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i wonder what this dream means

I had such an interesting dream just now. I just need to write it down somewhere. I could go to a bbs and creep out people who sort of ‘know’ me, or I could type it out here where nobody is ever going to read it. Right away I need to say that I’ve been sick this week. That might explain why I had such an odd dream and why I was taking a nap in the middle of the day.

So, I’m about to sit down for my daily piano practice (odd, since we don’t have a piano anymore and this was in a house that I’ve never seen before. I never dream of being in the house I live at.) When I saw that I got a big package in the mail. It was from this guy, Karl, who recently sent me a video of his standup. Anyway, I open it and there’s tons of stuff in there. There was a large painting, a shadow box filled with Little Mermaid figurines, Some letters, old report cards, a ‘sour cream and onion chip’ themed plastic food playset, all sorts of stationary and small toys with fluffy white kittens, a calendar with people that got paint flicked at them. I’m sure all of those things mean something in the dream dictionary :roll:

Anyway, as I am opening all of this stuff I can not stop laughing. I’m laughing and laughing and there’s just more and more stuff and I find out there is a party happening on the other side of the house. I go in there for a moment and see all of these strangers. There was this kind of creepy little mullet guy following me around. Everyone was giving me such strange looks, like they were up to something.

So I go back to the other side of the house and it is empty. The stairs on this side have been decorated with flowers and candles and the lights are low. Romantic. I try to walk up the stairs as far as I can and when I can’t go any higher- because of all of the flowers and stuff, I peek over and see the party is still going on. I decided to go back downstairs and hide out.

As I got about four stairs from the bottom, I put my right hand on the bannister and swing up. I start to fly! I flew around the empty part of the house. But the house isn’t a good place to fly so I go outside. I think I lived in San Francisco. I try to swing on the steps outside but it’s not working quite as well. Then I think to myself, “I am dreaming. I can fly as high as I want to.”

Then I try again and I start doing tricks and going really high, above the houses. I tried not to be seen by people, but after a while I started to get a little full of myself and my new powers and I wanted to show off. So I went around to the back of the house and landed in the middle of the party.

The creepy mullet guy says, “aha! I knew who you were when I saw you! I have finally found you!” and he gets this jar filled halfway with water that has a couple of guppies swimming in it, he explains that I am a magical guppy that took on a human form after I flew out of his jar.

“No,” I say as I take out a jar of my own, “this is your guppy!”

And I look in the really large jar and, sitting in a couple inches of water, there is one of those distorted giant-eyed Chihuahua’s that you see in those crazy calendars.

Then I woke up. The end.

crazy alignment problem

So I added a wide picture in the last post, and since there's that sidebar on the right, I was left a giant blank space between the post and the picture. I thought I'd go take a personality test or two and post the results so that everything would look clean and in order.

The first test I took was at one of the "serious" places. I got my results and thought, "there's no way I want anyone to see how antisocial I am!"

So I went to the crazy "anyone can put a quiz up here" places and I couldn't even make myself finish any of the quizzes today. Maybe it's because I have a cold and I am cranky. Maybe it's because I just found out I am crazy. :roll:

gmail

I think Gmail is great. My favorite part is how you can put multiple labels on a single message. I might have one of the most organized email accounts around. And one of the saddest.

I don't get very much mail- I'm signed up for a weekly newsletter or two, and sometimes I get notified when my message board crashes. My Gmail mostly holds letters that I've written to myself. Sometimes it's a long rambling journal entry and sometimes it's a link to page I might want to visit in the future.

Here's a glimpse of my "All Mail" page:



As you can see, I even reply to myself. :(

caffeine

Yesterday I was watching Unwrapped on the Food Network and they were showing how they make Sunkist orange soda. In one of the first steps this guy poured a 5 pound bag of powdered caffeine into the giant mixer. And my first thought was, "I wonder how much you could get on the street for that?"

I even said it out loud... to my mom!

Speaking of the Food Network, I've changed "Brandi's Happy Inside the Closet Door of Happiness" to "Brandi's Side of the Bookshelf of Happiness" and (of course) there is a picture of Jacques Torres in there! I love that guy.

yeah, yeah, i'll say something about michael jackson.

