Sunday, February 22, 2009

Dreams are like a box of chocolates, you never know which Gary you're gonna get.

Last night, I dreamt that I was with my family at a highly interactive and totally awesome dinosaur museum. I think I dreamt about this place in an earlier dream. It certainly reminded me of the queue and ride of Dinosaur! Then we saw Gary Sinise with his family in the pavillion ahead of us. We sort of followed behind him, and he was definitely distracting us from the dinosaurs. He was taking pictures of the person I believed to be his son at each section. Then I went ahead of his group and jumped on this ride/photo opportunity where you sit in a velociraptor's claw and he lifts up and down like he's about to eat you. Next, we went to this big theatre. They wanted volunteers to put on a show to raise money for what I can only assume was a good cause. Gary generously volunteered and went backstage to prepare. We are sitting behind his family and I pointed out that they didn't really look like him so I thought maybe they were more distant relatives than I had first surmised. A little girl in the group keeps telling me "That's my cousin Gary." and cousin Gary this and cousin Gary that. At first, he came out and did sort of a comedic murder mystery type show, like a laugh-at-himself version of CSI and it didn't really work but probably because the audience was so huge. There were other acts I imagine but nothing of consequence. Then Gary introduced a surprise musical guest: David Cassidy. My mom kept saying how much she likes him and Gary's friends were all "I'm sure Gary would be happy to introduce you" apparently not realizing we'd much rather meet Gary Sinise. He comes back to join his group after the show is over and my mom just begins to shake his hand as I wake up. Needless to say I was pretty unhappy to wake up because I didn't get to meet him or take a picture with him or tell him that I watched Apollo 13 earlier that day.




(Then, Now & One Where He Doesn't Look As Pissed Off, Even Though I Love It When He Gets Pissed Off.)
Allow me to express my feelings for Det. Lt. Gary Mac Dan Taylor Mattingly in song:
I heart you Gary
Oh yes I do
I don't heart anyone
As much as you
When you get angry
I say "woo hoo!"
Oh Gary I heart you

After I came home from church, I took a nap and had another dream. This time I was in a pool I think teaching little kids to swim. Each lane went the same way and then they had to swim over and around. As they went through the lanes, which did indeed have brightly colored lane lines, they had to swim under this overhead thing, it was like those things they put on babys' car seats with toys that dangle. I can't describe it any better than that. Then one of the little kids asked to see the rabbits in the next room which was part petting zoo, part kid gym. I climbed over there with her calling out to another adult that I was with the rabbits (if this were real I'd be soaking wet and in a bathing suit) and she called back "Well at least they've had their rabies shots." Thinking this was an odd answer I picked one up (they were hand-sized, tiny or maybe baby rabbits) and told her that they bite but apparently I held the rabbit too close to my face as I did this and got bitten. So I held it out away from me, with the pointy fangs of death pointed towards me and not the child and let her pet the non-lethal end. Then I tried to put all the rabbits away and got bitten again on the arm. I had a slight raised bump on my cheek, just below my left eye and when I woke up, felt to make sure I did not have a rabbit bite.

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