But I grew them out!

Hey all! Its been a while.

So I had a funny dream the other night I felt like sharing.

Back story. My siblings and I have been watching Scrubs on Netflix, and we recently watched the episode where Dr. Cox's son needs stitches. This episode most likely sparked my dream.

Now to the dream. So I'm bleeding a lot from this cut I got on my head (naturally because it IS a head wound). So I find myself at my doctor's office talking to a nurse. I tell her "hey I need stitches!" And she takes one look at me and takes the surgical scissors she has in her hand and cuts bangs! I then look at her in disbelief and ask her why on earth she would do that. She replied with "Well they are to cover up your scare". I then begin screaming at her that I just grew out my bangs and now I'll have to start all over again, oh also I still needed stitches!

The whole dream made me question this new health insurance plan...

Until Next Time,
Sweet Dreams

We're really good friends

So I had one of the most entertaining dreams last night. So I was apparently really good friends with the actor who plays Gale in the Hunger Games, you know Liam. So we're running around Portland, junk shopping and such, just having a good old time. And I kept running into people from High School and I'd always introduce him as "Oh hey, so this is Liam, we're really good friends". It was hilarious and awesome all at the same time. The best part was that I kept making fun of him for getting engaged to Miley. Classic me.

Man I really need to get some more famous friends...

Until Next Time,
Sweet Dreams

Its a grand estate

So this last nweek I've been nannying for a family in my stake. 3 kids, 13 year old girl, 6 year old boy, and a 4 year old girl. We've had our rough patches, and I've been going to bed between 9:30 and 10 PM, and waking up between 5:30 and 6, but its been mostly good.

So my first dream has to do with that. It was mostly a dream of me getting the house ready for the parents to get home (which is happening tonight in real life). I was frantically picking up all the princess, and Lego Star Wars toys. Then the Dad got back and I realized I hadn't gotten all my stuff together yet. But his wife wasn't back yet so I had some time to pack up. It was a pretty normal life dream, but it made the next one even more wonderful.

So in the next dream I was heading down to Salem with my dear friend Tracee to go visit her family. (In reality I was at her house once as a small child but I only remember the back yard) So we pull up to this mansion of sorts, more like an estate, much like Downton Abbey. It was huge, and awesome. So we vistied there for a while, but then we were invited to someone else's house. It was someone I apparently knew, like a random distantly related aunt (which is hilarious because I have plenty of real aunts down in Salem). So we go to her huge house and I start chatting it up with her charming nephew. He was super handsome, and drove his aunt nuts, which was very entertaining for me. We were hitting it off really well, which was not going over very well with his aunt. So it was kind of turning into a Sense & Sensibility type, with some Downton Abbey stuff because she had taken this weird ceramic floral wreath that was my grandmother's and I should actually have it. So then I was super upset about that, and this new gentlemen caller of mine was being super nice, and there were whispers of marriage (apparently Tracee and I were there for a few weeks).

And he was in the middle of telling me something really important when I woke up to...

a 4 year old girl tell me she had a nightmare and wanted to watch Madagascar Penguins movie.

True story. I don't ever remember having an awesome dream and then waking up in the middle of it because my alarm went off or something to that affect. It was rough. What this dream tells me though is that I've been watching way too many Barbie Princess movies, and the teenager talks about me getting married a lot. But I will say, he was one handsome man.

Until Next Time,
Sweet Dreams

The Earth Moved Under My Feet

Somewhat strange one last night.

I was back in Provo visiting, riding a bike towards some friends house.  Then all of a sudden a rhino pops out of nowhere and starts running beside me. I quickly figure out that there has been a mass breakout at the Provo Zoo (I'm pretty sure that's not a real thing, but its been a few months since I've been back...) So I kind of start panicking, not really wanted to be trampled by a rhino. So I pull back slowly and watch it take off down the next street. It was really a strange dream, but I have the desire to go to the Zoo now.

