Two dreams in the last two nights, after almost a week of dreams that escaped me

Two nights ago, I dreamt a dream that was definitely outrageous although of course, since my laptop was out of commission and I therefore didn't have an opportunity to blog about it, I can only remember one little bit of it. I was walking down the street with a friend of mine who happened to be male, and I was wearing a skirt. As we stopped to figure out a way to get through the rather large crowd that had suddenly appeared in front of us on the sidewalk, my friend stepped in front of me and wouldn't let me see who had caused this huge crowd to gather. I struggled to push him out of the way because obviously it was someone I knew or someone that I thought was cool (like an actor or a musician that I really liked), and when he finally sighed and gave way, I stood on my tip-toes and saw a charter bus. There were several people walking up the steps to the bus and waiting in line to get on, one of whom was none other than Fla.-J. He was wearing a cream-colored long-sleeve shirt and wasn't looking in my direction at all. I decided that it wasn't worth waiting around for this crowd to dissipate since clearly the cause of it was Fla.-J, so I fought my way through the crowd to be on my way. The friend that was with me tried to keep up and intercept any sort of communication I might have with Fla.-J, but he got there too late; Fla.-J turned around for some reason and he saw me. We locked eyes. He smiled. He took a few steps towards me when I spun around and walked away, my friend right behind me, shooting Fla.-J a death stare as he walked by. Suddenly, my point of view changed and it was as if I was looking through a camera instead of my own eyes - I saw the hurt and the anger in Fla.-J's eyes as he shook his head in disbelief and turned back towards the line to get onto the bus.

Last night, I dreamt that I was a substitute science teacher and I was given a class roster and sent on my way to my first class. I was nervous because not only was this my first teaching job but I was grossly unprepared to teach science, of all subjects. For some reason, the teacher's desk was in the middle of the classroom with the students' desks surrounding it; as I read off the names, I apologized for mispronouncing almost all of them. A lot of the names were rather ethnic (and a variety of ethnicities, at that) and I really butchered most of the names, leading to further embarrassment. I heard one student mumble something under his breath after I tried to pronounce his name - twice - so I asked him to speak up if he had something to say. He repeated himself a little bit louder but I still couldn't understand him, so I just nodded and said, "Okay," even though I still had no clue what he'd said. I turned back to the roster to see how many more impossible names were listed when a commotion broke out at the back of the class and J.C. walked in, drunk as a skunk. She pretended like we were friends and I realized that I'd morphed from the teacher to a student in another class. The teacher in that class asked me if I knew who J.C. was and I briefly lied saying that I didn't, when what I really meant was that we were no longer friends and didn't associate with one another anymore. J.C. was adamant that we were still close - she was stumbling over her words and slurring them, too - so the teacher sent us both to the Principal's office. I was furious. I remember that there were a few other people that I recognized from high school, but when I woke up I couldn't recall who was there.

A bunch of people and an illicit relationship

I was participating in a basketball camp and it was in this old gym, some celebrity was running it (I can't remember who) and it was raining outside. I was one of the oldest people participating in the camp so I felt kind of awkward, but I wanted to learn how to play. I know there was more to this part - I can remember putting the basketball back on the rack at the end of the camp and talking to some people - but that's about it.

Then I was on an overpass/bridge and J.Mo was there, talking to some of our other friends. She handed me a royal blue bubble wrap mailer, then we got into a little argument about who could find the most nail polishes. I think Anners was there, too.

