Last Night I Dreamt...

I've been tweeting my nightly excursions in slumber land lately, and people seem fascinated that I remember my dreams. I can recall dreams back to when I was around 5 years old, and usually I remember 2-3 dreams a week, sometimes more. Since people seem interested, I thought I'd post them here.

Last night I dreamt I was at college, sort of. I was away somewhere. It was Autumn, and time to head back home for a break. I lived in an apartment, or in part of a house with some other people. Everyone else in the building had already gone off, a few at a time, and it was just me in this big lonely place with one or two other people. We wandered around, trying to get our stuff packed so we could get out the door. For some reason, the place looked like a slew of office cubicles, and I realized I didn't just live there, I also worked there too, which I hated because that meant I could never get away from this lousy office job I had. I was pregnant, and I really wanted to get in my car and head out so I could meet up with Hubster, but in the course of wandering through the cubicles, I came out into the lobby of a hotel where they were serving a continental breakfast. The place looked an awful lot like the Embassy in Chicago where we stayed this summer. Hubster was there, talking to some people that I was supposed to impress. Maybe they were friends of his from work. But all I could think about was how I had to use the restroom, so I excused myself and went to find one. There was a men's room on the lobby floor, but not a ladies (apparently it was still under construction or being renovated), and I had to follow these detour signs that led to the ladies room up on the fourth floor. But when I got there, that ladies' room was cordoned off too, for repairs, and more detour signs led to an elevator that I knew went 27 floors up. The elevator was one of those glass jobs that ran along the outside of the building, so you could see yourself shooting up into the stratosphere, and there was no way in hell I was getting on that thing and going up that high. I had this terrible fear that it wouldn't be safe, and that maybe I'd somehow fall out of the elevator and plunge to my death. So I abandoned my quest for the ladies' room, and headed back down to the lobby, where I had to explain the whole ladies' room problem to everyone there.

And then I woke up.

For some reason, being at college while living in an apartment figures into a lot of my dreams. This is odd, because I lived in the dorms all four years I was at Tech. I didn't get an apartment until I went for my MS at Radford.

Toilets, and the inability to find one or get into one, also show up a lot in my dreams. I have no idea why.

Opinions wanted - Updating the site

Okay, people, I'm looking for opinions. I need to update the website, but I have small problem. I actually have multiple websites - the Cynical Woman blog at www.cynicalwoman.blogspot.com, my erotica website at www.helenehmadden.com, and the blog for The Adventures of Cynical Woman web comic at www.theadventuresofcynicalwoman.blogspot.com (and yes, I know I need to post a new cartoon! I'm working on it). That's too many websites in my opinion. I can easily fold the web comic into the Cynical Woman blog, but I'm wondering if I should also combine the erotica blog as well, so that I'd only have to worry about one website and not two or three. The erotica blog and the Cynical Woman blog are sort of two different creatures. I don't know if they'd work well together or not, so I need help deciding. Here are the reasons for and against combining ALL the websites/blogs.

Pros:

• Only one blog to deal with. I can easily write 3-4 blog posts a week... for one blog. Maintaining two blogs takes a lot more time and effort.


• The combined blog would more accurately reflect who I am. I've always billed myself as the "stay-at-home mom AND erotica writer," and people remember that. It's an accurate, and successful, branding of me as a writer.


• It'll be easier to find me on the web. Rather than go to a couple of different sites to see what's going on with me, you've got one stop shopping. I can post all my info on free reads, the cartoons, and the usual day-to-day lunacies in one place.


• More content. I've been holding back posting certain things here because I need something to post on the erotica blog. However, I don't usually have a ton of stuff to post on the erotica blog. I do a lot more posting here than there, so the erotica blog looks pretty sparse. I wouldn't have to worry about a sparse blog if I combined the erotica blog with this one.


• I already own www.cynicalwoman.com (and I would really like to replace the website that's there with the CW blog, plus other stuff). I can easily redirect www.helenehmadden.com to that URL so that typing in either URL takes you to one spot.

Now the cons:

• Sexually explicit material. I'd like to post some free erotica reads and excerpts. Is this blog really suitable for that? Or do I need to keep it on a separate blog?


• Male nudes. One of the things I'd like to start doing is pin-up art. Male pin-up art (I'm a rabid feminist, remember). That would mean images of full frontal male nudity. Does it belong here, or again does it need it's own forum in a separate blog?

Hmmm. Looking at my pros vs. my cons, I'm thinking maybe I should just combine the two blogs. When it comes to the explicit stuff, rather than put it right there in the blog, I can post a link to the stories or images in question. Then people can choose to follow the link or not.

Yeah, I think this will work. BUT I'm still interested in other people's opinions. So give me some feedback! I'm hoping to get started on this in a couple weeks ;) Thanks!