Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Did You Know You Can Control Your Dreams?

Welcome to my very excited segment of how I had my first lucid dream after trying for years to manipulate my dreams. 

A little backstory, quickly, I stopped saying good night to people and started saying sweet nightmares because I would have nightmares way more often than dreams, it felt like a little secret that was mine and mine alone. I was hoping that their nightmares would be sweet and nothing like what my brain was coming up with. 

For years, I had dreams of being chased by clowns, drowning, seeing everyone I loved die in horrific manors, and the worst one SPIDERS. I do not like spiders one iota (one 'bit' for my American friends). 

My first lucid dream was me exploring an abandoned caravan. This place was filthy, covered in dust, and had large cobwebs everywhere. The last location in this caravan I explored was the bedroom. This was where the nest of black widow spiders lived. I went in and found a huge female spider; she told me she was the queen and controlled all her children. She continued on saying I would not get out alive. She tried sending her children to feast upon the meal that stood before them (me), but none of them moved more than a few centimeters. I told her I was in charge and that they would do what I wanted. I controlled them, and it turned out we liked each other's company. I would let her children crawl up my arms and into my hands just to hang out. That's when I realized I was in control of my own dream. 

Spider dreams often end up with me waking up sweating after they have crawled up my body and cocooned me to save for later. But I'm so happy to have finally achieved a successful lucid dream, and I can't wait to see if I will be able to do it again in the future. 

Thank you so much for reading. I know this one was shorter, but I wanted it to have its own time to shine with nothing overshadowing it. 

Have a great rest of your day and stay hydrated, you wonderful beans <3

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Just A Little Check-In With Lilly

I had to take my cat to the vets this week because there was blood in her poo. I bought some worming stuff safe for kittens, as the vet thought it could be a parasite in her lower gut. Fingers crossed it clears up because I hate to think my baby is in pain or unwell. In other news, the pond is still clean (cleaned it out recently) and the heron has not been back to attack the fishies (I told this story in one of Luna's streams). We have 70 fish in said pond. I am hoping to do movie reviews and book reviews when I have consumed some new content myself, rather than making content all the time and burning myself out. I don't think it's talked about enough. But do not overdo it if you feel you have a lack of motivation and energy, please take a day off, take some time to look after yourself, eat a great meal, drink some water, or maybe relax with a book under a blanket or watch a movie on the couch. You are important and you matter, don't burn yourself out for a job that is barely paying you enough to survive because lets be honest, most people are on minimum wage and barely surviving some people work two jobs just to provide for their family not taking their own health both physical and mental into consideration. You deserve some me time. Challenge yourself to find an hour a day to do something that's just for you. Not your boss. Not your job. Not your family. Taking care of yourself needs to be a priority. I know this isn't my usual content, but I just felt like this would be nice to share. All the ups and downs, have a great rest of your day, and stay hydrated, you wonderful beans <3

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

The Type Of Person You Are - Relationship Cheater

Welcome back to my excited ramblings. I have thought about more I want to say, and each week there will be a small update, and if I've watched or read something, I will tell you about that too!

So, I have started recording a podcast with two people I hold very dear in my heart, and so far it's going well. I have made characters for myself and one of the other folks involved to make the visuals easier for the viewers/listeners to know who is talking, and while yes, it may not have been completely necessary, it was a fun activity to do because who doesn't love procrastinating one project with the next. (God knows Rambo does lol) 

I'm very excited to be working on the podcast, as we have spoken about it as a group of three for a whole year, so I finally said, let's just go for it and start. It may not be normal, but I love to stock up on content just in case something happens, so we have decided as a group to stock up on about 20 episodes just in case we can't record specific days. Illness could get in the way, and people go away for holidays, and any family emergency could happen at any point. So I would rather be overprepared than under if you get me. You could view me as the type to overpack on a holiday, but my last holiday, I actually didn't pack enough socks, so I had to pinch my socks off of my boyfriend at the time. 

