I Had a Bad Dream...and Now I Have a Headache!

    Now, you would think that waking up to beautiful scenes like this would put most people in a serene and calm mood...

     ...Especially if you add to it that I can hear sizzling in a pan, and smell sausage....and I know that hubby is making grits, and oatmeal with pineapple to go with it! ...{and that I'm a lazy mugg whose getting breakfast in bed this morning...the vacation's last hoorah! :-)}
    But, even though it's beautiful out...

      ...I can't fully enjoy it...I'm nursing a headache I woke up with after a REALLY bad dream I had last night...Let's face it, I'm really NOT that serene when I wake up and see snow anyway!! :-)) Especially when I know that in a few minutes hubby is going to have to go out there and face....Dah-dah-DAHHHHH!!......This!

      ....the snow and ice-mobile! Yep! Gotta brush off the snow and then chip the ice off. Don't you just love winter?!...NOT!!
   I'm such a crazy woman that not only was the headache nagging me this morning, but so was the poem that my brain CLEARLY wanted to write about the dream!!! I had to sit with a headache and write the whole incident out in a poem, story-style, before I could rest! LOL PLEASE tell me that this kind of thing happens to other people besides me!!...UGH!
    As you can tell, I'm on another one of my 'Woe is me' jaunts this morning! But actually, I'm not feeling as bad as it sounds, now that I'm typing it. I'm sure the headache will subside. I know the snow and ice will be off of the car pretty soon. I KNOW breakfast is going to be good! And....I get to do some crocheting today!!! ^_^ 
   I'm going to take it slow at first. I may just try to work out a pattern for some warm bedroom slippers, or a pair of lacey fingerless gloves, or...who knows! But I won't try to do too much the first day back out with my newly NON-pulled muscle arm. :-)
   I am going to be a LITTLE sad though. Vacation time is over, and tomorrow it'll be back to my regular routine....Crocheting all day...Wait!! That's not a bad thing!!!!! ^_^ Yippee!! I'm in a good mood again. {I love being able to bring you along on one of my brain-thinking-out-loud days! :-)
     Enjoy your quiet Sunday. We have a late afternoon meeting today, and preparations will be in play for the new work week. Other than that, not too much. Relaxing.....maybe even another nap to get over my long interrupted nap! ^_^ Okay, enough talking. I'll just leave you with the poem I did after I got up this morning. Hang in there with it. It's a WILD ride!! ^_^

A Southern...TRIP!

A friend, my dad, and me
went on a Southern-bound road trip.
Everything was going fine
until our schedule took a flip.

The friend wanted to visit
a relative ,along the way.
So dad decided to drop her off,
and we headed off for the day.

Dad wanted to visit too,
someone he'd seen just last year.
It was a half an hour away.
As we got closer...So did FEAR!


It was a bad neighborhood;
Wooden shacks, planks in the road;
Planks with nails sticking up,
like some "We'll Trap You!" secret code.


And as we rode fast round the curves
I said: "What is this all about?!"
House doors were cracked, with big sticks,
with fake dog heads,  sticking out!!


I don't mind telling you
that I was really, REALLY, scared!
{Things like this are the reason
that I'm premature gray-haired!}


You wouldn't think it could get worse,
but Yes indeed! It surely did!
My father stopped the car
and went inside!...I flipped my lid!


Here I was, in a car;
Didn't know the time! Had no clock!
And fake dogs are looking at me!
And the Cadillac doors won't lock!


Thankfully it wasn't long
before he got back in the car;
But he didn't seem that happy
that he'd driven out so far.


Then a man came walking up;
and dad got out, so they could talk.
But it didn't seem that friendly.
Dad was watching him like a hawk!


From where I was positioned
I could hear everything they said.
Apparently, last year,
this guy had hit dad in the head!


Oh Boy! This can't be good!
Now I REALLY wanted to go!
Whew! Dad got back into the car
before he got another blow!


Now he was driving so fast
he almost made us miss a curve!
By the time he slammed his brakes though,
I was just a ball of nerves!


The car was pointed down a dirt road;
"A short cut". Dad hit the gas.
Great! Another wild adventure,
just because he drove too fast!


Down the road we went.
Dust and trees was all I saw.
Then some water across the road!!
My nerves were now, not plucked, but RAW!


No matter what I said
he just replied: "It'll be okay."
Then the road disappeared!!
It was a Southern water-way!


I think, at this point,
it was just a matter of pride,
that kept him going forward
when there was no road to ride.


We were lost and in a car
that now was more like a show-boat.
And there was water seeping in!
{Apparently Cadillacs don't float!}


The car started to tilt.
Too late for scooping with a cup.
YAY! Wait! It was a dream!!
I was never happier to wake up!!