Saturday, 15 September 2012

Daydreams and Deprivations

I've got a secret to tell. Though it won't be a secret any more now....

I'm Zinny Taylor. No, I'm not Ni, I'm Zinny. There's a trail starting from the back of my farm house that leads right into the Mayor of Chocton's garden. The trail is beautiful. Zinnias line the trail path, old, mystic trees form a archway and the air. Oh, the air it's just soooo sweet. You can walk through Maiden's Walk, Sleepy Bear Ridge and escape from Shady Death Ridge. And guess who cleared this path? Me. Yup, me. 

Though there's a slight problem with this reality Chocton doesn't exist and this reality only exists in my head. I'm one of those people who have an active imagination and this leads me to daydream frequently. You know I'm daydreaming when I'm awkwardly staring at something with a smirking-crossed-with confused face. Kind of like the pfft-I saw-that-YouTube-video-before-it-got-popular face. I can daydream about anything from making a salsa (dancing not the dip) dress to imagining that I'm a character from a book. 

Daydreaming becomes more frequent when I'm deprived of something, in this case books. I went 2 weeks without books due to the exams and that basically means murder in bookworm talk. 2 weeks, that's near insanity. So when I finally got to read a book, Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech, I got my Life back and my bookish ways. For a whole day after I read that book (I finished it in about 6 hours flat, yeah I was desperate) I kept dreaming I was Zinny Taylor, the main character of the book.

If you know a bookworm and you find him/her reading a book rather intensely you know that he/she will become absent minded. So I was reading the book in my bed with a blanket, eating BBQ chips and it was lunch time. I ate my macaroni and cheese in bed. Now there was a problem I only have two hands and I had to hold three things: my macaroni, the book and the chips. The solution was obvious of course. Dump the chips into the macaroni and then I only have to hold two things. I did just that. You may think eww... chips and macaroni together? No way!!! But let me tell you that it made the macaroni so much more delicious! Adds a certain crunch to it and spice.

Ahhh, daydreaming it's like you're getting a mini staycation in your little melon. Or dressing up your life, to make it more exciting or adventurous like in a book. 

So what have you been daydreaming about lately?

Ni




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