Which leads us into my actual story-time tale for you. He isn't my boyfriend anymore. I was set to go on yet another big family trip with him when, just a few days before we flew out to America, he went out clubbing and cheated on me with a man. It was also 2 or 3 days before my birthday, so that really hurt me because I knew I was going to spend almost 2 weeks in a foreign country with him and his family. It was too late to back out, and I had paid for my flight and my part of the accommodation. Couldn't lose out on that well-earned money I had spent, y'know?

Regardless, I'm so glad I went because I got to see Florida, and it was a great time. In the back of my mind, I always knew he was going to be reminded of me because his family took so many group pictures, so if he looks back, he will forever be reminded of how he messed it up. 

I pictured marrying this man, I truly loved him, and the day I saw the video of him French kissing this other man, it felt like my heart shattered into a million pieces, but I had to pull myself together and not make him aware that I knew what he did while we were in America. Granted, this happened a long time ago, and I'm fully over it at this point. I still think about it from time to time. I wonder if I did the right thing or not. Literally a day before we were meant to fly out, my mum was saying 'you are really brave for going through with this' and 'you don't have to go if you don't want to'. I just kept reminding myself that there was no point wasting the money I had worked so hard to save up for this trip, that I wasn't going to let my emotions get in the way. 

There was one night where most people had gone to bed and I was left alone chilling in the hot tub with his dad who confronted me because he knew something was off so I told him what the problem was, I didn't want to tell him but I did because he wouldn't let me leave the conversation until I told him the problem. So I told him and asked him to not say anything because I was still figuring out if I could forgive him because I did love him. I cried, his dad hugged me, and he dropped the conversation, but I guess I was on borrowed time from then on. 

My ex couldn't believe I knew the truth, as he found out from his dad the night we got home. So we broke up over the phone, him telling me how sorry he was and that he would never do it again. I vaguely remember the call ended with me saying 'Once a cheater, always a cheater'.

Thank you for reading my rambling. I didn't think the story would be that long, but live and learn, as they say. I am stronger from that experience, but it's not a nice feeling to have. 

There was so much more to the story as well, but I don't wish to bore. 

Have a great rest of your day and stay hydrated you wonderful beans <3

Monday, May 12, 2025

The Speed Limit Is NOT A Recommendation

 Did you know that speed limits aren't just meant to be a suggestion? Did you know that they serve more purposes than just giving law enforcement a reason to pull you over? Did you know that following the speed limit could help save a life? Could be your own, could be a child's, could be anyone's!

While leaving for work today, I was pulling out of my apartment complex, and I triple checked both directions before pulling out onto the main road, and the closest car was at least 50 feet away, so I should have had ample time to get out into the street and get up to speed. ESPECIALLY if they were going the speed limit and were being observant and took the fraction of a second to slow down as a courtesy. INSTEAD. They were going over the 25-mile-per-hour speed limit and nearly T-boned me! Then dared to yell at me like it was my fault that they nearly hit me! 

Speed limits are posted to give you time to react to the world around you, to keep the kids playing in the park safe, and to keep traffic flowing on the highway. Not to mention likely other things. So please, for the love of all things living, GO THE SPEED LIMIT.

Thanks

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Productivity and Holding Yourself Accountable

It is important to get things done; most people call it being responsible and being an adult. Some tasks that you do can be regular daily chores like laundry or taking out the trash, other tasks can be things like making thumbnails for content online, leisurely items like hanging out with loved ones or catching up on shows; it is all productivity.

I posted recently about list making and if it actually works, but sometimes making the list isn't the only thing you need to do. Sometimes you need to find somebody to help hold you accountable. Preferably somebody who is also trying to get things done, so that you aren't envious of the fun they are having. 
This can prove very beneficial for keeping you on track to keep marking off them items on your list. Of course, at some point, you are going to have completed so much that you think it is time to take a break, and that is also okay. 

Taking breaks is going to help keep you refreshed and help you keep up your energy to get more items done. 

I like to do a rotation of one to two hours of productivity and then 15 to 30 minutes of relaxation.

Eventually, you will work through enough of your to-do list that you will feel like you got something done with your day. 

