My pearl earrings

I’m on a trip with Scott and we’re in a cool forest-y place like a national park campground. It smells like pine trees and wood smoke. We’ve gone to the little canteen to pick up a few things – bread, water, snacks… as we’re checking out i decide to buy a pack of cigarettes. None of the brands are any i’ve ever heard of and i point to a random brand behind the lady that the counter. They turn out to be those long skinny brown kind from back in the day. (I don’t even know if they still make those and can’t remember what they’re called.) As we leave the store, we’re approaching the mall i go to sometimes in dreams. Scott’s walking fast and i’m trying to keep up while at the same time trying to light a cigarette but i can’t keep the match lit and walk at the same time. We go into the mall and into an Italian restaurant place. It looks like a kind of fancy place but really it’s just a fast food joint where you order at a counter and bus your own table. Scott and i are talking about something. I forget what now but i think it had something to do with where ever it is we’re going. After we eat i’m throwing out the remains of my meal of some kind of pasta thing with red sauce. After i throw my stuff in the big box-like trash receptacle i see one of my pearl earrings is lying on my plastic tray. I pick it up to see what happened, why it fell off my ear. It’s the one from my left ear. I see that the post has come undone from the pearl. I’m just thankful i found it because i love these earrings. They’re simple pearl earrings except there’s a single fine gold wire that sort of meanders over the pearl from one side to the other, like a hug keeping the pearl from rolling away. I check my right ear to make sure that earring is still there and it comes apart in my hand. Same thing, the post has come off. I’m a little bit upset but think it’s probably not a big deal and a jeweler will be able to glue the post back on but just as i think that thought, the pearl from my right ear breaks in half and falls out of the setting. I’m surprised and a little bit sad.

I do love these earrings! I’ve had them in for about three weeks now. They seem fine but maybe i better give them a rest for a bit after today. Irreplaceable design and all… I've had a lot of traveling dreams for the last several days. In the other dreams i'm either lost or people are leaving me behind. The series started ?Sunday with a high school stress dream probably related to my dissatisfaction with my job right now. Maybe they've all been related to my general malaise.