Author: Brian Schnabel

I woke from a dream about the weather at 4:15 AM. I felt a little stoned and disoriented as I hit the bathroom and then walked into the kitchen for a water. Then I jumped a mile when I felt a hand take the water out of my own as I leaned against the kitchen counter next to the refrigerator and sink staring off into space.

Two hands reached out to me at some time during the night and a lot of what happened afterword was a pleasant haze. “You were wonderful last night, as always,” was the first statement I awoke to this morning.

“Julia? What are you doing?” I sluggishly asked. I woke to a most pleasant sensation between the sheets and realized that I was just along for the ride, my wife on top and moving gently.

“Baby? Please come to bed and help a pretty girl unwind? Please?”

There are some dreams that don’t take rocket science to figure out. Sometimes having a dream that revolves around your mom really only means one thing. “Call your mother.”

Having decided that this weekend would be too crazy for a sail on any of the lakes within range for us, we opted to take care of the house stuff we neglected from yesterday. Then we headed to a friend’s apartment for lunch… Stopped buy Newtonian Gardens to check in on our apartment and grab a few gift cards we haven’t had the chance to use since Christmas… Then we lastly hit Dairy Queen for another pick me up, which neither one of us felt guilty about because, “We were doing all our traveling around Newton NJ on foot.”

It was just one of those wet and rainy days outside and Julia and I felt like it was a great day to stay inside and chill in bed for most of the day. When we did finally get round, we took a nice leisurely stroll to the Newton NJ Friendly’s Restaurant after the last thunderstorm rolled through… Were greeted by their new hostess, Cat… Met my first guitar instructor’s friend, Steve, and his other half, Kyra… Then we headed back home for a nice quiet relaxing evening together.

“You know? For a blind guy… Your selfies come out pretty good. What’s your secret?” Julia asked playfully today.

I woke from a rather interesting dream this morning in which a doctor was trying to remove something from my left ear. It was strange because the Doctor was relying on me to guide him, “Based on what I felt!”

It’s been a busy day around here. Julia Heading over to our office building in town around 8:00 AM to do some couples counselling, “All day in fact.”

After last night… Well… Let’s just say that the morning came way too soon and leave it at that, “Shall we?”

“Baby? Why did you just turn OneDrive off before opening Microsoft Word?” As I began to write a general meditation script I intended to use for a little course creation project my wife has tasked me with, even though I’m not a Licensed Therapist, I discovered I was having trouble saving my file directly to the cloud, Also Known As, “OneDrive.”

Julia and I both slept like stones last night. Or… “At least I thought we did!”

Today was an awesome day for Julia and I to take our recently acquired sailboat, which used to be a rowboat before we converted it with a lot of help from a local machine shop, up to Lake Wallenpaupack. There wasn’t a lot of powerboat traffic out on the water and plenty of wind to counter the heat, which made for a sweet shakedown voyage. Julia had a blast and, “Can’t wait to get out there with me and do it again!”

Today we were supposed to get a bunch of housework done. “But other priorities took precedence instead.”

Today was another one of those days where I woke up to a very pleasant sensation of head in progress. “It’s just that you were hard for half the night,” Julia said. “And… You know… After a while I couldn’t help myself,” Julia finished almost apologetically.