Yes...Shane and I played this game today.  This is probably one of the worst winter weather days. It was snowing...then raining...then snowing again...with some wind..and freezing weather!  I saw a Semi that ran right through the bridge into a ditch...a ditch that ran down into a creek/river...crazy!! Yet this game would only be invented on a day like this... I suppose it's like the Horse game you play as you drive for long periods of time...you know...where you count horses....yeah...

I don't think I've ever driven 40mph on I-94... We were traveling back from Appleton from Alissa and Steve's wedding!  Hilarious! Steve is an Austrailian and Alissa is American. There was a bunch of Austrailians at their wedding and reception. All had to buy winter jackets for the first time. Most of them didn't know how to walk on ice...falling down...wearing dresses/skirts that are above their knees...poor Austrailian people.  How did they know to come with a full-length dress/skirt? That wearing shoes that hardly cover your feet means frostbite? And that there is a technique for walking on ice?

Their wedding was beautiful! And I love the accents! Yet...every speech from an Austrailian was about 30 minutes long...no joke... and I was amazed at the limited amount of time we had to speak to one another at our dinner tables...there were speeches, jokes, and entertainment the whole time from two Austrailian men.  And I was able to see Nicole Luedeke! It was amazing...Love that girl!!! Saw Zach and Alissa, Katie and Noah, and the Hagan's!   It was quite nice...

And for New Years I picked up Betsy from the Cities and had a very laid back celebration with her and Carrie.  It was just like last year...not big 'horray" and no going to bed before 12...   Nice quiet new years are very nice... I love those girls!!

Christmas was busy...that is all I'm going to say...there is too much to write... But I will say that I went to 6 christmas'.  I haven't done that in...oh wait..I've been doing that since I've been 5...  I figure when my parents are really old we will only have about 4...and then when we are the grandparents we will only have one! How glorious!!  Doesn't even seem possible at this point!

Danielle White was also in Wisconsin!!  I love that girl!!! It was really great to see her and catch up....it seemed like we picked up right where we left off...great how you can do that with some people!  She's growing up so fast...just bought a house...lives in another State...yeah...all grown up! I love her...

This semester I got a 3.92...was quite proud...it was really nice...and now I'm satisfied...if I get a 4.0 ever in my life I will be happy...but it won't be everything... I'm learning that slowly...

Haha...I thought I would write something intriguing...yet I'm too tired to do that...

I believe I'm quite sensitive to the light.  And when I mean sensitive, I mean that I notice when the sun hasn't been out.  It has been three days now that the sun hasn't been out.  And currrently it's snowing.  I like the snow but I like the sun better.

I've begun a process of taking Vitamin D, especially since the sun isn't out. I feel like a vitamin freak and that my husband has 'rubbed' off on me! tehehe  He takes a bunch of different vitamins. I supposed I chose Vitamin D to see if it will help my mild depression in the winter time.  I remember we had 13 days without sun 3 winters ago.  It seemed like Hell.  It reminded me of Silent Hill...where everything is just ashy all the time. I know I never could live in Alaska or Antartica- the darkness might just give me a psychotic break!

I also had a very vivid dream last night...again...they seem to be coming every night.  I must be stressed...they always become more vivid the more stressed I am.  Last night was weird in lots of ways though.  I'll give you the dream as best as I can.

It starts out that I'm with a bunch of people I know very well.  We are currently at a camp place, yet it must be a January day because it feels like the winter in January. There are trees through out the camp ground, yet there aren't really trails or paths between the buildings. The other weird thing is that the trees still have all their leaves yet they are brown- they didn't fall off- weird? Even with lots of snow resting on them?  Every building is log built with black roofing. We are walking outside to go the the bathroom (which is a separeate huge building).  I walk in and there are 10 stalls and three sinks.  The cold doesn't feel so bitter that morning (it's morning based on the sun rising). The bathroom is a nice one. It is tiled and the sink looks like marble. I wait for my friends to get done with their thing.  I didn't really need to go but thought I would join them.

My dream then jumps to me dreaming.  I am walking with my friends just like I had the day before. As I wait for them I decide to look outside.  Near the bathroom there is a hill where you can't see behind it, yet there seems to be no trees.  It looks like a farming hill, yet there aren't any fences up to divide the property.  Another group that had come to the bathroom building before us were heading back to the dining building. Some of them decide to go check out what's behind the hill. As soon as they get to the top they start screaming blood-curtling screams. As they book for the cabin area with food I see two huge wolves running after them.  The this lumber-jack man seems to be coming from behind the bathroom building with a huge german sheperd.  The dog starts running after them and the wolves begin to turn away and run over the hill. As the lumberjack man returns to the dining area I know I'm extremely anxious and wanting to run to the dining area myself.  I know I'm in quite shock that I can't even tell my friends that this happened. I must have been a pretty zoned out person because no one noticed any difference. We started heading back to the dining area and the wolves return.  I can hear the screams again and I start to book it to the building.  Only 2 out of 12 of us make it.  They lay me down in a bed and cover me.

I wake up from my dream in my dream. We head to the bathing building just as my dream as predicted. I watch outside now because I'm freaked. I look outside and seen the rays of sun shining through the trees and realize how beautiful it is, yet how deceiving it is. Unlike my dream, both groups leave at the same time. I can hear the wolves now. I start shoving everyone back in the bathroom- everyone that will allow me.  I'm sure I looked crazy and sounded crazy. I lock the door and it's only a few seconds later that we hear the wolves attack the people who refused my attempts to rescue them. Everyone is sitting on the floor of the bathroom. I can feel everyone's eyes on me. I have my head down with my eyes almost closed. Finally a man speaks up and says, "How did you know?".  I explain the dream to them.  Everyone seems to have different expressions on their faces.  I can't even bare to look at them now. I just keep my head down- trying to gather warm. I soon realize that my friend LeeAnn is sitting next to me. She starts to speak of my gift of prophesy and how grateful we should be of that gift. Then she goes on to say something about how I will have a part in the judgement of people. I can't even bare to hear those words. I'm confused by them as well. It seems the wolves are gone so we start heading for the dining area, obviously running. It seems nobody is aware of what happened.  They all have smiles and glee! And none of us can say a single word of the incident...we are too traumatized....

Then I wake up from dreaming.  Each of my dreams have had this intensity and awareness. It was weird that I dreamt about snow and then woke up to it. It was also weird to have a dream about prophesy.  I've been told I have that gift...so to have one so explicit was...I don't even have words for it....

But I better get these projects done so I can get this stress relieved! I have to do a conceptualization, a group proposal, work on my casestudy project, and some lit reviews....whoa...lots..hopefully after getting bunches done I will sleep less vividly