Nightmares and Dreamscapes

In the Stygian darkness of last night, incongruously coupled with a full moon, I had a horrible dream that B had died. The particulars of this nightmare were indistinct. Tenuous, like the edges of the flame from a candle. I was rocked from my sleep, tears streaming down my face, the breath ripped from my lungs. An extremely rare circumstance for me, I was incapable of making any type of sound. In the wake of this horrendous dream, I began to come to my senses, and realize my surroundings. B was safe beside me, snoring quite contently. I put my arm around him, waiting for the tears to subside and my breathing to return to normal as if I were afraid that Charon himself would rip B from my grasp. We all have nightmares in this vein: something incomprehensible that we know would have a detrimental effect on our lives. Plain old nightmare? No. It highlighted something in my life that I already knew to be true, and that is I cannot live the same life without B in it. I was well aware of that fact before I drifted off into a nefarious dreamland last night, but perhaps dreams of this ilk serve a different purpose. Not to remind us of what we already know, but to enlighten us to never take for granted those blessings in our lives that have been granted us.

Bipolar Much??

It would appear that Lola is a somewhat maudlin character from time to time. Since her last wayward musings, she has snapped out of her funk and realized that all things happen for a reason, whether we know that reason or not. She has also realized that in the last few months she has been extremely remiss in updating this blog. On the bright side, the picture on the blog is of Lake Winni, where she spends a week each summer, and that week is just around the corner! Woo-hoo!! Lola prepares for another interesting, and usually hilarious week with her peeps at the Lake, her annual "reset" button before tackling young minds at school. Truly important life lessons that Lola has learned in the past from camping at the lake:

1.) The bike must be in neutral to start it, regardless of its behavior in the past
2.) Noodles on for safety
3.) Beer bottles do not float
4.) Nor does a dismembered fishing reel
5.) Yes, you can wear a bridesmaid's dress in the woods. As long as there are flip-flops to go with it
6.) Poker is apparently not as hard as people make it out to be, as long as you take away all the other players' chips :)
7.) You can get moose on any article of clothing. Print, not the actual animal
8.) Yes, bears DO shit in the woods
9.) No, mosquitoes DON'T care if you are bathed in deet
10.) Anything you say in front of a toddler WILL be repeated at an inopportune moment