Thursday Tackle - Recorded Dreams

Today's Thursday's Tackle is recording a dream you had. You know how they make perfect sense until you try to explain them. Since dreams are visual, try to include some links to help the rest of us see what you saw.


Background: My dreams are almost always a compilation of stuff going on in my life that day or week. So here is a little insight into my dream. This week I wrote a number of insurance articles for another site. This allowed me to reconnect with my old boss, who is now a Vice President in this Fortunate 250 Financial Services company. We lived and worked together in San Antonio, Texas not to be confused with Lubbock, Texas, where I graduated from college. Lubbock is a significantly sized city in the middle of desert, not to be confused with Las Vegas. I worked hard last week building my freelance writing business so I decided to take my kids to see the new movie Percy Jackson, which has a major scene around the Vegas Nightlife. Our movie theater is so antiquated that we have to take cash. I never carry cash. As you can see my brain never stops flowing like this from one topic to another, which makes it difficult to sleep. Since I was a teenager, I've fallen to sleep with music, an audio book, the radio or TV playing quietly in the background. This week I fell asleep listening to a Joy Behar interview with Bette Midler, the opening Olympic ceremonies, and business news. So here is my peek into my subconscious working on all this.

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I'm so happy to be working with Mike again. We are on the 30th floor of a glass high rise building in Lubbock, Texas. It's Thursday late afternoon and it is a bittersweet day. I've only been back at work a short time, but the Senior VP of our office is outside announcing the closing of our regional office at the close of business that day. Her speech is being piped into the building. I look out the window. I can't see her, but I can see crowds of people. I'm not really listening to her drone on. She stops talking and I see a balloon release.

I think to myself, "This is a waste of money we don't have...WAIT!...What was the last thing she said? 'I'll see you all on Monday.' What does she mean? Does that mean the office isn't closing after all?" My co-workers and I discuss this and decide this is in fact what she means. We still have jobs!

We decide to go to Las Vegas to celebrate. We do the whole Vegas Nightlife thing...games, dancing, eating, etc. Then we decide to go to see Bette Midler on stage, but the theater only takes cash. So I go to a TicketMaster on my new Blackberry and buy tickets. We have a great time and return to work on Monday.

There we find out that the first female Senior VP for the company has influential friends at Disney, who decide to put up capital for her because they believe she'll ultimately prove herself.

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