The first dream I remember had me working in a store like WalMart. In this dream I kept getting pregnant (pregnancy just happened -- one second you wouldn’t be pregnant and the next second you would). In one isle of the store you could go get help as you delivered the baby. I had to go get help with the third baby and I immediately became pregnant with the fourth. I was scheduled to work around the time the fourth was due so I went in to see if I could have the fourth early so I could make my shift. I never did see any of the kids after they were born. I do remember wondering what I was going to do with four kids though.
The second dream was even better. Some friends and I had gone to our boss’s house and broke in (I don’t know who these friends are or who the boss is in my waking hours). We took a bath in his (our boss’s) house. We were talking about what we were going to if someone came home. We decided to tell the wife, if she came home, that we were planning a surprise for him. When we were cleaning up (putting towels in the laundry) she came home and we told her about the surprise. She came in and started packing bags to go out of town. We went out to help put her bags in her car. In her trunk she had a bunch of single red roses, presumably from her many admirers (I think it was Valentine’s Day or something). As we put her bags in her trunk, she had lined the street and driveways with fireworks (she lived in a cul-de-sac). She was lighting off all the fireworks. It was really late at night, so I think she was trying to annoy all her neighbors and make it obvious she was leaving. Anyway, my friends and I decided to hang out longer at this house since she had left. We started watching a movie. Near the end of the movie my friends and I started cleaning up some of the mess that was there (for some reason there were messy diapers sitting near the couch and we finally decided to throw them away – as I carried them to the garbage, I got a little of the mess on myself – YUCK – and I washed my hands 4 or 5 times to try and get them clean). My friend really wanted to go home, but I begged her to stay so we could finish the movie. When we went in to finish the movie, our boss’s sons were home and they had changed the channel. I grabbed the remote to try and put it back on the movie. It was almost over! I really wanted to know what was going to happen. After the movie was over, the sons really pushed for us to leave. For some reason I had taken off all my clothes and I was frantically trying to get dressed. The sons were looking in the room and I was trying to get them to leave while I was getting dressed. The older son realized what I wanted and took his little brother out while I finished getting dressed. After we left, my friends and I were working at a roadside car dealership. I saw the mother with a couple of empty luggage carts walking down the road. I guess she had come upon hard times and lost all her belongings. In the process of watching her she collected a number of additional bags and was trying to find a way to transport them and get away. I watched someone sell her this really old decked out van. She was able to put all her bags in and start on her way out before my friends realized who she was. Somehow this scene changed to me hanging out with the oldest son. I really fell for him. I was sitting talking to him and I really wanted him to kiss me. He finally did. I was so excited. And I can’t remember more. – In my dream this all flowed together so logically and made complete sense.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
Practical Jokes
Last night was a great adventure. I was packing to go to visit a friend. A bus came to pick me up (like a tour bus). While I was waiting at the “bus stop” there was a kid there being picked on by another kid. I guess I had super “Jedi” powers because I pointed at the bully and forced him to back away from the other kid (without touching him). I held the bully off until we got on the bus. After the bus got going, I realized that I had forgotten my suitcase. I decided to try my newly discovered “Jedi” powers and I traced out a path to get me back to my house (it was just around the block) and the bus followed it. I was so excited! Anyway, I got to my destination with all the appropriate bags. To get to my friends house, I was riding with someone else in a car. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. By the time we got to the people’s house, the car was totaled (I can’t remember what exactly happened though). Somehow during the visit we ended up being led to believe there was a ghost doing things around the house. Weird things would happen that really couldn’t be explained. The family would tell me all about this ghost that lived there. I was really getting scared because it was all so weird. We ended up at a park where a little old lady started following us down the path we were walking on. I knew it was the ghost! She gave us some sort of toy (who knows why). Anyway, it ends up with us at the family’s home with them letting me in on the huge practical joke. It turns out I was engaged to their son and anyone that is new to the family gets a huge practical joke played on them. The car that ended up totaled was theirs. They went to the trouble of arranging all the weird things to indicate a ghost. It was quite the elaborate scheme (I know there was a lot more to it, but I can’t remember it now). All-in-all I found it pretty funny and I was excited to help them out with the next person they would do it to.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Cheating
Last night I dreamt that a couple of my students were cheating during the test. I would look up and they would have their heads together talking about the problems. I was furious! I went back and picked up their tests and compared them. There were a few problems that were, word for word, the same. I crossed them out and put a big zero on those problems. One of the students just accepted the fact that he had been caught, but the other student started arguing with me. He said he was just helping his friend get started, but I told him that was the point of the test. The test had to be done by the individual. Agh! I was so mad. The student kept arguing about it. I finally grabbed his face so he had to look right at me and told him that he was cheating – end of story. Well, he got really upset and went to talk to my boss about it. My boss came in to talk to me and he wanted to ask the class what had happened. The student claimed that what I had said and done was inappropriate. A “survey” was set up for the next morning to get feedback from other students. I was looking forward to getting the survey done so my boss would know I was not wrong. I woke up prior to the resolution of the problem.
