Bookstores, Birthdays, Bars, and Beaches

So, if my title doesn't make a lot of sense, it's because it is a list of all the things I remember from my dreams last night that I kind of chanted over and over in my head to try to help myself remember for my post today.  Let's begin shall we?

What I remember is being in the bookstore where I work, although it wasn't the usual form it takes in my dreams, this kind of looked like a bar.  And we had these 12 tables set up with birthday cakes on them.  And supposedly there were 12 different people coming in to have their birthdays celebrated for free at this bar/bookstore.  The employees had to spread out at the different tables to be part of the celebrations, kind of as guides to each group for the event.  The table I was at had a kind of messed up looking cake.  One corner, where you might normally have the person's name, looked at first like it had been cut out.  But as I got closer, I saw that it just had like a mound of extra icing there instead. The group that walked up to my table were two attractive guys.  One that was like my image of the perfect guy, and then the other one who was the actual birthday person.  The guy having the birthday was gay.  But I wasn't sure if his friend was, or was just being a good friend and celebrating.  So I had to walk around and give a tour and then also while we sat at the table I had to try to make conversation with the two guys.  And it was hard.  I get really nervous around cute guys.  For some reason we got separated and when I got back to the table they'd already cut the cake and I was worried about not getting a piece with lots of icing.  But I ended up with on.  I also remember that the birthday parties were being sponsored by Guiness Beer?  And at one point in the tour I felt I had to make sure to point out to my two guys that the bookstore was just my part time job and that I was a full time high school librarian.

Now, outside of the bookstore/bar was a beach, and I just remember going out there and seeing like some kind of big yard sale going on.  And at the end, a woman I used to work at the bookstore with came over with her mother and they offered to give me some fancy chair thing for me to give to my niece.  So then I had to try to get the chair, and suddenly my two dogs as well, out out to my car.  And to get to my car we had to walk down this sidewalk in a city, that is what pops up in some of my dreams where I"m supposedly visiting my sister in NYC.

My own interpretation is that I saw a really cute guy, my perfect image, at the bookstore last night. And he came up to ask for a book, and actually stumbled over his words a bit.  And I worked last night, which is probably why the bookstore was in my dream.  Not sure why there was cake, other than maybe I saw a book last night that had something to do with cake that stuck out in my head.  I think the chair thing came from reading posts by that friend on Facebook before I went to bed, as well as talking about my niece with one of my fellow workers at the bookstore.  The dog part of the dream is easy. My two dogs are making me crazy!  I love them to death!  And love how snuggly they are at night. But when the oldest one, Dora, decides she wants me to get up and take her outside to potty, she starts just licking my leg.  Just one lick.  Waits a few seconds, then another.  It is so annoying!!  The having to make sure they knew about my library job has to do with me finding out that once again I didn't get a library job in the district I had taught in for 14 years.  It was very disappointing to me yesterday because I didn't even get called in for an interview.  Very frustrating.  As for the beach, have no idea where that came in, other than I'm going on vacation this coming weekend. Not that I'll be near a beach though.

Dr. Who?

 

So I woke up this morning remember almost all of my dream!  And then, I got busy doing things at work and have forgotten a lot of it. So I decided to go ahead and try to start blogging what I did remember so that maybe the other parts would pop back into my head as I was typing.

I'm not a Doctor Who fan.  It's not that I don't like it, I've just never watched it.  And I'm sure I'd probably really enjoy it, but I already have so many shows that I watch that I just don't want to let myself get involved in another one.  However probably due to all the stuff we have to do with the show at the bookstore where I work, I'm guessing that is why it was in my dreams last night.

I remember something at the beginning about how I was going to do some complicated type of degree.  I'm guessing it had something to do with the International Baccalaureate program we have at school and all the testing we've been doing and will be doing the rest of the school year.  But I was worried about getting to my class/test whatever on time.  And for some reason I needed my parents to drive me, but they wouldn't help me out.  It was my mom and stepdad I think.  Which is weird, they've always been there for me when I need them for something like that.

So then I get to school and am looking at all the things I have to do in this classroom and thinking that maybe I don't want to do whatever this thing is that I have to do.  And after kind of discussing it with one of my professors from back when I was in library school, we decided that really it wasn't anything that was going to help me any, and so it would be a waste of my time and stress to do it.

Next thing I remember is being in a girls' bathroom at school, although it kind of looked like a fitting room in a store, and I was getting dressed in some type of Doctor Who costume, with the maroon and gold scarf I think?  Maybe it is in my head because of the books I ordered that arrived at school and I'm getting ready for the students.  But then in my dream, two students came in and were also changing into costumes, and one of them is an 8th grade girl we have that I know is really into Doctor Who and was telling me how awesome my costume was. 

