bad dreams:

i absolutely hate having bad dreams... but whats worse, is when you just cant go to sleep after one.

yep you guessed it, i just woke up to a bad dream.

My Dream:

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i was at work, it was the same building, but the table layout was different. i was working with the same people that i work with in real life, in fact, mom and dad were there too.

i started taking tables, got a 2 top, then a 5 top.... they just kept coming... more and more tables, finally my section was jam packed! i was having a difficult time keeping up.

i asked my mom for help, but she was in the back making drinks and taking them to the other side of the restaurant.

all the sudden i started to notice the guests, the gal at the 2 top used to work here,i don't remember her but i have heard about her and she still had her name tag on. but it didn't phase her that it was crazy busy and she kept asking for things she didn't need. the 5 top was a bunch of regulars, and same thing, just expected that because it was them, they deserved all of my attention, and kept telling me lame stories making it hard to get away, even though i had a million things to do.

it was really busy at this point, i remember running back into the kitchen for extra mayo and extra gravy at times.

then my guests started to disappear ... they even disappeared off of my table taking device... then the other gal who i worked with kept coming over and taking care of my guests.... she had her section completely full but was able to take some of my tables because i couldn't keep up. i looked over to a table where a 10 top was, their food was there, but they were not... finally my mom came over to help me and told me that the 10 wanted their waitress to pay more attention to them so they went to the other side.

i was filling up water pitchers and talking to my mom about how im not doing so well tonight and then asked if she knew what i was doing wrong, perhaps a reason to why i couldn't even handle my tables yet the other gal could handle her side and mine combined... mom said that the tables just didn't like me tonight, and that were very upset at how badly i handled taking tables.

finally i decided to call my aunt to come help and she started making up some random excuses as to why she didn't want to come...

then i woke up.

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for those of you who don't know, i am a waitress at family's restaurant. i have been waiting tables for about 3 years now.(i am also the service staff manager :) )

so generally, since i'm a grown up now, my bad dreams start with "i was at work". work is stressful! a lot of crazy things happen! we deal with peoples emotions, and try to move them in the happier/ 'glad they choose us' state. and as we all know: people (guests) are crazy!!

so about this dream, perhaps some of you may be able to relate, but not quite in the same way... the phrase 'Bad Dream' has so many different interpretations.

so a lot of things in my dream can come true, they are very realistic things that sometimes happen...

in my eyes, thats what makes a bad dream: one where it's hard to decipher dream time from reality.

what are some things you do to calm yourself after waking from a bad/stressful dream!?

today is a day

i am getting excited to go home- not really, but more excited to be done with work.

just a few more days, and so much more to do!

i took the day off today. i got my hairs did at Becky's hair school, we took away my semi-mullet. and took most of the blue out- it looks great!

ill post a pic of it someday. but Becky did a great job!!!

i also took a 4 hour nap, and had some disturbing dreams about gnome-mermaids. hmm, bryan suggested too much animal crossing. perhaps.

early day tomorrow- just 3 hours of work/training, the last training I'll most likely ever do for perks(yippie) 5:20AM-8ish. then off to sunset location to do some past due paperwork. lunch with bryan, back to work if needed. then off to Nephi for the weekend.

were having easter-after-easter-weekend. we didnt have it last, so we will have it this weekend.

weekend comes complete with bike-riding, egg-launching, and great-dalmuting!!!

also mikeys birthday-- #19 for him- woot-