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Slept poorly. This AM included a long involved chasing and being chased dream wherein when the one guy died, it triggered a zombie apocalypse. I was running through snow, dodging shroud-covered bodies starting to stir, trying to figure out whether to hole up somewhere defend-able inside (aka a death trap) or risk it outside. Opted for climbing up tree 'n' building, but things got nasty fast. Dunno whether I woke up then, or the dream shifted, or it's merely fled from my memory banks. WhatEVER, I'm now feeling less than ideally rested.

Good grief, did something happen on yesterday's nice wildflower hike up the Gorge to trigger this, or what? Perhaps it's Emotional Allergy season, where I suffer what other folks' feel - or if not exactly what they feel, just get triggered and jittery from taking on others' stress. Damn the bitey rabid stress-monkeys to heck!

Or mebbe I'm feeling stressed because there're stressful things out there (which is to say in my life): Dear Friends dying (slowly, but definitely heading there and now progressing faster than before), 'rents not in great shape (mainly one - thank DOG t'others're doing well), other Dear Friends have serious sh!t going on in their lives, I'm feeling lumpish, blahblahblah

Somehow coming up w/a viable reason (justification?) for feeling crappy helps calm me somewhat. Now to get sh!t done, as I know that'll help me feel even better. And I DO want to feel me some good strong emotions next/soon/now.

Photo to help w/the good mood reminder:
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