"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."
Truman Capote

About me:

Hello all! You may remember me by the billion other names I went by, but now I'm simply known as Lost in Day Dreams (because I literally am all the time), or you could call me Cyndy if you would like. I've been a member of this site for three years now and have enjoyed every minute of it. As you can tell, I absolutely love to write and hope to make a career of it some day. As a result, I may take my writing on this site a bit too seriously, but what the heck! I'm having fun! Oh and also, just a friendly warning! I'm a bit of a romantic...okay, a hopeless romantic, so most of my stories are going to be full of lovey dovey stuff between my favorite couples. Just thought you should know and I hope you do not think me ridiculous because of it!

Interests (I have lots of random ones so be warned!):

Favorite Shows

Reba, The Office, Green Acres, The Dick Van Dyke Show, I Love Lucy, Little House on the Prairie, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, some episodes of Angel, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Friends, The Golden Girls, The Nanny, Home Improvement, The Colbert Report, Gilligan's Island, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Boy Meets World, and certain cartoons like Fairly Oddparents.

Favorite Movies

Any movie with Reba McEntire, Phantom of the Opera (2004), Moulin Rouge (2001), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, all the Jim Carey movies, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corspe Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Emperor's New Groove, Edward Scissorhands, Little Miss Sunshine, Steel Magnolias, Erin Brockovich, Finding Nemo, Kung Fu Panda, Wall-E, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Prince of Egypt, Airplane, The Simpsons Movie, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Three Amigos, Walk the Line, Shark Tale, Madagascar, Anastatia, Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, My Fair Lady, Singin' in the Rain, West Side Story, The Birds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Psycho, and all the non computer-animated disney love story movies like Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, etc.

Favorite Musicals/Operas

South Pacific, Annie Get Your Gun, The Phantom of the Opera, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Tosca, Turandot, and La Boheme

Favorite Actors/Actresses

Reba McEntire, Jim Carey, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Steve Carell, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Jude Law, Gerard Butler, Ewan Mcgregor, Nicole Kidman, Orlando Bloom, Conan O'Brien, Jim Caviezel, Vincent Price, Harrison Ford, Will Smith, Stephen Colbert, Samuel L. Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Audrey Hepburn, Carol Burnette, Vicki Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Vivian Leigh, Humphry Bogart, Gene Kelly, Eva Gabor and Clark Gable.

Favorite Singers/Groups

Reba McEntire (noticing a theme here?), Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, Brooks & Dunn, George Strait, Josh Turner, Vince Gill, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood, Kelly Clarkson, Justin Timberlake, Jennifer Hudson, Celine Dion, Etta James, Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Josh Groban, Luciano Pavarotti, Andrea Bocelli, Selena

Favorite Broadway Stars

Reba McEntire, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Bernadette Peters, Joanna Gleason, and John Lithgow

Favorite Composers

Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Danny Elfman, Rogers & Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, and Giacomo Puccini

Hobbies

Singing, dancing, writing (duh!), hanging out with friends, you know, the normal junk!

Likes

Reba/Brock stories, Sweenett stories (Sweeney Todd) Victor/Victoria stories (Corpse Bride), Cosmo/Wanda stories, romantic stories, making new friends, finding people who share my interests, getting reviews, sharing ideas

Dislikes

Rude reviews, rude people, conceited people, judgemental people (constructive criticism is good, but there's a fine line between that and just being plain mean), prejudicism, racism, know-it-alls, pointless stories, poorly-written stories, people abandoning their stories (even though my updates may be far between sometimes, I will NEVER leave a story incomplete)

Favorite Quotes:

"It's not the critic who counts...It's not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled...Credit belongs to the man who really was in the arena, his face marred by dust, sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs to come up short and short again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming. It is the man who actually strives to do the deeds, who knows the great enthusiasm and great devotion, who spends himself on a worthy cause, who, at best, knows in the end the triumph of great achievement. And who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and cruel souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Work as if you didn't need the money; love as if you've never been hurt; dance as if no one is watching." - Unknown

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intellegent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?" - George Orwell

"Find a subject you care about and which you feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style." -Kurt Vonnegut

