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last night's dream was very strange. it consisted of an easter party at what was supposed to be matt's parents house, but it seemed to be in a really expensive condo and his mom was actually another friends' mom. they had a mariachi band who ended up serenading me while matt's "mom" gifted us an entire new kitchen. complete with counters, cupboards, dishwasher, stove, fridge, and his "dad" was super excited about a stainless steel potato peeler!

i have no idea what that was about.

we don't have much planned this weekend. there was talk about rearranging the bedroom a little bit. we need to find an end table for the other side of the bed... maybe we should make a st vinny's trip this weekend.

also, i've been craving la hacienda for no good reason.

and sushi (for good reason).

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i had some really strange work-related dreams this morning; it makes me feel like i didn't get a good night's sleep.

it's almost furnace time. every winter, i worry about the first time the furnace gets turned on. i'm paranoid that it won't work... it's not an old one, so i logically know that it won't fail. the reason i'm unnecessarily worried is probably the cost associated with getting a new one. i wonder if homeowner's insurance covers that.

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i don't think my antibiotics are doing anything but making me feel worse.

and have *crazy* dreams. like, really weird ones. with a cast that i'd rather not have in my brain anymore ever.

although, one strange thing i'll note is that i dreamed i went to subway, but it was all movie-ticket-like and the guy was way too nice. i placed my order, and he made me point on the menu board to where the veggie sub was and chuckled as though he enjoyed telling someone what to do. then he yelled the order back down this long table to some girl who put all of the ingredients (including whole baby portabellas!) into a plastic, lidded pitcher. she added some italian dressing and shook the pitcher and tossed the stuff onto a loaf of bread. after that, i got distracted by someone and left the restaurant empty handed.

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dreamed i had forgotten to feed the cat (there hasn't been a cat of [half] my responsibility in the house since april). i was living in a farmie community and all of my friends were zombies but they weren't trying to eat my brains, they were trying to annoy and bug me while i was cleaning/working, etc. it's kinda funny now that i think about it...

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last night's sleeptime was riddled with being awake... so much so that i don't think i slept more than a total hour. i had many strange dream sequences, a lot of which involved harry potter characters (which is weird since i've never seen the movies/read the books--but there have been a lot of references to them on the internets), workmates, and mickey's bartenders. a strange sequence that i need to pen involved a house party in a dining hall with a huge kitchen, a baby we were sitting, and jones continuously trying to jump in the huge, stainless steel sink while i ran the register and cleared the hall of used pint glasses.

weird.

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on friday, we packed the dogs up to stay at my mum's while matt and i took off up north for the night. his brother had planned a little shindig and it seemed like a good time to hand out holiday gifts. the nephews loved their light-up moon and insisted on taking it to grandma and grandpa's (where they stayed) for the night.

the next day, we visited with matt's parents for a bit and then went to see his grandma (who's in a nursing home now). she was a sweetie. she tried to give us a bag of sugar packets that she had collected from the lunch room... it makes me wonder what kind of quirky things we'll do when we're 90 that are reminiscent of the times in which we grew up.

on sunday, i slept way in again... took the dogs on a long walk, headed to woodman's, made some lunch, and worked on some knitting while watching the office. that show cracks me up.

here's nora after the walk:

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i've been having some pretty intense, bizarre dreams lately involving people from my recent past and it's been bugging me; i wake up confused and frustrated. i need to keep a pad next to the bed in order to write down participants and events... maybe there's a pattern.

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i woke myself up this morning because i yelled in a dream. i was in the middle of a physical altercation and yelled "NO!"... but i think it came out as "mmf!"

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this morning, i remembered a work dream that involved me yelling at a coworker.

when i sat down in my cube, the mairzy doats song came into my head and i recalled how annoying it was to a certain someone when i would sing it.

i also wish they'd release twisted metal and super metroid for the iphone.

that is all.

