{"id":1524,"date":"2012-03-11T07:34:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T12:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2023-10-13T22:30:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T03:30:50","slug":"and-then-i-wound-up-in-a-padded-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/blog\/2012\/03\/11\/and-then-i-wound-up-in-a-padded-room\/","title":{"rendered":"And then I wound up in a padded room&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it really going to be 70 degrees this week?  Or is the forecast just fucking with me?<\/p>\n<p>So the other night&#8230;Thursday, methinks&#8230;I had this dream.  When I woke up in the middle of the night, I <i>almost<\/i> sat bolt-upright in bed and said out loud, &#8220;What. The Actual. FUCK?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead I just stared up at the ceiling, thinking to myself, <i>Seriously&#8230;WTF do you smoke before bed, Sister? This can&#8217;t be good for your wellbeing.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And then I got out bed.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty sure most people wouldn&#8217;t find the dream all that weird, but this is me we&#8217;re talking about.  I read crazy shit into dreams like it&#8217;s my damn job.  And this one had me wide awake from a dead sleep at three in the morning.  Then once the initial WTF wore off, my brain automatically went to: <i>I wonder if I could write this?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Because that&#8217;s how I roll.<\/p>\n<p>In my infinite insanity, I managed to tie the idea that was brewing in my head into <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/guess-i-needed-something-new\/\" title=\"Guess I needed something new...\">an existing story that was <i>also<\/i> spawned by a dream<\/a><\/b>.  Because if I was going to take up smoking crack, I might as well go balls-deep.<\/p>\n<p>And now I have twenty-three pages of text written.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the sudden inspiration of this&#8230;new&#8230;idea, the legitimate project I&#8217;ve been working on for so many weeks has been temporarily pushed aside to accommodate this recent trip to crazy town.<\/p>\n<p>Bob just shakes his head at me.  I&#8217;m pretty sure he&#8217;s really starting to question his own sanity for putting up with my derangement like he does.<\/p>\n<p>And then he asks me what I&#8217;m currently writing.  And I tell him the latest scene in front of me.<\/p>\n<p>And I realize how fucking lucky I am to have someone who loves my complete and utter insanity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it really going to be 70 degrees this week? Or is the forecast just fucking with me? So the other night&#8230;Thursday, methinks&#8230;I had this dream. When I woke up in the middle of the night, I almost sat bolt-upright in bed and said out loud, &#8220;What. The Actual. FUCK?&#8221; Instead I just stared up at the ceiling, thinking to myself, Seriously&#8230;WTF do you smoke before bed, Sister? This can&#8217;t be good for your wellbeing&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/blog\/2012\/03\/11\/and-then-i-wound-up-in-a-padded-room\/\" class=\"readmore\">Keep reading&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And then I wound up in a padded room&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,7,13,121,122,111,6,12,127,126],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blame-caboose","category-creative-endeavors","category-geek-love","category-goddammit-joel","category-oh-my-god-what-are-we-yelling-about","category-some-things-are-only-funny-to-me","category-this-is-my-brain-and-welcome-to-it","category-writing","category-writing-freelancer-crack","category-writing-freelancer-ftp","tag-225","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}