Thanks for the interpretation, Shiny. I totally agree with that of dream #1 btw. As for dream #2, it is probably right except for some minor glitches:

My H does not have diagnosed coronary problems, but he is a time bomb: his father died of an MI in his late 50s, he is an untreated diabetic (refuses to consider meds, but does not follow the diet and exercise plan), he is overweight, male and in his 40s... enough risk factors to worry about. At least he does not smoke.

The Russian connection I am not sure about. We have some good Russian friends but we have not seen them in ages. And D's skating coach is Russian. Since she is secretly in love with his 17 year old eldest son, I might end up with a Russian son-in-law (who can blame her: the kid is really cute, skates very well and is very patient with the little ones. And how many teenagers you know that don't drink, don't smoke and steadily work 6 h a day on top of going to high school in order to achieve their dream...). You should see her blush as she says "Mom, I LIKE S..." She was thrilled that he came to watch her compete last fall and rather disappointed not to see him on the Christmas program (now he works at another rink and does not teach her class). The vicisitudes of love at age 4...

I am not sure in which language I was dreaming on, so I doubt I'd interpret 'Russian' as rushing. But I might have changed it into 'ruse', or 'russe' (Russian) into 'rusé' (sly, crafty) or 'Russin' into 'russig' (sooty) . All the Russians I know are more fluent in French or German than English...

The weekend so far is going well, but silent. The mornings are a little less green , but H is wiped out by work and lack of sleep, so I should not take it personally...

Yesterday, I took D to skating class at 8 am and at 10 we met H at the new school for her test (at his insistance, I offered to take her alone). He then went to work some more and we returned to the rink for another class, lunch with a friend (vegetarian sushi rolls, Betsey) and more practice skating (does watching ice skating while sipping a tall double non fat no whip mocha qualify as exercise?).

About 2 pm he called saying he was tired and would buy chickenwings and go home to rest, would we meet him? We did (I was freezing by then). Watched a movie for a while and he left again around 4 pm for more work. He called at 5:50 pm to say he was on his way home and quite spontaneously added ILY.

He came back around 6:30 to pick us up. We went to Stars on Ice (which our D enjoyed enormously; H slept through half of it). We got out at 10 pm and went for dinner, D falling asleep on us... We dropped her in bed with her 'princess' dress on...

BTW he let me drive his new car all day and went to work in mine. And the car papers list our home (not the office) as his address...

Wow, this is a lengthy post. Better stop now before I become even more mired in minutiae...

"You don't throw a whole life away just 'cause it's banged up a little" Tom Smith in "Seabiscuit"