this morning I wasn't feeling good, and went back to sleep after the alarm, which of course made me late for work, but you know when you don't feel good, you no longer care about being late for work.

so I had a rare dream where everyone in it was a real people. it's been a full day, so here's what I remember -

there was some occasion going on, I think it was tied into Karine getting a new car. everyone at work wanted to see her new car, and Karine and Heather and I had just moved into our Fabulous New House, so all my co-workers came there too, because I was late they knew I would still be home and it would be O.K.

Maria, Alex, and a bunch of others piled into Karine's car, but they all came over. I thought Alex was mad at me, and it turned out he was not, so that was good. there was some vague plan that after they looked over our house and trooped back to work, I would go with them.

the Fabulous New House was 3 stories. it was sort of like a cross between the Resort and some nice house in the Oakland Hills, where the main entrance is on one of the upper floors, and the bottom floor is like entertainment/common space.

my housemates were giving all my co-workers a tour, and I was undergoing some stress becuase with so many visitors I had to be chatty and sociable, even though it was morning, I hadn't had my coffee, I knew I would have to leave with them, and I needed a shower. I kept trying to break off the conversations gracefully so I could hop in one of the showers and get ready to leave with them, but it was really difficult.

finally I fled to the bottom floor, into one of the bigger spaces, and pulled the doors shut. now this was weird, they weren't really doors like house doors, but like the little barroom-style swingy doors, you might see them in a dressing room, all natural wood with slanted slats. to latch them you had to line them up and close them just right and they latched to each other in the middle. once they were latched I had this big room all to myself that also opened onto a shower enclosure. again, sort of like the bottom floor bathroom at the Resort but 3x larger, and oriented in the opposite direction wrt the door. I felt a little weird because doing that is sort of rude when people are over to see your house.

I started to prepare for the shower, and after I had a towel wrapped around me, knocked over (on a little round table in the middle of the room) a small bottle of some Product that bore a remarkable resemblance to monitor cleaner (but in the dream it was some bathing product). I tried to right it and then noticed there was something wiggling inside. as I looked the bottle sort of morphed (in that dream-way in which the sequence is re-written to "I was always that way") into something bigger, and the wiggling thing was a young frog. it was in a bad way since afterall monitor cleaner is not water, but alcohol.

next to the container holding the alcohol-based cleaning product was a big glass or plastic salad-bowl-sized bowl with clear water in it, and two other frogs the same age happily swimming around. I saw what I had to do, and flipped the frog from the alcohol-container into the bowl of water. it started swimming around, and rapidly detox'd.