bad shoes and barbie head

My dream started off with me having a birthday dinner with my family. For some reason it landed on Easter and so they took me out for an Easter brunch. It was my mom, her boyfriend, grandmother, brother, his wife and a German guy I met once in an Irish pub. We were sitting at a wooden table outside on the deck. I looked over to another table full of older ladies. One of them looked like an friend of mine's mother that I hadn't seen in years. I wanted to make sure then I could tell she was trying to figure out the same thing about me. So I waved, which as soon as I did, I realized it wasn't her and she didn't understand why I was waving. Another woman at the table kept looking at me too, but in kind of a ?? hmm... She wanted my attention.

So, the brunch was ending and my family paid. I felt bad for them paying but then realized it was for my birthday. I looked at the gift I was given. It was a pair of .. not so pretty shoes. They were very flat, very wide, very shapeless. I thought, well... I'm sure they are comfortable.. I should give them a try (or turn them in for something else). I  and my German friend were looking for the bathroom. I pointed them out to him and headed in the same direction. Then it went to me being in the upstairs of the building. It was almost like a youth hostel... casual, worn furniture, a pool table. I was sitting on the floor. My friend was there but then he was gone, so I continued to wait. Then I had my head in my hands... like detached from my body (although I was seeing out of the normal placement of my head and eyes). It was interesting to see my head from an outsider's perspective turning it this way and that. As I turned it around I realized I was trying to avoid looking at the eyes. It felt scary. I put the head down for a second and the eyes opened, clear and blue looking blankly at me. I quickly picked it up and turned it around to put it back on.