Author: Brian Schnabel

I guess I woke up around 5:00 AM or so from a rather disturbing dream. It involved a group of kids that didn’t have any clothes on in a room a full-grown adult wouldn’t have enough room to lay down in. There seemed to be five children in there.

At 3:34 AM this morning I became vaguely aware of the fact that Julia was laying in bed next to me going solo. I was really out of it so, rather than join in, I decided to just lay there and listen until I went back to sleep. And… “She did have headphones on.”

There are days when Julia and I are both eternally grateful that we can work from home if we want to. And… Today was definitely one of those days.

I’ve had erotic dreams before and they always have given me the best insights on how to make love to my wife. And… With regard to the dream I had this morning? Well… Let’s just say that, as always, the reward for copying what I did in said dream? Well now… “That was priceless!”

“That new tag line you’ve got going on is brilliant my love. But you are trying way too hard.”

When I got out of bed this morning, I only had one real objective for today since everything else was running smoothly on my servers. I decided it was high time I set up a LinkedIn account. So… “That’s what I did!”

“You lost your stick down a trench that led into a cavern with criminals hiding in it? You were walking along a road that had ocean waves washing over it on a clear sunny day? Ellen had found a comfortable spot to lay on the sand amidst all the water? And you are sneaking off to where now my Love?”

There were checks to cash, clients to serve and of course, household matters to deal with; none of which Julia or I felt like getting out of bed to bother with. It’s not that we don’t like our house, work, or receiving income. We just would have preferred to stay frozen in that moment of awakening, “Comfortably intertwined together.”

It was a rather peaceful awakening this morning. The stillness outside reflecting the stillness and calm I felt inside as I opened my eyes to a new dawn. While I lay there for a few moments soaking it all in I slowly became aware of something else, too.

Today was a housekeeping day for both Julia and me. We both had financials to get in order and I opted to take care of washing the towels that kept stacking up in between doing some more touch up work related to yesterday’s activities involving Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.

“My husband configuring a site this early on a Sunday morning? Now that’s something a girl just doesn’t see every day.”

“Wow! You are really getting good at that Babe,” I heard softly behind me as I sat at my desk playing the ESP Trainer game on my iPhone. “22 out of 24 in less than five games? That’s Awesome!”

Julia and I had a pretty busy day today. But… We got through it and decided to celebrate our accomplishments at Jumboland, where Victoria took excellent care of our table.

I thought I was dreaming at first because I was in a really deep sleep; the breathing I was hearing in my left ear sounding far away and distant. Everything else just felt way too good to be true as well. But then a voice spoke in my left ear saying, “You’re back online with a vengeance Babe and you feel so good,” and I realized it wasn’t a dream after all.

When we awoke this morning, we decided to stay one more night here in our apartment at Newtonian Gardens before heading back to the house tomorrow. Julia didn’t have any clients until the afternoon, so we figured we’d clean up around here today and then leave tomorrow morning to see what state the snow left our house in before getting down to business.

It was a peaceful night at the apartment, the snow not beginning to fly until around 6:30 AM or so. When all was said and done, I’d say we got about four inches. “A wet four inches!”