Darkness!

So we were at our house and I was making breakfast and I kept cooking eggs into everything and getting frustrated because I couldn’t eat them. Since I can’t have eggs right now, I had to give my breakfast to everyone else.  I cooked one egg separately and when I was done, realizing I couldn’t eat it, put it on a spatula and brought it to Paul.  He says, “Well that better not go to waste!” and ate it like a cookie.  So then after that we were in our living room that had big store front windows and I was laying on the couch with a mud mask on and then all of a sudden I looked up and I saw Pastor Jeremy and Paul’s Great Uncle Danny walking toward the house.  Jeremy was holding a leash and I yell out, “Jeremy is here with Uncle Danny!  I’m going to go wash my face!”  I run to the bathroom and Paul follows me and and says, “Did I forget to tell you they were coming?”  I say, “YEAH, and this mask won’t come off!”  Paul goes out to greet them and comes back and says, “He already left!”  I ask “Who left?” Paul says, “Clayton!”  I say, “Oh, Clayton?  Yeah,don’t worry about him. he’s weird.”  I finally get the mask all washed off, run a brush through my hair and go out to greet our guests.  I walk into the living room and Uncle Danny is laying on our couch, cuddled up with blankets. It must have been evening, because it got all dark, so I say, “Do you want a light on or something?” I go to turn on an overhead light and it won’t turn on so I go to the switch to control it, still nothing.  Then I take a lamp and plug it into the outlet that the switch controls, nothing.  Couldn’t get any lights to turn on in the whole room.  I think that might be it.

Jen’s Big Show!

So, somebody complimented my singing and I decided i should put on a show and sing about 8 songs at our church, in the auditorium. The day of the show came and I had not practiced once nor did I know any of the words to any of the songs that I had chosen. The only songs I remember being chosen was Toto’s Africa and the theme song to the NES game Contra, to be played as an interlude. I stared panicking when I realized that I didn’t know any of the songs and tried desperately to print some of the lyrics but every computer I went to had some sort of issue. Some people sang the first four songs for me to buy me some time, including Jenny D., Jamie P. (from our church) who were both in a choir behind me that was to accompany me. I went to Mary N’s office where some guy was in there typing up his family blog and asked him if I could please use that computer. I was offended that this guy was in the office typing his blog instead of being out in the audience for my show (That I wasn’t even ready for!) The computer was basically a giant keyboard and a tiny little screen comparable to an old Garmond GPS that mounts on your dashboard. I could not get any of the things to print so I had a brilliant idea to change my last couple songs to worship songs. We pulled out tubs of music and none of them were songs that I knew. I was super worried that the pianist wouldn’t know how to play these. She assured me that she could play anything. I was running everywhere I went from the stage, back to the office to try to print songs. That was it.

Mowing, tears and free time

We all lived in Jen’s house she grew up in on 2nd Avenue in Howell.

Peter was on a counseling call with his counselor from College plus, telling him that he took some aptitude test.  Peter started crying saying, “The test said I couldn’t be a nuclear physicist or pick up the guitar and start playing!  But what if I want to?!”
The counselor wanted to talk to Josh. Josh takes the phone and as Peter walks away yells, “Say goodbye to your free time, Josh!!”
Pete gets back on phone and Jen feels like she has to do damage control so she says to Josh:
“Listen, if Mr. Peper sent over a bus to pick up the four of you, they ship you off, change your clothes, feed you and make you work for a while, then ship you off to another place to work for a while, then you go back and have dinner, then go read for a while, then take a shower and go to bed……..I would be completely fine with that (except for the part about you getting shipped off).
“Josh – what if Mom and Dad just let you play video game all day long. Because I was allowed to do that growing up. What do you think happened when my parents told me to clean the living room?”

To answer, Jen then starts rolling back and forth on the ground whining, “I don’t want to!”

Then Jen panics remembering that Anna was mowing the lawn and she doesn’t know where she is. Jen looks out the front window and Anna is mowing the front lawn, giggling like she’s getting away with something.

The whole time Jen is talking to people, she’s looking at the big picture window in the front of the house and wondering if she could get on a ladder to clean the tops of the windows without falling to her death.