Lastly, I was at a carnival/state fair type of place and B., S.S. and J.F. from work were there. I think A.M., too. Except that J.F. and S.S. kept morphing into one another, back and forth. Apparently I was hooking up with S.S. and then I found out that I was the "other woman" - he had a long-term girlfriend. He and I were in a little corner of the carnival where we couldn't be seen and things were escalating, he was touching me, and then he forcibly pulled himself away and said something along the lines of "I can't do this. I have to stop. I have a girlfriend and we're moving in together!" And then he walked away, leaving me by myself. I have a vivid memory of seeing the girl - blonde hair, prefect makeup, angry eyes - peering around a curtain and seeing me with S.S., kind of the way it would be depicted in a movie. I waited a few minutes to collect myself and then I found B.; he and I walked together and I told him what happened. He was sympathetic, but then I started to get a weird vibe from him, as if he was jealous of my relationship - physical and otherwise - with S.S. We came upon a booth where you had to knock over some bottles with a beanbag and on the first try, B. knocked them down and won me a prize. Then, he saw some other friends he knew and said that he would catch up with me a little later so I kept walking around the carnival and I watched as some people were throwing fireworks; one that was a dud landed next to this guy I apparently knew and he just picked it up and started laughing as if twas no big deal. Finally, I ran into Ilana and she asked me to teach her how to use the treadmill, so I walked over to the side of the carnival that had the treadmills and was showing her how - which buttons to press, to start with her feet on the side and not on the conveyor belt - when S.S. walked by. I jumped down from the treadmill so he couldn't just walk by me without saying anything, as I thought he would have, so he came over to chat for a minute. The treadmills were all up on a platform so I had to crouch down to be eye level with him. He told me that he was sorry and that he didn't want this to affect our work relationship. I asked him how it couldn't and he started to walk away and then I said something along the lines of, "Wait, I'm sorry... it's fine. I understand. If I'd known form the beginning that you were with someone else, I never would have let things go this far. Seriously, I'm cool with this - don't let it affect work." He asked if I was sure and I told him that I was, and thanked him for his honesty. He looked at me kind of oddly then, as if he couldn't believe that I was thanking him, so I said it again, reassuring him that I really did appreciate the fact that he came clean and was honest with me about what was going on. He kind of half-smiled, nodded, and walked over to A.M. to continue on their way. I hung my head for a second, then got up and continued teaching Ilana how to use the treadmill.

A bad road trip

I was in some place with something scary going on, I think it was vampires. I was trying to learn what their powers were without coming into contact with any of them. I don't remember much else, except that the scenery was dark as if it was night.

Then, I was in a car with Boyfriend driving and we were headed to some sort of resort for a vacation. We weren't talking and I was thinking about the vampires when all of a sudden this driver in a white car - something like a Toyota Corola - was drifting into our lane from the right lane of the highway. Nic honked the horn and the car swerved back into their own lane and as we passed it, I went to give teh driver a dirty look and realized taht the driver actually was a 14-year-old girl with braces. I was outraged that such a young girl was driving w hen she clearly didn't know how to do so properly. A little while later, Nic went to pull into the shoulder for a pit stop to make a phone call and this white minivan pulled into the area behind us and almost hit us - it was the same girl! I was majorly freaked out and made Nic end his phone call so that we could continue on our way to the resort and get as far away as possible from this crazy girl.

Finally, we got to the resort and we checked in and on our way to our room we realized that it was facing the beach and the water. We got all excited but then when we finally got to our room, there were no doors, just a set of stairs leading up to the bed - it was like a lofted apartment. People were crawling all over it, though, because there also was a snack bar like at the arena in real life, so people were lined up for that. There was an emokid sitting on the ledge alongside of the staircase/at the foot of the bed; he was wearing a black t-shirt with neon color writing on it, tight jeans and chucks. He was swinging his feet off the balcony and Nic and I couldn't believe that this was happening on our vacation.

Wish I could remember more details

I was running through an arena with a ticket to a show, I was meeting Boyfriend and his family. I ran into a bunch of people I knew who deterred me from getting there on time, then I ran past section 38, where the seats were, and had to turn around and sprint back to get there in time. Then I was in this house, maybe mine (?), and just outside there were some shady people doing illegal things that I can't remember. No one wanted me to tell the police because they just wanted to ignore that those shady things were going on, but when there was a mass exodus of the house - going to another party? - and I saw people getting into their huge, raised pickup trucks and driving away, I couldn't help it. It was so offensive to me that these people were doing whatever it was that they were doing. I called the police and then talked up these people in the driveway, trying to make it seem really natural that I would be out there talking to them. Cut back to being with Boyfriend, and he asked me to marry him. I said yes.

