Hey all, I just wanted to share with you a very intense and strange dream that I had last night. I don’t normally share this type of stuff but this is just so vivid in my mind and I remember alot of details so im going to share its strangeness…

The dream started off as a vacation to Iraq (don’t ask me why we were doing this we just were) We were there looking at different locations. The US military presence was very low, if not non-present at all. I remember going into a little hut type location for lunch, or so we thought. We (and when I say we I am talking about me and my friend David from way back in elementary school.) sat down and a group of people came up to us and asked us to stand up. We knew there was a lot of religious traditions and such that we needed to follow, so we figured it would be in our best interest to get up as they asked. As we got up a truck pulled up next to this area that we were in. They asked us to get into the truck. I remember looking at David in confusion as we both just got in.

The memory gets a little fuzzy at this point but I do remember arriving at a big, and I mean HUGE field of just sand. As far as the eye could see it was just SAND. They took us out and paraded us over to a shaded area behind the truck and sat us down. They walked away and as they did we both stood up, they all quickly started shooting into the air and demanding us to get back down. So we did. There were most likely 20-30 men that had taken us out there at this point and they were all looking around talking with each other as me and David sat their in total fear…

The next thing I know there is another large truck full of men, with some American looking men on the truck with them. Blindfolded.  They seemed to be journalists or something but at this point we did not care.

I them woke up, and had to take a restroom break…in my mind as im getting up and out of bed I’m thinking about my dream and how happy I was that it was over, or so I thought….

I went back to bed and was so tired I feel right back asleep…

I appeared RIGHT BACK into my dream, moments if not SECONDS from where it left off and I remember feeling the same fear as before.

Just as I returned, as if I hit pause on my DVD player or something, they took some of the Americans off the truck and were sitting them down on their knees. Right as this happened a man from behind started to shoot them, all of them. At this point in my dream I felt it was 110% real. I was scared for my life and I actually had thoughts in my mind like, this is it, im gonig to die, this is the end, etc etc…Horrible I know…

Right as one of them men came and took us, walked us towards the areas where the previous men had been killed, I woke up again. This time I was sweating and really freaking out and happy to be alive! I was NOT going back to sleep! Not this time, this dream was OVER!

So for me  felt like sharing this with all of you, not to freak you out, but to basically get it off my chest! It was one of the strangest, weird, real and just downright disturbing dreams I have ever had in my entire life.

And to think I was watching the food networks before bed, strange!

sb

“For those of you that know Sean Bartley, one of the amazing baristas at journeys coffeehouse, you will know that Sean has always seemed to have this long hair that he loves.  Just over a week ago now two of us were joking with Sean on shaving his head… the matter quickly came to that if we could raise $500 basically overnight he would shave his head and donate all of the money to breast cancer research.  To all of our amazement we were able to raise not $500 but over $1000.

So today we gathered at journeys coffeehouse as well as online via a live streaming of the event to share in this amazing story.  Sean has is hair dresser of many years, Kathy, come out to do the honors.  We had several breast cancer survivors join us in person as well as on the live stream.

We just wanted to share the story and one man’s step in helping fight to find a cure.  Please don’t let the fight end with just one event, keep on fighting for the cure.

For those that are on Facebook, there is a full photo collection here.”

Thanks Dan for the awesome conclusion to an awesome day and cause! I was honored to do this!

sb

Tonight was a typical summer night that has to happen once a year. A night out at the fair. This includes the following:

1. Eating food that makes your stomach feel like its eating itself.

2. Looking at the people walking around feeling glad about your life and hoping people are blessed with non-weired syndrome.

3.Watching tigers perform tricks, and sit there hoping… I MEAN wondering if the tigers are going to eat the trainers.

All in all a typical night out at the fair, oh and if that was not fun enough I GET TO GO AGAIN this friday. How lucky could one be…

Now that I am home relaxing, im taking in the final hours im a long haired freak! Prepping my hair by getting all the big curls out and making sure its well conditioned for the cut tomorrow! Im actully pretty stoked about tomorrow, yea, im cutting off my hair but I am so proud like I said before to be giving so much money to a awesome cause!

You can view the hair cut LIVE TOMORROW at 5:30pm EST at this link! http://www.ustream.tv/channel/journeyscoffee

Off for the night now. Time to get some rest and relaxation. I get to open the shop tomorrow morning bright and early, it’s been awhile so I might be dead! Like I have always said before, yes im getting up early…but the best place to be when you are sleepy is around good coffee.

Have a good night all! And if you have nothing else to do in life, think about giving back to people. It makes you feel better then recieving anything in the world!

sb

This is just a test from my iPhone application to see how it works. Full blog for today will be posted later.

So as most of you know I have had long hair for most of my life. In fact the only time I have not was a very short time in middle school.  My hair has made me pretty much the person I am today.

Early last week I said that I would cut of all my hair if we raised 500$ in the name of breast cancer awareness. I am proud to say that we have raised well over 1,000$ at this point and thats bad news for the fate of my long curly locks!

This coming thursday at 5:30pm EST, I will be rolling up my sleves, taking a deep breath and cutting of the hair that I have had for almost 12 years!

I am totally happy that I could raise money for a awesome cause! To me now, its much more than the hair, its about doing something that can make a diffrence!

I just wanted to post this in advance so that if anyone wants to come be a part of the fun, it will be taking place at JourneysCoffee house This Thursday at 5:30pm. If you CANT make it in person you can watch the LIVE online feed of the event at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/journeyscoffee. Of course picture will also follow!

See you all next time, and hey I might be about 20 pounds lighter!

Love to all!

sb