"If you wake up in the morning and all you can think about is writing, then you're a writer." - Unknown

"All I know of love is that love is all there is." - Unknown

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."- Benjamin Franklin

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." - Alexander Hamilton

"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision." - Gary Collins

"The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all."- Unknown

"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France

"When all think alike, no one is thinking very much." - Walter Lippmann

"Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own." - Chinese proverb

"You must believe in free will; there is no choice." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde

"Its better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." - Mark Twain

"The only thing standing between me and total happiness is reality." - Anonymous

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." - Erma Bombeck

"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." - Jules de Gaultier

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing." - Oscar Wilde

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be beautiful, smart, or talented?' Actually, who are we not to be? It is our duty on this earth to give glory to God in all things that we do. And when we shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same." - Unknown

"Courage is not the abscense of fear. Rather, it is the judgement that something else is more important than fear." - Unknown

"Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up." - Jesse Jackson

"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it." - Josephus Daniels

"Still glides the stream and shall forever glide; The Form remains, the function never dies; While we the brave, the mighty and the wise; We men, who in our mourn of youth defied; The elements must vanish -- be it so! Enough, if something from our hands have power; To live, to act, and serve the future hour; And if, as towards the silent tomb we go; Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower; We feel we are greater than we know." - William Wordsworth

"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." - Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they go right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart, so that better things can fall together." - Marilyn Monroe

"The recollected mind is awake
In the knowledge of the Atman
Which is dark night to the ignorant
The ignorant are awake in their sense-life
Which they think is daylight:
To the seer it is darkness" -Unknown

"They don't even know what it is to be a fan. Y'know? To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts." - Sapphire, Almost Famous

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." - Christian, Moulin Rouge

"...It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world." - Rick Blaine, Casablanca

"Just because I rock doesn't mean I'm made out of stone." - Jim Carrey, Me, Myself, and Irene

Reba Quotes:

Cheyenne: (about Kyra living with Barbra Jean and Brock) She must be making their lives a living nightmare.
Reba: (laughs) I know!
(Straightens up)
Reba: I mean...
(firmly)
Reba: I know

Reba: (to Babara Jean) Look, don't think of it as Brock getting a mistress. Think of it as us gettin' a new girl for our club!

Reba: Barbara Jean, I'm not gonna talk to my ex-husband about having a baby with the woman he left me for! That's weird even for our family!

(After Reba gives Van and Cheyenne the car they were supposed to pay half for)
Brock: What about your principles?
Reba: Turns out my sanity comes first.

Reba: Yeah, and 'cause after a few jello shots, my name starts to look like, 'Robo'!"

Reba: I know what my daughter is up to!
Brock: Oh really? Like you did with Cheyenne?
Reba: Oh, one time! The one time our daughter gets pregnant and I never hear the end of it!

Reba: The turkey's the headliner! If Thanksgiving were a concert, the turkey would be Cher.
Barbra Jean: So, you want to have Thanksgiving here, AND you want Cher?
Reba: That's right. I've got turkey, babe!

Reba: It's a mother-in-law's job to make the best out of a bad situation.
Van: (sarcastically) Oh, I thought it was a mother-in-law's job to make butt-jokes about her son-in-law!
Reba: We wear many hats.

Reba: Oh for the love of grits and gravy Barbra Jean you're a grown woman! Quit acting like a little silly (looks at Jack) yumm!

Reba: I wish I could trade you kids for some magic beans! (sticks out tongue)

Barbra Jean: Guess what I am?
Reba: The new fruit in the fruit of the loom?

Brock: Do you know WHY I always win?
Reba: Cuz you're a gigantic butt?

Brock: Mrs. Hart, do you know what it means to be a hostile witness?
Reba: Bite me.

(After seeing Barbra Jean break down on television)
Reba: She looks like I need a drink...

Reba: Barbra Jean, remind me to later show you that thing about my fist and the side of your head.

Barbara Jean: (to blind Reba) Okay, since you can't watch TV, I thought that for entertainment, I could read to you!
Reba: Read? Why, just to prove you can?

