I had an odd assortment of dreams last night. In one I seemed to be *quite* concerned about cleaning out a cage that contained two budgies. I am not sure if these birds were my pets or someone else's, but the cage was very dirty, and I felt it was important to do something about it. I had the cage out on the front lawn (not mine, mind you) and was spraying down the cage with dilluted bleach in order to kill those germs right proper; no worries, the birds were not in the cage at the time of the cleaning.

In another dream I was in a Toys R Us store, and we were goofing off. I had finally told my friends to knock it off, but it was too late; an employee came around the corner and accused ME of being the trouble maker. Rather offended by the accusation I rebuffed by stating that *I* was the one trying to get them to stop the goofing around. The employee was firm and said that SHE had proof of what had been going on and pointed to a security camera in the ceiling. "I have the tape to prove it!" I laughed and said "Good! Bring it on!" knowing that it would show that I was in fact innocent and was on the side of Toy R Us. Somehow my innocence was not to be proven, however, and my punishment had been decided. I was to sit in a room with my friends and the manager of Toys R Us and watch two movies. One movie was The Matrix, but I can't remember what the other was. I'm not sure how this was a punishment, but we were pretty pissed off. LOL

In one other dream I had come up with some kind of *brilliant* recipe involving salmon and tofu (I assure you, this in no way indicates how I am in real life. I am not Martha Stewart in the kitchen inventing recipes, and though I don't mind tofu I have never actually bought it let alone cooked with it). Anyway, the rest of my dream was spent trying to get a friend of mine to actually cook this concoction since I'm not a very good cook (it was like trying to describe a song you made up in your head to a musician so he can compose it for you).

 
All I can remember from last night's dream is that there was a grey van chasing me. And apparently whoever was in the van had done something really bad to me. At one point I was in a car, with a friend driving, and while driving up a street this van was coming towards us and weaving back and forth really violently. As it got closer it became clear it was going to try and hit us so my friend yanked hard on the wheel and swerved out of the way. When the van had left my friend pulled over and I cried and confessed what this person chasing me had done to me and how I was afraid to tell anyone.

Weird stuff, man. Weird.

 
I had this dream that my mother was the owner/curator of a large zoo and had recently acquired some kind of prized wolf for her collection of animals. I was part of a protest group that was trying to get her to release the wolf but she refused to because it was a money maker, since it brought droves of people in to see it. I remember grabbing her and shaking her and yelling "you horrible greedy bitch!!'
After that I was walking around the zoo all sad-like and looked at the other animals. I saw one exhibit that had a fox chasing some kind of small animal until it finally caught it and ate it. I remember feeling bad for the poor little creature trying to get away from the fox, but hey, a fox has to eat, right?
There were other parts of the dream involving other exhibits, but I can't remember now; something about alligators.

In another dream I was supposed to babysit my friend's child while she was away. For some reason the child would be left unattended until I arrived, so I would have to hurry. As I was making my way to the baby I soon realized I was somehow lost, and began to began to panic; good lord, the baby will be dead by the time I get there if I don't hurry!! (wha?? lol) I found myself in some strange alley full of all kinds of old rusty metal spiral staircases, all weaving in and out of each other creating a bizarre maze that I couldn't navigate through. Worried that I wouldn't make it to the child in time I doubled back to my house to look up directions to my friend's house on Mapquest.
Then I woke up.