I have to face facts on both counts, that I need to motivate myself. I thought I was doing okay, but the stress of the past few days and the laptop not working correctly, has me so freaked out that I’m not going to be able to keep up with my income, my writing, or my work that I’ve been not paying attention to what I’m doing with regards food. I’ve had days where I don’t eat until 1 p.m. and then, of course, I eat too much.

There was however some other useful things in my dream that pertain to the story I’m currently trying to work on. I’m a bit hesitant to try and type them up, but I think in part of my backing things up before the computer goes in for service. I will print out what I have of the story so far, and start handwriting on it.

I found out that as well as needing a new radiator she’s also going to be needing a new intake manifold soon. Joy! I’m going to the mechanic, “I was only joking about signing her death warrant,” but then not really. She doesn’t owe us anything my poor car. Hubbie and I have spoken before about the fact that we’re essentially running her into the ground. We’ve also talked, especially since I’ve had to quit work again for health reasons about dropping to a one-car family.

We may have to at this point, because I’ve done 2 grand worth of repairs to her since I got her in 2002. To do that much in the space of a few months when we’re barely surviving financially…I can’t bank on finishing a book and getting it published and making it that well, though it’s nice to dream.

I try to keep records of my dreams, but some times they “get away” from me when I wake up, no matter how clear they were when I was having them. If you practise remembering your dreams by trying to journal them every day it does help; but with having a small child in the house I don’t have as much time to journal dreams because often I have to get up right away and tend to him. Ah, well.

Does anyone else have any dreams they’d like to share?

For me more often than not my dreams don’t seem to be symbolic but memories of things, or the symbolism is something which means something only to me. For the longest time I dreamed about interacting with characters from Joss Whedon’s Buffyverse, and the characters were representing their archetypes, if Willow was involved she meant I was interacting with someone who was a geek, for example.

Perhaps dream interpretation is open to interpretation?