Dream Catcher

I'm going to try and sneak in a quick post today. Yes its not been a good month for my blogging. BUT i'm going to make an effort to squeeze in more quicky posts, lucky you :)

As far back as I can remember, I've never been much of a dreamer. Either I don't have dreams at night or I don't remember them, hardly ever. I decided that in fact I do have some dreams but remember very few of them. I remember back when I was a kid I had a reoccurring dream that a humongous black crow would fly through my kitchen window (from my old house in Stoughton) and attack me. I remember having this dream many many times and even after we moved into our McFarland house, I would still have this dream.

I guess I never thought much of it....

Then more recently (and I say recently but really I mean like the last 3-4 years) I started having another reoccurring dream. I just had this dream again last week which prompted me to try and look it up because it really was bothering me. My reoccurring dream always consists of me and then someone attacking me. I've had the dream with a physical attack like being beat up and i've also sadly had the dream when i've been sexually attacked. I've probably had this dream about 4 times in the 6 months.

So long story short, I decided to try and look up what this dream meant because, well, let's be honest, its kind of disturbing. I found this great website for dream decoding:

http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/a.htm

When I looked up what being attacked meant, here's what it said:

"To dream that you are being attacked by someone, signifies questions on your character and the need for you to defend yourself. You are feeling stressed, vulnerable and helpless. You may also be faced with difficult changes in your waking life. Dreaming of an attacks provides a way for you to confront a situation that you are avoiding in real life.

To dream that you are being attacked by an animal, is a warning to be careful with those around you. Take notice on who you know in your waking like that shares and exhibits the same qualities of the animal that attacked you in your dream."

And when I looked up dreaming about being raped, it said:

"To dream that you have been raped, indicates vengeful feelings toward the opposite sex. You are feeling violated in some way or being taken advantage of. Something or someone is jeopardizing your self-esteem and emotional well-being. You feel that someone or something is being forced upon you."

Interesting wouldn't you say?! I kept thinking that if I kept dreaming that I was being attacked meant that it was going to happen in real life or something, but according to this, I'm stressed and need to do some real-life confronting!

Anyway, I thought i'd share this website with you. I found it quite interesting and I'm hoping that I can start to remember more of my dreams.

Happy St Pattie's Day

Grab a cold one!

Scrapbooking Extravaganza and Ax Men

This past weekend, I took it upon myself to try and get caught up with my scrapbooking. I had just started 2008 on Wednesday and between Friday nite, Saturday and Sunday, I successfully made it through July of 08!! It may not sound like a lot but it really is. I took a few pictures of some of my pages just to show you an example.

My moving day....and further celebrations, April 08

Memorial Day weekend, which also included the Marie and Mikey Yates wedding...

Seeing my favorite band Tantric at the Dane County Fair...

I haven't blogged much about my luv for scrapbooking but it reminds me that I'm more like my mom than I ever knew. She's the one that got me started into it and I think I have about 10 albums now. After I get caught up with 2008 (and start the little bit I have for 2009), I plan on doing a heritage album, which is an album about your family, going back generations. I"ll keep you posted on that.

While doing scrapbooking on Sunday, I found myself engrossed in the show Ax Men. Have you seen it?? Its on the History channel. I had seen one episode before but didn't think much of it. Then on Sunday I started watching it and found myself, 10 episodes later, really into it! History was having a marathon of Ax Men because the new season starts tonight.

Its a show all about the men who log in the North West. Its very similar to the Deadliest Catch on Discovery. The show follows 4 different crews through the logging season. I just found it very interesting and of course after watching 10 episodes, you start to learn about the lives of these guys and how different it is from anything I've ever experienced.

Its a good show if you are looking to watch something different...

Polar Plunge

Good job boys! It looked super cold, I WAS super cold, but you did a good job in your jump!

Yummy

Recently I've been craving this snack dish. I made it for the superbowl and just LOVE it. Now I've made it several times since just to have in the fridge for a filling snack. I know it as Texas Caviar but I'm sure it has other names.

1/2 red onion, chopped
1 green pepper, chopped
1 red pepper, chopped
1 yellow pepper, chopped (someimtes I use just two green ones if the red and yellow are really expensive at the time)
1 can pinto beans, rinsed and drained
1 can black beans, rinsed and drained
1 can white corn, rinsed and drained
1/2 C white vinegar
1/2 C sugar (I use either all splenda or half and half of splenda and sugar)

Mix all ingrediants together. Chill for 2-4 hours before serving. Servce with tortilla chips, scoops work the best. I have been using pretzels since chips are too fatty and I think it tastes just as good.

Summer fun

So I was reminiscing yesterday about the badger tailgates of this past year and came across this picture. It just makes me laugh....

Happy Tailgates!

Congrats!!

Congrats to my friends Tina and Curt on their recent wedding in Hawaii. Tina looks absolutely awesome!! (So do you Curt, should I say handsome?) Sorry I couldn't be there. I miss you both so much. Good luck to Curt during his next tour of duty in Iraq.

She's STILL Beautiful

This past weekend I went to the Rascal Flatts/Jessica Simpson concert at the Kohls Center. WHAT? Country concert? Me? My sister won two tickets off the radio and I thought it could be pretty interesting considering all the negative press Jessica Simpson has been getting lately.

We had pretty good seats, section 108, row Q which was only one section away from the stage. It was a pretty neat set up, I have never seen a stage that went all the way around the floor. The only down side was that my sister and I were sandwiched in between the 8 fattest people at the show (us included!). OMG, how does this happen!?!? We were shoulder to shoulder to women on both sides of us that really did need two seats. And of course, in front of us, 4 barely there, barely 21, stick figure girls. Bad luck I guess :(



Jessica Simpson was up first. I was worried people would boo her but our crowd here in Madison was pretty supportive and cheered and clapped for her. So all I can say is that she's STILL ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN THE WORLD. She looked good to me! She had on short shorts and a black and gold top. My pictures don't really do her justice but I thought she still looked really good. I wouldn't be complaining if I looked at her, no matter what the damn media says! Her singing was surprisingly better than I had expected. She didn't actually sing many country songs. She even sang a couple songs from back in the day. But overall, I thought she did a really nice job!

An hour after the start of the show, Rascal Flatts took the stage. They were pretty darn impressive. They had a good light/video show to go along with their singing. I knew some of the songs, not all, but enough to be able to tap a beat and sing a few verses.

They traveled around the huge stage to make sure everyone had a good look at them which I thought was neat. Their fiddle player was really good too! Aren't they always though?

The concert last 3 hours or so and I was quite impressed with the whole evening. I tell ya, the second the temperature in Madison hits above freezing, the whores come out and dress like crazy!! It was totally fun people watching at the concert too! Thanks sis for winning tickets!

Yup...They Rock!!!

Yup I don't care who you are but you have to admit that was one of the best and most exciting football games ever!! I was a wreck the whole time (just ask Jeremy!) but it was SO AWESOME to see my team win out.

Go Team Go

Yeah--the Steelers are playing in the superbowl!!!!