Dreams

Simply write down a full account of a dream you’ve had recently.

I don't know if it is the upcoming All Hallows season or just the weather, but frankly I have been dreaming, Alot....

 

Most I can't remember, some I really don't want to ever remember and some are just not memorable at all.

 

Still recently, I did have one that I do remember and I think the cat is the cause. Will explain this more after the dream.

He was the main character along with some feral kittens that somehow managed to get in the house. Cat is, well, cat and part mouse, part dog and thinks he's human. So he was rather intimidated by the tiny furballs and they so enjoyed hiding from him and then jumping out when he was least expecting it. On and on it went all day. When Pan and I finally came in, you could feel the relief flooding off him. That is until we just sat down and watched.

 

Not much in the way of a dream, but it did seem to go on forever. And I think it was probably due the fact that he was being a pest all night. Wanting to knead, snuggle and play. I wanted him to get his just desserts and the only way I could accomplish it was through dreaming.

Eating fetish

What is the strangest thing you’ve ever eaten?

Some soup in Hong Kong that tasted and looked just like Pepto Bismol. Never did find out what it really was. Maybe I just didn't want to know.

Resemble who?

What famous person do other people tell you that you most resemble?

Use to be Linda Carter. Haven't had any compare me to a famous person lately. But I definitely do not look like Linda Carter any more.

Unhappiness just a frown away

Do you feel that children should be sheltered from unhappiness?

Absolutely not. And there really is no way to do so. No matter how happy you try to make them, there is going to come a time when they are just going to be unhappy. It is better to help them deal with it and explain that it is a part of growing up.

A home away 3

Continued from yesterday:

Next up was California. And to be perfectly honest. I don't recall that much about the place. I do remember playing hopscotch, falling and getting a concussion. I remember that Bug had to be taken to a hospital around Sacramento for some tests one time. They gave her some medicine to make her sleep, telling mom and dad she would be out for some time. She woke soon after getting in the car to go back and it was like watching a little drunk. I'm sure that if she remembers it at all, she doesn't have fond memories.

To be continued sometime in the future when my memories catch up.

A home away two

Continued from yesterday:

 

The house in Arkansas is the one I remember the best. I don't know why. Maybe because until dad retired it was the one place we lived the longest. It is also the house in which I had the chicken pox, measles and mumps. All the childhood diseases. We got the best Barbie furniture and clothes ever while living here. Mom made everything. The clothes with wonderful detail and dressed with loads of lace. Furniture made out of milk cartons and beer cans. It was padded and upholstered and no one in the world had a matching set.

 

There was teen club across the street where my friends and I would play. Behind it would be broken bottles of varying colors that we would gather, pretending they were exotic gems. There was also a chimney back there with a few bricks that were loose. We would remove the brick, put in our gems and replace it. We definitely had some good times.

 

To be continued

A home away

Draw, label, and share the layout of your childhood home.

I have done something similar in the past so instead of drawing and labeling a layout of my childhood home (there were a few), I think I'll take this moment to reminisce about some of them.

 

When very young, possibly even before ddpuppies was born, I remember sitting at the kitchen table with my dad, each of us with a cup of "coffee." His was, mine was warm milk with about a tablespoon of coffee added to give it some color and make me feel like I was special.

 

I think it was also around this time, I remember walking into a living room with a Christmas tree that must have been 100' high. Now, I know it wasn't but I was so little.

 

To be continued

Leave, Leaves, Leaving

Write a blog post inspired by the word: leaves

Well, it doesn't say what kind of "leaves" and the beginning of the fall season always brings about the children leaving. Always such a sad time. Very melancholy (Indy's new word). Daughter shows up or we have to meet half way and then we watch as she leaves with the kids. I do like when she gets to spend a day or two here before she leaves. We don't get to see much of her anymore.

I need a fall up north

Fall is here! List your top 10 favorite things about this Fall season.

Can't think of any write now other than at least it is in the high 60's in the mornings. Still by 10 a.m. it is back in the 80's.

 

But if I had to write about what things bothered me about fall, it would be:

 

1. Still too hot.
2. Isn't it ever going to cool down?
3. It sure gets foggy around here in the fall.
4. Kids running across the street without looking.
5. The grands have to leave to get back into their own school :(

Irritation abounds

Tell us about the last thing that irritated  you.

Pan's friend was over a couple of weeks ago. He's spending more time over here since he and his wife are living apart right now. Not a problem. He keeps Pan company watching the movies I just truly hate.

 

BUT.... he keeps using my coffee cup. The last time he was here, I asked him if he was still a guest or not. He looked at me funny and said "it depends. What's the difference?" So I told him "if you are a guest, you ask before you touch anything. If not, clean your own glass if you can't find one, instead of using my coffee cup."

 

He's says he's no longer a "guest." But we will have to watch and see, won't we?

They’re smarter than they look!

Write about a time your child was on to you.

My kids (and grandkids) are always on to me, so I'm going to share a story when Scamp showed my parents just how much he was into them. (mom, I'm sure to get some parts wrong, just correct me).