I think it's Thursday. I'd have all sorts of wonderful things to write about if I would have watched television at all this week. I'm really getting tired of seeing Michael Jackson and Tom Cruise everywhere. Mostly Michael Jackson.

I'd like to address a comment that I've heard a million times since this all came out in the early 90's, "There is no law against sleeping in the same bed with 12 year old boys."

You know what? There should be. It should be against the law for anyone to sleep in the same bed as a 12 year old boy. Not a parent, not a creepy millionaire, not a teacher, not a 12 year old girl. Nobody.

spanish

I only have three more migrane pills, so after one and a half more headaches I may have to amputate my head.

Good morning! Wasn't that a happy way to start off the day?

I've decided that I am going to have to finally break down and really learn Spanish. I watch a lot of television in Spanish- novellas, talk shows, the news, that little bug guy... I can handle pretending that I know what is going on. But The Family Feud style '100 Mexicanos Dijeron' is getting more difficult to watch and I can't take it anymore. Where are those tapes?!

This morning when I checked my account status at this webhost, I found that I had 6.66 days of credit. Evil. I added about three and a half days worth of credit with a long post about cartoons. I need to stick with what I know.

hair color

fascinating!

R Kelly/ McDonald's

I am hoping that R Kelly puts down his weapon and falls in love at first sight with the lady's husband in part two of that "In The Closet" song. Then he can sing about how he's coming out of the closet. :roll:

A couple of weeks ago, McDonald's started putting out ads for their new healthy menu of water and fruit. Water and fruit! You have that at your house! Why do you need to go to McDonald's to buy something you can carry in your purse? I am sure part of the trendiness of buying water and fruit at McDonald's is that you get to pay 6 bucks for something that is practically free.

the greatest personality test ever

I took a truckload of "which ___ character are you?" quizzes just now. I was Chef from South Park, Sofia from the Golden Girls, DJ from Roseanne, Chrissy from Growing Pains, The Wicked Witch from the Wizard of Oz... but this was the best answer so far:

What Adventures In Babysitting Character are you? Compsognathus Measuring in at an average of approximately 1 meter in length, you are a tiny, agile dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic period. Your name means “pretty jaw” and some consider you to be an early relative of Archaeopteryx, which is frequently regarded as the first bird.

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strip search

Even with my extreme dislike for reality television, I need to stop and watch a few minutes of some of these shows when I pass them by to remind me how dumb they are. VH1 has started this show called Strip Search and they've been showing it a lot over the past few days.

At first it seemed that the gal who does the top 20 or 40 weekly countdown who used to be on MuchMusic was travelling around making young men strip to their underwear in their front yards. :yawn: :lol: But yesterday, I saw that the guys she picked were all living in a house together- and this held my attention for at least 8 minutes.

There's this one guy- Jimmy or Johnny- he's nuts! He's 'calling out' the younger and more attractive boys. It was late at night, and the fellas were all tired, but Johnny still had to practice and didn't know why the others weren't going along with him. There was almost a cat fight.

Then I turned it to a cooking show.

stripcreator.com

Some people at one of my favorite BBS's made some comics at this place so I decided to jump on the bandwagon.

http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/brandi

reality television

This morning I saw a commercial for the "first reality hunting show" and it made me breathe a sigh of relief knowing that over the years when I've gone by the hunting channel and seen deer and turkeys and squirrels being taken out, it's all been fake.

Reality television is out of control- and there's a whole slew of new people who are going to have shows where the cameras follow them around just because they are richer or more "beautiful" than the rest of us. One of the most pointless one's I've seen recently is called "I Married A Princess."

There's this lovely woman- she's royalty, I guess- and she's got this beautiful husband and between them they have eight or nine beautiful kids. They live in a beautiful mansion with beautiful maids and beautiful cats. The show consists of them smiling and opening presents and then walking along the beach.

:( / online dating/ cal ripken jr.

This morning I was flipping the channels aimlessly when I saw that the the cast of Without A Trace was on the morning show on CBS. I only saw the last 30 seconds so that was kind of a bummer. The guy that I like from the show was doing the most talking at that point. Man...

I missed it because I was watching a segment on the Today show about online dating for people over 50. Why was I watching that?! I guess it might be that time in my life when I need to pull an Anna Nicole- so if you are a very rich single man over the age of like 80 and you would like to try online dating with the chance for marriage (and did not watch the warnings on the Today Show), drop me a line. I'm young (to you!) and I don't talk very much! Failing eyesight is a plus!

