Dream Day Sunday

I think that dreams mean something. And I don't mean that like how you read a dream analysis book* and they say: Oh, you dreamed about a tomato, that means you are going to be invited to a wedding. I think that dreams are far more personal. They are your brain pondering a situation or trying to work something out.

That said I like to try to figure out what my dreams were telling me. Sometimes it is real obvious and other times it is a puzzle. Sometimes the big obvious thing (the elephant in the room) in the dream isn't the message your brain is trying to send you.

I don't think all dreams means something. Occasionally your brain has extra energy to spend and slaps you with some weird ass stories to use it up with. I find that happens if I take certain medications or vitamins in the evening. For a night of vivid dreams, pop some B vitamins before bed. I find those dreams to be not conducive to a good night's sleep. It's like you stayed up all night watching television.

Most of those kinds of dreams (for me anyway) tend to be epic adventures with large casts of characters. Sometimes even those have some deep seating meaning.  I have a friend who also has the epic dreams with large casts. She once noted that in dreams you skip the boring parts and just jump from one adventure to the next. She's so right and that's a good way to explain how/why dreams jump around so much.

The Fine Print: All products by Stampin' Up except paper flowers by Prima. * Although dream analysis books are fun because of the weird and random connections they come up with.

April 1st

We don't play jokes on each other on April Fool's Day. If you want to know why, you need to read yesterday's post in which Mister Princess tells you the secret to a successful marriage. April 1st falls under the category of "holiday."

Anyway, this calendar is fooling us a bit. We don't really do April Showers. If we do do them though, this is an accurate portrayal of them--sunshine and clouds all at the same time.

The red dot is my stamp club day. For some reason I felt compelled to mark them all down.... and now some dates have changed. I probably should have marked my mother's birthday instead. That's probably not going to change.

The Fine Print: All products by Taylored Expressions except for the background paper from my stash. And the ink which used to be a gimme but now TE has their own ink. 

Warm Heart Notecard

So... Once upon a time one of my husband's friends asked him what the secret to a good marriage was.  Hubby gave a surprisingly useful answer and it didn't involve boobs!

Mister Princess said that you absolutely need to agree on two things to get along. You can't go into a marriage thinking the other person will magically change their mind or that you can make them change it.  That way lies madness and strife. With those two things settled, then everything else pretty much falls in line.  Oh, those two things are: holidays and kids.

We both never wanted kids and we both never gave two hoots about holidays and we sure as hell never wanted to ruin a perfectly good day off work spending it with relatives or cavorting all over the place. Both of those we agree on and they make use perfectly content. For some reason our stance on those issues sure gives a lot of other people grief, but what do we care what they think?  We don't have to sleep next to those people.

The Fine Print: All products from Stampin' Up. 

Uplifting

You know what makes me laugh? And I mean the kind of laugh where it sounds like I'm wheezing and choking all at once while tears leak out of my eyes.

Those silly auto-correct bloopers. I don't know what it is about them but they crack me up every time.  I think part of their appeal is that is how my brain works.... can't think of the right word? Well then, just substitute something that sounds about the same!

Yeah, it doesn't really work but at least you can say you tried.

The Fine Print: Stuff by Stampin' Up. 

So Clueless

True Confessions Time:

I have no idea what I'm doing.

That's pretty much always. I just keep muddling away doing a little of this and a little bit of that (and not enough stamping) but I never know if what I'm doing is the right thing or worth the effort. Since I'm at work I'm probably okay on the first part but not so much on the second. And to top this all off, here's a fall card even though it is spring. Because I really liked the colors.

So there.

The Fine Print: All the stuffs by Stampin' Up. Probably. The white under the card is a matching envelope because sometimes I do that, but not often. Mostly because I don't have many A2 envelopes. I have oodles of A6 ones though because I have no pride and when work throws them away every May, I dig 'em out of the trash. It's like a birthday present to myself. 

Are we There Yet?

I keep getting spam emails from Uber and Lyft saying that I could make a zillion dollars a week with my car by becoming on of their drivers. I know they are spam because no one who knows me would hire me to drive since I tend to close one eye when I drive since I can't see diddly (or squat) and I drive down my own street at night asking, "Is that my house? No! Is it the next one? No! Is it this one? Wait? Did I just miss it?"

The Fine Print: stamp, card topper and all the other stuff by Club Scrap. By the way, I just had to click all the button to figure out how to make the fine print fine. Obviously I'm not a brain surgeon candidate either.

Bad Words Were Spoken

So once upon a time, not really that long ago, I was looking for something on the web and ran across this cool looking card design. I said to myself, "Eureka! Look at that!"

The reason it caught my eye is the petticoat (crinoline? frilly thing?) under the dress looked like a cupcake paper and that is just what I have this month as a mystery challenge item. So, of course, I had to try to CASE the card so I could use the cupcake paper I was given. Ours was a mini muffin sized paper so I could only get one layer of poofy thing under the dress, but it is all good.

I do want to say that I destroyed lots of designer paper trying to get that dress folded in nice pleats and looking correct. I even said a bad word or six. Engineering is not my thing. Apparently, neither are paper dolls.

The Fine Print: All the parts except the cupcake paper by Stampin' Up, dress form die retired but everything else is current.