I acted them out throughout my childhood. My mom said she used to enjoy just watching and listening to me, from a kitchen window or wherever, as I spoke all of the parts for each character, too, using different accents etc. Wow, did I have a cast! I also made up languages for them. (Hmmmm, was this Training to be a Mudcat 101?)

I'd forgotten about putting myself to sleep that way. Had to one time when Rog got stuck in Venezuela for over 6 months; we'd never been apart that long and no money was coming in because of the sitution there, also. Their exchange rate went from about 80 bolivars to the dollar to several hundred b's to the dollar, which sent the project funding spinning into a black hole...$20,000 of the funding ours.

Anyway, I remember putting myself to sleep every night by visualising him beside me in bed, holding me. I would fall asleep and dream of us being together all night. It was the only way I could cope with the insanity of the time as every day I would be on the phone trying to talk with the obfuscators in Caracas, trying to find out what backwater hole they had him in at the moment, and/or faxing them my direst warnings about the need for payment and his return. Of course, there were no aches or pains which made sleeping in one another's arms uncomfortable in my dreaming!

Well it's 310a, maybe I should go back to bed and dream me up a scenario....lol...thanks, gals.

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