In addition, many, many years ago I had this strange half awake/half asleep dream that I looked over towards my dresser and saw a man just staring at me. In my confusion I screamed a little, and then pulled the covers under my head and stayed there for about 5 minutes. I'm still not really sure that was all about, but it freaked me out. Well my half dream/half awake friend may have came back the other night when I heard someone else breathing in my bed. This time I did not panic, I just started beating the other side of my bed, no one appeared to be there. I asked my Dad about it over dinner tonight, he had no comment. Which I can only assume means I'm officially crazy.  No real news there though...

Until Next Time,
Sweet Dreams

This is the only picture of a zoo animal I have, sorry...

Dark Night

A few weeks ago I had a serious of pretty disturbing nightmares.

First off I was standing in our entryway talking to my parents and brother. I went to go lock the front door when this large man busts in yelling at us all that he's going to rob us. This was scary enough, but then he pulls a gun on me. It is here I wake up with a start, hyperventilating. True story. I couldn't back to sleep for a good long while. This was mostly weird because I don't typically remember nightmares, let alone wake up from them.

Nightmare number 2. So its Chinese New Year, I'm home alone, and I become subject to something called the spinster flame. Apparently its a custom (in my dream world) to set huge scary dragon fireworks at a house that an young single girl lives. Oh also its mean spirited. So they start letting off the fireworks and this huge dragon comes at the house. Much like what you'd see in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. And naturally the house catches fire. And again, that's when I woke up again.

That last dream was mostly a nightmare because it was a Breaking Dawn dream...

Yeah I just finished rereading Breaking Dawn so it kind of made its way into my dreams. I was a werewolf I think. Kicking it at the Cullen's while Bella was big and pregnant. I'm not super proud of the dream, I'll admit.

I'm hoping for a better batch in the near future.

Until Next Time,
Sweet Dreams

Oui Madame

So I had this terrifying dream that I was back in my High School French class. And just like in real life, I could remember nothing. To make matters worse I'm pretty sure my brother was in class with me. It was pretty much my worse nightmare. Not having Jack in the class, just having to take French again. I understand ASL so much better. I should probably practice that again. But back to the class. The teacher kept asking me questions that I couldn't answer, and she was giving me the worst disappointed face in the world. I was a failure all over again.

But on a more happy note. a few night ago I has yet another Harry Potter dream. This time it was right after He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named had fallen. And Me (Hermione), Ron, Harry, and some other order members head to the Malfoy's for protection detail because everyone hates them. Not really sure why we had to protect them, but they weren't making it easy.

Also I had a very enjoyable birthday this last weekend. It was super low key, but thats better sometimes.

Until Next Time,
Sweet Dreams

So I got the Quiditch Lego set for my birthday, which inspired me to pull out this gem again.

Traditions

So I know I've told a few of you this but for Christmas my family has a few funny traditions.
One of my favorites is who our presents are "from". We get the usual Santa gift, and then one or two from Mom and Dad, and from other family. But then the rest of the gifts are from famous people or characters from our favorite movies, shows, and books. And lets just say my parents were in their element this year. And I just really wanted to write about how entertaining it all was. First off I got a thermal shirt from Rihanna that had umbrellas all over it! Get it! So good. Apple & Moses gave me the newest Coldplay album, since its their Dad's and all.  Barney of How I Met Your Mother got me a nice tuxedo jacket, you know so I can "suit up". "Darth.......Vader" gave me the scripts to the original Star Wars trilogy. (That ones mostly funny because we recently rewatched Revenge of the Sith and  Senator Palpatine tells him he shall be known as Darth....... Vader, like we didn't know). Oh and my Day in History Calendar was from Tom Brokaw. Good times.  Other times there are gifts from just people/ characters I like. Katniss got me a nice pair of jeans. There were some other good ones, but those are truly the best.

Also Lego Harry Potter 2 is great! As is Just Dance 3.

