What is the House of the Damned, you ask? It's my home. Yesterday I came home from work to discover hundreds (perhaps thousands?) of those stupid orange ladybugs or Japanese beetles or whatever the hell you call them ALL OVER both the outside and INSIDE of my house. It was disgusting. Give Cleveland one 80 degree day in October and look what the hell happens! I feel like a crazy person because I'm still jumping and swiping bugs away from me...and there aren't any in the office. The things are horribly agressive (yes, they bite), they stink when you squish them, and they land in my hair. I was freaked out. I had to take the dogs outside and spray my windows and doors, I just couldn't handle it anymore. Now I'm praying for snow.

On the home improvement front, I worked for hours last night and finally realized just how long this is going to take to accomplish. Months, I'm thinking. There's so much to do. I'm just going to try to take my time and not get burned out so that I don't leave anything unfinished...

I had another dream about Sam last night. He was back...and he was ok...and he didn't want anything to do with me. He was angry with me and I couldn't find him. I have that dream often, where I'll see a glimpse of him and everyone is happy that he's ok, but he won't speak with or see me. It's horrible. I know that they're just dreams and they don't mean anything, but I wake up in a panic and it takes me hours to calm down. Strangely enough my dreams were more comforting a few months ago, they were so lucid and he was there with me, smiling and holding me. So much for comfort.

I have to work at the restaurant tonight. Haven't worked there since Saturday, so I don't even mind. I'm sort of curious to check out the new GM. She's a woman...and I've heard she's pretty nasty. Let's see how she deals with my own problems with authority.

Work at the day job is speeding up a bit. I have a few thousand pages to edit right now, so I'd better hop to it!