Odds and ends

Ever since the time change, I have not been sleeping well.  I am sort of sensitive to light, so I think the earlier sunrise is waking me up when I've only had a few hours of sleep.  Unfortunately I haven't been able to easily fall back to sleep.  I suppose I should make more of an effort to go to bed earlier.

Even though my sleep pattern is off, I am having a lot of dreams.  Weird dreams, odd dreams, dreams about people I haven't seen in more than fifteen years.  I don't know what to make of it.  Often times when I dream, I can connect the dream to a worry or an event in my present life, but these dreams seem to be more random.

I know the kind of dream I want to have, but I haven't had that sort of dream in a long time.  People use the phrase "in your dreams" to describe something that could only happen outside of the reality of waking life, ie. while you're asleep and dreaming, but even that isn't true for me.

Saturday I had lunch with a friend.  She didn't notice anything different about my hair.  I almost asked her how she liked my highlights and then I thought, why bother.  Apparently my highlights are invisible and I am the most unremarkable person ever.

This past weekend I cat-sat for a beautiful Siamese cat.  He is very laid back, definitely not a typical yowling, picky Siamese.  I asked his family to leave his brush out so I could brush him -- he has soft, thick fur and he seems to shed a lot.  Fortunately he loved being brushed.  I kidded him and told him that I had brushed out enough fur to make a small kitten.  I tried to take a few pictures, but I didn't have the shutter speed set fast enough to get a good non-blurry picture.

I haven't been doing very well with my resolve to work on my Bible study a little bit at a time as opposed to all in one marathon session.  This is spring break week, so the group won't meet until the following Wednesday.  I really want to start the lesson now so I can have time to go back and review before we meet; it also would be great to have time to do the one or two lessons I missed last semester.  I find it especially apropos that in the weeks leading up to Easter, we have reached the account of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection in our study of the Gospel of John.  God's timing is perfect!

I have no idea what my family will do to celebrate Easter.  Two of my children are out-of-state and I don't know what their plans are as far as church or other activities.  Plus our married daughter needs to take her in-laws and their plans into consideration also.  Last year we had Easter dinner with my husband's family and our middle child was able to join us.  I guess I need to start making some phone calls and tentative plans.