what dreams may come...

i've had several very strange dreams in recent weeks and i figured i'd post them...
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i landed at the bottom of a slide/lift platform that was made of neon light (pink i think, and a bit of yellow and blue). everything else was complete black. i noticed a small hole in the wall (this by way of seeing some light through it) and crawled through. i realised i had a baby boy in my care... he wasn't mine but for whatever reason he was my responsibility for the time being. when i got through the opening i saw a room with several small men in it. and i mean really small...less than a foot... like tiny gnomes or something. anyway, they seemed nice and wanted to help me get back up to the top of whatever the neon thing was i had come down (i remember knowing in the dream that my closet was at the top). so i layed the baby on the floor in front of me and was squatting/sitting talking to the gnomes. (baby was asleep) i was chatting with them and shaking hands with them (ok they shook my finger) and handing stuff back and forth because they were helping me. all of a sudden i looked at my hands and realised there was bits of red all over them. i was confused for a few seconds until i realised that i was bleeding. looking around i suddenly knew that the gnomes were eating me. (each time i touched one of them, they had bitten a tiny bit of flesh off me, small enough that i didn't even feel it) then i realised that if they were eating bits of me, they'd love the baby. i looked down and he had disappeared. i started crawling through various openings and doorways (they looked like mouseholes and were barely large enough for me to crawl through) looking for the baby. i found him and he was crying and wailing and bloody. there were gnomes all around him. i nearly had to rip them off him and started throwing them against the walls and smacking and throwing them as hard as i could until i got him and on my way back to my starting place. i finally reached it, knowing that the baby only had a few minutes to live without medical attention and realised that due to all the bites i had received (and possibly something to do with their saliva) i was extremely weak and close to passing out. the platform/slide had become the shape of a bathtub and i struggled to get in with the baby. i knew that if i could just get in we would be safe and taken back to my closet above where i could get help. i struggled and struggled to get in, got the baby in, and then felt that there were gnomes all over my legs and arms chewing. i started throwing them off and still trying to get myself into the tub, because it was the only way to safety, but it was getting harder and harder to move, to even stay conscious...

and then i woke up.

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the second one is possibly even weirder, but it will have to wait because i'm too tired to stay sitting up and typing.

on improving Tyranus...

so think about this... Darth Tyranus should have been female. here's how the script would have looked for the fight at the end of attack of the clones:

(Obi-Wan and Anakin run into the room)
(Darth Tyranus enters. The first thing we see are black boots, the camera pans up to show leather pants that appear almost as if painted on. Camera continues rising to see she is wearing a black, skin-tight babydoll with the word "Angelus," surrounded by a heart. She smiles.)

Obi-Wan and Anakin: (In shock) "Countess Dushku!"

[From here the fight progresses basically the same as in the original, except Tyranus appears to find it amusing to grind against Anakin during the fight, while Anakin seems somewhat perplexed by this and finds it distracting.]

(Anakin falls to the ground in pain.)

Countess Dushku: "Aww... Whatsa matter? Did I make it hurt? ... Too bad... I was kinda hoping you'd join me in the dark side..."

(Yoda enters, things get thrown, lightning gets shot around.)

Countess Dushku: "I can see that this fight cannot be decided by our knowledge of the force, but by our skills with a Mʔ!"

(Tyranus pulls out a wicked-looking axe/stake/polearm and stabs Yoda in the heart with the wooden end. Yoda falls to the ground off-camera.)

Countess Dushku: "Yeah baby! Five-by five!"

(Yoda stands up, pulls the Mʔ from his chest and stabs Tyranus in the stomach.)

Yoda: "You missed."

Countess Dushku: "Damn, shorty!"

(Tyranus pulls big pipe down on Anakin and Obi-Wan, distracting Yoda. Tyranus flees.)


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Come on now...isn't mine better?

card from Beth...

When our story is told,
and it will be told
in song and fable and interpretive dance
and puppet show, people will weep with joy
and, through sobs, say,
"Today we have witnessed love.
How can our lives not be bettered by this?"

...

Okay, the puppet show response
may not be so strong.
People may not be ready for puppets.

so we have been dog-sitting for a friend at work. the dog is about the same size as our cat. black and white, with long hair on its tail and butt, ears, and the backs of its legs. its eyes faced away from each other and it had a massive underbite.
other than that it was pretty good. well ok mostly. it had a very nice disposition and liked being cuddled and held and usually was nice and quiet.
the downsides were this: it basically refused to go to the bathroom outside. we would take it out and it would squat a couple times and maybe pee. then immediately after being brought in, it would poop on the floor and usually pee again.
so therefore, we could not leave it out of the cage at night or we'd have a major mess in the morning. so she proceeded to yip and bark all night long. all. night. long. i spent about an hour with her friday night trying to get her to fall asleep so that i could then do the same. only to have her wake up an hour or two later and start the whole process over. stupid dog. i'm so glad rumpels doesn't meow and whine all night and keep us from sleeping. she's such a good kitty.
and this brings us to the pictures... thursday evening, the dog decided she wanted to chase rumpels. it's the only time in 4 days that they didn't get along. or if not along at least it was the only altercation. anyway... for whatever reason this dog decided it would be fun to chase rumpels around the house. i was sitting on the couch with my computer (much as i am now in fact) and somehow rumpels managed to run ACROSS my face and then jump off and onto the window ledge. i was left with the marks you can now see. the upper picture was taken about an hour after it happened and the lower picture was taken about half an hour ago. grr stupid animals. at least it wasn't rumpels' fault it happened, otherwise i don't think i'd be able to have her around as an inside cat any more. but since she was being chased and was only trying to get away i can't really blame her. but yes, the deepest gouge was definitely less than a quarter of an inch from my eye. and i definitely exploded and confined both animals for several hours after the incident. wow was i pissed. don't know yet if there will be a scar. not quite sure how i'd feel about one anyway. beth promises she will still love me and find me attractive if i have one. :-) so the question is do i want my face to be like it was before or do i wanna look like a pirate?

in other news, went trap shooting yesterday. that was fun. there were 6 people, 3 guns, and 250 shells.... we were there less than an hour before we ran out of ammo. lol. still fun getting to spend time with work guys outside of work.

oh, we also had 2 fish die over the weekend.

umm... oops.

so yeah... sorry about those last two. i was attempting to update from my phone and apparently verizon finds it too difficult to send long txt messages in a format anyone else can understand. stupid verizon.

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