I really haven't had any entertaining dreams as of late. Mostly working nightmares leading up to Christmas. But I felt like I'd been neglecting my poor blog. So be ready for other random posts. Since work is going to be slowing down considerably I'm going to need something to pass all the extra hours.

Hope everyone had an enjoyable Christmas!

Until Next Time,
Sweet Dreams!

What Perfume?

Ok I know I usually only blog about my dreams, but this needed to be documented.

My bank branch has SUPER flirty tellers. My usual teller does the usual small talk flirting. Last time I came in he saw my paycheck and mention dropping by Thinker Toys to check it out. Which I felt was moving way to fast in our flirting relationship.

So today I come in to deposit this last month's paycheck and my normal guy wasn't there, which I was a little sad about.  I come up to this other young bank teller who begins with the normal small talk and then moves into "May I say that your perfume smells very good." Now fun fact for those of you who don't know me, I don't wear perfume, and I wasn't even wearing my new cake lotion. So I reply "Oh, thank you, but I'm not wearing any..." He then suggest that maybe it my hair, so we agree on that. Other fun fact, I can't really smell things, ever, so to me my hair smells like nothing. My Mother however informed me it indeed has a very strong, and good, scent. He too noticed I work at Thinker Toys and asked what it is. So I inform him its a local toy store in Multnomah Village, and that I use to shop there when I was a kid. He seems very impressed and asked if I ever dreamed of working there as a kid. No not really, but whatever. I then mention that I've just graduated college, which he then asked what I studied. So we're back to normal small talk.  But then he says "I see that your birthday is coming up." What? Yeah, he was looking up my birthday on my bank profile! What! So I tell him "Yes, it is coming up." To which he replies "How do you like having your birthday on the 1st?" Oh wow, yeah he's really looking it up. So I tell him as a kid it wasn't so much fun because people were out of town, but now its nice. And then he says "Yeah now that your over 21, I'm sure it much more fun." Oh wow, again, totally looking at my whole record. Then he hands me my deposit receipt and tells me to come back soon so we can talk again.
So aggressive! I mean WOW!

I think the reason this was so shocking is that up until about a year ago I could never tell when men were flirting with me. So now I'm not sure if I want to find an excuse to come back, or run away screaming. Its a tough decision.

Also I was wearing this today. (This is going to be for our Christmas card, I'm not weird and take pictures of my outfits when I get flirted with, just to clarify)

So all in all I had a very enjoyable day. And I may need to go back to the bank....

A Scary Match

So I've spent a better part of the last few days playing Tiny Tower on my iPod. Its great. Mostly because everything is so cute and tiny. I also started reading Matched last night. Which is another LDS young adult author. But so far its WAY better than Twilight. So part of Tiny Tower is giving people jobs and there are these number associated with their skill set in different areas, like food, retail, service, and so forth. Matched is a book about a society where they pick your "match" or future spouse as it were. You too are placed in jobs based on your skill set. So basically I had this weird dream where the characters in Matched were getting jobs in my Tiny Tower. It was quite odd.

Also for the record I'm kind of on team Xander, for anyone who understands that.

I also have a dream that I feel fair in blaming entirely on Nat. I was watching this really strange video of Saved by the Bell where Zach Morris gets to class late and is super confused because it an ASL class. It was super amusing because it was SO 90s. It was also really quick but I thought Nat would find it funny.

Also something to know about my life. We do family scripture and prayer every morning before my Dad goes to work and Jack goes to school. But because of my employment status as of now I usually go back to bed afterwards. So today when I was falling asleep again I had this super freaky dream where I was playing mini golf with my friends Katie and Maren. After the game we are walking around what appears to be a amusement park or fair. Katie decides to go to the haunted house and later comes running out in a crazed state. Maren and I go to her and try to calm her down and all she can say is "Look at the clock" She we walk over the the haunted house which is located on Hell St. and look at the clock. All I see is some weird image by the clock before I hear this loud noise.  In reality my phone was ringing. But it really mad me jump. Also it was Tucano's Brazilian Grill wanting to know if Divine Comedy wanted to schedule their Christmas party. I'm still not away from it I guess.

