Thursday, January 24, 2008

I Dreamed A Dream of Days Gone By

I had these a while ago, I can't believe I forgot to add them!

James and Julia
late July/early August 2006
I had this dream my first night in Paris. It was incredibly vivid. Julia was the protagonist, caught in a love triangle, torn between the Hugh Grant irresponsible play boy type and the Colin Firth quiet reserved reliable and mature guy. Initially, she picked the more exciting and romantic guy and soon became pregnant with Hugh Grant’s baby, but HG couldn’t commit. He would be in and out of Julia and James’ life. (That was the name of the most beautiful blond baby boy, even more so than Daniel, and just as smart as Christopher) One day, HG was supposed to pick up James from day care while Julia was at work. She came home to find that HG had not done this and she became so upset that she walked to the day care barefoot to get him and carried him home on a rocky red dirt path. (This image is seared into my brain, if I could, I would paint it.) She kicked HG out and finally realized that she truly loved CF and he was dedicated to her and they lived happily ever after.










Nathaniel and Me
probably 7th or 8th grade, when Rachel and I were hanging out a lot
I was swimming in an indoor pool which I had seen in an episode of Are you Afraid of the Dark? which is a show some of you old geezers may or may not remember from Nickelodeon back when had some decent kids programming, a long long time ago when tween stars kept their unwanted pregnancies private! But I digress. So this pool was used for some satanic ritual I believe but the episode never made it clear what was going on. Anyway, in my dream I was swimming in it and I see Nathaniel standing in a corner talking to an invisible dream person and I decide it will be hilarious to steal his belt. So I sneak up to him looking suspiciously like the white spy in "Spy vs. Spy". I may have even been doing that wringing of hands thing and snickering as sneaky people are apt to do then I do it. I grab his belt and run to the other side of the room. The belt is one of those nylon types with a cinch clasp, rather than a grommet. The belt buckle was Bob the Tomato, but he was a green tomato. However much to my chagrin, Nathaniel does nothing about it. He doesn't even notice! So after waiting for a while I walk up to him and say "um, hey, I have your belt." He turns around and says "Oh, did you need one? You can have it, I've got plenty."

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