Halloween Stores, Nascar Tattoos, and Tacos

#1 
I'm walking through the brewery district in Tacoma and see a couple people opening a warehouse. I walk up to them and they tell me they're putting in a Spirit Halloween store. I mention that I worked at a couple Spirits in the past and the next thing i know I'm the manager of this one. I call Aron to tell her.

#2 
At the Federal Way Home Depot with Joe. He's looking for conduit and couplings for some work project. I walk up to two employees cleaning up some thing that spilled on the concrete. One of them is my former coworker Susan. She has a giant tattoo of a NASCAR car surrounded by a cloud of smoke on her calf. I give her a big hug because I haven't seen her in over 4 years.

#3
I'm in the parking lot looking for Joe and he pulls up with Katie, Felicia and my dad in the car. I'm pissed because it looks like they went and got fast food without me.

#4
At some kind of gathering with my girlfriends. Julie's baby Kinley crawls over to me and I pick her up. She starts to fuss/cry and Suze takes her away from me. I say something to the effect of, "At least let me try to calm her down."

#5
I'm back at the house I grew up in and people are moving in across the street. Except there's like 30 of them and they're all hanging out the front yard and their kids are drawing on cars. I try to call the cops but Craig asks me not to. One of the girls from across the street comes over and tells me (in sign language) that she's hungry. I ask my mom to feed her tacos.

Baby Time!

#1
Someone's chasing me through a house. I run outside and hide under the porch behind some lattice. (I blame episodes of Burn Notice for this dream)

#2
Suze is super pregnant and ready to pop. Her stomach's rippling and I can see the baby pressing its face against the walls of her stomach like people press their faces against glass. (It was only mildly creepy looking.)

#3
I'm standing in a parking garage and get a call from DeeJay that it's time for Suze to give birth. I run outside and wait on the corner jumping up and down saying, "It's baby time! Babybabybabybabybaby." Suze and DeeJay are walking toward me from a parking lot. Suze insists that before we go to the hospital we need to stop for ice cream and get our hair done.

Paris Hilton stole my shoes

#1
It's Halloween and nearly everyone I walk past is dressed like those blue people from Avatar, including Aron and Suze.

#2
With my dad and step-mom and my step-mom is buying a dresser from Kjersten at Eelv8 Fitness. There's some sort of beauty pageant going on at the studio and I'm trying to carefully fold up the dresser for transport (yes you heard me, the dresser folded up).

#3
I'm looking for my combat boots. Suze tells me she gave them to Paris Hilton.

#4
Getting ready for First Night. It's too early to go out yet. Start arguing with mom and finally just tell her to go home. Someone has drawn the word "BELIEVE" down the center of my face from forehead to chin- red and yellow, outlined in black. For some reason it makes me think of Cirque du Soleil. Another girl wants a giant stencil airbrushed on her shoulder. She's debating whether to do it before or after her meeting.

Location location location

#1
Shopping for a new house. I have two options on how to get to it. I can go through some long, winding hallways and down some stairs, or I can use the back door. To get to the back door I have to through Sudan, which is dangerous, but more direct and therefore easier to move furniture in. 

#2
Flying to Vegas with Suze. We have an hour to get to the airport and have just started packing. I try to book a later flight. We arrive at the hotel and I realize I have to fly home for something "real quick".

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Note: Noticing a lot of Vegas dreams. Perhaps it's a sign that I need a vacation.

Don't buy anything embarrassing

#1
At a grocery store. Samantha's in line to get coffee and is sporting a fauxhawk. Suze and I continue grocery shopping and get in line to check out. The cashier has a microphone and is announcing everyone's purchases.

This isn't quite the hairstyle Samantha was rocking, but it was the closest I could find online.

Slash doesn't like liars

#1
Back at my Grandparents' house and standing in the back yard with Suze. Some new people are moving in next door and they ask if they can borrow our wheelbarrow to help move in stuff. Suze doesn't want them using it so she tells them it's full of potting soil. I try to move the wheelbarrow out of site but Slash from Guns n Roses catches me and chews me out for lying.

 

Would YOU lie to this man?

Territorial Samurai

#1
Running a 5k, but it's basically laps around the inside of a mall. My mom and step dad are there watching. Every time I pass them they try and get me to stop and try things on.

#2
Something involving kittens and Suze telling me I can't take one home until they're old enough to make noise.

#3
Walking through the woods at a state park or something. I walk up to the bathrooms and they're blocked by a group of samurai saying I can't use this bathroom and have to go back down the hill to the other bathrooms.

Vegas, baby!

#1
Walking through Treasure Island with Brian and Brittany. I say something to the effect of, "I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but despite the whole 'pirate' thing, I've never stayed at Treasure Island." They inform me that I have mentioned that. More than once.

#2
Still in Vegas, but this time it's with Amanda and we're there for a theater/acting convention. I miss the last workshop to pick Suze & DJ up at the airport. Some how I end up getting to watch a sneak peek/ rehearsal of Glee.