Or, y'know, you could just keep letting your to-do list build up.

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Listie Lists - Helpful or Hurtful?

How do you stay focused on getting stuff done throughout the day? How do you keep track of everything that needs to be done?

Are you the kind of person who just knows what needs to get done and does it immediately without any side quests enabled? Or are you the type of person who needs to pace themselves and take a break between different excursions?

Honestly, I tend to derail super easily, and regardless of whether I have a list made up or not, if I am not in the mood to be productive, then nothing is going to get done! But making a list to begin with can spark that little bit of motivation to get things done that I need in my day. And so, because of this, I am very much a list person. 

Growing up, we had a chore chart that listed all of the different tasks we needed to get done throughout the day, but also throughout the week. This helped my mom to make sure we were all getting things done around the house but it also helped me to know if others had completed something, if I was going to be expected to do something else, and how much I had to get done before I would be allowed to do fun things like have a friend over.

Utilizing lists still remains a part of my life. Grocery lists, chore lists, game lists, book lists. They help me know what I have and have not done or gotten. 

Although, honestly, I recently made a list of things to do for a friend that couldn't figure out what she needed to focus on and I saw how little that list was compared to the things that I needed to get done on my own lists and it made mine feel so much larger than it use to before ....

Sometimes I wish I could wave a magic wand and just poof my list complete.

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

A New Author Has Entered The Chat - Welcoming Lilly

Hello! Thank you for checking out my first blog post! 

I'm so excited to join this team with amazing people. 

I'd like to introduce myself to those who don't know me. I am Lilly, and I am a full-time content creator from the UK. I love playing games, my top few are Dead by Daylight, Fortnite, and Minecraft. I edit all my thumbnails and videos myself for social media, and I enjoy writing. I did want to be an author at one point, but following my heart with going with the gaming stuff just seemed like the best move. Who knows, I may have a book or two out in the future. At this current moment in time, I have half written two books. I like to read, though I don't know my favourite genre, I enjoy quite a large range of genres. Last year, I was challenging myself to read one book every month, but I failed due to a lot going on in my life. The books I read last year were Stitch Head, The Spider's Lair, The Pirates Eye, and The Ghost of Groteskew, all by Guy Bass, additionally, James and the Giant Peach and The Twits by Roald Dahl, Girl Missing by Tess Gerritsen and a short book called How to Tame Your Cat by Sam Heart. 

As previously mentioned, I had a lot going on in my life last year. I moved house and started taking care of my nan because she has dementia. I even wrote half a book about taking care of her and the funny things she says. But caring for someone who has dementia is not easy, yes, there are good moments, but there are also bad moments. Recently, she has become bed-bound and is eating and drinking less and less, so it is worrying, but there isn't too much we can do about that. 

Thank you again for reading my first post. I'm very excited to do more of these. Have a great rest of your day 

P.S. My favourite animals include Pandas, Bats, and Cats.

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

A Brief Trip Down Memory Lane - New Author Luna

    Dear Reader,   

  Well hello! I don't exactly know what to say here, or how to get the words on paper right; but I figured my thoughts aught to go somewhere, right? I also figured a good place to start with all my thoughts would be to give the best most entertaining and exciting synopsis on my life so far. I might as well start now, the longer I procrastinate the more I'll have to write about. 

    I grew up with my mom and dad, my older sister (K), and my little sister ($). We lived on a street where everyone knew everyone, and no one Karen'd there way onto hit lists. Well technically i only lived on that street until $ was out of a crib, then we needed more space so we swapped houses with my dads mom and are to this day living in his childhood house. Despite moving away from living in the duplex with MomMom in the four bedroom house next door, most of my childhood was still spent on that street. 

