Gasp

7:23 a.m.

Do you guys ever have that falling dream, or another version of it, right after you fall asleep, so that you wake up all in a gasp and terrified? My version of that dream is that a spider is crawling either across me or on the bed or on my pillow. And I think it's my version of the falling dream because it always happens shortly after I fall asleep, and I'm always in that weird half awake/half asleep place when I have it, and it always freaks me out hardcore. I normally dream I am lying in bed when a spider scuttles across, and I sit straight up in a huge shrieky gasp, then flip on the light and look everywhere frantically for a spider, saying stupidly, "I know there is a spider. I know I saw one! I saw a spider! There was one right here!" I've had the dream so badly that I've actually leaped out of bed, from a dead sleep. Which really isn't that exciting, I guess, when I remember all my past sleepwalking escapades.

I've had those spider dreams a lot, lately. The other night I had one that was the worst yet. Because the spider was the size of my hand, and get this: its legs were tapered. Tapered!

Tapered!

I, of course, gasped like a mad woman, jerked out of my sleep, and turned on the light. J sleepily told me, without even hearing an explanation, that "It's not there. Kara, there's no spider there." I said, still all gaspy, "Yes there was, there was a spider, a big one, I have to check, okay?" and he mumbled amiably, "Go ahead."

I didn't find a spider and suggested that the bad cat turns into a spider every night as soon as I fall asleep, but I think he was unconscious again.

In other news, the new blog is technically up! All the emails have been awesome, keep them coming!

In other news, I got this template back. Please ignore my frantic post that it was gone, gone, gone.

In other news, training at a new job is stressful! I'm really tired! But I think I'll survive! I hope! Second day in a row in which I have worn control top hose, you guys! I'm stressed out!

Love,
black sheeped