'81 is important to everyone

Conversation at work:
AnneMarie- Well that was back- let's see. I was married in '81.
Alice- I graduated in '81.
Me- I was born in '81.
Dave- Are you people trying to make her feel old??


My sister's friends:
(middle of the conversation, Cece asks her question rhetorically)
Cece- How many states are there in the United States?
Corey- 64!
David- No, Corey, there's 52.
Cece- What?
Lita- There's only 50.
David- What about Alaska and Hawaii? 50 states plus Alaska and Hawaii.
Lita- Oh my God you guys are stupid.


Short story about my niece Caroline
Sitting on the carpet and laughing about gravity (hilarious that ball bouncing) my baby niece starts to fall over. I can see she's losing her balance and I put my hand up to cradle her head. When she falls her head doesn't hit the carpet with all that much force and I can tell nothing is hurt, bruised or even bumped. She turns her head and looks up at me with this look of absolute shock and horror, and begins to wail. I know she's not hurt so clearly the reason she's crying is, "OH MY GOD! I FELL OVER! HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?!" This does make perfect sense though seeing as she hasn't learned gravity yet, and she was just LAUGHING at it a moment ago. Gravity was probably all like, "Who's laughing now?"

More interesting dreams

I had several rather cohesive dreams a couple months ago and wrote them down.

First one
A man dies and goes on to another place. It appears as outdoors but is very small and confined; the ground and air and sky are like walls to a room. The man who has just dies sees another man sitting near a circle of reddish grass. The sitting man gathers a handful of grass and tosses it gently in the air. It floats from his fingers and disappears into a glowing circle that has appeared in the ceiling. The sitting man invites the dead man to do the same. His handful of grass sinks down into the red circle which crackles and glows as if on fire. The sitting man now stands and repeats his actions with the grass. As before it is drawn up into the light. The dead man is frozen in place while the light over head is glowing. He is unable to get to the light. With no warning the sitting man disappears and the dead man is left alone. He begins to panic- he is trapped and will never reach the light. He wishes he had another chance. Suddenly he does! He lives, he's gotten his chance. Near him is a woman he has always been cruel to. He is so glad to be alive he kisses her. She responds with surprise.

Second one
I am on the show Stargate Atlantis. Rodney (that's one of the characters) and I are checking out an area like a mall on a planet we are surveying. It is mostly deserted but some of our enemies are lurking there waiting for us. A woman has shot at us and we both fall down. Looking at each other we are alright but we pretend that the blow has stunned us to gain more time. I take a chance and jump up. I make it to the jumper (that's a flying ship) before she can shoot me and try to fly it through the mall. Unfortunately I'm not very good at flying the jumper and crash it pretty quickly. I have given Rodney enough distraction for him to flee on foot and I've put a small amount of distance between myself and the woman. Rodney runs faster than I do and catches up with me, then passes me. I stop and hide in some debris and the woman finds me. We fight and I get my hands around her neck. I don't want to kill her so I use an aerosol spray on her that makes her suggestible for a few seconds. While she is confused I tell her to run after us in the other direction. She does. I regroup with Rodney and he decides to rig a ZPM to explode (ZPM- It's a power source they use all the time on Atlantis). I don't know what happens next because I wake up.

gastroparesis part 2

So I'm tired alot. It seems to be related to what's going on with my gastroparesis, but it's freaking annoying because I'm not tired all day. I'm just tired suddenly later in the day. I want to do a regular amount of stuff sometimes and just can't. I'll be planning on doing something then it gets to the moment and I realize I'm SO TIRED. I'm starting to wonder how likely it is that I will be able to do anything at night unless I specifically rest up all day in preparation.
On a different but still annoying side of my gastroparesis, I am trying a medication that I'm afraid will not work. I have to take it 30mins before eating each time I eat and it can be taken no more than 4 times a day. I've been on it for two days. I am struggling with the remembering to take it and that makes me wonder how I could be on it permanently. Also it hasn't done anything yet except make me feel slight stomach pain. No difference in symptoms. I have been informed by my doc that 2 days isn't enough. Most people notice chance after a week or two but I'm supposed to give it time and wait 2-3 months. Honestly if it doesn't work after two weeks, I don't know how I can justify to myself taking it longer. Especially since I think I'm managing it pretty damn well without meds. Whatever.