You know those nights when you just reflect what you have done all day long, especially when it’s repetitive? That was last night for me.

So this report I’ve been working on at work for a while, involving building an populating tables, looking at MS Access and Excel, running SQL queries… I swear I did that all freakin’ night long last night and woke up to it, too.

I don’t really like nights like that! And it was the only dream I remembered from last night.

Okay I got myself a new mattress and frame, but I haven’t gotten one for the dogs. I am really looking for a nice dog bed. Something that can be thrown in the washing machine, and is not too big for our washing machine.

Angel, our sweet rescue collie girl who is probably at least 11 years old now, she loves to fix up our beds. She is excellent at it… well, ask her and she will tell you she is. She goes to town fixing up our beds, pushing with her nose at pillows and sheets, and she grabs those darn sheets and pulls them down until they are almost completely off the bed. LOL. We have to fix up our beds every night because she does such a good job.

The bedroom is her safe, and favorite, place. She chews her pig ears in there, sleeps in there, and goes in there when there is thunder or lightening or fireworks and she is nervous. We keep some dog beds in there as well, but she prefers the mattress. We’d love to find a nice squishy comfy dog bed for her that she would prefer.

And I do love to watch the dogs dream, they twitch and run and their mouths move in their sleep. I wonder if having a comfy dog bed makes them even more dreamy? Do they like firm or soft? I think soft… LOL our dogs are so very spoiled, as they should be.

Well, in order to encourage better dreams and better sleep, I bought a new mattress on Sunday. That was.. yesterday. No no I bought it on Saturday, then, not yesterday. I went to Ikea. The mattress was fairly inexpensive, foam, so it is now getting back it’s regular shape. It came in a roll, which was odd, but fit in my Outback which was very nice.

I also bought a frame for it. I’m going to have to look to see if the frame has a weight limit, so as to make sure that me and all the dogs will fit on it. It’s a Queen size. King is just too darn big for the bedroom. And my Husband has his own single bed anyway.

But I’m also going to get a water proof cover for it before I can use it. Darnit I don’t want to wait! I am much too much an instant gratification type person! So next week, probably, I get to use it and see if my dreams improve.

I love to hike. I haven’t hiked in my dreams lately, though. Would be a fun way to spend a dream. I love the mountains, I love the rocks beneath my feet, and I love the sun on my face and the cool wind in my hair.

I also like having good solid hiking boots on my feet. They are so important. I don’t really need hiking boots for Christmas, but they would be a great gift. Maybe my sister needs some… and we don’t hunt, but sometimes Hunting Boots can be used as hiking boots, as hiking boots and are just as good and solid.

So maybe they would be a good Christmas gift you can give!

Well, unfortunately, the ex didn’t go away in that dream from before. I hope he sure does soon. This time I was in a hotel room and I was with my current husband, and we were showering together and we were having a great time and madly in love. Then he had to go because I was going to meet with my ex and I didn’t want my ex to see my husband.

Then I decided that I didn’t want to see my ex either, so I left out the back door and took a walk. Well, the ex was very mad, like he used to get, that horrible angry hatred feeling I’d pick up. But fortunately he left, but before I got back I decided that I should stand up to him and say my new guy is my Husband for goodness sake and he is priority! LOL too weird.

Then later after the walk I was in this building with my sister and my flyball team, and we were going through some storage area. We could take whatever we wanted. I stuffed my pockets with some fragile crystal and glass figurines. There were a lot of boats around too, and trailers, and shelves filled with things. Maybe like Ikea? LOL

Then I had to talk to my sister to drive me home in her truck.. a nice Toyota pickup like I used to have (she has never owned a Toyota pickup) because my ex was supposed to drive me home but he was no where to be found.

It was an odd dream.

It is just the time for Christmas isn’t it? Hrmph… well, yes it is. We need new Christmas lights. I think ours from last year have been up most of the summer, and they are falling apart. I need to string them all out and see if any of them work anymore. If they don’t, I seriously want to get some LED Xmas lights instead of the old regular incandescent kind.

They create very little heat and they also save a lot of energy. If everyone went to these over Christmas, our energy consumption would be greatly decreased. And I’m always looking for ways to help the environment!

Another long dream I woke up to this morning to Tatum being growly and grouchy toward Tony. She was put in the crate for the rest of the morning.