Until Next Time,
Sweet Dreams

Gobble Gobble

Ok the title is misleading. I have no Turkey or Thanksgiving themed dream to share.

I did however have a Justin Bieber dream about a week ago. I was a spy working under cover at the Costco (hello Chuck). Things are going well enough until my cover is blown, or something to that affect, and we have a shoot out of sorts. My team arrives and we're shooting up the place, it was crazy stuff. But the most entertaining part for me was the fact that Justin is there, and is completely useless. I spend most of the time yelling at him to pull himself together. It brought me great joy.

But just the other night I had an epic dream. It was a LOST, HUNGER GAMES, MAD MEN, HARRY POTTER mash up. So Peeta and I are stranded on this island with a bunch of other couples. But also Don Drapper, and Dobby and Kreacher. And possibly Jack Shepard. And this really bad storm is coming in. So we all cram in this house and start to bundle up, because according to one person on the island its the cold that will kill you, apparently not the drowning. So I'm putting on about 5 socks while Don bundles up Kreacher and Dobby in plastic bags to keep them dry. Oh whats that? That's a TERRIBLE idea. Yeah no kidding. Not only does Kreacher dye, but Don gets knocked out by a fallen tree will he was outside with the little elves. I woke up while we were all still trying to find him.

So what did I get from all this?

I watch too much TV, and read too much HP and Hunger Games. Having a week off work may not have been the best idea.

Until Next Time,
Sweet Dreams

Trick or Treat

Had a fun one this morning. It was one of those dreams when you've woken up but fall asleep again and you have a very detailed dream. So in the dream its Halloween morning and Matt, Kabe, Casey, and Whit show up at my house to celebrate Halloween with me. Now Whit soon switched to my friend Katie, and then she disappears all together, but that's not really important. The boys decided to come celebrate Halloween up in Portland to insure a fun time. So I get all dressed up in my epic wonder women costume and we head to Multnomah Village for their Halloween fun, and to show the boys where I work. It was an enjoyable dream. And it has forced me to admit I do miss my friends in Provo. But alas I don't see me making it out there any time soon.

So this ones for you Provo friends. Blog shout out!

Also these costumes my mom made for Jack and I were awesome.

Jack obviously went as Pikachu

And I was Wonder Women.

And Maddy went as Luna Lovegood. So basically us Greaves children are super nerds.

Until Next Time, 

Sweet Dreams

Sick

Man I have the best (and by best I mean weirdest) dreams when I'm sick.  So before bed last night I took some night time cold medicine.  From all the scattered dreams I can remember most of them had to do with me taking medicine or wanting medicine. At one point I was mixing cold medicines in an effort to sleep better. And then I had a really strange one where I was pregnant. Like I said, being sick does some crazy stuff to my subconscious.  And even with taking medicine last night I still woke up at 2:30AM and then 4:30AM. Lets just say work was super exciting today.

Until Next Time,
Sweet Dreams

Defending Religion

So I had a strange combo dream that I think had something to do with Mad Men and Sister Wives. Yes strange combo indeed.  It first starts off in some cafe where I'm meeting Peggy (from Mad Men), so obviously we're in the 60s and I helped arrange this meeting so the father from Peggy's church (yes the one who is really just Collin Hanks) can meet with her and make her feel terrible about herself.  So we're having that awkward conversation for a while, but then Collin disappears and my parents are there and its modern time again.  And I'm attempting to defend the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to my parents, who appear to not be Mormon. I was trying, and failing to explain the Book of Mormon, and the Joseph Smith translation of the Bible. They were not being very nice about any of it.  It was an awful dream.

