Neon tiger, there’s a lot on your mind…
I’ve been so busy and stressed out lately, it’s a wonder I haven’t actually lost my mind. Between worrying about work and worrying about school and worrying about having work while I’m in school, I’m just a hot mess. I don’t sleep well, and when I do sleep, I have crazy whacked out dreams. Even on the weekends. On Saturday night, I had a dream that I was outside in this outdoor aviary with lots of beautiful birds in cages…including mine. Lori was in a cage with five or six other cockatiels, and someone let the birds out so we could see them. And then they all flew away, even Lori. Ohhh, I was so heartbroken. I had to wake up and check on her to make sure she was still safely in her cage. After I went back to sleep, I had ANOTHER weird dream. I dreamed that I was watching what looked like a live version of Captain EO, and I was there with a friend from work, rockin’ out. She told me that after EO was over, Michael was going to come out to see the audience, so I ran to the bathroom so I wouldn’t have to go when the gloriousness was happening. Don’t you know, I MISSED IT. Leave it to me to miss Michael Jackson in my dreams because I had to pee. What is my life, guys?
That’s not the half of it. I’ve had dreams I’ve left work – just upped and left – and got in huge trouble. I’ve had dreams involving floating severed heads. It’s horrible. Some of them, like that severed head dream, leave me chilled to the bone when I wake up. I can’t wait until I have a job and this is all settled. It’s too much for me to deal with all at once; I could handle competency exams and photo IDs and immunization records all separately, but on top of this job hunt and the uncertainty of it all, it’s just sort of getting on top of me. But there’s no time for me to let it get on top of me during the day, so it manifests itself at night. Wonderful.
On Sunday, I took a break and met Scott in Princeton for the day. I love Princeton. I love that whole area; I went to college in Ewing, which is not far at all from Princeton, and I miss it all the time. I miss the area just as much as I miss being in college; I only associate that area of the state with good things. College was for me what high school is for a lot of people – best years of my life. I went through my first breakup there. I met the love of my life there. I grew up there. I had a hell of a lot of fun. :)
The original plan was just to go up to Princeton Record Exchange, go to Twist for probiotic fro-yo, and then go to dinner. Scott wanted to go to Washington Crossing Park too. He’s a history buff; I’m not that way, but I humored him. The little museum was nice, and there were revolutionary war spinning wheels at the Johnson Ferry House. Mostly it was a lot of walking around outside which was nice; I hadn’t really gone to the gym last week (#slacker), so it did me good to walk around. We got a lot of nice pictures, too – click for bigger at Flickr.
After we were done at the park, we drove down to Princeton to walk around Nassau Street, which is right across from the university and where all the main shops are. Princeton really is beautiful.
I got my favorite at Twist: probiotic Ghiradelli chocolate fro-yo with strawberries, Reese’s Cups, hot fudge, & peanut butter sauce. MMMMMMM. I could live on that stuff, not even gonna lie. :) We also went to Prex because I wanted to look for vinyl to put on my wall when I move. I have two of my mom’s old Bette Midler albums, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, and Stevie Nicks’ Belladonna on vinyl already, but Prex has a really good selection of $1 vinyl. I passed up a copy of Bat Out of Hell there years ago and I’m STILL sorry about that to this day. I wanted to get some vinyl from all of my favorites. They didn’t have everything I wanted, but I came away with a good selection!
The top is three Bette Midler albums: The Rose soundtrack (homygod I love that movie), No Frills (which has one of the best covers of all Bette’s albums), and Mud Will Be Flung Tonight!, which is her comedy album. The bottom is Heart’s self-titled album, Bon Jovi’s 7800 Degrees Fahrenheit, and, of course, Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Thriller even has the liner notes with it. I still need a Gaga vinyl, preferably The Fame Monster, something by Meat Loaf, and something by Tom Petty. I also really, really, REALLY want to find Dangerous on vinyl. I think that’s my favorite album cover ever. I love it so much I bought it on a t-shirt. It needs to live on my wall.
We had a really nice day. :) It was great to kind of put all my stress on the back burner for at least a little while. Did I mention that Scotty even bought me Thriller? I have the best boyfriend ever. I win.
