Hot pot, blazing it up, dreams of birthday boxes and Uncle Albert, Mandarin

Earlier, I told Corey that I wanted hot pot - thank you very much, Ian! He responded a while later with "go blaze it up, then!" He knows I don't mean marijuana! Then I decided to sleep at 10:30 because I'd been napping early, but got up at around 12:45 AM. Had a weird dream where my mom asked me whether I'd seen Dawn's dad Uncle Albert at church recently, but I said the building was so big that it was even more impossible to see people around! Then Emily T. was teaching a group of kids how to be silly, and I helped her. Later, I was delegated to look in someone's personal fridge space for Emily Lee's birthday wish in a box. There were shrimp crackers, peanuts (which I thought was so not the thing to have in a fridge when everyone was thirsty already), and numerous jelly packets. I couldn't find the box, so we all (parents / brother / friends) went to a chic diner instead. My sister was the waitress, but she was from the 1980s. The real version of my sister was with us, and loved the black lamps. Woke up when we were trying to figure out the mystery of present AND past bodies there at the same time!

I have no idea why I had the dream - I know I was talking to Emily T. yesterday, but that shouldn't make that much of an impression on my subconscious! Haven't been thinking of THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, Dawn's dad (although I did see her status update involving him), a packed fridge, or Emily Lee recently either! I don't think anyone's asked me that question about Dawn's dad because he's in HONG KONG! Yikes!

Corey says that Jane and her niece were teaching him Chinese earlier tonight, and the five-year-old is REALLY impressed that he can speak Mandarin! I said that the equivalent of huo guo is da bino, and he told me that the niece just jumped around on the bed in the background saying the word he was supposed to say over and over, mostly just yelling it. Sounds crazy to me, even over webcam! Why were they teaching him "hot pot" tonight? Don't know, but he was helping with her English homework, pronouncing words. Jane was having trouble with L sounds, so then she moved to Chinese - when Corey got it right the first time, she said it wasn't fair. Hahaha!