YIKES!

First off. My sleep last night was all over the place. I woke up at the buttcrack of dawn and came back to Buffalo from the weekend, on little sleep. So by the time I got home last night I was very very tired. I let my cats out to play and went in the other room and started reading. And I woke up at around 11:30 PM realizing I LEFT MY CATS OUT FOR THE ENTIRE NIGHT!

Sasha Kitten came right away when called but Simba cat was nowhere to be found. After about 20 minutes of calling the neighbor came out and said he heard a cat a few minutes ago *and it sounded like he was in trouble* Well, Simba Cat IS larger than almost any other cat (except a lion) and most small dogs but he is a scaredy. In fact I was surprised that Simba even went out at all, so leaving him out there was a bad, bad mom move. I assumed he was terrified and cold.

So I go inside and bundle up and decide to walk the streets. NOT too far away I hear my kitty cat in distress. I walk behind my neighbors driveway following the sound until…I find him. I find Simba Cat. IN MY NEIGHBORS BASEMENT CRYING AT THE STORM WINDOW!

In the basement. NO IDEA how, but he was IN THE BASEMENT. Of course this neighbor also has a giant black dog, so when the nice man attempted to reach for Simba Cat on the window ledge, he refused to budge. Eventually, I moved the window and Simba jumped back on the ledge and climbed out.

So after feeling totally guilty for being a terrible mom, I crawled back under the covers with Simba Cat by my side and fell asleep.

Now on to the dreams…

“Dreaming of false teeth symbolizes concern about your self-image.”

I fell back asleep and had a dream about losing my teeth! Somehow FOUR of my bottom teeth fell out and rotted. I needed to get them fixed but could not afford it (it was going to cost something like $10,000) So in my DREAM I was crying and trying to figure out how I was going to earn extra money…looking for jobs etc. BUT no one would hire me without teeth. And I couldn’t smile and I was too afraid to open my mouth at all because I was so embarrassed.

And another, non related dream I had involved my brother and his best friend Paul. I was home from college and they were both much MUCH younger than I was…they were getting ready for a high school theme dance and I found them in my bedroom trying on my sorority letters. Of course I freaked out. They had my letter sweatshirts on without permission! But my mom wasn’t going to do anything about it and let them go to the dance, where I knew there would be drinking and you just DON’T drink in letters! Too funny really…no idea where this one came from.