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we went to see paranormal activity this weekend, and i've been watching a lot of dexter; which, in turn, is making my dreams quite strange.

i didn't find paranormal to be all that good of a movie, considering all the attention it garnered as people petitioned to have it shown in theaters nationwide.

anyway, season three of dexter was really good. i wasn't particularly a fan of season two; i don't even remember if i watched all of it, but decided to give three a try, and it impressed. i'm looking forward to more.

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i nabbed this video of jones dozing on the floor last weekend, it's on facebook, but if you missed it, enjoy:

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a dream woke me up at 5 this am, then i let the dogs out, then the cat snuck out while letting them back in; i couldn't fall back asleep until i knew she was back in the house, which was an hour later. so i finally decided just to get up at 6:22. that, in itself, isn't too early, but i really was wide awake at 5.

as i was getting my daily snack routine all bagged up, i decided to make my lunch! it's been quite some time since i've done that. i used my laptop lunch and made a bologno and provolone sandwich, some olive salad from fraboni's (which i should just start making and quit buying), collage cheese and cherry tomatoes, and some grapes!

the drive to work was quite pleasant, aside from the jerk who sped up and got over without using his signal on cty rd m. i long for the day when i can bike to work.

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i often have strange dreams after sushi night... but last night we decided to try ha long bay on williamson st. where bab's used to be.

the night started with me asking everyone in my vicinity what the name was, and everyone had a guess but they all sounded quite silly. then i asked facebook and got a response within seconds. ha long bay! my friend said. a search online revealed they lack a website, takeout menus, and a sign posting business hours or name (this was from a daily page forum post a month ago). we decided to give it a try anyway.

the ambiance is great. they added a wall so you can't see into the kitchen and the greeter counter is very inviting. we were seated immediately and had waters within seconds. be prepared with your tastes because their menu is twelve 8.5x11" pages, front and back. each entree type is divided into three categories, vietnamese, lao, and thai. luckily, i have the no-meat diet so that narrowed the menu down by about 2/3rds.

i got the veggie spring roll (2 for $3.95!) and yellow curry. i decided to try the curry first because if a place effs up curry, you know i won't be back. kurt got the pork egg rolls and a huge bowl of soup with "rare beef and well-done flank".

the spring rolls were delicious and crisp and fresh and not too minty. kurt's eggrolls were also devoured. the yellow curry (tho the mildest of curries) was good, but just a little bland. i'm used to yellow curry dishes with a little more coconut milk and less chili oil. kurt's soup was met with sheer delight. we'll definitely be back; it'll take 8 years to get through that menu.

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my dream was too long to describe to you, but it had a lot of people i know in it and was very strange. someone wanted to store a bunch of mattresses in my house (which was my childhood house) and after they moved them all in, i was like "wtf? hell no." and everyone got mad at me. then it was some 4th of july celebration and some weird bar party.

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it's been almost nine years since my last tattoo.. it was a present from kurt on our first christmas together.

i was thinking of getting the traditional sparrow tattoos on the clavicles, but i like orioles better, specifically baltimore orioles. i also don't think i want them flying symmetrically downward, i kinda like the idea of the left one flying down and the right one flying up and away. now i just need to get into capital city and talk to brian about drawing them up.

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every once in a while i'll have the absolute strangest dreams. last night was one of those nights.

here's what i remember: i lived in a brownstone on the second floor. with a roomate. whom i think was someone i work with but i can't remember right now; i do remember that she wasn't very pleasant. also, we had separate bathrooms and mine was superior to hers. this was a point of contention.

then, i was trying to get to work on a saturday (this is how i know dreams are not based in reality) but ended up at a gas station/starbucks in indiana (!) and my debit card wouldn't work cuz i wasn't part of their cult. so i went to some other locally owned restaurant coffeeshop thing across the street and my grandma, mom, and an aunt were there and they all had iphones. my grandma wanted to play some wifi game with me and i was like "no i need to figure out how to get to work". for some reason my iphone display was not cooperating, and googlemaps couldn't find middleton.

then somehow i was back at home (you know how that goes) and i realized my iphone's display was messed up because it had cracked and looked like broken liquid crystal.

i think i started crying, but i can't remember.

anyway, the last thing i remember was cozying up on a couch at some house party watching a movie. then i woke up.