    I learned so much about so many people on that street, every house had a friend of the family living there, Mrs. L down in the brown house would always make us soup, K.C.'s parents hated mine but they still let me use their trampoline, and the house with all the animal figurines always had wild animals in the back yard. A weekend at MomMom's house was never boring. The best part about an "everybody known everybody" neighborhood was that everyone shared what they had. The neighbors across the street always had a fully stocked cookie jar on their porch with a ceramic lid on it to keep out the bugs, two doors up the street had so many books I was genuinely convinced as a kid that it was the local library, and down at the end of the street, right by the cul-de-sac, an old man let us draw on his massive 4 car driveway with chalk paint he'd mix for us. 

    All of our backyards were connected, you could walk from one end of the street to the other behind everyone's houses and only run into one fenced in yard, and that was only because he had chickens. We would drive our kiddie motorbikes and motorized cars around the yards for hours. Fallen trees became the planks of pirate ships, the holes from the roots would be portals to other dimensions (they were always bad dimensions as told by our parents so we wouldn't try climbing down into them). That street was a little over-imaginative kids DREAM. 

    When we moved from that street to my dad's childhood house, our Nana moved in where we were, which only made that street better in my opinion. She taught me how to use a needle and thread, and paid me 25 cents a jar to sort her buttons for her. Nana had a garden in her back yard, it had something tasty growing no matter the season; except winter where everything moved into the greenhouse with the fish tank. in spring we'd go out and pick the strawberries and blueberries she'd grow and eat them right off the vine. My sisters always made fun of her for worrying too much, and never really got along with her, but I adored every second i got to spend with her. Even now I love seeing her, though it's much less often.

    If I kept going about my childhood I'd be here for chapters, so for your sake I'll wrap it up. I truly believe that my childhood shaped me as a person. For better or worse I came out the way I did because of the people I was surrounded by. I love my family, especially my grandmothers. Laying awake some nights I let my mind drift back to the time I spent on that street and how grateful I am to have a village like that to raise me. I will probably tell more stories from that street in future posts, but for now I gotta pay attention to work.


                                                                                                                        ~Luna


Monday, May 5, 2025

Getting To Affiliate - It's Different For Everyone

There are many different paths you can take in life, and a lot of those paths can lead to the same goal. That is because there is no one correct way to go about anything. Sometimes different paths can be found because you have different capabilities, sometimes it's a matter of what connections you have, sometimes it's that the path was already forged before you started on your journey.

When I was working on hitting affiliate on Twitch, I had my own alternate motives; I was helping a friend. It eventually became I continued streaming because I enjoyed it and I enjoyed the community connections, and I wanted to have a way to relieve stress but by that point I had already gotten affiliate due to pushing my way into other communities and making connections with folks who helped to push me and keep my numbers up. Because of that community, I try my best, every chance I can, to help push others to get to that point. Where they take it after that is completely up to them, but I can help at least get them started.

Whether this is the best means of achieving something like affiliate status on Twitch or monetization status on YouTube, is still up for debate but at least it gets rid of the stress of when will you make that status if at all.

There are some folks out there who streamed for months and years on end before finally getting that status, and only because they happened to be playing a game that brought in somebody bigger with the numbers to help push them there.

Over time, your drive can diminish, and that's unfortunate because that drive is what should be helping to push you into triumph rather than into a wall of defeat.

But maybe I am wrong


Sunday, May 4, 2025

May the Fourth Be With You

 Incase you forgot, today is the stat of Star Wars week!

It's time to let your geek fly freely and embrace all thing galactic in the empire! 

And the best part? This year, Disney+ is running a Star Wars marathon on their platform! No need to decide which movie to watch and no worrying about switching the disk out. Just a need to worry about if you have enough snacks and when the best time to break for potty time is.



What's your favorite non-main Star Wars character?

Saturday, May 3, 2025

Recruiting New Faces

 Content creation is not something you need to do on your own. It's a lot more fun with friends, and it's a lot easier to maintain with others on your team.

With others, you can edit your videos, you can get second opinions on graphics, and you can get help typing daily journal entries that you struggle to put out. 😅

Thankfully, as you keep making content, you come across a lot of faces, and while they may not all stick around for a long time, the ones who stick around for at least a while to help alleviate the stress are wonderful.

Look out for new faces coming in the future, they may be faces you will come to love and rely on just like mine <3