Anyway the beginning that I remember was in some sort of meeting hall where we were having a meeting, I didn’t know most of the people. And it slowly tended toward being religious and then they were all Mormons and they were standing around a table praying and standing with their hands behind their backs. I caught the eye of someone across the room who smiled and nodded at me for us to get out of there because, it seemed, that person wasn’t a Mormon either (and no I’m not Mormon in real life but I do live in Utah).

So I managed to get out but couldn’t find that person and then had to go to the bathroom. Before I got to the bathroom I found my ex and his father blocking the way. My ex was all sad and miserable and wanted to know why I left him and would I take him back. His father is actually dead in real life. I tried to avoid them and managed to get around them and go into the ladies’ room.

When I came out, though, my ex was still there but his father was not. And he kept following me down this hallway as I was trying to get home to my apartment (I live in a house IRL). And he kept asking me and being all teary eyed about why I left him. I told him that he can’t just expect me to want to be with him when we spent years together and he never listened to a damn thing I said, until now when I am done and want to go. And that, actually, is a lot of what happened. And I think maybe I’m dreaming about my ex a lot now because my current husband is being a grumpy pain in the ass a lot like, don’t tell him I said this, my ex. And I really dislike it.

Anyway so he nodded and we said goodbye for the very last time. Maybe I won’t see him in my dreams anymore, I can only hope. And I reached my apartment and I was upset from having talked to him so I found my boyfriend in the shower and wanted to commiserate. Well he wasn’t there but there were a couple of the guys from the new show The Big Bang Theory. He he too funny. So anyway, they got out of the shower and were all wet and I didn’t care, I put my arms around them and we walked through the other people that were suddenly there and out onto the balcony. There I kissed Leonard and he was a good kisser.

Then there was this strange scene from Star Wars that got to me like I was watching a movie, there was this space ship that was like big alligator jaws and it would wrap up a victim ship and close the jaws around it and consume it, and create another ship out of it. Then they would grind up the people that had been in the ship into some mush and put it into containers. That almost made me throw up. And then it wasn’t a movie but an informational bit about what was happening in the galaxy. And next to me was Harrison Ford and I was so glad that he was in this movie again as I’d missed him as Han Solo. And come to find out he’s the president of the planet now.

(My GODS i have elaborate dreams don’t I? Not done yet!)

So I ended up following Harrison Ford around but it wasn’t really me, still kinda watching a movie. And there was this woman wrapped up in clothes that made her look like a young boy, and the enemies who were ruling the earth and suppressing Harrison and the population (but there was a rebel faction of course) would follow Harrison and this woman (who was kinda me but not really) into a strip mall and then into a store. But then Harrison and the woman got kicked out. Harrison was thinking that the woman was a helpless boy. Until they both got trapped and she needed to whip out her feminine wiles and use them on one of the guards. She was sultry and gorgeous and surprised Harrison.

At this time I wanted to be a part of this so I created a character of me, but I was plain and unassuming and Harrison didn’t notice me really. I wanted him to notice me like he noticed her. But the three of us then walked to Harrison’s office to have a meeting with his other important people… and that is when I woke up.

LOL. Gotta love dreams.

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The company doing the contest creates business Christmas cards, the kind you get from banks and places every year wishing you a Merry Christmas. They also do Religious Christmas Cards and other types. So check ‘em out if you are interested!

Not remembering too much lately… but I do remember a couple of nights ago I dreamed that I kept putting my underwear on backwards. And going out like that and the butt part was poofy in the front.

Of course I was not at all embarrassed about being out in my underwear.

Well, another agility dream. Similar to others I think. I dreamed that the agility trial was in a huge barn and to the other end there were booths set up and people were selling things for fund raisers. I was late for agility again, Open, running Chase. And when I finally managed to walk the course the jumps were boxes all pressed up against the walls. And I kept thinking that will be awful hard to jump.

And I couldn’t see the numbers on the course, and I couldn’t find a map, either. When the judge gave me the papers that were supposed to have the map, I looked but I couldn’t read any of it and my mind was really getting unfocused. (I can never read in my dreams.) But the map wasn’t there even though others were telling me it was.

My mind got really wonky and I couldn’t focus or concentrate on anything. I kept wandering around, couldn’t hold a conversation, and couldn’t focus. I lost the dogs at one point, didn’t remember where I left Chase and Levi. I had left them in the car but then the car wasn’t where I had parked it.

Someone ended up calling my husband to come get me. He did, and he took me to a psychiatrist. The doc was weird and I couldn’t understand him or focus on him and I kept wandering around the office completely lost.

It was a weird dream and not a pleasant sensation. I was actually glad when I woke up.