When we checked in on the pope...

The Vatican day was going to be brutal  and it didn't start off very promising. The honeymoon was wearing off and the boy and I were ready to strangle each other. 

While I reveled in being lost...it obviously was not his favorite part. 

We finally did make it to Vatican City and this time we opted to get the audio tour and I'm so glad we did. 

Between the museums and the Sistine chapel and everything in between...we were pretty much done with the whole arts scene and couldn't get out of there fast enough. 

It was off to our food adventure next and I grossly underestimated how much we would be walking that day. While the food tour was fun and we did the tastes of Rome and I nearly got mugged by a homeless guy...it was an exhausting day and we couldn't wait to get back to our room. 

The boy and I dragged our poor bodies back and just lay on the floor in our room because we were too stinky for the bed. One after the other, we showered and fell into a dreamless unconscious state to prepare for our trip to Venice the next day. 

At the end of the day....our phone step counter indicated we had walked more than 10 miles that day!

Morning dreams

After a night of partying at Prabha's 40th....woke up with a migraine to let puppy out. Took 2 Advil and a banana and fell asleep on sofa again. 

The dream started with puppy bringing something back from the yard and I went out to investigate. Found a neighbor bringing stuff for me...why...I don't know. I wish my neighbors really did bring cool stuff for me. 

While talking to him and walking around the yard I find a hole in the side of the house. I look through and it's a sunlit cavern under the house...with a body of water and a white and brown llama lying in the middle on its side. I'm pretty sure it was Advil that I took. 🤔

I fall back in shock and my neighbors come running. We crawl through the opening and I see that my house is literally balanced on its edges over this huge cavern. 

Suddenly I see my mom on the other side walking along stairs on the other side of the cavern and I feel like this is a memory and maybe a reminder that I need to call my mother. 

As we talk about whether I should report this discovery...my neighbors say no as I might not be able to sell the house. 

In the meantime, the llama wasn't dead at all and gets up. Ketan goes towards it and I warn him that it will spit so he backs off. At least he listens to me in my dreams! Sure enough the llama finds other people to spit at. 

Ketan then opens a door and the Tasmanian devil...a real one...steps out and growls at him. We both run off and continue living in the house. I consider renting the lower level for parties. 

And then I wake up and there is no sinkhole under the house or llama or Tasmanian devil. 

I used to dream of tornadoes when There was turmoil in my life...wonder what Freud would say about this dream of an literal sinkhole under my house?? Am I literally living on the edge?!

Where's my data??!!

It's been a comedy of errors...and I'm still not able to see the humor in it...maybe a couple of weeks later when I've got everything back it'll sound better.

 Apple has truly locked up their security on our iphones that if we forget some key pass codes, we as owners are truly screwed! Why blame the FBI...hell I'd like a workaround to get back into the damn thing that I paid for!!

1. Forgot my passcode and got locked out of the phone. 

2. Thought I'd done the smart thing by backing up first and no big deal...I can just reset and load the backup....nooooo. Apparently I had been so good abt protecting my data that I'd set a password that I can no longer remember. So much for the backup!

3. So let's just set it up as new and redo the whole thing. A pain in the butt but doable. Only one problem...I'm at 90% of my data allocation and I can't remember my wifi password 😳

I'm serious....not making up this story!! 

So....what is my takeaway from this mess?? 

I've got a serious memory issue. 

I need to write down my passwords somewhere. 

I can't keep all my eggs in the one iPhone basket. 

I need to use the cloud more often.