dreaming weirdness

 Dood Srsly, I dreamed I was living in an apartment made of the top floor of an old Victorian mansion (Do they call them Painted Ladies anywhere but here?) and it was leaking, like, so much leaking that the rain INSIDE was falling as fast as the rain outside. The house was white with green trim (much like the ranch house I spent most of my teen years in which BTW didn't leak) and it had a huge yard and garden. The guy who came to fix it was kinda flirty which was strange, and he may or may not have actually owned the house. Nobody lived downstairs. There were Evangeline Oaks all around the outside of the yard and garden. I am dreaming of living in a leaky house in NOLA, I guess. WTF.

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