Marijuana Edibles

I was on a road trip with Kristi Cain to California. We had brought camping equipment so we didn't have to spend money on hotels and were driving west through the Texas Panhandle. In the dream, Texas bordered Colorado. We crossed into Colorado and next to the Visitor's Information building, there was a marijuana store. We went inside and started talking to the 3 guys who owned it. It was set up like a living room and there were glass jars full of different kinds of marijuana and edibles all around the room. They all started eating stuff. I took what looked like a kale chip out of one of the jars, put some butter on it, and ate it. They all started getting high, but I couldn't feel any effects. I suggested to Kristi that we not go all the way to California, but just spend our vacation in Colorado. She wanted to try to get to Ft. Collins that evening and I told her I had friends there we could stay with. Then I showed her on google maps that we were still 8 hours from Ft. Collins and that maybe we should just spend the night there. The guys told us that they lived across the border in a town called Sparks, Texas because it was cheaper than living in Colorado. We ended up sleeping on a pull-out couch in the marijuana store. When I woke up the next morning, the guys were all asleep on the floor and there was marijuana everywhere. I started cleaning up and sweeping the marijuana into a pile.

Communal Living and a Blue Book Test

I had to take a test for some type of certification. I was supposed to write an essay in a blue book, but I wrote it on paper instead. When time was up, I realized that I needed to transfer everything into the blue book, so I took the test with me. I lived with Erin and her family and we all went out to eat at Hooters. We were sitting outside under a covered picnic area and I saw a group of Lincoln teachers there eating "all you can eat" hamburgers. They had a huge pile of hamburgers on the table and Ann Goff was fixing them for everyone. We went back to Erin's house and Susan was there living with us. We were taking turns in the shower getting ready to go somewhere and Susan was leaving a huge mess in the bathroom. The test was still on my mind, but I could never find the time to rewrite it in the blue book. I was out running errands and Erin called me and told me she would rewrite the test for me, but since I had already started, our handwriting wouldn't match. I was so grateful that she would do that for me, and realized how much I liked our communal living arrangement. It was nice always having people around to help out.

Nap Dream - On Drugs with Scheryl

I was with Scheryl at her house and we were sitting around talking with Cole and a bunch of his friends. The girl sitting next to me gave me a pill, but I didn't feel any effects. Alan was trying to work, so Scheryl decided we should all go over to her parents' house. It was on the west side by the mall. When we got out of the car to go inside, I suddenly felt drunk and realized it was the pill I had taken. We walked into the house without knocking and went straight to the kitchen. Her parents were sitting on the couch watching TV. They had a modern house except for a weird yellow contraption in the kitchen and something on the wall in the dining room. There was a stone carving around the fireplace of a photograph of her mom when she was a little girl. Then Scheryl showed me where her dad had tried to do some painting but had never finished. He had started to spray paint a chandelier red, but her mom had said she didn't like it, so he stopped midway through the job. There was red paint on the ceiling and wall around the chandelier. I was feeling really loopy and kept wandering through their house looking at everything. They had a dog that was following me around and wouldn't leave me alone. As we were leaving, I saw a bunch of baby birds huddled together on the ground by the gate. They were cold and were trying to stay warm. We got back in the car to go get Sonic drinks and Cole's friend was laughing at me when she saw how the drug was affecting me. I was telling them about the birds and then the dog tried to jump into the car with us.

Dancing with a Boy

I was at a school event with mom. There were parents there asking me for advice on helping their children succeed in school. Mom thought the parents were really overbearing and didn't understand why they were so worried about their children. One of the moms had a daughter who went to Pre-K at Jefferson and she was asking me questions about what type of handwriting program to use with her child. I told her that I used to be a teacher at Jefferson. I was walking around the room and a little boy ran up to me and said, "Ms. Wood! Ms. Wood!" I recognized him from Jefferson, but I couldn't remember his name. He was so happy to see me. I gave him a hug and then said, "Let's dance!" We began waltzing around the room and everyone stopped to watch us. He was a very good dancer and we moved around the room with ease.

Teaching Middle School Boys

I was a student teacher at a middle school. There were a lot of boys in my class and they were very rowdy. I was trying to teach social studies and they were being rude and not paying attention. I went home that night and read lots of articles about how to work with adolescent boys and came back the next day much more prepared.

Trip to Australia

Lia, Kathy, Melodye, and I were on another trip together - to Slovakia! Our plane landed in Perth, Australia for a layover and we decided to stay for a couple of days. We were walking through downtown and stopped in an antique store. I found a pencil box I really wanted but I didn't know the exchange rate, so couldn't figure out how much it cost. The clerk was trying to help me and she said, "Divide the price in half and then add six inches." I was so confused! As we were walking back to the little shack we were staying in, Melodye walked past a homeless man and pinched him on the arm. He started chasing after her, then whipped out a boomerang and threw it, barely missing her. We got back to our little shack at the foot of a mountain, and my dogs were asleep in my bed. I had forgotten that we brought them with us and was so happy to see them. Lia said we should get dressed up in our best "skin on skin" outfits and go out (no idea what that means, but is probably related to our skinnydipping on the 4th of July.) As we were walking back downtown we saw some women on bikes waving at us with their hands upside down. Kathy said, "That's the way they wave in Australia. G'day mates!"