Incoherent Narrative #9,348

Went out last night for my friend L's going away party. We've worked together for 5 years, and it will be weird not having her around. It was a good time though, but a little bittersweet. I had to close the store, so I didn't get there until late, like, almost 1 am late. There was some karaoke (not by me), good times and laughs had, and I drank 3 Budlight tall boys in an hour and a half. I achieved the perfect zen state of drunkenness and was trying to wax philosophical about it, but nobody was listening so that's alright. If you've ever hit that state you know what I'm talking about. Everything was mellow and awesome at the same time. We ended the night at Taco Bell, which of course, was the most delicious thing ever. Then the meal devolved into everyone trying to throw sauce packets down the front of everyone else's shirts. Except me, I watched with bemused detatchment. Thankfully, we didn't get thrown out.

The reason I got out of work so late was that we had a corporate inspection yesterday, and everyone was there until after 10pm which meant that pretty much no actual work could happen until they left. The inspection went okay. So I ended up staying over yesterday, and the day before that we did a bunch of extra cleaning so we stayed late (and I had come in early to do an orientation for some new hires). I also did 8 more interviews yesterday in the time before all inspection hell broke loose. Then I had to go in today (well I did have to) to finish the crew schedule. It has been a looooong week.

Other than that I've just been relaxing and decompressing today.

This post is about a dream

So, you know, if you think dreams are boring and stuff feel free to skip this one.

A bit of background, I dream almost every night. My dreams are usually very detailed, sometimes convoluted in plot, and on many occasions incredibly lucid. This makes for some rather entertaining, or occasionally terrifying, dream experiences. Ok.

The night before last I dreamed that I traveled to Australia. Which could have been an awesome dream, but mostly left me bemused. My subconscious was obviously trying to bullshit me. It wanted me to think it knew what Australia looks like. C'mon, subconscious! It looked like Ohio, but with less trees and bigger, kind of weird flowers. I spent half the dream wondering why Australia had so much corn.

At least it got the volcanoes right last night.

Updates and stuff

I wish that I had a device that allowed me to telepathically dictate my thoughts into blog posts. I always think of things to write about, but then, when I finally have a chance to sit down and type, all thought goes out the window and I end up on Failblog. Of course, any such hypothetical thought-to-blog dictating device would have to have some kind of filters. I mean, does anybody really, really want to hear anyone else's train of thought?

So.

What has gone on in the last two months?

Me?
I've done some bonding at a couple family events;
discovered I actually like some foods I thought I didn't, a fact which has made me suspect that perhaps it was the cooking (won't name any names) and not the food;
had a complete schedule change at work, as we are now down to 3 managers instead of 4;
had a visit from Steve & Steph (his gf) which mostly involved drinking champagne and playing cards, and was awesome;
lost 10 pounds;
saw both and Alice in Wonderland and Clash of the Titans, but neither in 3D (in fact, I have yet to see a movie in 3D), and thought that while both were visually stunning they really didn't quite satisfy;
introduced my mother to the awesomeness that is IKEA;
started planning my summer vacation, which will probably be a road trip to upstate New York to wander around the Adirondacks;
finally got around to reading the "new" Stephen King novel (Under the Dome) that I've had for months, it was good - much more psychological horror involved, but still enough gore for those who want it;
took a acrylic painting class (with Julia) at the Toledo Art Museum in which we did a study of The Mill at Charenton by Fracois Boucher - mine isn't finished, but rest assured that when it is there will be pictures;
bought a couch from IKEA (don't remember if that's been more than two months or not, but the couch is still awesome);
and, yes, I have no idea what is up with this list's format.

And I promise to update more often! :D