So first off I'm glad my parents are indeed members, and that I don't have to explain myself to them.  Second, I feel like watching an episode of Sister Wives has given me better comebacks when people play the polygamy card. And thirdly, I want Mad Men to come back so I stop  making up new story lines.

Hopefully some Downton Abbey will fill the void.

Until Next Time,
Sweet Dreams

Party all the time

So I had this slightly amusing dream last night. Mostly because it involved me clubing.

So I'm out in downtown Portland hanging out with my friend from BYU and we come across this super cool looking building that happens to be a club. So my friend says "Lets check it out". When we come up to the door is has this little sign that says "great for FHE and ward activities". Which made my dream self wonder whether or not she was really in Portland or somehow back in Provo. So we walk in and it seems like a pretty cool place. Some good dance music, food, a hot chocolate station (because that exactly what I want when I all gross and sweaty after dancing). Then out of the corner of my eye I see to guys from my high school French class. So I go over and chat with them. Then a slow song comes on, and its like a stake dance all over again. One of my high school friends is about to ask me to dance when the BYU friend I came with swoops in and asks me to dance. Then there are awkward dance montages for a bit and then we eventually leave. It was odd, mostly because the place was totally fake, and I'm pretty sure I was dating the guy. Silly dream Alex.

But I won't lie, a tiny part of my wises that place was real.

Until Next Time,
Sweet Dreams

an old dance classic from freshman year

Just Deal With It

So its been quite a while. Sorry. I haven't really felt up to writing. But I've got a few gems.

About a month ago I had this really weird dream. So the dream starts off with us getting ready, and then sending Maddy off to school. Then all of a sudden my parents are talking about moving to Utah. Which of course I assumed they were kidding. But then Dad has got himself transferred to the Salt Lake VA, and we're moving there. Our house was huge! and really close to a bunch of little shops, so it seemed like a nice area. Then all of a sudden its two years later and we want to move back to Portland. So we go to our house there, but people are living in it. Pretty much everything in my room is the same apart from the bedding. And Dad has to do some clever talking to get us back in the house. It was super weird. Mostly because I know my Mother would NEVER want to move to Utah.

Another quick one. I had a dream I had gotten a nose job when I was probably 13. It was really strange and now I'm paying more attention to my nose.

Then last night I had a dream in which I can only assume was out of solidarity with poor Jack who started school today. So I dream that something went wrong the year I graduated from High school and that my entire class had to do another semester at Wilson High School. I still had my college degree but had to go back to high school. So that was weird enough but the people who wanted to hang out with me at lunch were these people I've known forever (many since Elementary school), but haven't really been friends with on a good 10 years. I don't remember attending any classes, mostly I has just going to my locker and eating lunch. I'm so glad that phase of my life is done!

Well now that I'm still unemployed I'll try to be better at writing. I've got to keep myself busy now that all my sibling are back at school.

Until Next Time,
Sweet Dreams.

Adventure's in dream wolrd

So I've had a few strange dreams over the last few days.

The first of which were set in Provo. First I'm starting up a new history class. Its with my favorite teacher, Dr Skabelund, and its the most vague description of a class ever. Its basically World History, no timeline whatsoever. As the class begins I realized its more like Wars of World History. And we had a ton of reading for the class. Then all of a sudden I'm kind of teaching or TAing the class. It was very odd. Then I'm out of class and wondering Provo with Mariah. We make our way to Park Plaza to see the new renovations they had done. The apartments had become mostly kitchen and bathroom, I couldn't see a bedroom anywhere. It was very odd. Also we kind of broke into an apartment to see them, ops.

