Rain, Work, Sleepy

Rain always makes me sleepy. Yesterday at work, the rain combined with it being Friday and a Full Moon made me a little giddy towards the end of the day. I was in bed by 9:00.

For some reason my tummy was upset and it woke me up during the night, so I ended up sleeping upright for about half the night. When a noise woke me up at about 3, I decided I could lay down again, and I slept intermittently until the alarm sounded at 4.

I remember some of my dreams, the clearest memory being of some guy on a farm or ranch who had a bunch of different small dogs. The thing that strikes me most about it is that he was a very "manly" man, like you would expect to find owning a farm or ranch. But each of his dogs had a silly little doggie-size hat on its head, and in the dream I knew that the hats were the man's idea and not some silly woman attached to him. And he talked in baby voices to the dogs. I remember wanting to get away from him as quickly as I could, and yet I was fascinated by the whole dog/hat/baby voice thing. Like watching a crash; you don't want to stare but you find you have to look.

Now I'm sitting here trying to wake up for work for my last weekend at McD's. It's still raining. Tropical whatever-he-is-right-now Barry is dumping water and wind on my apartment. That means the floor boards of my truck probably have a lake in them. I've also just noticed that my roommate has me parked in. I'm not feeling very generous this morning. He may have to get up and move his car himself since he didn't leave his keys out for me. Maybe he'll remember not to park me in tomorrow for my last day. ;-)

I am glad for the rain though. There are still a number of brush fires burning out there, which hasn't helped my asthma at all. The firefighters are saying that it will take 2 or 3 tropical systems to dump enough water on them to get the worst of them put out. Maybe Barry's contribution will count towards that. Either way, we need the rain. Water tables are very low and have been since I got here. We really need to get them built up again.