Camp Waterloo Day 2

I’ve been home since Monday now, and today was my second full day. I spent some time this morning hanging the Christmas cards around the kitchen arch. Then, we straightened the house, my mom made a cheesecake, and my dad and I fixed the stove in the kitchen so it’d stop smoking up the walls. I started a blog for the Christmas adventure. I had hot dogs for lunch, which I love, and then proceeded to make chocolate chip cookies for the household. Nikki arrives home in a few hours, so at around seven I will begin making Brussel sprouts and sandwich steaks for dinner.

Meanwhile, Mom and I are going to have tea and then play bananagrams, until she and Dad have to go to the holiday party.

It’s been a good 2 days.

Home to Camp Waterloo.

Today I arrived at the airport clad in my Earth boots, a sweater, jacket, and a hat. I was ready to take Michigan on. It was 7:00 am, and my flight was at 5:30 pm. I was attempting to get on an earlier flight. I knew there were a few throughout the day, and I headed to standby for a flight at 8:55 am. Luckily for me, because I got to the airport so early (Jeff had a flight at 7 am) I was the first person on the standby list, and made it on the flight at 8:55 which meant I was home to MI by 4:40. Now I am sitting at home, in front of the heat shield, listening to football and uploading my “2009” photo album to facebook. Jeff is saftely back in NH, and I am snuggled up with a blanket and a heater.

There is snow on the ground here, Bananagrams on the table, and neverending tea and red wine. Here’s to the beginning of a good break. I will get to see lots of friends I have not seen in a while, and some friends that I have seen lately, all who I miss more and and see less and less. Nikki and Jon arrive home Wednesday, and then the party will pick up. For now I will enjoy being home in my living room, listening to football and Star snoring, and be happy.

Dream Post: haven't had one in a while…

…quite like this. Enjoy.

I had a dream: It opened with me and two other people in a shop of sorts, and we had to murder them. So someone, not me, shot a man at a bar, a woman, and her boyfriend. The woman and the man died, but were able to dance around afterwards outside the store, and talk about what had happened. Then this guy showed up with a bag and a knife that he shined at my friend (a knife/bag that looked like the one from Stardust, if you’ve ever seen that movie), and I was scared and started to run away but I could he grabbed me and took me. For some reason he needed me to be on his journey with him. We stopped at one place, and he did what he needed to do, (for a day or two) and then we went to another place, all the while staying in hotel rooms under cover. It was clear to me that he was magical. One night we were in the hotel room, doing a puzzle which apparently was part of this whole thing, and we got a message (magically) that we had to go, immediately. I remember trying to pack my bag quickly, and then I had too many pairs of shoes in my hand in case I  had to fight someone in the hallway. I also had to ask if I could get my stuff for my glasses because I had had my contacts in my eyes for days, and I was getting tired of that and wanted to put my glasses on. We were headed to the airport. So we were in the airport, and I didn’t know where we were going, or what the person’s name was I was with. So he goes to check where the gates go to get to the airport, and I am waiting, and then I start looking around, and then all of the sudden someone has taken my suit case, and my luggage tag, and the person that took my luggage tag was with Ice-T. I was very mad, and yelled at the airline people, but then I realized I couldn’t do anything about it because I could tell them my name or where I was going so I would never get my stuff back. So I was very mad, and decided to scream as loud as I could, and then Jeff was there (and magically was the guy I was originally with) and he told me to calm down, but I didn’t want to so I climbed up a building with levels and inside they were shooting law and order: svu. Then I was on the top level of a department store that was HUGE and had stuff in it, and I was falling from maybe level 10 ish? and was falling and looking at all these things, (one of these things was Oprah kitchen stuff) and then when I landed I was in some kitchen section. So this woman who worked in the store asked me if I needed help and I told her that I needed to find who I was with and I wasn’t sure where I was going. She asked if I was going to Manhattan (she was sure I was for some reason) and I said no, because I was just there with him, so she took me around and I started yelling “Jeff?” and they took me into an auditorium, and Elliott, my friend, was there, and I knew I knew him but not his name, but he shook his head at me, saying “No” as if he wasn’t the one I was looking for, and then I kept saying “Jeff?” and finally found the guy I had been with, who was named “James” not Jeff. Then we got on the plane to the next place….

The end.