I’m not too tired tonight but sure enough, the fucking earbud loosened and the garbage truck woke me up. I swear it’s like something wants me to be woken up no matter what I do.

My lab tests were finally posted and one particular type of bacteria was detected but it seems to be a “friendly” bacteria. It’s called Lactobacillus. Nothing’s been posted on Mercy but since no one’s called me or anything, I’m not worried about it. It doesn’t seem to be anything that requires treatment.

Had a couple of detailed dreams last night that I remember well. I had three baby rats and noticed they were getting bigger. The cage they lived in didn’t look anything like the one I have and I noticed there was a gap on the bottom large enough for one of them to squeeze through, and one did. It was a cute rat with skunk-like markings that I called Skunky. I picked it up and gave it kisses which it returned on my chin. I put it back inside the cage, looked away for a minute, and saw it had escaped again while I turned away. So I put “Skunky” back in the cage and looked for something to block the gap with.

Then I had another Florida dream. They’ve been awfully frequent lately for not moving there for half a decade or so. It certainly makes me wonder but I still don’t see what opportunity would come up to cause us to move sooner.

Anyway, I was talking to an older lady that was in her sixties who was making me a skirt. I told her I wanted the waist kind of big because I didn’t like anything too tight-fitting. She seemed to think this was silly and began to argue at first but then stopped.

We seemed to be in a public place and were sitting in what might have been a booth in a restaurant. I slid into the booth next to her and said, “Let’s enjoy the view.” But the view was a mini waterfall or stream of sorts instead of any kind of ocean, lake or pond.

Then she asked me why we moved there and I told her for the variety. “I’ve done four seasons, I’ve done the desert, I’ve done the in-between climates, and now I’m doing tropical.”

Then I asked her if it was common for most places to have nice views and if apartments tended to be noisy.