The crazy thing about this dream is that both students are currently in one of my classes and both are good students. In my dream I knew that cheating wasn’t something that they would do, which I think is why I was so upset about the whole thing. I couldn’t figure out why they had cheated in the first place.
The crazy thing about this dream is that both students are currently in one of my classes and both are good students. In my dream I knew that cheating wasn’t something that they would do, which I think is why I was so upset about the whole thing. I couldn’t figure out why they had cheated in the first place.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Green Walls
I have painting my kitchen walls the most beautiful green! I love it! I started with one wall and then realized how much I love it. I continued with another wall and now I have one more to go. It just makes it so warm and cozy!
I hope to get my curtains up soon. They've been down for so long, I'm almost used to it. I bought a new curtain rod (heavy dut) and pull backs in hopes of keeping the dogs from wrestling in them. We'll see. (I didn't spend too much on the curtains themselves for fear of what the dogs might do to them......)
I hope to get my curtains up soon. They've been down for so long, I'm almost used to it. I bought a new curtain rod (heavy dut) and pull backs in hopes of keeping the dogs from wrestling in them. We'll see. (I didn't spend too much on the curtains themselves for fear of what the dogs might do to them......)
Orion Visits
Nate & April brought Orion over to play. He's getting so big! I was lucky to capture this really cute picture of him.
It was fun to watch Orion egg on Bullwinkle. They had fun running and chasing. Eventually Orion wore out all dogs. They started getting mad at him near the end. They just wanted to be left alone!
It sure was entertaining!
It was fun to watch Orion egg on Bullwinkle. They had fun running and chasing. Eventually Orion wore out all dogs. They started getting mad at him near the end. They just wanted to be left alone!
It sure was entertaining!
Picky Eaters
Right now we have two different dog foods mixed together. Rocky and Bullwinkle have their preferences. It's really quite funny. Bullwinkle has sorted through his food (I put his food in a treat ball, which he loves). As you can see, he leaves the food he doesn't prefer laying on the floor. Conveniently the food Rocky prefers is the one Bullwinkle does not....
Rocky also sorts his food. He pulls the food out of the dish and eats only what he prefers. Silly dogs!
Rocky also sorts his food. He pulls the food out of the dish and eats only what he prefers. Silly dogs!
We Love Snow!!!
Ok, so I'm ready for the snow to GO AWAY! I must admit this winter is what I remember from when I was little, but we haven't really had a real winter for so long that I have forgotten what it is like. The boys sure do love the snow though! They run around and dig and eat, and bring it in the house! The following pictures are evidence. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get pictures before they removed some of the snow.
I'm not sure what Bullwinkle gets into, but his mug comes back covered in snow all the time.
Last week, when it snowed it also was really windy. This posed a bit of a problem with the doggy door. The wind blew the door open and it snowed INSIDE! There is also a small slit between the sliding glass door and it's counterpart through which snow blew. I had snow plastered against my wall. I had to shovel my kitchen. What a pain! Unfortunately I didn't get pictures of the snow piles in the house.
I'm not sure what Bullwinkle gets into, but his mug comes back covered in snow all the time.
