Yes, yes, a new day.

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It's the same day, really.  Sleep cycle days and mechanical days don't always line up.  Actually, on submarines, for most of us, that only happened every third day if even then imperfectly.  Between work, the sun being out or hidden, temperature fluctuations, medicine, and health, I'm spinning like a top.  I am mostly staying up a few to many hours more each day.  Some days I can maintain, some days just happen to cause me to gain back an hour, nothing is certain save for the general trend.  It'll even out before too long.  It always does.

I know there are dreams back in there too.  Not terrible ones, I don't think, lately.  I don't know about you, but I usually enjoy my dreams.  Even the ones about heartbreak.  If you have lived without pain you haven't lived.  Embrace that, I say, just don't let it own you, or be all of you.  And, for my part, that is how it is.  Though the same can be said of almost any intense sensation or feeling... enjoy it, but don't let it be the whole of you.  I... think I have tried that.  I have tried asceticism and stoicism as well, in and through time.  Which is worse?  Honestly, I think the latter groups.  I would much rather live too steeped in sensuality and emotion than to be already dead, again, and in those ways.

Ah, yes, there are dreams back in there.  Nothing too disturbing, though rich, deep, sometimes dark, sometimes brighter even to seeing the face of the Sun.  Not long ago I dreamed of Him, with a face that shone.  In the dream I knew that wasn't me, I knew it was Him.  I also knew, in time, it would be Me.  It was when I dreamed of my cousin who passed, and went along with me "hiding my face", which I wrote and which was in the song, and something I had told her while she yet lived.  While she had dreamed that my feet never touched the ground.  Yes, they... get complicated, involved, terrifying, and beautiful.  Oh, if I dream something I think is wrong, but it's in the dream, I leave it as it was in the dream.  I assume "mistakes" are there for a reason.  What reason?  I cannot know.

Well, without dreams I will just have to do something so as to have post fodder.  I didn't finish the dishes.  I crashed so very hard my ears started ringing.  No, not really.  *crossing eyes*  I did go down hard and fast.  On the good side, I was down to rinsing a few pot lids and cookie sheets.  That'll be easy to reset and do.  Then a shower, if not quite all that quickly.  Hmm... maybe I will clean the bathroom totally, then take a shower?  Yes.  Top to bottom, laundry to removing a few things, resetting and configuring.  Top, indeed, to bottom, the place will be good.  I keep the toilet rather clean, scrubbing a few times a week, and using housekeeping ninja tactics to make it mostly sparkle.  It's everything else that needs elbow grease.

Oh... I can't wait to feed the girls today.  I always wait a few hours after I wake, no matter when I wake.  This keeps the girls from climbing all over my back, trying to wake me early for earlier feeding.  And, yes, they do learn IF you choose to teach them.  Again, Sassy will be fed in near the water fountain.  Closer and closer at some speed.  She only ate half her food last night.  Fine.  She'll be hungrier today.  I know how to use all sorts of tools, but the mind is my favored.  I try to keep it... healthy.  I experimented with myself first, often without... just means.  So I... know the difference.  The intention, implementation, and results all count.  If one is not in line with, as I have it, God would want it, then I don't use it.  Cut corners?  Only for the right reasons, and not without... guilt and penalty too.  A choice in hard times, one no one wishes to make.

Oh, right, well... on with my day.  Good day, afternoon, whatnot.