My Weird Dream: Three's Not Company

I have dreams almost every night.  Some are extremely mundane and others are very bizarre and detailed.  I had this dream over the weekend and was just telling my friend Christine about it and she said I should turn it into a book, but I decided to blog about it instead.

So in my dream, Christine and I were actresses along with the dude who plays Jason Morgan (Steve Burton) on General Hospital.  We were on this drama where the three of us lived together and were all in a weird polygamist (without the marriage) relationship because Christine and I were both dating  Steve's character.  She played a doctor and I was a freeloader.  Steve was a renegade, lol.  So on the show, Christine's character gets non-terminal lung cancer and the radiation makes her sterile.  My character becomes pregnant and her character is extremely jealous.

Outside of the show in our real life, it's pretty much the same scenario.  We are in the same relationship except we are all actors.  Christine can't have  kids anymore and Steve really wants children.  I become pregnant and Steve and I decide that we are going to go become a couple exclusively and ask Christine to leave, but I am afraid to tell her that I'm pregnant or that we're "leaving" her because she is already mad about it happening in the storyline.

If I were to interpret this dream myself, it would be quite easy:

1) I watch too much General Hospital.
2) Christine and I spend too much time together, lol.

I think I'm going to start  writing down my dreams because Christine told me I should.  And my friend Marc alleges that he will psychoanalyze them for me.

Sleep Happens

So the other day I was curious about how many hours that your child should be sleeping per day, how many naps per age, etc. My daughter is 3 and a half and normally doesn't take naps. My son is 18 months and will take one nap during the day and if I'm lucky it will be 2 hours, but sometimes it's as little as 30 minutes. So, I found this helpful chart. Not all children are the same, so it's not a written in stone type deal.

Anyway, what I don't get is how no matter what time your kids go to bed at night, they wake up at roughly the same time in the morning. For instance, being an old lady, I tend to like to go to bed at 8:30pm. LOL. I take the kids in with me while I wind down watching General Hospital. I'm usually asleep before 10pm. Now, the kids usually fall asleep within half an hour, and then wake up in the morning anywhere from 7am-9am. L sleeps later than A typically. I love it when I wake up on my own before them.

But last night, for example, we were visiting a relative and Nick kept us out until a whopping 10pm and I was about to pass out! So, we get home, get the kids right to bed and they fall asleep within TEN MINUTES! I had a harder time winding down and didn't fall asleep until close to midnight. So, when Nick's alarm woke up at 6am and woke me up, I had a hard time going back to sleep and I am SO TIRED. But, the kids still got up at the same time as usual.

What's the deal? If I had the option of sleeping as long as I wanted, you can bet I'd be living that up! I always figured 9 hours was my perfect number for sanity sake, but since having kids, I'm lucky to get a good 6. Plus I'm a very light sleeper and wake up multiple times at night.

I'm gonna wrap this up, cause it's getting long, but this is kinda me pondering aloud about sleep. Are my kids getting enough? Why do they insist on waking up before they're ready? Will I ever get those 9 hours I long for? Is Claudia going to lose the baby on General Hospital?

Dear Dish Network

Dear Dish Network,

All right, I'm putting my foot down. The frustration pot in the pit of my stomach has been slowly simmering for over a year now, but is starting to boil over and if my complaint is not remedied soon, it is going to turn into a molten lava of anger burning to the bottom and the sides and leaving a nasty roasted aluminum smell throughout the countryside.

You stole ABC from me. I understand, it was a law, you were no longer able to offer distant networks. But, here is what I know- there is a local affiliate that carries ABC and says that they are waiting for you to put them in your line-up. Touche, Dish Network! What is the hold up? I can not get a waiver and I have been void of my precious Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives for far too long.

Sure, I could watch them on the computer, but who wants to break their neck in an uncomfortable chair when they can be lounging languidly in the the luxury of their glorious rocker recliner?

Not I, Dish Network. Thankfully SoapNet has spared me the horror of being without General Hospital, but you have successfully got my goad.

Here is your ultimatum, Dish, if that is indeed your real name: I have remained silent, but now learning who the new cast of the next season of Dancing With the Stars is, I can wait no longer. Ty Murray and Jewel will be the first married couple. The train wreck that is Denise Richards has me mesmerized.

You, Dish Network, shall get me my precious ABC before the new season of DWTS begins or I will start mailing stinky sardines in poorly insulated envelopes to your head offices until this atrocity is remedied.

The gauntlet has been cast. My pot is a'boil. Get 'er done, ye nasty villains!!

Sincerely,

hamsterkitten