Last week, when it snowed it also was really windy. This posed a bit of a problem with the doggy door. The wind blew the door open and it snowed INSIDE! There is also a small slit between the sliding glass door and it's counterpart through which snow blew. I had snow plastered against my wall. I had to shovel my kitchen. What a pain! Unfortunately I didn't get pictures of the snow piles in the house.
Beautiful View
Just thought I would share a beautiful view from my back porch. The sunset was amazing! This picture doesn't quite do it justice.
Last night......
I started out getting ready for a wedding. It wasn’t until later in the day, but I had to go to school first. Randy and I were “arguing” over who got to use the bathroom first. I needed to shower and get to school so I won. When I went to a class I was in (physical science) where we took and corrected a test. When we were correcting the test, I realized that we only corrected 25 questions, but there were many more than 25 questions. The problems were numbered 1 – 18 and then it started over and went from 1 – 14. There were a whole bunch of different number sequences. So, I was asking our teacher (who turned out to be a TA instead of the actual instructor) which answers we had actually been given. I also asked what the correct answers were to the other questions. He wouldn’t tell me the correct answers because he said they weren’t important (I don’t think he knew the correct answers). I got into a bit of a tiff with him over how terrible the test was. I told him that he should have proof-read his test before giving it to us. He said he didn’t write the test, the instructor did. I told him he should have helped proof-read it before he handed it out. He asked if I was mad at him. I said yes because he was the one that gave me the test. Whether he was the original author or not didn’t matter to me. I was so upset. Some of the other students were asking me what the correct answers were. I told them what I thought they were, but that the TA wouldn’t tell me.
I left class and headed back to my office. Meanwhile, my hair was driving me crazy. I lost one of my hair ties and my hair just needed help. I was so frustrated and just wanted to talk to someone. I went to look for Jonathan (one of my coworkers), but I couldn’t find him. I thought maybe he was in the tutoring center so I went and looked there. It turns out that the tutoring center had moved to a new room, which turned out to be our lab room. I was then getting more frustrated because I wanted to know where our lab room went to. They had moved our labs up to the 3rd floor and commandeered the lab room for the tutor center. I was glad the tutoring center was doing so well, but I was frustrated that they moved the labs. I went around to all of the rooms looking for our lab coordinator, Sharon, and for my coworker Jonathan. They were busy taking care of other things. When I went back to the tutoring center, it turned out it was also the cafeteria. A lot of people were eating lunch and others were coming in for meetings. I was trying to tell them it was now the tutoring center. They were more concerned about being able to get lunch. The room was big enough for everyone to be in there, so I decided I didn’t really need to kick anyone out. I stopped by to say hi to a few people, but didn’t stay long anywhere. I went back to the lab room and there were a few of my concurrent enrollment instructors there so I had to go apologize for not visiting their classes a second time last semester. I finally went back to my office. I still really wanted to talk to someone, but I decided that that wasn’t going to happen. I sat down to write down my dreams for the night (apparently the whole TA thing was a dream in my dream). Then, the alarm clock went off…………. I woke up with all of the frustrations I was feeling all night long. I hope I don’t bite any heads off today!
I left class and headed back to my office. Meanwhile, my hair was driving me crazy. I lost one of my hair ties and my hair just needed help. I was so frustrated and just wanted to talk to someone. I went to look for Jonathan (one of my coworkers), but I couldn’t find him. I thought maybe he was in the tutoring center so I went and looked there. It turns out that the tutoring center had moved to a new room, which turned out to be our lab room. I was then getting more frustrated because I wanted to know where our lab room went to. They had moved our labs up to the 3rd floor and commandeered the lab room for the tutor center. I was glad the tutoring center was doing so well, but I was frustrated that they moved the labs. I went around to all of the rooms looking for our lab coordinator, Sharon, and for my coworker Jonathan. They were busy taking care of other things. When I went back to the tutoring center, it turned out it was also the cafeteria. A lot of people were eating lunch and others were coming in for meetings. I was trying to tell them it was now the tutoring center. They were more concerned about being able to get lunch. The room was big enough for everyone to be in there, so I decided I didn’t really need to kick anyone out. I stopped by to say hi to a few people, but didn’t stay long anywhere. I went back to the lab room and there were a few of my concurrent enrollment instructors there so I had to go apologize for not visiting their classes a second time last semester. I finally went back to my office. I still really wanted to talk to someone, but I decided that that wasn’t going to happen. I sat down to write down my dreams for the night (apparently the whole TA thing was a dream in my dream). Then, the alarm clock went off…………. I woke up with all of the frustrations I was feeling all night long. I hope I don’t bite any heads off today!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Why am I so tired?
