today, is sleeping.  Battling with depression, I have days like these, where I can't keep my eyes open, even though I've already slept hours and hours and hours.  It's almost as if the world of dreams becomes the real world and the waking world a dull dream.  My dreams become vivid and compelling, and it's a struggle to rise from them.  The last part of the dream I remember before waking was that I lived in South America, and I had created a little burrow in the Jungle, to sit, and admire the wilderness, and it was filled with all kinds of birds, and the parrots in particular were fearless of people, and came to take food from my hands.

My dreams are always elaborate, and the people in them, even though me, have completely different histories, and sometimes live in totally fantastical worlds.  When I think about them once awake, it's like I've had a window into another psyche, because without thinking about it, I can answer questions about their lives and pasts even if I haven't dreamt those parts.  Wolfe always tells me in the mornings that I recount pieces of dreams to him, that I should write them as books.  

The highlights of my day, other than dreaming of a South American jungle bower filled with birds, has been an orange kit kat bar, and that South Park is on tonight, I'm the perfect mood for simple base crass humour, South Park is going to hit the spot.

I was supposed to be going with Wolfe to the girls (Aya and wife) to shoot photos at their house tonight, with a female friend of theirs who sounds like a complete hottie, that I'm really excited wants to pose for/with us.  She is supposedly a fan of the sites, which is great, that always feels good.  It also means that what we can afford to pay her, which is a membership to the members areas of the sites, will be appreciated.

Well, since I spent my day in dreams, that's all from me.  The other highlights from today, the backgrounds I've found for all my pillow book pages, and Nikko, drinking from the rain water collected in the pots on the deck outside. 

XO
Leila

Nikko on the back porch, he likes to drink rain water from the pottery.

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