In my dream this morning I was expecting, I had a small but pretty firm bump and had no idea how this was lining up because timelines were off. I wasn’t sure where to go with it at the moment but everything was chaotic and it felt hard keeping up with life. I was standing on the street and saw a large mall on my left, and some small stops and houses around the neighborhood, I guess the area was zoned for both residential and commercial stuff, and there was some lady who had a place for rent and I started wondering if that would work or if I should move on and keep looking.
I was sitting in the passenger seat of a car in a parking lot and you were in the driver seat, we were just talking and laughing and almost shoulder to shoulder on the arm rest between us. You’d just become a director in a sister department in my company. And Z walked over to the car and said he needed to talk to me for a minute so I got out and he scolded me saying I can’t EVER do that again, and then I wasn’t sure if he realized I was your referral and we really knew each other, or if he had no idea we knew each other period and was freaked out about us chatting and being in each other’s personal space. So I was all okay, it won’t happen again and followed him in the parking lot back to the building while thinking to myself about how I need to eventually tell him about my baking and to find out how maternity leave works there… but not yet. And you followed us from behind in the lot back to the office.
We were at some (what I’m guessing was) some corporate sponsored event and I was sitting at a table with my team, there was someone sitting between Z and I but I can’t remember who she was, and I recognized the music playing was Purity Ring’s Begin Again. You were on a couch talking with some peeps a couple tables down and I tried to sit up straight and peek without being noticed by Z or anyone.
It was dark out, I mean it was late late and some peeps were out and others were passed out like one of those large parties hosted by peeps with large houses who are cool with friends sleeping over instead of driving, and I went into another room to deal with some task and then was moving my clothing from this standing rack into another space by cutting the plastic off from… I’m guessing the dry cleaner? Some hangers had a few dresses on them and I cut too far, turning my blue Cinderella gown into a a shorter party dress, and destroyed some other lace dress in the process. I paused the then I thought someone was coming over and then wondered if Z was watching to make sure I was behaving. There was a table in the back with some silver trays and I was assessing to see how much food was left while snacking and a lady in a blazer and slacks came up and started taking dishes away and asked if I needed anything, so I asked if there was bacon because everyone would be up and would want breakfast soon. And she said there was and she’d handle it.
I walked up a small set of stairs past some town homes and behind it were smaller apartments. Mom was sitting in the hall and there were two doors, I had keys but wasn’t sure which door to go through to get upstairs to our space. Then I was standing in some arcade watching something on a screen with a couple people and then went back to the place with the two doors and things were bad, and I was thinking if things were this complicated and we were banned from each other cause corporate, I should be able to tell you to just marry me and then I wouldn’t be standing here (under scrutiny figuratively, and where I was literally). And then they wouldn’t be all weird about me watching my steps, or even if they dropped me you shouldn’t mind taking care of me. But I dare not say such things because I already know you’d say no, and that upset and disappointed me, but there was so much going on I had to settle for mad so I could deal with whatever was happening, and then I woke up. What a chaotic headache.