Dream

 last night's dream was .... a lot. It started out with a family trip to visit some older relatives (no one I knew or recognized from real life). Like, the family I had in HS - Mom, Stepdad, Sister H, Brother A, Foster Bro R., and sineater. It was some kind of holiday and there were gifts exchanged. For some reason I was very concerned with keeping the house clean and being a good guest and not leaving a big mess for our older relatives to deal with, and the rest of my family was just out having fun and doing whatever, so I was cleaning up wrapping paper (except all the gifts had been wrapped in fabric and I was trying to decide what to do with all the fabric- some of it was bandannas and scarves but some was just scraps or yardage of fabric), doing laundry, making beds, etc. And then while I was doing that, the rest of the family left to go back home. My old 77 Toyota Corona was out front, so I decided to drive it back home. And somewhere along the line, I had gotten magic powers but I wasn't quite sure what they were or how to use them. I was pretty sure that I had either stopped aging or was aging backwards [very slowly], and it seemed I could be invisible at will, also, and maybe control people's minds--like jedi mind-trick kind of thing (?). Anyway, I was in my car with Thax and a couple of other people, and sonar0m He was fussing and carrying on because he wasn't with skye_ds, and going on about how she was going to worry about him, or be mad at him, and how he needed to be with her at all times. I got irritated and said "You're a big boy, and you have a phone, you can call her," but then he started fussing some more because he didn't know her number, since he was always with her he'd never had to call her, and again with the "she's going to be so mad at me!" So then I was like "Look, if you are that afraid of her, why don't you just stay gone?" And while he was whining and carrying on, I was kind of driving around lost and trying to get my phone GPS to work so I could find my way home. My parents had been talking about driving through Milwaukee on the way home and at first I was trying to figure out how to get to Milwaukee but then I realized that my home (Texas) was a completely different direction from my parents' home, so I couldn't go that way. And then we got into a city somehow, after being on all these rural back roads, and we went in to a place I thought was a restaurant but it was actually a homeless soup kitchen. They served us breakfast kind of cafeteria style and when we got to the dining room, it was all these kid-sized tables and chairs and there was nothing to drink. I asked for coffee and one of the soup kitchen volunteers started going on about how coffee is a dangerous drug and they do not allow it. So I asked for orange juice and they told me that their religious beliefs have interpreted some bible passage to mean that you are not supposed to have any sort of beverage while you are eating (the thing about not serving a kid in its mother's milk? I guess?) Anyway, the whole dream was very irritating and frustrating, and my stupid phone kept showing me news stories and ads instead of giving me directions on how to get back to Texas. arg. My brain. But, hey, unknown mystery magic powers.