A competition of sorts, Mexican food and a smoothie

There was a contest between me and a bunch of people from high school but Amy was there too; we had a baggie full of jewelery, bed sheets, and a scavenger hunt list of things we had to go find. We had to put the sheets on our beds first and all the beds were like our beds at Camp Louise. Amy set up her bed and I set up mine next to hers on the right side. As our instructor was giving us clues as to where we could find the different things on the list, this other girl that Amy apparently was friends with came up and started talking to her. I was trying to put all of the jewelery charms onto a necklace so I could keep them all together and make sure I didn't lose any when the instructor said, "Make sure the acorn stays in your bed." Sure enough, we each had an acorn in our baggies so I put mine under the pillow so that i wouldn't lose it. When I went to look around at some of the other beds the other girl that was talking to Amy switched our beds and ruined the organization that I had going on. I came back and started freaking out and she tried to act all innocent but I knew she was the one who did it. I went to move all of my stuff back to MY bed but she tried to claim it as hers. She pushed me away but I came back after her and punched her in the arm or the stomach, I can't remember, and then I picked her up in cradle carry and dropper her ass on a different bed. She knew I meant business and didn't try to mess with me anymore. Or so I thought. Our time ran out on the scavenger hunt - which I can't remember actually doing in the dream but I guess I had - and the instructor, someone who resembled Ryan Seacrest but less effeminate, was coming around to check to see who had done the best job. When he got to my bed, he asked where the acorn was and I showed him and he said, "Very good, I'm impressed. Where's your rock, though?" I looked around for it and couldn't find it even though I knew I had it, and then I looked at the girl who tried to steal my bed, went over to her, ans sure enough she had stolen my rock and tried to hide it under her bed. I snatched it from her, gave her the hairy eyeball, then went back to my bed to present it to the instructor. He was a little disappointed that I had to go get it from someone else, so then I had to explain to him what that bitch had done and then I wound up getting the highest score and winning the competition.

Next, Amy and I were in some restaurant and I had to get some tortilla chips so we had to go to this little tortilla chip stand that was across the street. We walked over there to get chips and while we were waiting in line, an older woman and a middle-aged-ish man got in line behind us, but they weren't together. Just as Amy was telling the guy at the stand what we needed, I felt something brush up against my butt. I whirled around swinging and wound up slapping the older woman across the face. She didn't flinch, she just pointed to the guy as if to say "It wasn't me, it was him." The guy had sunglasses on and he tried to explain that he just liked the way I looked so of course I yelled at him for touching me because that is NOT okay. Amy got the chips and we went back across the street to the restaurant but when we got there our waitress told us that we'd gotten the wrong kind; we bought the low-fat kind but she wanted the fried, full-fat really delicious kind. I reluctantly went back to the tortilla chip stand with Amy to return the unopened bag of chips for the full-fat kind and the guy who had grabbed my ass was still there. I made the mistake of turning my back on him and he grabbed my butt again, this time more forcefully, so I turned around and socked him in the face, I think I broke his nose. We got the right kind of chips and hurried back to the restaurant.

The last part of the dream, I was in my kitchen trying to make a smoothie with ice, milk and bananas. I put all of that stuff into the blender when I realized that I was missed the male end of the plug so I couldn't plug it into the wall. I was standing there wondering where that piece had gone when I remember that I was in the passenger seat of a car - can't remember who I was with, who was driving - and I was holding the blender. All of a sudden it started to blend and the plug shot off from the back of it and hit the visor, getting chocolate on the person's car. The driver reached over and wiped the drip of chocolate off the visor. Then, back to the "present," I couldn't find the plug then so when I was in the kitchen, I had to figure out a way to plug in the blender because I reeeeally wanted a dang smoothie. I guess I'd left the button for the blender on, so when I pulled the plug for my coffee maker out and connected the blender to a power source, it gave me a big shock through my body (yay for understanding electricity!) so I had to pull the plug out, turn off the blender, then plug it back in and blend. As it was blending, I realized I had some granola mix so I threw that into the smoothie. I think there might have been a little bit more to this section of the dream but it's fading from my memory as it was the last thing going on in my brain before waking up.

Not really shocking that I dreamt about something I need to do today

I dreamt that I was walking around Toys R Us buying diapers. There was a stack of diapers individually wrapped in pastel yellow wrappers, kind of looking like maxi pads, that I debated buying but wound up pulling a different kind off the shelf.

Most definitely has to do with the fact that Casandra's baby shower is tonight and I have to - gasp! - buy diapers as part of my gift before heading up that way.

