rhapsodic dreams

Vacation Apartment

Steve and I went to our new vacation apartment at the far end of the lake. We walked into the upstairs apartment because the door was open. It was very nice and done in all white: the walls, carpet, furniture were all white. I wondered if we were supposed to have the downstairs apartment instead, because the upstairs one was too nice. I went downstairs to see if I could look into that apartment, and met its occupant, my neighbor.

I asked her if she had a key to the upstairs apartment, and she walked me back upstairs and then just walked in. I glanced over at Steve, sitting at the computer naked. I tried to tell him to get dressed without alerting my neighbor that he was naked.

She looked out the window and said that we were he third house from the end of the lake, with one of the best views, and it was quiet out there. I just wanted her to go and stop being nosy.

Then I was at the grocery store looking for Pantene conditioner but I couldn't find it. I went up and down all of the aisles and thought about asking where it was, but decided they probably didn't carry it.

Then I was back at the vacation apartment with a few other people, and one of the guys was flirting pretty heavily with me. He was funny and cute and charming. He was leaning one elbow onto the kitchen counter while I was laughing, and I realized that he was Steve. His face didn't look like steve, and even though Steve was standing behind him talking to some other people, he was Steve too. I had a crush on this new Steve.

Bassinette Required

I got out of bed because I had to urinate. In the bathroom, I emptied my extremely full bladder and was amazed at the amount of urine coming out of my body. When I was done urinating, I gave birth to a baby.

I held my baby, surprised at the suddenness of the birth. I carried it out into the living room and placed the baby on the couch where it fell asleep. I went into the office and told Steve that the baby was sleeping. I sat down at my computer and Steve was at his computer.

After a bit, I realized that we didn't have a bassinette for the baby. We didn't have anything for the baby. Where would the baby sleep if we didn't have a bassinette?

I called Damon and told him that I had given birth, and asked if he wanted to come over and see the baby. He asked me if I was at the airport, and I said that I was at home, just a few blocks away from him. He said that he would be right over. I grabbed a tank top to put on, but couldn't untangle it enough to get it over my head.

Adopted Pets

I was visiting at a friend's house and when I looked out the front door, I saw her white dog slip behind the fence to the street. I stepped back inside and told her what I had just seen, but when I went back outside to find the dog he was standing right on the porch.

I grabbed his collar and led the dog around back. He was much, much bigger than I had remembered. Another dog, this one tan, approached us at the back fence and I wondered if either one were my neighbor's real dog.

Inside the living room, she thanked me and gave both dogs kisses. I told her that both dogs couldn't possibly be hers, and she couldn't keep adopting strays. She stood up, looked very hurt, and told me that I could go. She said that her adopted pets, and now I could see many of them in the house, loved her and that she was choosing them over me.

Put on Some Pants

I stood in a shower in the middle of the office hallway. The spout came from the ceiling, and the floor was tiled around a shower drain. I was wearing all of my work clothes, even shoes, but no pants.

The back doorbell rang, and Jeff emerged from a side door. Annoyed, he asked me why I didn't answer the door. I told him that I was busy, and also I was not wearing pants. He headed down the hall to open the back door and hollered over his shoulder to me: "Put on some pants!"

Assless Chaps

The parking lot at the high school was very full, but I managed to find a parking spot on the side of the street. I walked up the icy hill quickly, careful not to slip. I was almost late.

I followed my classmates down the hallway toward the theater stage. The auditorium was filling up with parents. I saw a girl with really long hair in front of me, and wondered how that could be when Lynea had cut her hair after graduation.

Back behind the stage, I waited with the rest of the band. I peeked out of the curtain and saw Melissa standing center stage, pacing nervously before the curtain rose. A number of band members sat around her in a semi-circle. She wore wide-leg jeans cut into assless chaps, held on only by a belt. Under her chaps she wore black panties that didn't fully cover her butt.

I knew that she had cut the chaps more than Mom had so that she would be showing more skin. I tried to get her attention to let her know that she would be in big trouble if she performed wearing that. But she didn't see me.

The Artist

A woman walked into the conference room carrying a long painting. I recognized the painting, its dark blue background amateurly done. The woman stood on the other side of the table and rested the painting on the floor so that it leaned against her legs.

Looking between me and the other two staff members - one standing to my left, the other sitting to my right - she said that the woman who had done the painting died the previous night. I put a hand to my mouth as a sob escaped my lips and my seated coworker turned to look at me.

I couldn't tell my coworker that I had known the painting's artist from my last job, and that the painting had hung above the office door there. I just stared at the painting as the woman holding it told us that the artist's last gasping words were to pass the painting on to our office.

Tears welled up in my eyes. I would miss the artist dearly.

Race Detour

It was a bright and sunny afternoon and I was in the middle of a car race, and I was ahead of everyone by quite a large distance.

Steve, sitting in the passenger seat, pointed toward a warehouse toward my left, but I was too concentrated on driving fast and winning to take my eyes off the road and look to see why he was pointing.

Steve pointed again and, glancing out my left window, I saw a small street market with tents and a lot of people in front of the warehouse. He wanted me to drive through the market, sure it would be a shortcut.

I was skeptical of the shortcut, but gave it a try anyway. I drove through the congested market, and we popped back onto the course just behind the car now in first place. I was upset that the shortcut had cost me ground.

I pushed my car to its limits and won first place by a nose. I drove to my parents' house and prepared for the crowds to follow and congratulate me on my win. I knew that they would ask how many vacuums I own, so I went to the root cellar to count them.