Julianna suggested I start posting my dreams on my blog. I have some pretty interesting ones. Last night was no exception......Read on to get a feel for my adventure last nigh......
"My memory starts with me going to a get-together at someone’s mansion up in the mountains. Some friends were flying me in their helicopter to get there. There were all sorts of things going on. I went into a building where there were a bunch of booths set up where you could purchase things. Julianna had a booth of Sensaria products, only there were a lot more products than usual (it was more like Bath & Body Works). They had a new scent and I fell in love with it! I walked around the other booths some more and went back to smell the new scent I liked, but Julianna and Craig had gone home with the girls. I was so upset that they had left early. I was looking around and found a bunch of the girls toys. To get home, we were taking some sort of ski lift down the mountain. Rikki was in the lift behind me so I was yelling to talk to her. It suddenly turned into us in a big yellow school bus, with my sister driving. She wanted to go visit Dionne, who lived in a dorm on a university campus. Denise kept trying to go the wrong way in this huge bus. I was getting so frustrated and finally talked her into drive down the road the correct way. We eventually ended up at Julianna’s to give the toys back. Apparently I was really upset that they had left early because I threw the toys into the room rather just give them back.
Anyway, I ended up back at “home” (I don’t know where this house came from). While we were walking back into the house, we were looking at some of the planets bordering the house and saw a bunch of bugs infesting the plants. My roommate asked me to get some bug killer to take care of these bugs. While I was in the house trying to find some bug killer, I found a “fogger” (it was pretty fancy) and I was trying to figure out if it would work outside. The phone rang and there was a call for me. It was so weird guy that I did not know and he was asking me about an illness I had as a child. He was asking about my symptoms and what had happened to me. I guess he was suffering from a similar illness and wanted to know what to expect next. He explained some of his symptoms and I knew my mom had told me about my brother experiencing something similar, but I couldn’t remember what happened. I told him I would talk to her and call him back. He asked me for my last name, which I gave to him with immediate regrets. I realized that with my last name he could figure out where I live (though if he had my phone number, I don’t think that would be a problem). I asked him for his name and it was some foreign name that I couldn’t pronounce. I asked him to spell it and he got so mad at me. I finally got off the phone and went to ask my mom about his symptoms so I could just get it over with. Somehow my house changed to an apartment in a big sky riser complex. It turned out this guy was in the adjacent building and was watching me. I had some sort of secret service people come in to help protect me and track the guy down. We figure out where his apartment was. Along with a friend, we were scaling the building and trying to go through the window. My friend had a rope and I was at the other end. I climbed my building so I could swing across to the building of this weird guy. As I was swinging over to his building, I saw him in my apartment with a long area rug rolled up around some sort of gun and he was shooting at me and my friend. We frantically tried to get to safety. We ended up in his apartment with the secret service crew. As they were looking around they decided they needed to call in 007 to help. This weird guy came over to his apartment to confront me face to face. I was so furious with him, I jumped at him and pinned him down with some sort of rod (I think it was a baton). I was yelling at him asking him why he was trying to kill me. I kept pushing down on the rod to show him I meant business. He was able to get up and was talking to me, but when he realized the rest of the people were there to protect me and weren’t too keen on letting him out alive, he ran for the window and jumped. He was able to escape. I was terrified because I knew he was still going to be coming after me…..That’s all I remember. (I just remembered one more part. As we were going from building to building, there were huge TV screens on the side of the building that allowed us to see the different angles, like it was a movie. We could see the guy in my apartment getting ready to shoot and we could see ourselves swinging and running for cover.)"