Amalgation of a bunch of people in my life

I was in a pressbox-turned-dining room and C'e was there, apparently he was interested in me even though Boyfriend was sitting right next to me. Except Boyfriend had red hair and looked more like Dr. Hunt from Grey's Anatomy. Also C'e had a Spanish accent instead of a French one, as he does in real life. We were eating some food and waiting for something to happen, I"m not sure what, then C'e introduced me to his young daughter, who was just about the cutest thing ever and who happened to remind me a lot of this little girl who got her dad back from war for Christmas.

Then, Boyfriend and I were trying to put wallpaper up on the walls of a house and the wallpaper had a floral print but actually he wasn't all that interested in the project and kept talking to his friends and C'e also was there but Boyfriend was really rude to him and rightfully so, considering that C'e was trying to hit on me. Also, somewhere along the way, the Kings head coach was there, but he was being taken int oa back room by some sort of FBI-looking agent?

Lastly, I was teaching one of the Monarchs players, Aqua, how to run StatCrew for soccer as me and RB were SIDs for some school. Aqua was really confused because she had never watched soccer before and didn't know the rules of the sport, which obviously made it pretty difficult to explain how to run StatCrew for it. She had a credential and I told her, "you're in the big leagues now with that credential." I guess she had been a student-athlete for whatever school e were at, which makes sense. I showed Aqua how to get up to the pressbox at the soccer field - which, incidentally, was Fauver Stadium - and then I had to go to the bathroom so I went down to the locker room. All of the bathroom stalls were occupied so I used a shower bench because I couldn't hold it in any longer, After I was done, I ran into another friend, I can't really remember who it was, but it was someone that I knew in real life, she was younger than me, tall and had long hair but I just can't remember who it was. Anyway, I went to say hi and see what she was up to and then she quickly turned her back on me and whispered, "I hate this boy that is about to walk by!" I peeked around the corner and sure enough there were three boys walking our way, one of which I knew was someone that this girl had had some sort of bad interaction with, so I told her just to play it cool and to talk to me with her back facing the hallway so that he wouldn't see her. The three guys walked by and didn't even notice us.

Addendum
When I got in to work today, C'e was in my office talking to my boss and a few other coworkers. Obviously.

Last will and testament = schedule for hockey games?

My dad was reading me his will in case he died and it was blocked out on a day-by-day calendar and each day had masking tape over the section where you would write information for each day. He was pointing out different things to me, which I don't remember, and then his will turned into a planner and he was telling me about all of the New Jersey Devils games he had tickets to and he invited me to go with him to all of them. Also, I think A.S. was there with me.

Odd wine storage

I can't remember much of my dream from last night, but I was cleaning out one of those mini-fridges and found two large bottles of wine that were already opened - only about a third of each bottle was gone - and a bottle of champagne, alone with what looked to be chocolate bark or something similar. I had coupons in my hands for the wine store and as I was cleaning out the fridge, i found a red soft case with a pattern of candies that had swirls on them on the outside, so I put the bottles in the case so that I could carry all the bottles to the wine store, show them the coupons and get some money back. I called out to Boyfriend, "Are you sure these coupons cover the chocolate?" and he said yes, he was sure.

There was a hole in the back of the fridge that actually was a tunnel to outside of the house we were in, so I crawled through the newly empty fridge to get outside, but had to shut the door quickly behind me so that my cat - which looked nothing like any of the cats I actually own - wouldn't escape and come with me.

I hate when Boyfriend morphs

I was going to introduce Boyfriend to my family because they had never met him before when I was called away to work - I had to babysit my boss's 3-year-old son for an hour and a half, which meant that I was going to be an hour late to meet my parents and Nic. I had to go otherwise I would have been fired. When I got to the daycare where her son was, there were a lot of other kids but all the other kids were of the same family - Bart and Lily from Gossip Girl were the parents. I thought I had to put on a mascot-like costume but I refused to do that. After an hour and a half of watching my boss's kid, I ran back to this place that looked like a mall food court, where my parents and Nic were supposed to be, but my mom was off by herself reading a newspaper at a different table than the one the rest of my family and Boyfriend were sitting at. I asked her what happened to make her sit by herself because I was worried that something had gone wrong with Nic, but she told me she just was waiting for me and catching up on the news so I was relieved.

Then Nic turned into Fla.-J. and we were doing a paint-by-numbers of these large men playing golf - I think it was the picture that was on the front page of yesterday's Bee.

Addendum
I was just reading Uni Watch and there is a reference to paint-by-numbers. Yet another example of my family's MO: Everything we say, happens.