On a completely unrelated note-

Why does Cal Ripken Jr. wear Orioles jerseys wherever he goes? He had a long and illustrious Hall Of Fame career, and he is very recogizable. What's wrong with a nice suit?

Happy Birthday Crystal!

It's my sister Crystal's birthday. I think she knows I have a website (but never visits it) so there is actually a chance that she would see if I put up a picture of her. I'm thinking that if my box of family pictures wasn't, like, six steps away in my bedroom and there wasn't a pile of papers I would have to move off the top of the scanner, I would scan and post this really flattering picture from Christmas 1985 where she was listening to a Bon Jovi record.

Crystal is the one on the left in the ancient Christmas picture a few posts down.

I need to make a card and a cake!

okaaay...

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spyware/counting/dogs eating toys

ahhh! I've got spyware on my computer and switching to Firefox only helped a little bit. I think there may be a few other things that I need to do to get it off. It looks like I need to take a trip to someplace like http://www.pchell.com.

My three year old niece, Zoe, has been counting this morning. "twenty-one, twenty-three, twenty-eight, twenty-leven, twenty-eight, twenty-leven... twenty-six, twenty-nine, twenty-leven, twenty-three, twenty-sixteen, twenty-nine" She might need to work on this skill.

My dog keeps eating toys that are left on the floor. I try to warn Zoe that Marilyn will eat anything that is left on the floor- but everyday another horse or puppy or polly pocket gets it's legs bit off. I just took a tiny My Little Pony out of the dog's mouth. I'm thinking that I should just throw it in the trash. That way nobody will see that it got ripped apart. What's better? Or worse? Seeing your pony all chewed up or losing one of the 30 purple ones that you have? These are the sorts of problems you face as a parent.

I used to lose all of my toys like this when I was little. The thing was, I didn't have a dog. hmmm.

Did you know, according to Zoe, the Powerpuff Girl's dad is named "Professor Antonio" heehee.

or i can talk about what i watched on television...

there's something...

I was watching the beginning of this Lifetime movie, the first ten minutes or so, it had the guy from Without A Trace that my mom likes. He seemed like the perfect guy, in the first 10 minutes he met and dated and married the girl from Saved By The Bell who wasn't in the stripping movie. Showgirl movie... what's the difference? Anyway, I
knew something had to go wrong but I left the room and didn't come back until there was about 15 minutes left in the movie. It turns out, the Without A Trace guy was a serial rapist! This was especially hard on the Saved By The Bell girl because she was raped two years before she met him- she confessed this on the date when he proposed to her in the first 8 minutes of the movie. Anyway, she had a plan, and with the help of (a paralyzed!) Major Dad and the neighbor lady's husband from Grace Under Fire, she caught him in the act.

You'd think that guy would still be in prison- but no! There he was two minutes later, on the case of a missing marine biologist. It was weird because this was a show from earlier in the series and I had seen the second part of that story this season. It involved twin brothers, one was a killer. So I kind of knew what was going to happen.

I only realized what a good show Without a Trace was this past year. So now I have to go back and watch the reruns. Because I am crazy like that. Oh... I need to leave the house more often.

sorry

Hmmm.......


still nothing. :(

The only thing you can do in a situation like this is take some online personailty quizzes. It turns out I am still a conspiracy theorist- I took that one again. I was thinking Where have I seen these questions before? Here are some more results:

Your Icecream Flavour is...Neopolitan!

You aren't satisfied with just one flavor. They say variety is the spice of life and this shines through in your Ice cream of choice! Just don't eat all the chocolate and leave the strawberry and vanilla behind!

What is your Icecream Flavour?

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Am I cool or uncool? [CLICK] You are a Square! You are a total dork. The pocket protecter and thick-lensed glasses give it away. Try watching some popular TV.. Get yourself some fashion sense already! On the plus side, no wait hang on, there is no plus side! Nerdsville, population YOU! Cool quizzes at Go-Quiz.com

Now, really... do I need to watch "popular" TV? I'm happy with the shows I watch, thank you very much. That reminds me! It's Saturday night and I need to see which of my crime dramas are on tonight. heeheehee. I guess I am a nerd.