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Planning to spend at least part of April on an expedition with my wife. It'll be dangerous, but I'm excited.

I knew that deciding to take a break to watch the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street was going to be a little weird for me with everything that happens out here - it feels like we live in a horror movie at times out here already. But it's fun to get scared sometimes right? So I settled in with the popcorn and my remote to watch it on Netflix, and within the first ten minutes realized that one of the actors looks a hell of a lot like one of my best friends. And that people are still as dumb as they were in the first one. Freddy Kreuger gets you through your dreams - how is hiding in a closet from him going to keep you alive?

I love my mum - more than almost everyone else on the face of the planet. I do. But if she calls or texts or emails me one more time to plead for me to allow her to use my horse as stud for her mares I am going to scream. Shadowdancer is not a stud horse. He has not been gelded that's true - the people responsible for him before didn't do it and I don't feel the need to. Part of the reason I chose him was his spirit and gelding him could change that. If he ever fathers foals it's going to be his choosing. Not mine.

I’ll admit it - I was a passive aggressive little shit to my coworker today. I’ve been working with her for over a year, almost daily, and she refuses to call me by the right name no matter how many times she gets corrected. And today I just...reached my limit. I’ve corrected her. Our coworkers have corrected her. Our manager has made a point to point out my nametag to her when correcting her. So today...I just didn’t answer her when she started calling for Aaron. I didn’t acknowledge it. I just kept right on with my stocking even after she started shouting it. She finally stopped and angrily asked one of the other guys why I wasn’t answering her and she seemed utterly floored when he responded “Because his name isn’t Aaron.”

I know it was petty but I’m tired of her not listening when she’s told my name. And I’m tired of humoring her and letting her call me whatever she wants. Being old doesn’t make it okay to be rude or just do whatever you want.

Pretty sure I had one of those weird dreams everybody on here likes to talk about. In it I was baking some tarts, shocker there I know, when this cat appeared on my shoulders. Literally appeared out of nowhere not jumped up there from the floor or a cabinet or anything and then he started talking to me asking where the fish was in the lemon tarts. When I told him there wasn’t any he went like he was going to attack them with his claws. And I...I have to admit they were really good looking lemon tarts so I can’t blame...myself for getting protective of them and stopping his attack. I’d made them for the King. One exclusively for him and two to go on the Feasting Table at the party that night.

You’d think that the Dreams would cut me a break with everything going on but nope. I got dropped into one almost as soon as I closed my eyes tonight. I was back outside Molly’s house. Or...still outside Molly’s house? I’m not exactly sure what the right words are for it but anyway. In the Dream Karolina and I were waiting outside for some signal when her mom showed up and...Karolina isn’t the only one with rainbow powers in her family as we found out the hard way when her mom tied me up using nothing but the light she shoots out of her hands. I’m pretty much useless until Karolina knocks her mom out in the fight and then the binds just...disappear and we decide to head on into the house and see what the hell is taking so long.

Our parents are all unconscious on the floor and we make our way upstairs to find Molly and everybody else in her bedroom. So I guess our mission was a success? Or at least I hope it was since that was the moment Rock decided to start bumping into the stairs and wake me up.

How do you guys know what's a DREAM-dream and what feels like... more than that?

'Cause like, one time I dreamed I had a GIANT keyblade and was fighting heartless on campus at school. And another time I had to eat a bowl of ramen the size of my bed before THE WORLD ENDED. And another time I was going to super hero school and could electrocute people and it was super scary 'cause I didn't want to hurt anyone. AND ANOTHER TIME I was on stage in the drama club in middle school and didn't know any lines so I just made stuff up until the curtain dropped, and nobody even noticed!

They all felt kinda normal-weird, ya know?