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I had a strange nightmare last night. Strange dreams all around, but this one in particular stands out.

I was going to take an exam, apparently one of the last ones to finish my undergraduate degree, and I was about to fail my Swedish exam. And the class was being taught by my German teacher, from high school. The one who died of "complications from pneumonia" in the middle of the summer in 1992.

I've never studied Swedish. At all.

I woke up in a panic thinking I was flunking out of school.

There were others, where there was a girl who kept demanding a condom and tried to chain my ankles together so that I would go get her one...she thought that would mean I came back with one for her even though I thought she was too young to be having sex.

And the girl in the freezer, next to the chicken. I couldn't actually figure that one out.

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We're getting ready to head off to Canada for Christmas etc, tomorrow evening. I'm hoping to get a chance to catch up with my sister and her boyfriend in Syracuse, where we'll stay tomorrow night. We do have a hotel reservation in Rochester, but I don't think we'll have the energy or desire to go all the way to there. I'll try not to go stir crazy in the car. We've got CDs, and XM Satellite radio, and we're very good at car games like "I'm going on a picnic". And there's always Mad Libs.

Cayne's wonderful; he brought me new slippers this week. We've got matching black fuzzy slippers. And if you tell me it's sillly, then well, it's silly.

Today was Cayne's company holiday party. He asked if I wanted to go along-they were going bowling, and I said "Yes" though I did ask if I'd be the only wife/girlfriend/significant other there. He said no, and it turned out that I was indeed the only one there. Didn't matter, I had fun nonetheless and it was nice of the bosses to include me. (When Cayne asked if it was okay to bring me along he was told "Sure, of course. We'll get her drunk!") I didn't get drunk, I bowled okay-I do enjoy it. It's kind of fun, even if I'm not a very good bowler at all.

Laundry done, tomorrow includes a chiropractor appointment, dropping off one more holiday gift, packing and waiting. Litter boxes, laundry and the fridge were all taken care of tonight.

I said to Cayne the other day, that while I don't have the kind of margarita drinking, shoe shopping girlfriends I had in Virginia, I do have a very wonderful, but different kind of family.

Happy Winter Celebrations. And happy new year.