Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Three Scary Things

I usually have a strict policy about not boring other people with my weird dreams, but this one is too good. The other night I dreamt that I was a contestant on America's Next Top Model, and that a fellow competitor was a giant Dorito-like chip, with arms and legs growing out of it. It even had white gloves on, like Mickey Mouse. We found out that our challenge was to pose in the surf at the beach, and I was really happy because I knew I would win because the chip was totally going to GET SOGGY in the water and who thinks a soggy chip is sexy? NO ONE. But before we could start the shoot, Tyra came running down the beach and crashed right into the chip and it shattered! Tyra killed the chip! And then I felt bad for feeling glee at the thought of winning at the expense of the soggy chip.

What does this say about me? Really. I am open to interpretations.

Secondly, I thought the trees were after me again. Have I ever told you that I have a love/fear relationship with trees? I love them, because, well, they are trees and I am a card-carrying tree-hugging pinko so of course I love trees. But I also fear them. You would too if one attacked you. Remember this kamikaze leafster that came after me while I was sleeping?

So the other night, at 4am, as Nordic Boy and I slept soundly in our beds, we were jolted awake by a loud BOOM. As if a large scary item (meteor? dinosaur? TREE?) had fallen right into our house. We got up and were relieved to discover that it was only a large piece of lumber that we had propped up on our porch (leftover from Roof Replacement '08) that had fallen due to the gale force winds that have been happening around here lately. No damage, just a large belly-flop of a sound. But still. I am having tree trauma. Maybe this accounts for the weirdo dreams about Tyra committing chipicide?

Thirdly, my cell phone number? Has a very sketchy past. Ever since I got my new number, I get a voicemail message every day from collection agencies, random gravelly-voiced dudes saying "hon?" instead of "hello" and other such lovliness. I always tell the collection folks that they have the wrong number, and they say sorry and they don't call back, but new ones always start up after that. It's been kind of a pain in the nuts, and always makes me a little sad for whoever "hon" is- all these people chasing after her for her debts and all those craggy sounding dudes calling all the time. Then today, I get a message from a city police department detective asking for her to call back with the information on the "open case we had discussed earlier." Wow. I called the detective to tell him that I was sorry but that person no longer had this phone number, and he sounded absolutely crestfallen. Like, "hon" had the key to crack the case and now she had turned up missing! And now the case will never be solved!

Or perhaps I have seen too many episodes of Murder She Wrote and my imagination is running away with me. It's possible. You should just be thankful that I didn't ask the detective if he had ever heard of chipicide.

I'm out,
Librarian Girl

PS- That reference to Murder She Wrote goes straight out to a special someone- you know who you are.

10 comments:

TMC said...

Hey I've gotten that out-of-the-blue police detective call before. What kind of wacko scam could that be?! : )

Cabbage said...

wow, it's been a long time since i've read the word "crestfallen"... what a great word, though!

cadiz12 said...

knowing ANTM, they'd probably applaud that chip for showing fierceness in the face of going soggy and being unconventionally beautiful. (i'm still trying to wrap my mind around the hunchbackiness that's taking over this season.)

Claire said...

To all three things I say YIKES!

The Kelly Green Rogue said...

I've had that problem with new phone numbers before. In fact I've had my current cell for almost 4 years and still get calls for someone else. The collection agencies are often the worst because they are automated so you have to take time to call them back and let them know it's a wrong number.

Years ago my roommate and I would get calls at all hours and this song had just came out and we'd joke about shaniqua all the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECpnyfNc_P8

Desperate Housewife said...

When I got my last new phone number several years ago, I got a nasty voicemail from some woman in another city who told me to stay away from "Sean," because they loved each other and that everyone knew the baby wasn't his. I replied to the voicemail saying that I was afraid she had the wrong number. She had pretty bad luck, between the boyfriend who may or may not have knocked up someone else, and berating the wrong other woman.

Anonymous said...

It seems like you and I have reverse phone number karma. My issue seems to be who gets my phone number after I do! (e.g. The Seattle Vasectomy Clinic).

Also, Jessica and I thank you for the MSW reference! It SO just made my day.

librarianista said...

I'm sorry you've been having nut pains. Also, that nacho dream is AWESOME. I must agree that it was worth breaking the cardinal "thou shalt never share thy dreams" rule for.

Becky said...

hehe, she said nut pains. though I'm not sure what that means- did I miss something? great, now I gotta go back and reread your post for a mention of nut pains.

I move that your next post be written exclusively on the subject of nut pains.

nut pains?!?

Becky said...

ahh, I see- "pain in the nuts". I get it.