(Reba has just fooled Barbra Jean into thinking she's seen a ghost)
Brock: Now what'd you have to go and do that for?!
Reba: (Laughing) I can't help it, it's funny!
Brock: Funny? Funny?! You think it's funny that I had to spin around ten times before I got into bed last night?! I broke a perfectly good lamp!
Reba: (Tries to suppress laughter) It's a little funny...

Barbara Jean: Say hi to the spirits Reba!
Reba: 'Sup?

Lori Ann: Married, dead, gay, gay, gay...
Reba: Three of them are gay?
Lori Ann: No, just the one, but he came out in a BIG way.

Barbra Jean: You know, if you did something to look like me, I'd consider it a compliment.
Reba: I'd consider it Halloween.

Kyra: I hate it here!
Reba: (mockingly) Me too! Who should we call about that?

Reba: At first I thought he was kidding. Then I remembered - he's not funny.

Brock: Do you know what a Mulligan is?
Reba: The booze you've been drinking?

Kyra (referring to her boyfriend Chip): Isn't he cute?
Reba: Probably, what's your guess?

Kyra (referring to her boyfriend Chip): Mom, he's nice!
Reba: I dont know that! I dont even know if he has a face!

Kyra: Where are you going?
Reba: In the living room...with Willie Nelson here.
Kyra: I thought you were going to the market.
Reba: Nah, I don't need to.
Kyra: Then what are we gonna have for dinner?
Reba: Uh...gum and cheetos.

Reba: Let me ask you a question, Van! Why did you tell Sadie I was gay?!
Van: What?! I never said that!
Reba: Did you tell her I was super gay?!
Van: Well, yeah...
Reba: Gah!!
Van: Well, I didn't mean to! It's just that Sadie and I were talking about our favorite cities, and I said I really liked Lubbock and she mentioned San Fransisco, and I wanted to sound clever and make a joke but I didn't know anything about San Fransisco except cable cars and gay people...
Reba: Van!
Van: So I made a joke about gay people, but it wasn't funny apparently, because she looks at me kind of offended and says, "Van, I'm gay. Do you have a problem with gay people?" and I said, "No! Not at all! My mother-in-law's super gay!"

Reba: I can't drag a bag of dimes to the bank, they'll think I robbed a fountain!

Barbara Jean: This is no time to be cheap, Brock.
Reba: Yeah, it's not like you're buying a suit.

Reba: Van, are you okay? Because if you're still upset about losing your football career, we can talk about it.
Van: No thanks, its okay. I've been through all the stages of grief: anger...denial...unusually dry skin. But now I feel like a moist, new man!

Reba: Barbra Jean may be your wife, but she's also my (pauses) person I know...

Barbara Jean: Reba, I am well aware of all the silly little things I do. If I wasn't, I'd be insane!
Reba: That's your argument?! I know I'm insane so I'm not insane?!

Barbara Jean: Oh gosh! Van is gonna lose it when he finds out I wrecked his car!
Kyra: He really is. He gets that look where his two eyebrows merge together, and he looks like that muppet that lives in a trash can.

Reba: Actually these little energy drinks aren't that bad! But they're so tiny. I'd have to drink ten of these...
Brock: Okay. And I'll catch your heart when it blows outta your chest!

Brock: You know what? Call her on her cell and tell her that if she doesn't get her butt home right now that you are kicking her out!
Reba: How can I do that?! She already left!
Brock: Then tell her you are kicking her in!
Reba: What does that even mean?!
Brock: I don't know, I am obviously panicking!

Reba: Don't you see what's going on around here?! They're trying to take away Van's scholarship from him because he's hurt!
Brock: What?! They wouldn't do that to him!
Reba: Oh these colleges do that sorta thing all the time! They did a big story on it on 20/20 or Night thingy or that one where that guy's hair looks like it's made outta wood!

Brock: I'm gonna get my six pack abs back. You remember them?
Reba: No, but I remember your man-girdle.

Van: I came to discuss your poor work ethic.
Reba: Poor work ethic?! I've been bustin' my hump since 6 a.m.!
Van: Seven calls?! You're barely scratching your hump!

(After walking in on Reba and Barbra Jean hugging)
Van: It was then they realized that neither one of them needed a man.