Cartoon cat and weird dreams

I'm not even going to pretend to understand my cat. I took him in after my brother's friend died unexpectedly so I've only had him for about 4 months.

Anyways, he seems to have an eating disorder. If I leave him a can of cat food to eat during the day, he'll gorge or something and throw up. He's done this so many times that I was getting ready to get rid of him. Now I've cut back his rations and he hasn't thrown up since. Which is nice.

But he also has a habit of bolting around the house. My house is fairly small, more like a large apartment so he doesn't have that much room to run. So it looks like a figure 8 race track when he runs around spazzing out. The best is when he hits the linoleum. He'll literally run in place for a second as he tries to grip the floor. He looks like Wiley E Coyote or something out of the old Road Runner cartoons. Or if he's bolting through the kitchen he looks like a speed skater because he crashes into th wall unable to control his path. It's kinda funny!

Weird dreams lately. It might be because I have to sleep during the day.

The first was kinda long. I was in my old room at my parent's place. I was skulking about for some reason trying to get outside to the back field - they have 5 acres of land. It was night time and I was able to sneak down to the new shed ready to take the trail to the back field. For whatever reason, my mom was sleeping across the entrance to the trail.

Then my old boss Liz shows up. Or something like her. But she's quite a bit better looking than in real life. Not sure it was her but whoever it was looked like her. She told me she could get me to the back field. She then had a sled looking something like Santa's sleigh but sized for two people. I can't recall if horses or rein deer powered the thing. So I hop in and off into the sky like a jet liner taking are we! Then, as we fly about treetop level the whole place flashes like a TV screen gone nuts and then we're in the back field.

'Liz' is some sort of real estate agent. She's also apparently a demon trying to win my soul through deceit and greed. Apparently she figures to tempt me by looking at all of these houses. These house are built where neighbors leave by the backfield. Their driveway has been turned into a dirt road. All along this road are new, gigantic houses with two and three car garages. Liz goes on to say some crap about building homes but I see it all as a ploy to feed the greedy and ruin the land thus reducing open space and lush forrests. The dirt road also has seating all along parts of it. I'm talking about a room of stadium seats running along the right side. Liz says it's something about eggs hatching and aloowing the public to watch it.

She eventually offers me a house that's in the backfield. It's an okay house but there's no way to it via car (Liz does mention this) and it's in an area where all the water runs off the backfield. Some tempting offer. :P

The long road of houses eventuallt runs into more fields instead of mountainous forrests and the houses get quite a bit smaller. Somewhere along here the dream ends. The whole time I realize Liz is a demon I plot to try and kill her including using some sort of blessed silver dagger. But it never happens.

The second dream of the day sort of built off the first. I think I had woken up and went back to sleep. It started in the backfield again. Houses were similar to what was there in the first dream. Me and another guy were dressed like something during the Civil War time period. We were trying to get other cowboy like dudes to revolt or flee the area or something. We succeeded and our group headed off but at the end of the feild something happened. It may have been an attack but somehow we were split up.

Suddenly, I'm back in my parent's house at the top of the stairs to the second floor. There's a window jutting out of the wall blocking the stairway or most of it. In this window frame are two garden spiders. I use to call them black and yellow spiders when I was a kid. These things are pretty freaking big. Their bodies are about the size of the first section of your thumb. I started poking the smaller one with a stick. During this harrassment it tried to fall from the window and ataches a web to the stick. It crawls back up the stick and onto my hand as I panick like a little girl trying to shake the thing off. It finally flies into the web of the second spider. The second spider starts to head twords the caught spider to eat. Then the dream ended.

Weird stuff.

3 day weekend things

Had three days off and it felt good! Of course, I was pissed that I couldn't get to sleep either Sat. morning after work or sleep Sunday morning. And today I woke up at 7am or so and couldn't get back to sleep. But I think that was more because of the sound like someone trying to driving on an icy road and their wheels spinning. I never did find the source of that noise even though it was fairly constant for awhile.

I'm liking my new paychecks. It's nice to get back to weekly paychecks. Haven't had those in a couple of years when I was previously employed. And the paychecks will only increase once I make regular employee status.

D&D went well this past Sunday. I cleaned up the house pretty well. Didn't want to be embarrassed. Of course, the guy I hate arrives first. Joy. But I treated him well. In a way, it's better to treat him well because when he does bitch about me, I it's gotten back to me that he does, it kinda submarines his arguments.

I did have some trouble staying awake during the second mod. Waking up at 6:30am on a Sunday monrning really pissed me off. Especially when I work 7pm to 7am.

My brother has my nephew all week this week. It's school vacation and he gets custody of him. The niece is still a brat and refuses to voluntarily having nothing to do with her dad. And in a way, with a mother that lets her do anything she wants, why would brat niece want to come to a household with rules and morals?

