dream weirdness

Just remembered part of dream from a nap earlier.

I was trying to get some small parts back into place on some things that had gotten messed up by folks bumping into them. But they were getting in the way and I was getting really upset.

The thing that prompted this post was what happened when I tried yelling at them. I was yelling but at best a whisper was coming out. Which just got me more upset and frustrated because I couldn't *tell* these people to get out of the way or why they should.

What prompted my posting this was that I now recall having had that same sort of "need to talk/yell and can't" thing in other dreams in the past.

Anyway, *gee* I can't *imagine* what sort of symbolism *that* is supposed to be... (heavy sarcasm).

Books for sale

Do you know what's worse than needing cash enough to haul 40 pounds of books down to Powell's to sell them?
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Finders Keepers 3

(part one is here)
(part two is here)

George got home from school and checked the front door of the house. It was unlocked. He thought to himself that this time hadn't been too bad. Only four days.

As usual, his mother acted as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. He sighed to himself and went to his room. He changed and did his chores, then went down and hauled dirty laundry up from the fort. Laundry and showers were things that he missed when he was stuck in there.

After dinner he crossed his fingers and dug out the form.

"Mom, I've got a part time job lined up, I just need you to sign this."

She asked a few questions, but fortunately wasn't interested in details that could have been a problem, just in whether or not it'd interfere with his schoolwork.

He'd had long years of practice at spinning things so she'd believe them so it wasn't too hard to get her to sign and not ask inconvenient questions.
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