dreams

Last night I went to bed at 9:30 pm. I've been trying to get to sleep early all week, and I usually feel like I'm tired enough around 9 or 10, but then Braeden and I lie in bed and talk for like 2 hours and then it's midnight. But last night I actually fell asleep! Sure I woke up every once and a while to Braeden elbowing me to move over so he wouldn't fall out of bed, but other than that it was a great night sleep! A great 12 hours of sleep, in fact. It was lovely. Plus, I had a really weird dream where I saw Ryan Gosling (you know, of Young Hercules fame) and he was bearing his testimony about how he wanted to get his life together and go on a mission in a giant stake center that I have never seen where the pulpit had a spotlight and he had a huge beard and fluffy hair and I only recognized him later when I saw him in the gift shop where I was working (yes, in the church) where he was friends with someone in a wheelchair who I was pushing around the store and almost into things and then when they left my friend in my dream leaned over and whispered in my ear, "If I was evil I would pull that person out of their chair and pretend to be them so I could be friends with Ryan Gosling."

To be clear, I am not some kind of giant Ryan Gosling fan: in my dream I was a little confused about why he was there, but I didn't go introduce myself to him or anything (although I will admit there was a lot of staring). I think he's been on my mind because of this amazing blog I've been following recently called Feminist Ryan Gosling. I highly recommend it.

PS My craft show is tomorrow! Exciting/nerve-wracking/motivating. If you're around the Sycamore Mall in Iowa City any time tomorrow between 10 am and 6 pm you should come check it out!

patty

My best friend Patty is visiting! But her name is Stephanie. Sometimes she tells me about her dreams and we laugh like little school girls. Like in this picture how she is talking about a dream she had about finding a secret train and pulling a fruit roll-up out of a statue's pocket. But not necessarily and most definitely not in that order.

When she comes to visit we play our own version of Loaded Questions where we write our own questions. Tonight we played with Josh and Megan. Here are some of my favorite questions and answers: 

If Megan was a monkey, what would her favorite activity be? 

—To fling her poop at small children until they cried. Also juggling.

—Getting lots of new bras.

—Throwing her poop at everyone she didn't like because we all know that's way worse than kicking people which is what she does now.

If you could pick any celebrity to be your murderer, who would it be and how would it happen?

—Mr. T. I'd go down in the seventh round of a boxing match and then he'd pity my foolishness so hard that I'd die of shame.

–Chris Brown. He would beat me because he would think I was cheating on him. Oh wait, that's Rhianna.

—The Mighty Duck team—they would skate over myself until I was sliced into small pieces...or George of the Jungle—he would have taught me how to swing and then sabotage me and chop the vine.

If you could microwave any animal, what would it be? Why? 

—An ostrich because I'd like to see if it would fit.

—A turtle. And then I'd take his shell and wax it til it got really shiny.

—A poodle because I'd like to see it explode and see if it is as fuzzy on the inside as it is on the outside.

If Cassandra was your mom, what would be the best part about having her for a mom? 

—She would sing me to sleep and stoke my head and make me delicious food.

—How she buys a lot of hippie clothes for me.

—I am in love with her.

What a glorious evening.