Monthly Archive for March, 2005

Dream: Ethan

(written at 7am)

I just woke up at 7am which never happens after having one of the weirdest (and for me - rarest) dreams ever. Actually I’ve never had one like this. Before having a baby I always dreamt with healthy little girls but sickly and premature boys which I always managed to lose or accidentally kill. :-O

Well, last night (this morning) it was anything but.

I was in my old house in miami with my grandmother in the living room sitting on rocking chairs on a bright, clear day talking about trying to get pregnant. I told her that we had twins implanted in me but that they had died. When I went to the doctor to check me out, he found that they had withered away into these things that looked like fossilized pieces of leftover vegetables like a strand of dried and rotted spinach or something. And we were both looking. I wasn’t spread out on a table or anything. we were pearing into this thing that looked like a replica of a canyon. When he went to take those out, he found that I had an embryo growing in another part of my body. I think it was a falopian tube. The doc said it was a long shot but he took the embry out very carefully and then put it in my uterus to see if it would grow.

I was home and telling my grandmother about it. She said “just because it’s a long shot, just you wait. That baby is going to grow and be born healthy”. I said.. “maybe” then I reached down and felt my belly area. I felt that it was tight and i felt bloated but it wasn’t big. And oddly my body felt like I did when was 3 months pg with J. If I was pg, I could have been 2, 3 months. Next thing you know we’re in my living room back at my house. I get up and go to my room for something and next thing you know I have an infant in my hands. But the kid was more like 6 months old. i came out and showed the baby to my grandmother. She acknowleges the baby and says “see, i knew it”. I looked at the kid and knew it was a boy. I said. ‘ But look at him, he doesn’t look anything like jada. his eyes are a little slanted, his eyebrows are so defined and his mouth is bigger than J’s. His features were just so unlike J’s and we expected that our next kid would look like J! She says “yeah, but that doesn’t matter, he’s still yours” I thought he couldn’t be mine.. and how will I love him? he doesn’t look like anything I expected!?

But the more I held him, the more I accepted that he’s cute too and that he’s my son. I decided his name was Ethan. In fact, I don’t remember naming him. That was just his name. I kept looking at him and now he looks more like a 1 year old. I sat him down on the couch on his own. He was fully dressed in baby pants and shoes. My gmother who was now in the kitchen looking at me thru the passthrough said. ‘don’t put him on the couch. he’s too young to sit up on his own”
I go “but he already is sitting up on his own! How many infants have you ever seen that are this big and can sit on their own!!”

Next thing you know the kid is walking around on the ground around the coffee table in the living room and is as tall as Jada was at around 12-15 months old.. a couple seconds later, Dennis drives up. The front door is open so I can see him walk up. As he was walking up to the front door and looking at me with a smile on his face, I said to him “guess who was born today!!!”

They would have met eachother if my dream would have lasted long enough but it didn’t. Something woke me up and i think it was jada making noises in her room. But I couldn’t help wonder what Dennis’ or the new son’s reaction would have been to eachother once they laid eyes on eachother.

Secret desire to have a boy, perhaps?

this endless headache.

we went to tradewinds park today where jada got to participate in an easter egg hunt. what a mob of people!. she was able to get ahold of a few of those plastic eggamajigs despite the … overzealousness.. of those other kids there. they raped the area of eggs in about 3 minuts flat. Thankfully she got some ‘eggs’ and had a good time. we were supposed to keep the candy and toys inside and return the plastic eggs but I felt she should keep hers. they’re all she can play with anyway since we took away the choke hazzards they call toys and candy.

after that we stood in line for a picture with the easter bunny. i wasn’t sure how she’d react to the bunny (which reminded me so much of the rabbit from donny darko) because a lot of the kids were freaked out by him/her. Jada was a trooper and laughed at him even tried to carry on a conversation with him in her rare language. it was funny as heck to watch. after we were done, jada walked back to him and climbed back on again. but of course with the long long line waiting we had to take her away …kicking and screaming…

then on to look at the ponies and a little running around in the playground.

that was all before noon and i’m still suffering from the headache. I must remember to drink more water. who says dehydration is painless? I’ve had 5 glasses of water so far and i’m still going.

you never know when it’s your time to go..

there’s been a lot of talk today and on LJ about someone who passed away recently. someone who worked in the dungeon with us. I wasn’t going to say anything about it here on LJ because I didn’t know him and I really don’t feel ‘qualified’ to say anything really.

After so many years working at the co. and just over the cubicle wall, it seems shocking but there was never a situation where we ever had to talk to one another about anything work related or otherwise. i never even knew what his name was until dennis started working there… I couldn’t even remember what he looked like till i saw a pic on ids after work. I thought it would refresh my memory but it didn’t do a good job of it.

I know I passed him on the way in and out of the dungeon *rarely* and we had the briefest of chats regarding the shock of hearing a small child’s voice in the dungeon (my daughter). since i didn’t really know him I don’t feel any sadness for the loss of him, the person… only a general sadness that the life of someone so young with a seemingly long future ahead would be cut short and so abruptly and unexpectedly.

I feel shock at the realization that you just never know when your time will come. I can’t help but think about what his last moments were like .. was he unconsious when he hit the water, did he try to get out… what would I do in that situation.. and I feel fear because we have a 5 hour road trip both ways next weekend . I was already worried about the trip before and felt like something bad was looming ahead and that I should take extra care on the trip… then i hear about this. I can’t help but wonder what amount of guilt his dad must have felt or is feeling over this. because the mourning process can be irrational.. would he think that his illness is at fault for his own son’s death. I’m sure it’s crossed his mind at least once.

stuff

i ended up going home early yesterday because i was spending more time on the can than at my desk. I wasn’t feeling bad except for the occasional cramping which came and went.. and it’s real inconvenient to have that going on at work. So I get home and I didn’t have another toilet attack all day. go figure. I didn’t want the whole day to go to waste so I decided to do J’s laundry and clean up my unopenned mail mess. AND I gave the dogs a bath on top of all that. Those fuckers better not roll in dead frog again or i’ll KILL ‘em!!

i’m going to see the dentist in the morning so he can fix that filling. my bite still isn’t even ( i was hoping it would even out on it’s own) and it’s driving me insane. I can’t even chew on that side.

anyway, i’m trying to get back on track today. I have a few things to complete this week but Sometimes my biggest problem is figuring out where to start.

In other news. I got my pda back last week. Everything is installed again and configed just the way I like it. FINALLY. yayyyyy!!!!

feeling shitty

LITERALLY.

getting cramps and … stuff…
i’m thinking about calling it a day and getting outta here. damn. but i’m gonna tough it out more and see if this doesn’t just go away.

dangit!

i went to the dentis this morning for the first day of my plan to replace all metal fillings with teh white ones.. They had to give me extra EXTRA shots to numb me out. the doc used this THING that made a cracking noise. he said it has a ratchet? jesus.. at one point i thought it was cracking my molar off. once the anesthetic wore off, i was in pain.. PAIN! it’s alright now as long as I don’t have to talk a lot. talking seems to agravate it.

anyway… i think he didn’t shave off enough on one molar so it feels like my bite isn’t even.. ARG!!! it’s partly my fault cuz he asked if it felt OK and i said yes. How the hell can i tell tho. half my mouth is numb. i’m accidentally biting on my inner cheek and tongue. my jaw hurts from being spread open for so long. i’m tired…. christ!!