
I woke up with that song stuck in my head.
These are my dreams - my actual dreams - not necessarily my aspirations - with a little bit of self-exploration peppered in the middle.

I woke up with that song stuck in my head.
Friday night I dreamt of a 4x4 table, me Dave and the boys sitting around and plates of pancakes (both plain and blueberry) which were 1 foot in diameter. Then I had to dry my hair in the bathroom. As a postscript - Saturday evening my Dad invited my family to a pancake breakfast on Sunday morning. Hmmm - Maybe my mind was telling me something. Of course, the pancakes didn't taste nearly as good on Sunday as they looked in my dream the night before.
I was in a house and some gangsters were extorting from me and my husband. On the outside of the house, or was it the inside, there were stairs, lots of stairs. One set of gangsters left and another came in. They wanted me to buy a gun for them. I worked at Wal-Mart. I bought them the gun and told them to get out. After I was walking back up the stairs the one gangster came to me and said he wanted to return it. We walked over to Wal-Mart, where I worked, and the line at the outside store return desk was hundreds of people deep so I told him to walk with me to the other store (which was 200 feet away) and go to the return desk there, where there were only a few people. As I was walking through the store I saw my brother, the one who lives in Florida, and my nephew. I almost walked past them and last minute decided I should go to them and say hello. I gave them both hugs and then saw my sister-in-law. Molly was there too. She was wearing spandex pants with shorts over top of them and rain boots, like the kind she wore at Jackie's. I remember thinking that the rainboots looked really cool. She was walking with no issues at all and the MS walk was all set for the weekend, so we were happy she was having no walking issues. I was waiting in line and I called to the ganger (who then turned into a female gangster). I kept telling her to get over to me so we could do the return. I thought we'd have problems because there are strict rules about returning guns but I kept thinking, well, they haven't even walked out of the store yet or opened the box so it shouldn't be an issue. It turned out that the gun I was returning was actually a digital camera.Then I woke up.


Saturday night
I was at home and realized that I was missing my dog. I had a shi tsu and I couldn't remember where I had left him. This went on for 3 or 4 days when I realized that the dog was at my mom's house. I went to get them and it turned out that I had more then one dog. I had a second dog. It was mangy and a little lame. Then I realized that I had 4 dogs in all. My mom decided to keep two of them and I was taking the one original dog and the lame dog. I wanted to take all of the dogs to get washed because they were so mangy looking. I was going to go to the U-Wash dog place on Mayfield. All of a sudden I was in someone else's car with the dogs. The car was dark inside and someone who looked like Shia LeBeouf was driving. I don't know how I got into the car but he drove past the dog wash place and by the time we had realized it, it was 7:00 already and closed.
Friday night
Then I was invited over to Kirstie's. We had to travel over water to get to her house. We thought it was just for a personal visit but it turned out we were invited for a party. There were hundreds of people there. My mother-in-law had Gabriel and met us at the party but I don't know how she found the house because she didn't have an address or phone number, or even know what time to drop him off at.
So a few weeks ago I jabbed my toothbrush into my gums. It hurt. It hurt so much my stomach was getting queezy. I had a checkup at the dentist and I kept telling them to be careful. My dentist told me to rinse it with salt water. That it would heal faster that way. I dismissed it. It healed on its own.Skip to the present. Four of my bosses have been sick and Dave is still getting over his bronchitis. My throat starts to hurt and I've got a weekend trip to Niagra Falls scheduled (SIDE NOTE: I will be offline for a few days, but I'll be back). Anyway, as I don't want to get sick for Niagra Falls (or anything, really, for that matter) - I try everything to keep it at bay. I'm taking Airborne religiously, trying to get my sleep, downing the grape juice. (A long time ago I was under the weather and at my Baubie's house. I drank, like, a whole container of grape juice and the next morning I woke up completely healthy - I swear by grape juice, even though I haven't used it at this length in a while). Then I think about my sore throat and I gargle with salter water. Now, to the point of this whole blog.
Every time I gargle with salter water I think of Jean, the Camp Wise nurse, or any other Camp Wise nurse for that matter. Any ailment would be cured with salt water. It didn't quite matter what the ailment was, but you better be feeling pretty awful to go to the nurse for the salt water treatment.
Now, it's working. Even if it is just slight or I'm just keeping it at bay for now. My throat doesn't feel like a mac truck tire. Now I think we've just got a Radio Flyer.