I’m starting this entry with 138 views from someone, who as a friend said, puts the creep in creepy. We’re virtual strangers yet she has become rather fixated on me. I’m glad Harlingen, Texas is far away! I started to wonder if she were running a BOT on me, not that I think she’d be smart enough to write one from what little I know about her. I can’t even write one and my IQ is in the genius range. I have Tom write them for me when I want one for some reason. But then the views stopped climbing at 8pm her time when she hit 117. So for 14 hours, she sat there clicking on my blog like crazy and now she’s back at it again, clicking away with just a few short breaks here and there. It’s sad and it’s crazy, but it’s a bit funny at the same time the way Alison, Kim and I are keeping “score” of her views. I seem to be well in the lead so far, LOL. Even Tom got a kick out of it when I told him about it.

The spells I did stopped Tom’s cold! jumps for joy He’s much better!

Still loving my new ratty. Each time I let him out he goes further away from home, obviously deciding he’s earned his freedom faster than I think he has. He even cuddled with me for a few minutes, something rats don’t usually do being such animated creatures.

Today Tink’s learning the words “upstairs” and “downstairs.” He has to go upstairs to get food through the food hole, and downstairs to come out and play. Yesterday he learned his name and “no!”

Now here’s something really neat and for once and for all I’m going to document every single dream I have no matter how trivial, meaningless or silly they may seem. I was just getting into bed last night when it hit me – the dark brown baby rat on the bed!

I ran into the living room where Tom was working on his PC and said, “The dark brown baby rat on the bed!”

At first he was confused, then I reminded him of the dream I had (for just a split second) where I was playing with a dark brown baby rat on the bed, and how he had said, “Now why can’t that be a premonition? Why are you so sure lately that only your bad dreams mean anything?”

Well, it sure did end up being a premonition! I just didn’t know it at the time. Sometimes I know it right away, other times I don’t. And sometimes the premonition comes true right away, other times it takes weeks or even months. Anyway, this is one of my cooler dream premonitions.

So here’s what I remember from last night’s dreams: Me waiting for Tammy to return to a hotel room at 5:30 AM from a night job she’d never work, and Maliheh sending me a message trying to tell me that her state has no area codes.

The palpitations seem to come at the end of my day lately, but at least they haven’t woken me up after that one time.

They were right about the bird nest too; those who told me that birds hatching in a nest by your house brought good luck. After this happened he not only got a job after nearly two years, but a good-paying job, and now we have a rat that’s everything a pet rat should be.