angelchicken | Random Sunday thoughts

I have been having very vivid, very involved dreams recently. I occasionally get flashes of them, but for the most part don't remember them except for when I wake up thinking "Wow. Another really vivid and involved dream. Huh."

I know that in one dream

eliade was a debutante and she was dating Michael Rosenbaum and that in the same dream there was a big newspaper article that

anniesj was missing and presumed dead and the whole country was trying to find her and eventually they did. She wasn't dead. And she arrived in time for

eliade's cotillion. Marc Blucas was also in that dream.

Last night I think I had a dream where I was one of 13 or 14 children and our immigrant family was trying to flee the oppression of the United States and go to um, Boston maybe? Possibly en route to France. Or maybe Spain.

And there was a greasy, oppressive mechanic who was trying to keep us from getting away. He reminded me of the glass-eyed Pirate from Pirates of the Caribbean.

In other news, I feel like I have had a productive day, thus far.

I woke at nine (late, for me) and lay in bed for a bit reading To Make Much of Time and then got up and did the whole bathing thing.

After I got dressed and made my bed (which I do every day. Uh, both the dressing and the bed making) I got together my garbage and left two of my garbage cans to soak. I walked to Durso's (about a mile or so), the faboo fresh Italian food place. There I spent about $40.00 on: Pumpkin ravioli, whole-wheat spinach ravioli, vodka sauce, clam sauce, a grilled cheese thing-y they have, focaccia bread, spinach bread, sauteed spinach, a brownie (because they make the best chocolate chocolate chip brownies) and apple brown betty.

Then I walked back with my terribly heavy bag of yummy food, cursing the fact that the stupid Durso's employee put everything in one bag and so it was quite heavy. Then I stopped and got coffee and went home to put away my food and do dishes.

After doing dishes I cleaned three of my four garbage cans. They needed it. I would have cleaned the fourth one, but it was six whole feet away and on the other side of a door so it was too far. But I now have three clean trash cans. This is good. It was needed.

After I finished the dishes I went real grocery shopping (fruit and veggies and chicken and eggs and Pirate's Booty, that sort of thing) and came home and put them away.

Then I went shoe shopping and came to the conclusion that I would rather spend sixty, seventy, eighty dollars on one pair of good shoes that I really like than twenty, thirty, forty dollars on a pair of shoes that I don't really care about but are cheaper. They will probably fall apart faster anyway, so I am happy I didn't get anything at Love My Shoes. Maybe I'll go after work tomorrow.

Then I came home and had a cup of raspberry yogurt and an apple with peanut butter.

It's all good.

Finally, I start my new job tomorrow. Yeeeeeesh. I am kind of nervous because I really don't know what I am getting into, but I hope it is okay and i realize that it will take me a while to get into the swing of things, but that is also okay. I don't have to know everything immediately. I am a fast learner so I am okay with that.

But nerves are nerves and a new job is nerve wracking.

I am going to try to walk before work tomorrow. Might be soothing.

And New York is absolutely beautiful today. If only every day could be like today.