My daughter for a day

...actually it was for a night. I had one of the weirdest dreams last night (that I've still remembered in the morning). The dream itself was pretty normal, other than a few points which I'll get to in a minute, but it was how I felt after waking up that really freaked me out. In my dream, I had a daughter, a baby girl, and in the morning I realized that I was happy in the dream, and sad that it wasn't true.

Now I'm not saying that I wish I had kids right now. It's just not the right time. :) (so you can keep breathing mom) But in my dream I was suddenly stuck with this baby girl out on what appeared to be a family vacation of sorts, and as soon as I found out she was mine, she was the most beautiful thing in the world. I was incredibly happy and couldn't let go of her.

Lot's of other stuff happened in the dream as well, nothing out of the ordinary for a family camping trip. The one thing that tipped me off that I was in a dream was that my daughter was only a couple months old at the beginning and by the end she was at least 6 years old, in the span of a day.

So I just don't know what to make of this dream. I had the greatest little girl. We played games with each other and jokes on other people. She laughed and cried and was amazingly smart. I woke up around 7:00 and didn't even hit my snooze button. She was lost and I had to lie in bed for a while to let that sink in. I got up, grabbed my books and some breakfast, and left for a run on the treadmill at school. It's been two hours now since the dream ended and it's still all I'm thinking about. Hopefully I can pay attention in class. Don't worry folks, I'll be fine, just confused about how I apparently felt about being a single parent.

In other news, I'm the 2006 male bowling champion for the U of A. Jeff, Steph, Nevin and I entered as a team on Saturday (5 pin bowling). I shot a 266 in my first game (two turkeys, one coming in the tenth frame) and finished with the highest single game score, highest three game total (Nevin was second), and our team won for the highest three game total. I finally got my campus rec t-shirt. I was so happy about that I actually went out and celebrated that night...hard. If there is anyone else I offended, owe money to, or punched in the head on the dance floor, please tell me. I'm not ignoring you...I just don't remember.

I'm alive...you MFDB!

Ah, Dane Cook...hasn't got old yet. So apparently I haven't posted in a while. I must say this is news to me. I guess my last post just doesn't feel that long ago. So what's happened since then?? Well...exams, Christmas, New Years, start of new semester. I gues that pretty much sums it up. Well, see you next month.


Okay, so there was more to it than that. Exams went well. Thought that I was going to do pretty bad on half of my classes but I somehow brought it all up at the end. I don't think the problem is underestimating myself...it's overestimating my friends. So thanks guys.

Christmas at home was nice. I did absolutely nothing...other than a couple of games of shinny, some family dinners, got my pinkie operated on, went on a sleigh ride, had a couple job interviews. Spent new years at home with my parents. All the brothers were out partying in Nanton, Calgary, and Edmonton. We built a puzzle, realized it was 2006 at about 12:15, waited 2 hours for our champagne to thaw, and went to bed at 4 am...we're wild.

The ski trip to Canmore was awesome. Sunshine had some decent snow, Lake Louise was ice, and Nakiska was surprisingly good.

Anyway, back in school now. My classes are going okay so far...but it's only day 4. This weekend is going to be busy, in fact all my weekends are busy this month. Crap, time for class already. Just no breaks anymore. I'll fill you all in more later...in February.