I can't remember a lot of what happened after that.  I remember coming out in my costume and there being a kind of cute guy there, and me hoping he'd be impressed by my costume because he was a  Doctor Who fan.  I'm guessing that part may have had something to do with the new guy at work last night.

So that's all I can remember for now.  If I think of any other parts I may come back and add to the post later.  I just feel like there was more to talk about!

Thanksgiving in May?

So when I woke up this morning I remembered so much of my dreams last night!  Of course by the time I got up off the couch and got the laptop out to start blogging, a lot had kind of disappeared from my memory.  But there were two main parts that I do remember, and as I talk about them here, I'm hoping more details will be remembered.

As my title suggests, there was a big Thanksgiving dinner in my dream.  Although in a way it could have been just maybe a retirement dinner as I have one of those coming up for some teachers from my last school.  First thing I remember is showing up in the room where all the food is and suddenly realizing I had forgotten to make whatever food I'd signed up to bring for what was a work Thanksgiving celebration. Although my family was there too, so not sure what that means.  And since I hadn't brought anything, I didn't feel like I should eat, even though the amount of food was AMAZING!!!  But I was convinced by another teacher that there was enough food I should go ahead and eat.  I also got a plate with the basics:  turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, a roll, noodles, etc.  And after I finished that, I went back for more food as there were so many different types of food and I wanted to try them all.  I did feel a little bad about that though, which I'm guessing has to do with how fat I am feeling right now knowing that I don't need to be eating so much.  There was more to this part of the dream, but I can't really remember a lot of it at the moment.

The other part of the dream that I remember has to do with being at work in the bookstore where I work part time.  Now, this bookstore is different in my dreams than the actual place where I work.  The Barnes and Noble where I work is two floors in real life, but in my dream it is a little different.  It has one really bit open floor, and then some kind of building in the middle that has a 2nd floor.  That floor has two escalators, one on either side of the store, or maybe they're stairs, can't remember for sure at the moment.  The second floor is more of a little island though, than the way that it goes completely around the edges in real life.  And actually in my dream, this 2nd floor is kind of a 3rd floor.  The little building in the middle actually contains elevators that can go up to the 3rd floor, or if you know how, they go to a second middle small floor, where the employees have a room just for them with lockers and the managers' offices.  I don't remember a whole lot about this part of the dream, but I do remember the setting as I always seem to dream the store is like this.  I'm guessing this part of the dream came from me going in to work last night.

Okay, just remembered a 3rd part of my dream!  I ended up at some kind of a furniture type of store, but this was in an outdoorsy type of place, almost a campground, but with some kind of military base connection.  I had gone to the store with my friend Michelle in her Jeep. For some reason we got separated and she headed out to the car first.  By the time I got out to the parking lot she was already pulling her Jeep out of the parking spot at the far side of the lot.  As she was doing this, we were all watching and saw what kind of looked like a giant paper airplane land, followed by a bunch of military guys on motorcycles and in small Jeep like cars surrounding it.  Soon my friend pulled up to me in the Jeep for us to go.  We talked about it being a drone, and how it must have been something major and not just a drill with the way the soldiers surrounded it and had the rest of us uniformly file out of the parking lot.  Not sure what that part of my dream was about or why I would have dreamt it.

Weird dreams last night again!  But I love them, I love really strange dreams, vivid dreams.

Who Let the Dogs Out?

So I remember a few things from my dream last night.  I was going to a party at the house of a friend who I used to work at  B. Dalton with.  The house in this dream for the most part was one I hadn't seen before, although as the dream went on, parts of it morphed into parts of houses from other dreams.  For some reason I'd taken my two dogs with me, and my 4 year old dachshund got out of the house and disappeared.  I was so scared and worried and sad, and we couldn't find her anywhere!  If I could have woken up from that dream, I would have done it as soon as I could have.  But I had to be in that dream for awhile. When I did wake up, I think when Dora actually woke me up about 3 am for her breakfast, I was so relieved to be able to hold her and love on her.  What a scary dream!


I know my friend was in the dream because I've been to parties at his house before, and I'd commented on a post of his on Facebook yesterday.  Not sure why Dora was in the dream, although I know that I do have dreams about one or both of my dogs getting loose and running away once in awhile.  Just glad to have woken up and had both my dogs snuggling in bed with me.  By the way, the dog on the right in the picture above is Dora, and to the left is my other dachshund, a 2 year old male named Argyle.