Do you ever have a scary dream right before you wake up in the morning? Lately I've been experiencing these a lot. It just leaves me with this weird feeling all day. Especially if I can still remember the dream.
Like this morning. Two of them. Back to back. I tried to go back to sleep after the first and had another. In both of them I woke up right before I died. Now I just feel weird and kind of scared. I know dreams can be tied to things going on in your life. I hope these don't really mean anything.
And while we're on the subject of dreams, I have these other dreams where I know where I am, but it's not anywhere I really know. Does that make sense? It's kind of like I have a whole other life somewhere else. In my dreams, I recognise where I am, know where I'm going and how to get there, know where things are, etc. But it doesn't look like anywhere I've ever been in real life. I have these all the time. I don't totally believe in past lives, but I wonder if it's something like that. Maybe memories coming back or something?
Or maybe I'm just insane. :)
March 9, 2012
March 7, 2012
Time to catch up
I haven't posted anything for a while. I'm sure no one really cares, but I figure I should catch up on things.
I spent most of February being sick and feeling pretty crappy (physically and emotionally.) There is some nasty virus going around here that is kind of like a bad cold/flu thing. And it doesn't seem to ever want to go away! I still have a cough from it. I was sick for about a week. Had a fever for 4 days! I don't ever remember having a fever for that long. It would go away and then come back over and over. Not fun at all! And usually when I'm sick, I can still basically function. I can do a little housework, bathe, get dressed, run a few errands, etc. Not this time. I laid on the couch and watched TV and slept. I really don't think I've ever been that sick before!
Nothing too exciting has been going on around here. We are still trying to build a chicken coop for the chickens that our friend is going to give us. It's only taken 3 months! We're not very good at carpentry or whatever you call building stuff. We have run into a lot of problems. We tried making plans with measurements and such, but things didn't quite work right so we had to revise them. And revise them again. And again. We've become very familiar with our friendly neighborhood Home Depot. Saturday we were very excited because all that was left was to put the roof on. Yay! Almost done! Wait...Not quite...Saturday was the day of big "Duh" moments!
We had a piece of plywood that was supposed to be the roof, but when we put it on it was too small. Somehow we didn't account for the fact that putting the walls up would add to the length and width of the chicken coop. Duh #1.
Husband and I went to Home Depot to get another piece of plywood and some other stuff. We measured the coop this time and figured we needed a 5'x4' piece. We found a piece that was damaged and the guy said he could take $6 off for that. Yay! Plywood is NOT cheap! We had him cut it to the size we needed and checked out. We went out to our car and proceeded to load our purchases. It never occurred to us that a 5'x4' piece of plywood would not fit in the back seat of our Nissan Sentra. Here we have Duh #2! I swear that we've put large pieces of wood in the back seat before. I guess not. We stood there in the parking lot feeling very stupid. I could not stop laughing! How many problems are we going to run into in building this stupid chicken coop??!!
So how do we get this wood home? We tried putting it in the trunk. It was too wide. We thought of tying it onto the roof somehow, but weren't quite sure how to do that. I could just see it sliding down off the car and into the street. Then we remembered that we had seen a friend in Home Depot as we were walking out. He might have his truck! I ran back into the store and frantically searched for him. I went through the entire store. No luck. But just as I was about to give up and leave, I saw him heading for the checkout. I ran up to him and asked if he happened to have his truck with him. He said "Yeah. Didn't it fit?" He knew exactly what we needed. I went outside and told Husband that I had found him. We loaded the wood into his truck and went home. We were laughing our heads off about how stupid we were!
We put the plywood on the chicken coop, along with some shingles. We probably did it all wrong, but everything's still intact after the crazy wind we had here today. Whew! Hopefully the chickens will be satisfied with their new home!
Next I get to paint the chicken coop. I'm actually looking forward to this because I am feeling the urge to be creative. I get like this a few times a year. I just need to do something creative and get it out of my system. If I don't, it just drives me nuts! And I'm already nuts. It doesn't need to get any worse! The problem is, most of my supplies are still packed up from when we moved 2 1/2 years ago! I'm wanting to turn one of our bedrooms into my craft room, but other things have taken priority over that. Like building a chicken coop? Really? Maybe I can use it for a craft room since the chickens will probably die from improper care. I never had good luck with pets. I never had cats or dogs because I'm allergic, but I had lots of suicidal goldfish and a parakeet that hated me. Great!
Anyway, setting up the craft room is next on MY list of priorities. Which means that probably in about 5 years it'll be done! I would like to figure out a way to sell the stuff I make, but I'm not quite sure what to do. I would love to get on Etsy, but everytime I look at it it's just too overwhelming. I don't know if I need a business license, or if I can just go ahead and start selling. I haven't really had time to research it enough. I always keep putting it off, but I don't want to anymore. I really want to do this! I NEED to do it so I don't go completely insane!