I get uppity lazy on my 12 hour work days. I should say, I get lazy around the house. I have stuff I SHOULD do but I know I'm not going to. My favorite saying' tomorrow'.

Got to see a lot of the Olympics or at least, pretty much what i wanted to see. Unfortunately, USA sucks at the big ski jump which is probably my favorite event. So I had to wait until almost 11:30pm to watch those taped events. I'll probably keep an eye out for a Winter Olympic PC game. I don't need another computer game but I love the winter Olympics.

Pre-ordered D&D On-line the other day. It's due in March 1st. Call of Duty 2 may finally have to take a back seat. I am worried that I'm too hyped up about D&D on-line. We'll see.

Later!

Details, injuries and predictions

Start my 3 days of 12 shifts tonight. Actually, I leave in a bout 15 minutes to go to work.

One brother bought Call of Duty 2 because he enjoyed playing it on my computer so much.

Another chipped his ankle bone and ripped up some ligaments yesterday and is laid up for 4 to 6 weeks. And he has no medical coverage because he doesn't have a job. Although he pretty much was going to be hired this coming Monday by a local college. So now, we don't know if the college will hire him.

Oh yeah, about 2 years ago a psychic said there'd be a leg injury in my family's future. Here it is. Sounds weak, yeah, but this lady said a TON of other shit that's come true. Including me buying a house despite earning a whopping $10 an hour at the time. I have since bought a house. I just hope she's right about what she said about the comic! LOL!

We're about to get plastered by a Nor'easter snowstorm. When I get out of work at 7am there maybe be as much as 6+ inches of snow.

I'm going to miss a bunch of the winter Olympics and that sucks. It's because of 3 days of 12 hour shifts. I enjoy the winter Olympics a lot too. I think my favorite might be the giant ski jump. I also like bobsledding, luge, super G, downhill skiing and one or two other events.

That is all.

more dreamy things

Had another weird dream this morning. I was hanging out with a friend that I haven't seen in like 8 years. We went to some sort of amusement park or something. It was on a river and you could take boats around and stuff but we were part of a school function or something and had to see a show. It was sort of like Riverdance but more glitzy. The guy that created Riverdance was there. Michael Flatley or something like that. It was okay, for about 10 minutes. Then it got boring.

My friend and I walked up to the corner of the stage. It was sort of like a high scool or theater auditorium but all the seats were in open air like an ampitheater. We could hear the dancers/actors going calling to the prop guy to get certain props. This kinda turned my friend and I off to the show. When we showed our displeasure some big nazi looking dancer started giving us shit. Then he sat or stood next to us to keep an eye on us. Finally, we left. Eventually, so did half the crowd.

So all sorts of amusement park noise and that type of stuff was happening all around us and it was a beautiful summer day. We found a small pool hall (more like a gift shop) that also had golf stuff too. We went in to play but found no pool table! The dream pretty much ended there.

Like all of my dreams, there was more stuff but that's what I can remember. There are snippets like me trying to walk out of the park to walk home or something but I really can't recall why or the details.

Finished the inking on two more pages for The Necropolis Chronicles. And I scanned them in today. Today's also my first 12 hour shift for work. I'm hoping I won't died of exhaustion there. I slept for 8 hours and now I'm up. I'm going to try to sleep for about 2 to 3 more hours in an hour or so and then go to work for 7pm to 7am. I don't expect any trouble getting to sleep when I get home tomorrow morning.

The first 'real' day should be okay. I expect to be paired up with an experienced team member that should hopefully be able to answer all my questions. Some of the stuff is rather easy and I should do well or at least okay.

Can't recall if I mentioned this before but I got my replacement copies of The Necropolis Chronicles from Comixpress. I threw them on the shelf at the local comic shop my friends run. New comic day is Wednesday so it'll be interesting to see if anybody buys it.

The end

Dreamy things

Had a weird dream this morning. It was quite long but I can't recall all of it. It got weird in places to.

The bulk of the weirdness was when I went to church. It was a little building with sort of an 'L' shape. And it was close-quarters. Maybe two rows or chairs (no pews) and some random chairs lined up on the base of the 'L'. The chairs were all mis-matched and the whole place seemed really poor financially. Because of some reason earlier in the dream that I can't remember, I was happy to go to church because it had helped me out in a positive way. It was a summer day and it was probably going to be fairly hot in the church. Also, time was really weird. The church goers seemed to pretty much be late 1800's like something out of Little House on the Prarie. But later on there were big old farm tractors and other somewhat modern things.

So this fellow comes in after I grab a chair that's in a less congested area after I had tried a few out for comfort. Don't know who this guy was, but in the dream, he was a family friend. Kinda of a big guy, maybe 6 foot, 200+ pounds. He had girth and was tough but like trucker or drinker tough - a belly that was expanding, thick but undefined arms. He had a closely shaved beard and haircut to. Seemed like a good guy overall. Later on, his name was Jebediah.

I know no one like this in real life.