Croutons, Chick Flicks and Michael Jackson

#1
Cleaning up after family photos with Suze & DJ. DJ's in the front yard trying to make croutons by frying several pieces of bread on a BBQ. He keeps tossing the soggy/overly buttered pieces out. I find this very frustrating, as I keep telling him that I'm hungry and would gladly eat them. Suze's grandma then yells at me not to forget my lily plant.

#2
Walking through a movie theater. Not 100% sure of the movie being shown but it looks like Eat Pray Love. The theater is packed. I end up sitting on the floor with a bunch of people who are obviously part of a book club. Two women down in front begin to argue loudly. Looks like it might turn into a fist fight. I look around for somewhere else to sit.

#3
In the TV room of my grandparents' old house. There are about a dozen people with me. We're all there to learn the steps for Michael Jackson's Thriller dance. We're supposed to be performing Thriller at some sort of upcoming stadium flash mob. One of the people (Michaela Ripley) gets up to demonstrate the choreography and it's nothing like the actual Thriller dance. We agree, as a group, that this particular choreography is stupid. 

Kate Gosselin climbs like a monkey.

#1
I am at my high school reunion which is set in some sort of stadium. There are pop up canopies everywhere with groups of people standing under them. My canopy includes myself, Suze, and some girls I went to school with (Aubrey Bean, Natalie Heckman, and Rebekka Gunther). Apparently we've decided to form a band and have grabbed a guy from the next tent over because he knows how to play the drums.

#2
I'm at Jimmy T's in Kent, WA for the upcoming Michael Jackson bellydance show. The place is packed. The first act performs and then I get up to talk about how the idea for the show came to be. I get ready to announce the next act, which turns out to be 3 drag kings in light-up Elvis suits. They come out and start dancing to a mashup of Cold Hard Bitch and some song by AC/DC that I can't remember.

#3
I'm at Home Depot and someone has built an obstacle course. I am competing against Kate Gosselin and some other girl I don't recognize. One of the challenges involves climbing up a giant ladder and down the other side. After the competition is over (I don't think I won) I decide I want to run the course again, but someone has taken the ladder over to the lumber department. I chase them and try to explain that they can't just steal the ladder, we're in the middle of a competition! They explain that they have no choice; they need to bring some lumber down from one of the higher racks. I try to find one of my old coworkers in order to complain.

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Note: This is a combination of last night's dream (#1) and a couple from the weekend. I actually had way more dreams than this, but I can't always remember enough to justify a blog entry. For instance, about a week ago I had a dream with comedian Dane Cook in it. I would have written about it, but the only thing I could remember was him going off on a tangent about Hungarians.  Another problem is that sometimes I dream truly depressing stuff that I don't feel is appropriate to share. This is supposed to be entertaining, not a downer.

Also, one of my co-workers sent me a cell phone pic of bacon right before I went to sleep last night. Sorry Mark. No bacon dreams.

I will name him George

#1
Am on some sort of lame game show. 3 teams: Jules & Amanda, Brandy & Kyle, and Suze, DJ and I. Jules & Amanda win a cruise. Brandy & Kyle win a trip to the desert. Suze, DJ and I win a trip to some crappy part of California. PLUS, the trip can only be redeemed 2 months out of the year (I forget which months, but they were stupid). I go to complain about the prize and an employee confesses that the show is out of money. The only other option is a "fancy dinner" prize that is actually a (thawed) frozen chicken that they stole from a homeless guy who'd been keeping it as a pet.

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Note: New pen w/ built in light works awesome!

Is it an alligator or a crocodile?

#1
There's a sheep in the river. Suze wants to save it but she's being chased by an alligator or crocodile (we seems to be arguing over which one it is). We manage to lock it in the garage. My friend's parents are there and want to know what's for lunch.

#2
There's a pounding on the door and a woman yelling that she's quit drinking. I yell at her to leave or I'll call the police. I go outside and there's a group of people dressed like they're from Alice in Wonderland. A huge fist fight breaks out. I keep trying to call 911 but my cell keeps calling B11.

#3
I'm working back at Spencer's at the mall, but only for 3 hours a day. I see my old coworker Shadlow and Deej (who never worked there). My ex-boyfriend Don is lurking around the mall as well.

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Note: This may not be exactly what I dreamed but I'm deciphering several days worth of half coherent scribblings, many of which were written on top of each other. I have ordered a pen with a built in light so hopefully this will help the situation a bit.

Zhaabi? Shumba? Better ask Mr. Bean.

#1
Was at the Shaabi (bellydance) workshop I'm supposed to be attending this weekend. Somehow it ended up being a giant Zumba class.

#2
Went to see Suze to check out her new car. Rather than the '99 station wagon I was expecting, she was driving a Mr. Bean car where the steering wheel unfolded out of the glove box. And it had one of those storage pods strapped to the top of the car but was off kilter because she parked too close to a low hanging tree branch. Her brother in law decided to join us for a drive. We were driving down River Road in Puyallup and thought we saw a tornado on the other side of the river. Turned out to be a tanker truck fire.