Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Iridescent creations


First we went to Hawaii, chuck was living there and we all went to visit him. His house was up on top of this big hill and we could only take our car so far, then had to hike the rest of the way. We hiked over a volcano and past gorgeous views of the ocean. His house was very simple, and tropical in a way. We were hanging out in the kitchen and drinking and planning a walk down to the beach when I realized it was 12:15 and I had an appointment on the island at 1.
Then I was in a high school/hotel/parking garage type atmosphere. There were people taking classes all over and I walked into a store like bath and body works, and a group of women were taking a class on advertising. Then I wandered into an art class. I didn't think I belonged there, but the teacher asked me to try. We were working with a waxy type material. It was like the ant farm - lumpy on top and smooth underneath. The teacher was giving step by step instructions - put your hands in the bowl, mix the wax around, form it into a ball. Then the sun came out behind me and the room was full of golden sunlight. The teacher was telling us to stop and leave our work as it was, that it would take the form it was meant to take. I knew mine had more to do, so I picked it up (it was all the same smooth wax-like consistency now) and i broke the ball in half and pulled the ball apart. It became this bright iridescent conch shell. The teacher came over to see it and said something about wanting to live on our farm because it was obviously giving me great powers of creation.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Mini mamba gone missing


I was talking to an ex-participant on the phone, and she said she had to go, but would call me right back. Then I realized it was really late at night, but I didn't want to go to bed because I wanted to talk to her if she called back. So I was cleaning out a terrarium the kids had, which contained a baby green mamba. It was about 3 inches long and really skinny, like spaghetti. Anyway, when I opened the cage, the snake escaped and was slithering all over the kitchen and I couldn't get it, and then it went into a hole in the wall. I felt bad, but I didn't really care all that much. I figured the kids would get over it. Then Brian came home and as I was telling him what happened, I realized that the cute little spaghetti snake was going to grow into a humongous deadly poisonous snake, and I started freaking out because I was sure it would eventually kill Emmett and it was all going to be my fault for letting it go.

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Time travel and first kisses and hiding

I was a time traveller again, and I had gone back to elementary school where I was rehearsing for a pageant with my class. My boyfriend was there, and he was kind of a cross between Greg L. and John Green (my best buddy when I was little). I was a little kid, but had the... perspective, I guess of an adult, and he said he wanted to kiss me after the pageant and I knew it was going to be his first kiss and I was wondering how I should kiss him because he was just a kid. I also was hoping his breath wasn't really stinky.
Then the time traveller me was hiding in another room while my boyfriend was preparing a meal with me - we were in college now. The me that was in the kitchen was being really mean and bitchy so I (the time traveller me) was peeking into the room to catch the boyfriend's eye and apologize and tell him I love him. I was trying to tell him that even though I know we eventually break up, our relationship was really good at times and I didn't want him to break up with me prematurely.

Friday, December 01, 2006

Inflatable trampoline maze denial

What?

So many... Someone had taken me to his friend's house who had this weird inflatable maze thing, and he was putting it together, I guess so we could go through it, and it was requiring a lot of work. It was sort of like a bouncy castle type thing, but it was going to be a maze thing you could walk through once it was blown up. The guy (I have no idea who he was) was unrolling the thing out on this huge trampoline looking thing in front of his friend's house, who apparently had lots of toys. He then had to use an air pump to blow it up but then he was gone and nothing ever happened. But I went into the house later because I still wanted to do it, even though I had never met these people before. I walked in and their whole house had really beautiful fishtanks everywhere, all tropical and filled with really amazing stuff. A couple was in the kitchen and they greeted me kind of suspiciously. I told them I wanted to use their inflatable maze and they laid out a whole list of things I would have to do as far as cleaning it and putting it away. The husband got it started for me, but once I realized how anal they were about it and how much work it was going to require, I really didn't want to do it anymore, but the whole thing was already laid out (it was about the size of ...I guess the night pasture), so I felt like I had to go through with it. The whole project was eventually abandoned, and then there were multiple people at the house. Someone handed me a copy of the MVTimes, and it had printed all screwed up and I couldn't believe how bad it looked. There was an article inside about the guy who owned the house (the fishtank guy) and he was dying of some disease.
This part is pretty disjointed- there were drag queens telling some story (on tv?) about how they had all kinds of money once and blew it on really weird things...something about big fuzzy forks(?) But then I was in a large gymnasium place and we were pulling up the floor boards and there was all kinds of stuff underneath, I guess it was the stuff that the rich drag queens once owned when they were rich. Furniture, etc. But then someone pulled out these really large (4 feet) stuffed forks, black plush. And I was like, hey, they were serious.