Some people ask me what type of TV I watch before bed (last night it was HGTV's Hidden Potential and House Hunters) and what I read before bed (the Ensign). I actually did figure out a couple of correlations. In the Ensign there was an article about using a trap for Japanese beetles -- I think that's where the bugs on my plants came from. Also, Tim, Kari, and Colby came to visit last night and Colby was playing with a baton that I have -- I think that's why I had the baton. As for the weird guy trying to kill me, your guess is as good as mine! :)
"My memory starts with me going to a get-together at someone’s mansion up in the mountains. Some friends were flying me in their helicopter to get there. There were all sorts of things going on. I went into a building where there were a bunch of booths set up where you could purchase things. Julianna had a booth of Sensaria products, only there were a lot more products than usual (it was more like Bath & Body Works). They had a new scent and I fell in love with it! I walked around the other booths some more and went back to smell the new scent I liked, but Julianna and Craig had gone home with the girls. I was so upset that they had left early. I was looking around and found a bunch of the girls toys. To get home, we were taking some sort of ski lift down the mountain. Rikki was in the lift behind me so I was yelling to talk to her. It suddenly turned into us in a big yellow school bus, with my sister driving. She wanted to go visit Dionne, who lived in a dorm on a university campus. Denise kept trying to go the wrong way in this huge bus. I was getting so frustrated and finally talked her into drive down the road the correct way. We eventually ended up at Julianna’s to give the toys back. Apparently I was really upset that they had left early because I threw the toys into the room rather just give them back.
Anyway, I ended up back at “home” (I don’t know where this house came from). While we were walking back into the house, we were looking at some of the planets bordering the house and saw a bunch of bugs infesting the plants. My roommate asked me to get some bug killer to take care of these bugs. While I was in the house trying to find some bug killer, I found a “fogger” (it was pretty fancy) and I was trying to figure out if it would work outside. The phone rang and there was a call for me. It was so weird guy that I did not know and he was asking me about an illness I had as a child. He was asking about my symptoms and what had happened to me. I guess he was suffering from a similar illness and wanted to know what to expect next. He explained some of his symptoms and I knew my mom had told me about my brother experiencing something similar, but I couldn’t remember what happened. I told him I would talk to her and call him back. He asked me for my last name, which I gave to him with immediate regrets. I realized that with my last name he could figure out where I live (though if he had my phone number, I don’t think that would be a problem). I asked him for his name and it was some foreign name that I couldn’t pronounce. I asked him to spell it and he got so mad at me. I finally got off the phone and went to ask my mom about his symptoms so I could just get it over with. Somehow my house changed to an apartment in a big sky riser complex. It turned out this guy was in the adjacent building and was watching me. I had some sort of secret service people come in to help protect me and track the guy down. We figure out where his apartment was. Along with a friend, we were scaling the building and trying to go through the window. My friend had a rope and I was at the other end. I climbed my building so I could swing across to the building of this weird guy. As I was swinging over to his building, I saw him in my apartment with a long area rug rolled up around some sort of gun and he was shooting at me and my friend. We frantically tried to get to safety. We ended up in his apartment with the secret service crew. As they were looking around they decided they needed to call in 007 to help. This weird guy came over to his apartment to confront me face to face. I was so furious with him, I jumped at him and pinned him down with some sort of rod (I think it was a baton). I was yelling at him asking him why he was trying to kill me. I kept pushing down on the rod to show him I meant business. He was able to get up and was talking to me, but when he realized the rest of the people were there to protect me and weren’t too keen on letting him out alive, he ran for the window and jumped. He was able to escape. I was terrified because I knew he was still going to be coming after me…..That’s all I remember. (I just remembered one more part. As we were going from building to building, there were huge TV screens on the side of the building that allowed us to see the different angles, like it was a movie. We could see the guy in my apartment getting ready to shoot and we could see ourselves swinging and running for cover.)"
Some people ask me what type of TV I watch before bed (last night it was HGTV's Hidden Potential and House Hunters) and what I read before bed (the Ensign). I actually did figure out a couple of correlations. In the Ensign there was an article about using a trap for Japanese beetles -- I think that's where the bugs on my plants came from. Also, Tim, Kari, and Colby came to visit last night and Colby was playing with a baton that I have -- I think that's why I had the baton. As for the weird guy trying to kill me, your guess is as good as mine! :)
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