Busy Busy Busy!

I know I haven't blogged in a bit, but dang, it's getting tough writing about my math woes all the time! Sadly, that's pretty much consumed my off-work hours. It's going semi-well, which is good, I suppose, for a crunched class. I took a couple vacation days from work, but it turns out that we're having special HazMat inspections on those days. So.... I'm compromising, going in for the inspection on Monday at 2pm, then working Tuesday, and taking Wednesday instead. Since I didn't have concrete plans (and who needs them when its going to be over 106 all week!), not such a big deal to me. That spreads out my time off, more time for.. yep, you guessed it.... Math. Midterm next week. but that also means I'm halfway done! :) :) In the meantime, I've been having oddddd dreams again, sometimes two a night. Problem with all that dreaming is I wake up and don't feel rested. I know they say dreaming is when you're getting your REM sleep. But jumpin jehosephat! when you fall asleep and wake up from a dream, feels like you've been asleep for hours, and its not even midnight yet... makes for a long night! I was so tuckered out yesterday that I figured I'd take a nap... and dreamt then too!! 

I needed a breath of fresh air, so I took a drive down the freeway, congested closed-in freeway with off ramps. It's not a good part of town. I parked my car along the street in a residential neighborhood that seemed ok. Then got in another car and drove it a mile up the freeway to the next offramp and parked in a parking lot. I was in a strange neighborhood, so I wandered in to the nearest building, which seemed to be some kind of doctor's office. But it wasn't usual doctoring; each of the rooms was set up more for kids to play and be observed (maybe psychiatric type?) and in one room is a handsome doc and a small boy and this is the room I stopped in. Because he was friendly, the doc I mean. I explained I was a bit lost, and needed to get back to my car. But he proceeded to start explaining things -- about chimps and people, how things work, why we do the things we do, all the while he's watching this boy play with things. A couple of times, I interrupted his explanations, saying I needed to go get my car, it was a mile back down the road, before it gets dark. Time was passing quickly, and I needed to go, so I grabbed my purse and fumbled for my keys (as usual, they were on the bottom!) and headed for the door. The doc stopped me and kept talking to me, said he'd walk me out, took me by the arm, and headed me and the boy out the door. When we reached my car, I climbed in the driver's seat, and he leaned in the back door, putting the boy in the back and buckling his seat belt. But he wouldn't leave the car and I really felt the need to get away. I eased off the brake and let the car start rolling, hoping he would move away so I could go. Finally! By then it was dark, and I was disoriented, but drove back to my car. The dream ended with me leaving the boy with some woman I seemed to recognize; I was inside her apartment, but left immediately when I recognized her man. I ran down the cement steps to my car and started it. 

I have a question for the universe though: Why can't I have an ordinary sexual escapade kind of dream??? once in a while at least?? hahaha

Dreamy HUGS to everyone!

Summertime

June 21 was officially summer by calendar date, but it has felt like summer for a while here in the Valley of the Sun. This is my first spring-into-summer after being here through the winter, so I've had more time this year to notice differences. It's always amazing to me how we become accustomed to how things work "in our own little world" and forget -- or maybe just not thing about -- the fact that things are often quite different in other places!

I wasn't prepared for the flowers to bloom so early here. And last week, as I traveled between home and work during daylight non-commute hours, I passed a corn field that has already begun to "fuzz" on top. Coming from good 'farming stock', we've always said if it's "knee high by the fourth of July", you knew you'd have a pretty good crop. But here, it's full grown and still 2 weeks away from the 4th. Can't say I had even thought about it. If I had a corner of land to plant things in, I can honestly say I wouldn't have considered it until the end of May, just out of habit, and assumptions. Goes to show, the planting season is much earlier here!!

I snapped this picture while driving 45mph, rather randomly and haphazardly ... what are the odds of getting a rabbit running along the field's edge in a picture???? In animal speak, rabbits move by hops and leaps ... wonder if that has any significance to my own life? Ahh, things to ponder!

HoppityHUGS to everyone!