Last night I had a wedding/Twilight dream. Yes I was upset too. Apparently my mind is psyched about the Breaking Dawn movie. It started off in my old house and I'm Bella, and all the Cullens are sitting around the house. I'm having to get all packed for the honeymoon. And all I'm packing is make-up (what does that really say about me?) Also for some reason I take hair mascara (I think I've been watching too many 90s shows (Power Rangers, All That, and Clarissa Explains it All)) and make my bangs black, very fetching. Then I'm in a very puffy wedding dress in some large house. But Edward is gone and now I'm marry one of my friend's cousins or something. And Mike is there setting up the Love Story he did for us (I think watching his latest one on Facebook sparked this part). The rest of the dream I'm walking around this large house checking on decorations, and my hair and make-up.
It was a weird one for sure. I hope my real wedding is nothing like this.

Until Next Time,
Sweet Dreams

Dating

So its a regional YSA conference this weekend. I went to the dinner and dance last night, but didn't last the whole time. But the whole thing sparked an interesting dream.

So in the dream I met a guy at this YSA activity, he gets my number and we eventually start dating. He's a good looking guy, but something is off about him. He's a complete tool! Like really mean. And in the dream it comes out I kind of always date jerks. Which even in dreams isn't a good thing.

So what I take away from this is I don't want to date jerks, and I hope my friends tell me when and if I do. Because I will have none of it!

Until Next Time,
Sweet Dreams


Maybe all these crystal balls can help me avoid this...

You Graduated, Remember?

So I had two dreams last night in regards to me forgetting I'm not going back to Provo in the Fall. In reality I know I'm not, and that I've graduated, but I think it will really ring true in September when I'm not there.

1st dream- I'm talking to my Provo friends, telling them how I think I'll come back just for Fall semester to get one more class out of the way. But even in my dream I remember I graduated and don't need any more classes. But I was so desperate to come back.

2nd dream- A bunch of my friends were getting married. I was in Utah for the weddings. I was a bridesmaid of some sort (which of course had to be a dream, haha) and I was talking to one of the other bridesmaids who asked if I was coming to her wedding in February. At first I said "oh yes of course, I'll be here anyway" but then I remembered I'm not a student anymore, so I told her I'd have to see if I had a job by then.

So sad. I'm an adult now, with no real ambitions. I'll be working on that.

Until Next Time,
Sweet Dreams

Pottermen

Ok so this one started out like many of my Harry Potter dreams. We were in the battle of Hogwarts, I was following Ron and Harry. Fred kept almost dying, professors were frantically protecting kids. And then I follow the men back to Hogshead. We're talking to Aberforth and he leads us to the roof, but now Ron and Harry are gone and Maddy is there. And Aberforth is now Storm, of the X-Men. So these deatheaters/bad mutants are trying to find Maddy and I, but we're invisible, but Storm can still see us. And the bad mutant also controls the weather, but only cold fronts, so it starts getting really cold. Storm tells Maddy and I to run back downstairs and hide. So naturally we go to the couch and throw a blanket over ourselves and I take a nap. Storm defeats the Storm-man and then comes downstairs with his sidekick. There was some arguing of some sort, and then I'm watching Magneto and his minions/deatheaters trying to figure out where Maddy and I were.

It was odd, even for me, I will admit.

Until Next Time,
Sweet Dreams

A Future?

So ironically enough I'm having some trouble sleeping. So I'd decided to blog a bit.

As of late I've been reassessing my life. I know moving back to Portland was right, my new calling has made that clear. So anyway I've been thinking more about what next. So obviously Grad School is on my mind a lot. And my summer shows like White Collar and Covert Affairs have started up again. These facts are important.

Last night I had a dream I was in the running for a very prestigious Master's program in Library Science. The best part was that it was only 4 months long, and for some reason it was at Langley (yes the CIA headquarters, don't ask). So to apply you had to do all of these weird test, like identifying what type of paper things were, and at some point things were blowing up. And in the end I didn't get the spot because I blew my last test so the other girl could win. I know this because there was a flash back of me blowing it. So in the end I decided to go to school a little closer to home and a bit longer.

I won't lie, its got me thinking more and more seriously about where the best place for me to go would be. Oh adulthood. What fun you are.

Until next time,
Sweet Dreams