Will There Be a Twilight Zone In..................
By Sparks
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
Regina, Saskatchewan
April 26, 2009 11:19pm CST
Manitoba?
Those of you that have been following my little life, or corresponding with me by email, have heard me say more than once that "I live in the Twilight Zone".
And it's true. I do. I'm even writing a book about my experiences here called "Prairie Life in the Twilight Zone". I've categorized my life this way because
ever since I can remember, I've been a magnet for every weird and wonderful character
and situation that one person can have come their way.
Living in Saskat., in the town I'm in now has been no exception. In fact it's been
a gold mine of people and happenings that would give Rod Serling fodder for tv shows for years to come. I MUST learn to write a good script! LOL
Anyway, you all know now that I will shortly be moving to Manitoba. To a regular town with regular people.
I'm terrified that my twilight zone experiences will be over. I'm afraid that I'll blend into the background of my new environment and the weird and the wonderful will pass me by. *horrors!*
What do you think? Do you think I'll simply fade away as old journalists are wont to do? Or do you think that my insanity will simply find new and bizarre ways to express itself? Am I fated to always seem to be the magnet for the weird and wonderful, or is there no Twilight Zone in Manitoba?
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@taface412 (3175)
• United States
28 Apr 09
I thought I was the only one who attracted freaks....no fear wherever there are people there is always a group or a specific individual in the town that is "special". And there are twilight zones everywhere.
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
LOL, nice to meet you freak attractor! Welcome to my Twilight Zone! ROFL
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@jerzgirl (9232)
• United States
27 Apr 09
Spark - strange, weird and wonderful know no boundaries. They may seem a bit more concentrated in some areas, but they are everywhere! You may well find more fodder for your story lines in the larger population than you thought possible.
So - will your new house have a "proverbial white picket fence"? 
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
Good thinking jerz.........
And of course a picket fence! Just for you, if I have to build it again myself!
@royal52gens (5488)
• United States
28 Apr 09
Oh, you will never ever fade into the background of any town. The Twilight Zone follows you where ever you go. So when are you going to get that book finished. And how much is it going to cost? I have to start saving up my pennies so I can buy it. I also want an autographed copy. LOL
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
You get an autographed copy for free Royal. No worries. As to when it will be finished.........it's getting there, though it's been on hold for awhile what with the move and all.
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@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
28 Apr 09
YOU are going to make a lot of new friends and be in a house that you'll love! Then you're going to get those passports ready and come down for a visit!! All the while, you'll have another story to add to your book! So keep on writing because I'm waiting for a copy to reach the book shelf so I can tell all my wonderful friends "LOOK! I got a book written by a dear dear friend!"
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
Oh sweets, you won't have to go to a bookstore for YOUR copy! Thanks for the encouragement.
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
28 Apr 09
Well sparks, we have not known each very long but I am pretty darn sure that there's bound to be a Twilight Zone in Manitoba and if it is a larger town you will just attract more weird and wonderful characters! You're the magnet love, they will all be drawn to you and you will tell us all about their bizarre ways and stories in your own clever and witty way because we'll be waiting! 
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
Ah gee Paula............I KNEW there was a reason I liked you! ROFL Thanks sweets.
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
Apparently I'm a 'magnet' for the weird and wonderful...........
I must be.
I spend a lot of time HERE!
ROFL
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@Darkwing (21583)
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28 Apr 09
If you're a magnet for the weird and wonderful, then you're sure to attract them wherever you go, my friend. I don't know how close to where you're going, but our mutual friend, Raia, lives in Manitoba. Wouldn't it be something if your paths crossed when you move there?
It's a bit of a wrench leaving a place you've been in for a while, to go somewhere else, but you'll be ok. You've lived in Manitoba before from what I can gather, and you're the type of person who will make friends and settle in quite easily, I feel.
Brightest Blessings my friend.
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
Thanks Darkwing. You sooth my spirit as always..............Shining Blessings to you too.
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@34momma (13882)
• United States
27 Apr 09
first let me ask where is Saskat and Manitoba??? i think if you have all thise wonderful craziness around you, no matter where you go you will have this going on. I say keep your fingers crossed and hope that all the wonderful craziness will follow you where ever you go!! Keep us posted
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
ROFL
As long and I have you two around me, you betcha the craziness will continue!
@mummymo (23706)
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29 Apr 09
Spark sweety my bet is that the twilight zone will cease to exist in your current town and it will return to a normal everyday town when you leave! As for whatever town you move to in Manitoba - they better start battening don the hatches and getting ready for all the craziness it is about to be inundated with!