In any event, the dream becomes hazy in parts but the church filled up to around 75% capacity. And it comes to our attention that Jebediah (I'll call him J for short) didn't get along with this farmer that had a place near the church. We all either looked out a window or an open door and could see quite a ways through a dirt road with thick old trees lining either side almost making a tunnel. Quite a ways down we could see a guy on a tractor plowing a field as the 'tunnel' trees thinned a bit. Things here get a little weird. J originally had a problem with a girl from my old high school but my mind seemed to say - 'well that's not cool, let's make it a guy' so suddenly it became that J had a problem with her brother. I have no idea if the high school girl had a brother in real life, I barely knew this girl - pretty much by name only.

So in dream weirdness. This guy is suddenly IN the church and pretty close to J. This guy would probably be know as a hunk or hottie. He was tall - over 6 foot, wavy dark hair about shoulder length, some defined muscle from working the farm and a chiselled face. He was wearing jeans and a plaid blue and white shirt. For whatever reason, his name was Dan. So J and Dan get started over whatever issue they had in the past and a fight errupts between them. It's fairly quick as J dislocated his shoulder somehow. I think he slipped and fell against a hard wood bench or something. Dan started raining lots of uncontested punches in. So other people started to try and haul J away while I tried to grab Dan's arm. Dan seemed not to be the most popular guy in this dream either. Maybe along the lines of an arrogant asshole or something.

So as Dan storms off there's ANOTHER guy that J has a problem with. This guy looked a lot like my old neighbor Will Jahn. So J takes a total sucker punch and clobbers Will guy. Will guy is stunned but otherwise unhurt. That gets settled quickly and Dan is gone. Will guy too. Us church goers help J get on a horse and have him ride off to see a doctor about the dislocated shoulder. He takes the route of the tree tunnel road.

I can't recall why but some of us end up going after him but like 10 minutes later or something like that. We came upon a grusome sight. J was hanging from a tree along the road. He was dead and had been hung by a hangman's noose. Discussion came about Dan and Will guy and which of the two did it. Since J was a big guy and he was like 10 feet or more off the ground it may have been them both. The dream ended before the mystery was settled.

When I dream, I often wake and go back to sleep. I often have dreams that sort of take up where the previous dream had ended. I'm sure this was the case here. Like I said, there was a lot more. Earlier I was runing around through a neighborhood present day. I was doing something weird that I can't recall. Getting an item or something and digging through people's garages for it. There was also some stuff with war and rifles. That's most likely because I was playing Call of Duty 2 and playing in a WW II scenario where everyone has rifles and machine guns and try to kill one another. So I was doing some wooded area combat running around and stuff in the dream.

Work things

Got myself a job. I'm hired as a temp but as long as I don't screw up I'll become a fulltime employee in about 2 and 1/2 months. I now work at Top Flite golf company and I make golf balls. All day long. Not the most exciting thing in the world but the pay is incredibly stupid for what I do so I'll do the job.

Finished up a sort of wrap-up page yesterday for the comic. Now I just have to redesign the inside front cover/credits page to include 3 more people. Shouldn't take to long although the redesign will be significant.

The NFL football season is over. :(

My friends FINALLY have some good news. One friend's wife gave birth to their second child this past week. Another just found out his wife is pregnant again with twins. That'll push his brood up to 5!

And the drama at the comic store is pretty much over and the store is pulling a profit! The religous nut is still up to his goofy stuff though. I guess he bitched about the other two owners so much that his friends got up and left his place being sick of hearing about it. LOL!

He also opened a new website. Mattmancomics.com I think it is if anyone cares. I like how he's still being shady and lying and then lying about not lying. 'I may or may not have signed a non-competitve agreement'. What's the deal dude? You tried to screw your business partners and only screwed yourself.

But he just can't admit that.

My sleep's been really screwy. I had to get up for5:45am for the past week and now I'm dog tired every night around 10:30pm. The problem is, on Tuesday I start my 12 hour shifts that start at 7pm and go to 7am. I'm going to be a hurting unit.

My friend asked if he could organize some D&D gaming sessions at my place. I said sure. He's where it gets interesting. One of the guys my friend invited hates me. And I pretty much hate him. I don't wish malice on people, but I would really have no problem if a car hit this guy and killed him. I would feel bad for his parents and brother for losing a family member but this guy treats people like such shit that it really makes me feel that he is a piece of shit of a human being. And for whatever reason, my buddy adores this guy. I'm talking cocksucking adores. Not gay in real life but you get the idea. So it'll be interesting to see if this guy changes his mind and not show up after hearing it'll be at my place. Or will he be a totally fucking prick to me in my own place to which I'll have the cops toss his ass if I have to.

Gah. It's only 11:03 pm and my eyelids feel super heavy already. I had a ton of sugar during the Super Bowl and I'm still dragging. Tuesday night is gonna hurt.