Bad Dreams

I have a lot of bad dreams. Some of them are very scary and very detailed. Sometimes they involve me saving people, or really bad guys, or forces of evil and what have you... Sometimes my dreams are neutral, but I rarely have very happy dreams. I guess you could say that's a good thing, since maybe my life is wonderful when I'm awake that my brain needs to balance it out at night? haha

Anyway.

Last night was so real, it was worse than the acid-spitting dinosaur invasion of 2005.
(Oh yes, I remember that one vividly...)

I'm helping Linda Wakefield (That would be the co-director of the BYU Ballroom Dance Company) with tour team applications. I'm pretty sure an applicant helping with admissions is unethical in several ways, but hey. It's a dream.

We go through all the sheets and she gets to mine and says "oh you marked that you wanted to be on tour team? I hadn't realized that..."
Ouch

(At this point in the dream, I realize that they have already pretty much made up their list and are just finalizing details.)

I begin to panic and say
"Oh no, I very much want to be considered for tour team. I assure you I marked "please consider me for tour team" on my form." (Hoping it's not entirely shot yet)

And then she makes a little note on the paper and says

"Yeah well you were just barely off of beginning team anyway so it's not that big a deal that we didn't notice your application" and laughs

OUCH.

I guess I really am doomed.

I already didn't have hope in real life, that was just UNCALLED for, Mr. dream maker!

Heads and necks and such

You know an expression I strongly dislike?

"He may be the head of the family, but I'm the neck that turns it!"

Several things make me cringe when wives say this about their husbands.

1) This is usually a not-so-subtle way of putting down your husband in public. Nice. It's good to see you have no respect for the man you married and that you think he can't make decisions without you whispering his lines to him. Real classy.

2) What happened to husband and wife making decisions together? How about "we're each one eye in the head" (certainly not as catchy, but I'd hope more accurate) Personally, I'd like to think we work together and I'm not pulling strings to get him to do what I want.

3) You're also reinforcing the stereotype of women as manipulative, seductive temptresses, which brings me to fact that the expression sounds pretty

4) bratty! (One small step from pretending to cry in front of Daddy to withholding sex from your husband)

5) Way to assert your supposed superiority... while at the same time asserting that he's still the head. You're essentially upholding his power/authority/leadership that you're supposedly protesting because you're stating that you resort to a backstage role.

6) Besides, without a brain the neck ain't moving nothing. So the metaphor is incorrect in the first place.

Check this out...

My company was featured on ABC!

Go here to see the clip that aired.

And note the atrocious framing.

I will punch the next person who says "journalists control peoples' minds" in the face

They say that weather is always a safe conversation subject...

Oh no.

Not with my husband at least. You just DON'T want to go there if the weather is bad. As a matter of fact, even if the weather is good, it might be risky because it might dig back up past bad weather...

Just a warning for all you innocent conversationalists :)