This would be the second night in a row that I got little sleep. My brain is operating on caffeine only now, I can’t even eat because my stupid teeth hurt so bad! My teeth hurt in the way that makes you slightly insane, like they itch, if teeth even can itch… but I can’t scratch it or make it go away! So…
Last night, somewhere in the a.m.’s, a loud noise awoke me from my tylnolol p.m. induced slumber. Sidenote: why is it called tylonol PM and not tylonol AM? I sleep much more in the AM than the PM, and I’d guess most other people do too, even if they have to get up at an ungodly time of day. Snickerdoodle had jumped too, my brave lion in the body of a house cat was poised for a fight. He would defend me. I was ready to relax back into sleep, but Ben was slowly moving out of bed. I wondered at that, but heard the movement of his James Bond weapon sliding out of it’s hiding spot. I suddenly felt more alert. I reached for my own weapon, my cell phone, poised for action but melting inside. Ben’s slithering shadow looked like something from COPS and I vaguely wondered if I was dreaming. I had been having somewhat of a nightmare when I was woken up so everything seemed a little more scary and blurry because I couldn’t find my glasses. It seemed to take forever, the waiting. I prayed that God would protect my husband while my adrenaline was pouring into my system. The light flicked on in the living room and I felt my body slowly relax. Ben came in wondering how Summit’s gate had been knocked over when both cats were sleeping on me. Strangeness. Then Summit started to cry….
Later, I fell back asleep and dreamed that my neighbor Smitty the massage therapist was suddenly a woman in a 2 story ramshackle log house that looked like it belonged on Mt. Sequoya. She/He was pointing across the yards at the mobile home park where two young teenaged boys were there staring back at us. They were the ones that had broken in! I was standing there in my tee-shirt and underwear, looking out my door at them. I pointed at my eyes then back at them, I’ll be watching you. Then I asked them if they wanted a kitten, and they suddenly were smiling and nodding Yes, Of Course! But you may want to put on some pants. I was embarrassed then, but happy that I got rid of another kitten.
*the weird thing is that this dream was similar to someone else’s dream I read about yesterday! There were some weird parallels.