I had a dream!

Dreaming is not a rare thing for me. Remembering my dreams... now that is much harder. I don't bother to keep track of my dreams either because they usually don't have any bearing in the "Real World." (Besides, keeping a "Dream Diary" sounds too Trelawney-ish.) The dream I had a few nights back was both memorable and realistic (well, mostly, but I'll get into that later), so I thought it worth recording.

How about a little background, so that this dream makes a little more sense, eh?
I was stressed out a few weeks ago with school, a surprise calling, musical-stuff, the Christmas season, etc, etc,  when the lovely Young Womens leaders asked me to come up with the theme and program for New Beginnings, one of the two biggest nights of the year for Young Women. No big deal, right? ( I hope your sarcasm detector is working)... but actually, that is right. After toying around with some ideas for a while, I typed the theme for the new year (Arise and Shine Forth) into Google (I LOVE Google) and came up with a downloadable program, complete with songs, narrations, and instrumentals. Perfect. I glanced at it, printed it out, and handed it to my leader. My "planning" was done... And so is this background information. Now it gets interesting.

I find that dreams usually fast-forward past any kind of introduction, because there I was in the church gym, minutes before New Beginnings was set to start. Chaos reigned. Only half of the girls had showed up, and it happened to be the half that didn't sing or speak in the program. I didn't have my cello. I didn't have my cello music. I didn't remember the words to whatever song everyone told me I was supposed to sing we didn't have the treats ready, the invitations had been sent back in the mail, etc....and then we jump to a scene in the church parking lot ( which actually looked like my middle school parking lot) when I am trying to figure out what to do to "save the program!" Oh, and apparently, we hired a band... because they were all leaving. And now it's broad sunlight. And a shirt-less Josh Groban in ripped-up jeans with an electric Keyboard over his shoulder walks out of my middle school/the church and leaves with the band. And then I wake up.

Dreams can show you what you are worried about, what you think about, what you fear, and sometimes a forecast of the future.( With the exception of the Shirt-less Josh Groban.... because I don't know where that came from, and it definitely isn't in my future.)
This dream probably wasn't nearly as interesting or as frightening to you as it was to me, and looking back I can't help but laugh at myself. So I take this as a learning experience. I need to take a step back and look at the big picture. Work, not worry... And get a life. That's it.