Please keep in mind…

…Not all dreams are, shall we say, publishing material. This is why there isn’t a post every day. We promise we’ll post the good (and worthwhile!) ones. 🙂

long lost friend??

so i am in this huge house.  i am holding the cordless phone and it rings.  i answer and head outside so i can hear the woman on the phone better.  she says that i gave her my number long ago and she wanted to call.  i ask her what her name is.  she says it is “eye-me” but spelled Myme (with a silent M at the beginning).  i tell her i am sorry but i do not recognize that name at all and ask her where i knew her from.  then a thought occurs to me:  “oh wait! do i know you from VBS?”, i ask.  she responds with yes.  i am picturing VBS at the church that i grew up going to VBS at.  she says that she lived next to John and Virginia.  those are my other grandparents, not the ones that took me to VBS.  she said she lived next door.  so then i ask her what made her want to get ahold of me.  she answered, “Booksneeze. i just bought the book ‘Why We Are the Way We Are’.”  it occurred to me then that i just sold that exact book.  “did i just sell you that book!??!?!” i ask in amazement.  she replied with “yes.  that is how i got your contact information.”  my head starts spinning with thoughts of how crazy it is that we were linked up this way.  i start exclaiming into the phone, “ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?  ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?!?!?  SERIOUSLY?!?!?!?”  when she doesn’t reply, i look at the phone and realize that it died.  i was so bummed because we just solved the mystery and now i couldn’t call her back as i did not have her number and she couldn’t call me because my phone was dead.  i went into the house and started to tell one of my aunts who was there about it.  she quickly became bored and walked away.  i was looking and looking for paul and when i finally found him, i started to tell him about what had happened.  he says, “why didn’t you tell me earlier?”  i said, “i couldn’t because i couldn’t find you!!”

then i woke up.

that’s it. 🙂

Duh

I dreamed I was washing my hair.  Which will come as no surprise to anyone reading my Facebook page lately.

that’s it.

Take my cereal!

9/8/11 Dream
I was at Cosco and bought a giant box of cereal. I returned home and began handing it out to the neighbors. It was all raisin brand. It was the old neighborhood I grew up in. I handed out all but three boxes to the neighbor immediately next door. With the other three boxes, I walked to the end of the street and there was a grocery store. I walked in and my Mom and some other lady (not sure who) was there. I gave the boxes to my Mom and gave the other lady some coupons.
that’s it. 🙂

The worst ultimatum ever

9/5 dream:

Our whole family is at Cedar Point.  The kids are riding all the small rides by themselves.  When they come back to join Paul and I, we ask them if they have ridden any of the big roller coasters.  They say no.  We tell them that they’ve got to try them.  We point to the area with the huge rides and start pointing them out.  They worriedly look at each ride and start saying things like, “Are you sure?  Are these safe?!”.  I start to tell them that they are going to ride these coasters.

I finally tell them: You’re riding these roller coasters or you’re going to Pathway.

The kids all take off for the rides and only Naomi stays with us at the table.  The Macarena song is playing over the loud speaker.  Paul says to me, “I bet you still know all the moves to that song.”  I kind of try to do it and say, “Yeah, I don’t think so.”  We both look over at Naomi who is perfectly doing the Macarena dance while sitting in a chair completely expressionless.

That’s it.

Mmmm Honey Citrus Lemonade…

9/3 dream

We went to a farmers market, me and the kids. Everything was really expensive and I had no cash on me.  Then I see a friend from the past, standing at a card table she had set up.  It had nothing else on it except an old yellow 1970’s era yellow cup full of something.  It had a label on it that I couldn’t read.  I walked over, said hello and said, “What do you have?”

She said, “It’s this lemonade.”  She showed me the label and it read, “Honey citrus lemonade”

I said, “Oh that’s interesting.”

She said, “Yeah, its $1.50 for a tablesoon, would you like some?”

Then I said, “Oh, not right now, maybe in a minute…”

So I walked over to another table.  I can’t remember what they were selling, but I asked them, “Can I debit over here?”  I did and got a $20 bill.  I turned back to go back and buy some lemonade and saw her chugging the lemonade from the only container of lemonade she was selling!  I hesitantly walked back to the table and woke up just as she poured me a small glass.

Mornings with Jim Halpert

9/4 dream

Melanie, Shannon[my cousin], me and Jim Halpert [from the show The Office] were sitting at a table eating cereal and I was telling Jim how I noticed that every season of the show, he changed his glasses.  He looked at me like I was an idiot.  Then he started cleaning up all the dishes.  So Mel, Shannon and I walked around the corner and it was a grocery store frozen food isle.  We were looking for more cereal.  All of a sudden I look in one of the doors and on the top shelf, there was a gigantic box of cereal that cost $8.99 and the name of it was “80’s Hair Mullet”.  It was marked, “New!  For a limited time!”  They were essentially Fruity Pebbles, with a cool new name.

I grabbed it off the shelf, looked at my cousin Shannon and said, “Melanie is going to love this!”

I take the box to Melanie.  She grabs it from me and says, “No way!”

“We gotta’ get a picture of you holding this!”, I say.

Melanie walks over to this huge, cartoon like area with a backdrop where you can pose for pictures.  The backdrop was a winter scene.  There was a big house.  Melanie walked up to the front door and then suddenly turned into a cartoon herself!  Shannon started to snap photos and I took a picture with something that looked like a big huge poster frame, but that was a touch screen tablet kind of thing that I could take pictures with.  So I get a good shot and then I walked to the kitchen to show Jim the photo.  I set my “camera” down and help him finish up the dishes.