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really bad dream last night. i was trapped in a house with some weird guy and i came upon jones who had all these gnats and bugs flying around him and his side was all swollen and he growled at me in pain when i tried to pet him.

i gave him a big hug when i woke up.

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someone was signaling to pull out into the street, it was a small suv with a canoe on the top, and the car in front of me slammed on his breaks to let the guy go and i subsequently rear-ended the red pontiac something-or-other and woke myself up. and i couldn't get back to sleep for an hour.

p.s., don't fret, this was a dream.

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i woke with a start around 5:30 this morning after dreaming that my boss' boss fired me because he thought i could do better at cuna. i was screaming "wtf?!" i am surprised i was so upset about it.

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i dreamed that kurt and i flew to japan for a weekend but i wanted to stay longer so i called into work on monday and we had to pay like $400 to get the flight home changed. i remember lots of little cars zooming around hilly, brightly lit roads.

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i just remembered the dream i had before i woke up this morning.. it was some jungley-war conflict like in good morning, vietnam when the sgt sends cronauer and garlick to basically get killed. and then i escaped into some bunker-type thing and an old boss from when i was 16 was there. strange.

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i don't remember a whole lot about last night's dream, except for it seemed like i was on a trip with coworkers, with which i dont normally work, and i remember going to an organic restaurant that had stuff set out like a buffet, except it was done really poorly.. like, just a cookietray of some sort of vegan not-cheese snack on whole grain crackers, and a bowl of half-gone potato salad. but the patrons were all snotty about being there, "this is the most marvelous place for my diet." "i don't have to go to the gym after lunch here!" weirdly californian.

also, we were flying out from wherever we were, and the snotty restaurant made us late, so we had to beg them to hold the plane. plus i had to go to the bathroom; so of course that caused a ruckous since bathroom scenes seem to make it into most of my dreams.

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a recurring event in most of my dreams is some sort of problem with the bathroom. either there's no door on the stall, or the toilet is overflowing, or there's some sort of atrociously long line and i'm the one holding it up.

anyhow, last night, i also dreamed that i was showing off tattoos that i don't really have, and i got pulled over for having an old-skool tape player on my lap (apparently my car didn't have a radio) and it was illegal, in my dream, to have a tape player in your lap. so i got a warning.. but the warning was a ticket not unlike a movie ticket stub. weird.

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i don't remember a whole lot of it, but i do remember that i was in my hometown of oregon, wi, walking around where i used to have the majority of my paper route and someone was having a garage sale in their living room (?), so i went in and discovered that they had an old atari 2145 (this model doesn't really exist) and it was all silver and shiny instead of being made of black plastic, like the atari 2600. and it was going for $10 but i didn't have any green money on me. then i woke up.

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last night's dream started out, i think, with kurt trying to buy a card (like a hallmark card—but not) and it was at some weird self-scanning station where you pay a machine instead of a person; anyhow, he scanned the card too many times because he didn't understand how it worked. then i had to ask the store guy to refund his card but he said he couldn't because the correspondence card was actually the product of a religious group which had set up shop inside of their store. so we had to walk outside and around to another door, not unlike a lot of knick-knack shops on bway at times square. we found the counter where these two jamaican guys were set up (i was reading about rastafari yesterday) and they said they couldn't refund kurt's money but would give us an instructional video in exchange for the extra charges.. basically, kurt's mistake was turned into an organizational donation. so we left and found a restaurant where one of kurt's coworkers was waitressing and the hostess was trying to get us seated in her section but she was too full so they had me deliver a glass of water to table 2. then i woke up.

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