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Strange, Strange Dreams…
I am still having very weird dreams. Lucid dreams, because I can normally tell myself that they are just a dream. However, a night of vivid dreaming is not a night of restful sleep, which I long for. Last night’s dream involved driving around Houston. I was in a car with 3 other people, and Mike was one of them. We were telling the driver how to get into downtown. Only problem, when we exited we were on a road that was closed, and we couldn’t actually get into downtown. So the person driving was getting very frustrated and upset. We told him to turn around and go back, we would take the exit into the parking garage. (What? There is no freeway in Houston that exits straight into a parking garage.) When we got there, that was closed too. I said it was ok, he could get on to I-10 East and take that exit into downtown. (This is, in fact, a legitimate route.) He was so frustrated, he just stopped the car. Mike got out and jumped off of the freeway down onto another ramp below – one of those crazy spaghetti bowl systems with layers of ramps going high up in the air – and he made it just fine. (Considering Mike has a fear of heights, I thought during my dream that it was odd that he was jumping like that. But he is a superhero after all, and he made it with no problem.) The other guy jumped. But he didn’t try to make it. He hit the pavement, spread eagle style, complete with the “thud!” sound effects in my dream.
That is when I made myself wake up.
I was quite upset about the fact that he died in my dream for some time after I woke up. I even tried to go back to sleep so I could have a dream do-over and make the ending happen differently. Yes, I have been able to force a dream before. Return to where it left off and pick up the story, or go back a little bit in time and change things. It didn’t happen today though.
Maybe that is why I feel like I’m in such a funky mood now. Blech.
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Podcast, Podcast!
I know, it has been really quiet around here – probably because my week has been so busy this week! I got to meet Rosemary of the Craft Borg podcast today! It was so fabulous – we have the common background of moving south from Illinois, so it was fun to have someone to discuss all the quirky things about the south with. We spent some time at Yarntopia (yes, twice in one week!) and had a yummy lunch at Jason’s Deli too! Fiber, fun, and good food – really, how great is that? I can’t wait until she returns later this summer!
Tonight I finished picking out the music for the latest Pointy Sticks show, so I should be wrapping that up tomorrow. I considered recording it tonight, but whenever I do that I end up staying up way too late – so in the morning would be a better idea. I’ll post an update here as soon as it is live!
It made me quite happy today to turn on the TV and discover that the jury was already back on the Enron trial, and the jurors found Lay and Skilling guilty. I worked with people that were hit financially by the Enron collapse, and even now I feel a twinge of bitterness every time I see the old Enron buildings. Such greed, excess, cooking the books … crazy. All of it was just terrible, and it seems like very few people in Houston didn’t know someone that was hit by it directly. I’m glad to see that they were found guilty, and it will be interesting to hear this fall what their sentence will be. I’m hope that they will get a taste of what they deserve. It is impossible for them to feel the weight of all the pain they caused, but a taste of it is better than nothing.
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A Perfect Day…
Have you ever had one of those days that just seemed like such a perfect day? One that you never want to end? I had one of those days today.
I went to Yarntopia today to meet Jeanie in person. We had such a blast! Well, ok, we had a blast once she got there, since Yahoo Maps tried to send her on a wild goose chase. Then we got to play in the yarn, look at patterns, talk about yarn, admire more patterns, and talk with Amy and Sheryl for a bit inbetween customers. We also got check out the Hill Country Sock yarn that Jeanie brought with her FOR US! I am now the proud owner of Sweet Feet Sock Yarn in Mountain Laurel and Purple Mountain. They are *so* beautiful! I also got to pick up my Yarntopia Sock Posse yarn, where we are all using the sock yarn that is custom dyed for Yarntopia in their store colors by Fleece Artists. Hopefully I will find the perfect pattern for it this weekend so I can kick off the socks next week!
Jeanie is every bit as wonderful in person as she is on her blog and on Crochet Cast, and then some. Oh my goodness, she is just adorable! She has a son that is close to Jason in age, so we are already discussing some excursions this summer that involve getting the boys together too. Between Jeanie and Sheryl, I almost felt the urge to crochet again!
After I came home from my yarn festival at Yarntopia, I ate dinner and then we all left again to hear the Lager Rhythms perform tonight at Mojo Risin’ Coffee House. Originally, I suggested to Mike that he just go to the show alone, since it was a school night. The more I thought about it, I really wanted to go, and I knew Jason would want to go too. He has his last full day of school tomorrow, but since finals are over and tomorrow will pretty much be a blow-off day, we decided that he could sleep in a little bit later in the morning and I’ll take him in during second period. It isn’t like they are going to be teaching anything in Algebra on the 2nd to last day of school. So we all got to go see the show. Yeah!
This is the first time that they have performed since basically half of the group left due to moves, life changing events (new babies) or just basic burnout. (Mike left back in January, 2005 for the burnout reason.) Mike has not seen them perform from the audience perspective since he left the group – and he was singing along at our table for the majority of the show. We all had such a good time, and I am so glad we were able to make it out to see everyone.
I got home to find out that I have sold my first print in my Etsy Shop and that one of my photographs was selected as the Houstonist Flickr photo of the day. It has been a good day all around.