Home Dreams and Housekeeping

1. Black Goldfish, 2. fancy a spot of tea love?, 3. luck, 4. Shibuya Crossing at Night, 5. Guiness is good for you !, 6. too much chai & biscuit happening....:-)

★ Now that I've been at home for a bit and had the free time to think (Oh no!) I pondered what I want to do with this blog... this blog that has fallen to the side quite a bit, with no real direction or purpose.

I thought about dreams, which have been close in my mind lately. Honestly, I don't really like hearing about people's dreams, because a dream is something very personal, which generally has significance only to the dreamer. So when I hear about dreams, I start to lose concentration around the 5 minute mark, unless it's a particularly interesting story.

Chasing Elephant Dreams is the title of this blog, inspired by the Bloom County book "Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things", always a favorite.

★ But it would be boring and surrealist of me to recant dream after dream here. That sort of thing is better left to a journal by the bed, or a paintbrush.

Rather, I thought, why don't we plot out the dreams we want to have? Capitalize on the daydreams that we use to plan our moves, how we imagine ourselves to be in our waking state?

After all, aren't our dreams usually made by the experiences and worries and joys that we have had in our recent past?

★ I drew a picture of a goldfish in a letter today. I haven't finished the letter, but the fish is there in my tank.

★ There is somehow more tea in this house now than there was 2 months ago. Which is about when I stopped drinking tea, actually.

★ Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, my birthday. I will be 22. I will not do anything particular for this day except for the following: eat Lucky Charms, wear frog earrings and eat dinner out with my family. So there is some anticipation!

★ I might go to Japan. The implications of getting/not getting the job have been troubling me lately.

★ I'm Scottish, not Irish. And I probably won't be drinking any of this nonsense tomorrow either, because a. I will be with the family, and b. It seems a bit trite to do so...

★ Tea. I miss chai tea constantly.

Who will be my dreaming co-star? I really do think that sometimes, when you dream about another person, they are not only dreaming about you too, but you have somehow wandered into a mixed dream between your two sleeping forms.

How wonderful!




Elephants Away!