There are so many things I want to do and I never have enough time to do them. I feel like I'm going to wake up one day and be old and almost dead and never accomplished anything. I'm going to be 40 in a few years. I can't seem to wrap my head around that. Mentally I feel alot younger than I am - maybe 25. Physically sometimes I feel about 105. :)
I think that's it for now. I'm realizing as I'm typing this that I've spent way too much time on my iPod. I'm actually having trouble typing on a keyboard! What a dork!
Thanks for reading!
I spent most of February being sick and feeling pretty crappy (physically and emotionally.) There is some nasty virus going around here that is kind of like a bad cold/flu thing. And it doesn't seem to ever want to go away! I still have a cough from it. I was sick for about a week. Had a fever for 4 days! I don't ever remember having a fever for that long. It would go away and then come back over and over. Not fun at all! And usually when I'm sick, I can still basically function. I can do a little housework, bathe, get dressed, run a few errands, etc. Not this time. I laid on the couch and watched TV and slept. I really don't think I've ever been that sick before!
Nothing too exciting has been going on around here. We are still trying to build a chicken coop for the chickens that our friend is going to give us. It's only taken 3 months! We're not very good at carpentry or whatever you call building stuff. We have run into a lot of problems. We tried making plans with measurements and such, but things didn't quite work right so we had to revise them. And revise them again. And again. We've become very familiar with our friendly neighborhood Home Depot. Saturday we were very excited because all that was left was to put the roof on. Yay! Almost done! Wait...Not quite...Saturday was the day of big "Duh" moments!
We had a piece of plywood that was supposed to be the roof, but when we put it on it was too small. Somehow we didn't account for the fact that putting the walls up would add to the length and width of the chicken coop. Duh #1.
Husband and I went to Home Depot to get another piece of plywood and some other stuff. We measured the coop this time and figured we needed a 5'x4' piece. We found a piece that was damaged and the guy said he could take $6 off for that. Yay! Plywood is NOT cheap! We had him cut it to the size we needed and checked out. We went out to our car and proceeded to load our purchases. It never occurred to us that a 5'x4' piece of plywood would not fit in the back seat of our Nissan Sentra. Here we have Duh #2! I swear that we've put large pieces of wood in the back seat before. I guess not. We stood there in the parking lot feeling very stupid. I could not stop laughing! How many problems are we going to run into in building this stupid chicken coop??!!
So how do we get this wood home? We tried putting it in the trunk. It was too wide. We thought of tying it onto the roof somehow, but weren't quite sure how to do that. I could just see it sliding down off the car and into the street. Then we remembered that we had seen a friend in Home Depot as we were walking out. He might have his truck! I ran back into the store and frantically searched for him. I went through the entire store. No luck. But just as I was about to give up and leave, I saw him heading for the checkout. I ran up to him and asked if he happened to have his truck with him. He said "Yeah. Didn't it fit?" He knew exactly what we needed. I went outside and told Husband that I had found him. We loaded the wood into his truck and went home. We were laughing our heads off about how stupid we were!
We put the plywood on the chicken coop, along with some shingles. We probably did it all wrong, but everything's still intact after the crazy wind we had here today. Whew! Hopefully the chickens will be satisfied with their new home!
Next I get to paint the chicken coop. I'm actually looking forward to this because I am feeling the urge to be creative. I get like this a few times a year. I just need to do something creative and get it out of my system. If I don't, it just drives me nuts! And I'm already nuts. It doesn't need to get any worse! The problem is, most of my supplies are still packed up from when we moved 2 1/2 years ago! I'm wanting to turn one of our bedrooms into my craft room, but other things have taken priority over that. Like building a chicken coop? Really? Maybe I can use it for a craft room since the chickens will probably die from improper care. I never had good luck with pets. I never had cats or dogs because I'm allergic, but I had lots of suicidal goldfish and a parakeet that hated me. Great!
Anyway, setting up the craft room is next on MY list of priorities. Which means that probably in about 5 years it'll be done! I would like to figure out a way to sell the stuff I make, but I'm not quite sure what to do. I would love to get on Etsy, but everytime I look at it it's just too overwhelming. I don't know if I need a business license, or if I can just go ahead and start selling. I haven't really had time to research it enough. I always keep putting it off, but I don't want to anymore. I really want to do this! I NEED to do it so I don't go completely insane!
There are so many things I want to do and I never have enough time to do them. I feel like I'm going to wake up one day and be old and almost dead and never accomplished anything. I'm going to be 40 in a few years. I can't seem to wrap my head around that. Mentally I feel alot younger than I am - maybe 25. Physically sometimes I feel about 105. :)
I think that's it for now. I'm realizing as I'm typing this that I've spent way too much time on my iPod. I'm actually having trouble typing on a keyboard! What a dork!
Thanks for reading!
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