Part of me thinks that you must create some of the events and characters we hear of but a bigger more sensible part realises that if that were true then you would be locked away in a psychiatric hospital by now! xxxx
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
LOL, you got me mummy!
I don't create the events, but I seem to be able to tell their story in a highly individual way! LOL
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@AnnieOakley1 (5596)
• Canada
9 May 09
I never would have believed it myself until I met sparks, mummymo, but I have seen it first hand.
Truth really is stranger than fiction.
And it helps that she has such a fabulous sense of humour.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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27 Apr 09
Now what a silly question Sparky. You and "action" are synonymous and why should that change just because you move someplace else. If you fade away it will be because you choose to and not because Manitoba forces it upon you. Speaking personally (how else can I speak?) Manitoba is uncharted territory in a way that "Prairietown" even is not. So I for one will want to know what is happening there. Do the people have two heads and just how many diggers does it take to fill a hole there! Carry on as you always have. There's adventure everywhere.
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
LOL.
One head on each of the four diggers.
One to dig.
One to supervise.
One to pass the Pilsner around,
and one to collect the empty bottles and turn them in for nickels!
ROFL
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@tessah (6617)
• United States
28 Apr 09
i think no matter how "normal" the place or the people appear to be.. your presence will indeed bring out the freak in the entire lot of them. lol so no worries.. youll still have a twilight zone surrounding you.. you create it as to yer liking afterall
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
My energy field/aura must be really ripply! LOL I wouldn't change it for all the tea in China!
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
Of course you count!
So yeah...........time to parrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrty!
Hic!
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@TLChimes (4822)
• United States
27 Apr 09
Dearest Sparks.....
Here's the thing (well two things) you hang out here. Most of the people you call friends (and I don't mean just a regular screen name you see here and there but the real friends) have one foot in the Twilight Zone. Some of us wouldn't survive outside the Zone.
And I've noticed that a person who attracts the odd (which every town has- just some hide it better) will always attract the odd. Sorry, dear-heart, you will never be free of the likes of the Zone Dwellers.
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
There are certainly a lot of 'zoners' here! lol So if Manitoba is boring, I'll just have to hang out on the lot more than I have been.........
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
27 Apr 09
Bigger town, more people..... If you ask me, you're more than likely going to be opening the "flood gates of freaky" rather than facing a dwindling supply! Especially if you're a magnet as you say you are. Buckle up sparky, the quirky train's gonna reach warp speed with a full load of passengers on board, you watch! 
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
If you'll be my train engineer James, I have no doubt the 'flood gates of freaky' will open up, no matter when I am! LOL
@littleowl (7157)
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27 Apr 09
Hi sparky, am not sure if your move to Manitoba would stop your weird and wonderful things..as they depend on how weird and wonderful they are where you are now, also as I live in the UK it is difficult to tell, yet wherever I have moved to weird and wonderful things have always followed me so yours may continue too...littleowl
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
I've travelled around a lot in my life, and always found the 'weird and wonderful', so worrying about Manitoba is kinda silly for me. If it does turn out to be a dud though, I'm moving to the UK for sure, for sure!
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@celticeagle (159008)
• Boise, Idaho
27 Apr 09
No, I doubt you will just fade away. You seem to just have the energy and personality for these 'twilight zone experiences'. *I want some!* It sounds as if you have an exciting and highly marvelous imagination as well as good vibes to pick up on things others may not even notice. That is great! It is who you are and just because you have moved to a new place and environment doesn't mean you will not still have the same experiences in your life.
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
My oldest calls me a female Jerry Seinfeld! LOL Wish I had Seinfeld's money!!!
@tamarafireheart (15384)
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27 Apr 09
Hi sparky,
Excuse me, but you are not an old journalist, you are young lady journalist, and maybe it will be another Twilight Zine area you are going to but you have got a lot of imaginations and you will keep writing, I would love to read your books, I'll never forget Megs Story, so I know you will find something new to write about there. Love and hugs.
Tamara
xxxxx
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
Hi sweets.................I miss Megs too and there will never be another like her.
But you're right............there will always be something to write about and I'll find it and write about it!
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@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
28 Apr 09
Hey sparks! I am quite sure that wherever you go you will
find some kind of Twighlight Zone! I have complete faith in
you that you will find some strange characters even in your
new environment! If you don't find them, they will find you!
You know that you have that knack! Don't you worry now!
How does your beautiful and faithful doggy feel about this
being uprooted? Is there a paws up or paws down?
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
Paws up for sure. As long as she's with me, she's a happy camper.
And yes, being strange, strange finds me, so I really should stop worrying eh? lol
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
9 May 09
I look at life as a series of 'phases' too Pat. And finally, I am looking forward to this one...........
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