 

Seems dad asked mom if they were going to be cooking the roast on the grill that night. And she decided that she would cook it inside. Dad heads out to the patio, beer in hand (I am sure) to sit and relax. A little later Scamp heads into the house to, well you know, and when he came back out he told my dad "mamma said to get your rear in the kitchen and get the roast."

 

Now anyone who knows my dad, knows that is going to set him off in a big way. He goes storming into the house yelling at at mom, wanting to know what she means. She did say she was going to cook it inside. She is puzzled, until they both head outside and see Scamp laughing his a$$ off.

 

That has always been one of my favorite stories. Guess it always will be.

It's all so overwhelming

Share a moment when you felt overwhelmed.

Small overwhelms are felt daily such as right now when I know I should be vacuuming, cleaning the toilet or some such activity instead of sitting here writing on my blog. But I can usually ignore the small ones.

 

Then there are the mid-range overwhelms, usually at work when I have three or four people wanting something from me while I am in the middle of something else. Little harder to ignore.

 

The really big overwhelms are when something happens and I cannot control it. When the kids left for another state; when I have to return them at the of their visits. These are times when I can't ignore and sometimes feel like I don't want to go on. But I do and thankfully.

Plaids of all kinds

What comes to mind when you think of the word ‘plaid’.

Stripes in varying degrees of size and colors all intertwined with one another in straight lines vertical and horizontal. I've been seeing a lot of plaids in my efforts to clean up and organize my digital scrapbooking kits.

The shoe has it

When you play Monopoly, which figurine do you usually grab?

I never really thought about it before, but yeah, I always try to take the shoe when I play Monopoly. Or the top hat. Makes you kind of wonder if there is something to it huh? Both are articles of clothing. I think most people would probably pick the car. Speed thing. What would you pick?

Oh the snack of it

I don't eat many snacks. Mainly because when I start I tend to over-indulge. Not good when you have to keep track of your blood sugar. And I definitely don't keep them in my drawer at work. I do keep a protein bar in my purse for emergencies (like when I work later than I expect and can't make it home or out for lunch).

Dream Date

I dream a lot. A whole lot, in color, in b&w, and all shades between. Usually I try to forget my dreams and usually I am successful. Until recently, all the characters in my dreams were unknowns, sometimes even myself. I rarely dreamed about family and friends. That is beginning to change and it makes it much harder to slip out of the dream mode of thinking into the awake mode of thinking.

 

Just the other day, I had one about my beloved Pan. And an ex-friend. I have not spoken to M in several years. She really hurt me, deeply, and I do not forgive easily. Oh, back to the dream.

 

I don't know how I found out, but someone must have told me, that M had continued to email Pan even after our severed friendship. Not such a big deal, why would I care. She and Pan were friends too. But this same person must be the one who told me that she had bought them both tickets to Hawaii.

 

Again, so what? Pan would never consider traveling with her leaving me at home. That is until I confronted him about it and he told me he was going. I was devastated. I wasn't worried about him having an affair. But just by agreeing to accompany her, he had broken something in our relationship.

 

About this time my clock went off to take a pill and trying to reclaim the dream and change the outcome was forever lost. But I wonder, what turn it might have taken, had I continued to sleep? Do I even want to know?

My kind of torment

When I came across this prompt from Brain Candy, I just couldn't resist. It reminded me of something I had done when I was much younger (at least in my 20's, lol).

If you could have anyone locked in a room so that you could torment them for a day, whom would you choose, and how would you torment them?

The four year old child was just so obnoxious. His parents had taught him "big" words to use just so he would sound smart. "Eradicate" the fly instead of "kill the fly." That one really stuck, because why in the world would you teach a four year old various ways of saying kill. But there were others as well.

I took it upon myself to bring him down a notch. Okay a 20 something picking on a 4 year old, not cool. Still it was entertaining and extremely funny to watch him get upset everytime his parents told him how smart he was.

I would do the same all the time. Tell him how "smart" he was, but made it sound like a really bad word. It is hard to write how it sounded, but it went something like "Oh, Bob, you are just sooooo smart," putting a sneer into my voice at the end.

Yep those were the days. I would never consider doing that today, because 4 year olds today are really that smart.

Pet Peeves

Have you ever been setting at home waiting for a utility repair or a new large appliance? All of us have at one time or another. But when I was talking to the Bug the other day, it came up that she had to get home to wait on the ac repair. They had given her a window of one hour. Which is better than the four hours you are normally expected to wait, but still.

Don't they understand that unless we go to work, they don't get paid. I can't think of any other business where it is okay to make someone wait for a product or service (except maybe a doctor's off , but generally it is only 5-15 minutes). It really annoys me that I have to take time off to have some work done. Sad thing is, we let them get away with it.

Was I in control of my day?

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I think these prompts were timed with the days I work. But in answer to the question, yesterday I was in control of the day only insomuch as that it did not interfere with my boss' designs for my day. He's not demanding, so I pretty much can work at my own pace in my own time. Just as long as I get it done. So in that respect I do have some control.

I wished I could have skipped housework

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That is so silly, I have so little to do without the kids here. Make a bed, wash a few dishes, vacuum. But no matter what I really hate housework. More so than most I believe (that should have gone on yesterday's list huh?)

 

Still most got done and I spent the rest of the time, on the computer, reading a book or playing pokemon again.