May 7th 2013.
Karen told me about a dream she had from the night before. I remembered most of what she told me.
I moved to Boston and got a job. I was in temporary housing. My boss gave me a list of things to check out and some were renting a house or apartment, group homes but some were funny, like housing for cats, I wrote down the ones that were a possibility and ones that were silly. And then I saw this one that said “housing for the blind” I know that Jonathan wants to get out of his house, get away from his parents. Let me call, so I called and I asked about this housing for the blind. The woman told me about it, how they match the person up with an assistant to show them around the house and they get a call button just in case they need something. I asked if this was a good number to call and asked for her extension and email and I wrote it down. I called you up and told you all about it. You were excited but your mom was right there and she wanted to know what I was saying so you told her and she was mad. She was saying things like “you can’t take my baby away from my” “you don’t know what you are doing.” (etc) I called the woman back and set up to meet her the next day and I called you back. Your mom was still pissed but accepted it only because she was going to go with us. So we all went, met the woman in her office, explained the company. Your mom was still fuming. She was saying “you are not listening to me. I feel like my view is not important. I’m not needed” I turned to her and said “will you shut up. You chose to come. It’s not that your view is not welcomed or needed but you are acting like a 2 year old. If you are going to continue. You can go in the car” and your mom stormed off and sat in the car. The look on your face, it was like your jaw was hanging opened in shock and I calmly said, ok, we can continue now.
The following day we, with your mother and the lady, went to look at some of the houses. There was one you really liked but asked if you could sleep on it. The lady said of course, whenever you are ready, just give me a call.
Karen said when she woke up, she was giggling. Thinking of how my mom was acting like a child and the look on my face.
She was also curious and did a search to see if there was such thing as blind housing. Which there isn’t. But I was surprised she looked it up.
I asked her what she thought about her dream. She said that she didn’t really think much, except that I thought it was funny at your mom’s reaction.
I told her that two things stands out, one is that I love that dream. I love that you had a dream like that about me. But the other thing, I am sad that you came to Boston and looked for a place for you and then for me. Why not a place together? Whether you moved to Boston or I moved to Indi, I wouldn’t want to without living with each other. I said, didn’t you think that was a bit weird? She said that she never thought about it but not to worry about it. I also told her that if I am going to move somewhere, I am going to buy a place. I don’t want to pay someone else’s rent. She understood and agreed.
She then brought up (ironically?) that Nick told her today that he had 3 dreams about her last night. (she told me what they all were but I only remember one of them) She said he had a dream that she was going to visit him in Texas. He went to the airport and her flight never came. Karen said that it broke her heart. I agreed that it was sad.
I told her that I would give her a new shiny heart. Later in the conversation she said “can I have that shiny heart now?” I told her I will give you it the next time I see you.
She also mentioned, with sniffing back tears, that she misses her mother. I reminded her that this Sunday is mother’s day. She said that she knew and that she was excited about it. She told the roommate and he said that this is the week he had Friday off so he was looking forward to spending time with her. She said that she is going home to spend mother’s day with her mother. He wasn’t happy about it but there is nothing he could do about it. She said that she was going to drive on Saturday and drive back on Monday, in time for work. She said she misses her mom, again and I said that she gets to spend a few days with her and you can give her a hug and laugh with her and have fun. She said that she talked to her brother and he asked if she would be up and she said that she was but that it would be a surprise.
I asked her when the last time she was happy? She said in general? I said I guess? She said that she could not remember. I asked her if she was happy the weekend she was home and spent the weekend with Nick and going to the magic show with him and hanging out with him. Were you happy that weekend? She said yah. I said hmm what about that weekend back in November, I don’t know, maybe like the 2nd to the 5th? Just random dates, were you happy that weekend? She was giggling most of the time I was saying that and she goes “yes, a lot” I said what about when you went home for your birthday and you went out with your parents to Olive Garden? She said that was my birthday and I don’t even remember that. How do you remember that? I laughed and just said, I have a good memory. She said that she had a nice time that weekend too but she doesn’t remember it well.
I also saw a few days ago, Bon Jovi was going to be in Indiana in July, on the 16th. I mentioned it and she asked me when it was I told her the date she asked me where was it? I told her that I didn’t remember. She didn’t believe me. Lol I said that I didn’t think you would want to go so I just glanced at it. She said that she would love to go and if I find out where it was, she won’t make any promises but she would keep it in mind depending on how far away it was from Indianapolis. I told her that I would find out. She reminded me that she wasn’t making any promises because she’s not sure what will happened, I don’t even know what next week will bring.
I did look it up and I was pretty excited that it wasn’t far from Indianapolis…it was in Indianapolis.
So we’ll see how that goes. I’ll hope but not get overly excited about my chances.
The last thing, which was the first part of this phone call, I told her that work was good today. I found an awesome article about insomnia and after downsizing it 1-10th I reviewed it with my clients cause I know some of my clients have this issue. It was an amazing article. It gives you reasons for insomnia and different things you can do to cure-overcome it. Karen was very interested in it cause she has insomnia but as I told her, there is so many things she does that would cause her to suffer from insomnia that she either can’t do or won’t do and asked her if she still would like to read it. She said yes, for herself and she could go over it with her own clients. So I sent her the article.
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