Dream Dream Dream
OK, so I’ve stayed away from blogging from a while due to the fact that I was so busy. I blame daylight savings. My advice: if there is anything wrong with your clocks and alarms and mobile phones, it has to be daylight savings.
OK, so here’s my daylight savings disaster of the year. As you all know, Perth has been having a trial of daylight savings for 3 years. So for the previous 3 years, we have been turning our clocks forwards by one hour in the summer and turning it back one hour in autumn. We had a dinner party on Saturday night and had some guests over. After everything, at about midnight I set my alarm at 8.30am to get up in time for church at 9.45am. That would leave me plenty of time to get ready and church is only 5 minutes away.
Or so I thought.
After that, I was about to go to sleep when I thought I’d better change all my clocks back an hour so I don’t need to do it in the morning. And I knew my mobile phone clock was not set on auto update so I had to do it manually. I thought by doing it manually, I don’t get confused and I avoid disaster. By this time, it was already past midnight, so in other words it was Sunday already. I moved my clock back an hour to 11.04pm, Saturday.
I woke up at 7am the new time, which was 8am the old time and I thought to myself, “Oh, its too early. Good, now I’ve got another hour and a half to sleep”. And I proceeded to go back to sleep.
When I woke up to the commotion outside my door, I was wondering why my aunty and cousin were being so noisy so early. I looked at my mobile and it read 9.47am.
I jumped out and raced to the bathroom and I think that is probably the shortest amount of time I’ve taken to get ready in the morning. I brushed my teeth, put my contacts in, threw on a dress and ran out the door.
And I got to church at 10am, which is when service starts. Admitedly I missed prayer but was on time for church. I’m never again going to make the same mistake of changing my clock after midnight. Daylight savings is not good.
VOTE NO FOR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!
Oh, before I forget I must tell you about my dream. I had a really really weird, albeit nice dream last night. I can’t remember the first part of the dream, but someone was pregnant with their 2nd kid and they were married but not legally married so some random priest had to marry them legally before the 2nd kid arrived. And somehow this is in Jordan and I’m the sister of one of the people to be married, I can’t remember who. I have no idea why I have such weird dreams man.
But anyway, then they were having this lavish wedding ceremony and I was supposed to be involved in it but then this good looking guy (think Justin Timberlake cross with Zac Efron) came and we struck up a conversation and I decided to skip the wedding. I also don’t know why but I went with this guy and we went walking around and started talking and then he started to hold my hand. I think I know where this part came from. Someone was talking about Joe’s “testing water” lecture during lunch yesterday and it probably stuck in my head.
Back to the story, we started talking and then he bought me ice cream. And then I asked him why he’s in Jordan, is it by choice? He said no in a gruff way, and he turned away. So we walked back to the wedding and he lifted by the waist over some table. No idea why but everyone was wearing sarees and dancing.
And then my alarm rang. I woke up feeling refreshed, yet so surprised that I just had such a vivid and weird dream. What a dream. If only some nice guy would buy me an ice cream. LOL. I’m too easy to please.