I pushed Tiger out of the way because he was sleeping in front of the door. I counted two vacuums plus the one out front. I turned off the light and closed the door over Tiger. I pushed him a bit with my foot si that he fit under the door better, and then I went upstairs.

Melissa and one of her friends sat in the living room and asked me a question. I didn't know how to answer.

Garden Snakes

I was holding a bunch of small, green garden snakes in my left hand. I took two snakes and put them around someone's neck like a garland. Wiggling in my hand, a snake bit me and it felt like a pinprick.

I couldn't let go of them, and they all started biting my hand repeatedly. It hurt, but wasn't drawing blood. One snake clamped on and wouldn't let go. With my right hand I grabbed him right behind his jaw joint and he let go, and then twisted his head around and bit the fingers holding onto his jaw.

Gym Locker Room

I walked into the gym locker room after my workout and was shocked that all of the lockers had been torn out. I glanced at the shower and saw that the only stall was empty. I was surprised at how large the locker room was without any of the lockers, but knew they would be replacing the old wooden ones with bright red lockers with attached locks.

I grabbed a towel and headed back to the shower, but when I got back to it there was a man in the shower. He was so tall that I could see his entire head over the shower door. I stopped and stared at him in the shower, wondering if the men's locker room was completely disabled.

I turned to my right and saw three women in the hot tub. I was on my period and really wanted a shower, but decided the hot tub would be better than waiting for the man to get out of the shower.

I put my towel down and stepped into the hot tub without removing any of my clothes. I worried about my menstrual blood seeping into the hot tub and stopped, standing knee-deep in the hot tub, not knowing what to do.

Blood Drawn

I was sitting in my doctor's lab getting blood drawn because I was pregnant. The lab tech pressed a green plastic thing, instead of a rubber band, into the crook of my arm to bring the vein to the surface. She poked me with a large needle and was able to fill it with my blood.

Another nurse who was observing widened her eyes and told me that my blood was very expensive because it had special enzymes in it. They decided to take another vial of blood from my other arm, even after I told them that the vein is difficult to find in my other arm.

She poked around for a bit until she finally found the vein. I wondered how this pregnancy would affect my and Steve's relationship, whether we would get married or not. I worried about meeting his parents for the first time while I was pregnant. But I was mostly worried about losing the baby like last time.

Car Inspection

I was leaving church with Tina, both of us upset that her brother was being a jerk. I had parked diagonally down one street, near the end while she parked elsewhere so we said goodbye and parted ways.

I got into my car and had to back down the long one-way street to leave, and I went faster than I should have. The car at the beginning of the street was parked such that its bumper hung into the street further than everyone else's. I saw it with enough time to slow down, but I didn't slow down and I hit the bumper with my own.

I was going to keep driving, but realized that the hit was audible enough that others probably had heard it. I stopped my car, got out, and went over to look at the other car only to find no scratch. A small chunk had come off of my rear bumper, but the rusty car I had hit had no scratch.

Amanda was getting out of her car with her registration, and she told me that the church had a car inspector who would inspect cars for free. He looked over her car and signed the paper before heading back into the church.

I grabbed my registration and saw that my inspection was due that month and should have him look at mine. But I thought about the ding on my bumper and worried that it would lower the value of my car. I drove home and, once there, I decided that I should have the inspector look at it anyway.

Dad wanted to go with me and tried to get into the driver's seat. I told him firmly that he would not be driving my car and that he had to ride in the passenger's seat. He still tried to grab the shifter while I was driving, and I yelled at him to stop.

The line of traffic was long and I was going to have to turn left at the intersection, against traffic, to get back to the church. I wondered if I would make it in time.

Yellow Powder

I turned off all the lights in the office and locked the door because I was leaving for the day. I was walking down the porch steps when B stood up: he had been sitting on the railing behind the door. I stopped when I saw him.

He took two quick steps toward me and then stopped to look down at his nervously wringing hands. He said hi timidly, then turned and accidentally slipped off the edge of the porch into a pile of snow.

There had been bright yellow powder in the pile of snow, and it flew everywhere. He jumped back up onto the porch and, now even more nervous, avoided eye contact and stammered some nonsense while absentmindedly brushing yellow powder off his work clothes.

He managed to ask me if I wanted to go over to Cal's resort for dinner; that Cal just finished it and it's beautiful out there. He was very excited about Cal's resort, and I could hardly believe he is asking me out on a date. I stood before him, silent, while he rambled about missing me and how much he thinks I would like the resort.

His rambling stops and he finally looks up at me. I open my mouth to answer him.

Frosted Camera

I was standing in my parents' parking lot with my camera trying to shoot some very pretty pictures in the setting sunlight. But frost kept covering my camera I wasn't able to brush it off. I sat down and watched the sun set for a bit before I picked up my camera again. Only instead of my camera, I picked up someone else's small point and shoot.

Cruise Ship

Steve and my vacation was about to end. We were trying to figure out how to get back to the airport, and I decided we could catch a bus from where we had gotten one before.

We headed toward the ocean and sat with a bunch of other bustling people. We discussed which bus we had taken since there seemed to be a lot of options. We were unsure what time our flight left, which made the bus decision even more difficult.

There was a small channel that brought boats of all shapes and sizes into the area, and we could see a large white cruise ship approaching. The cruise ship was listing far to one side and was more than half under water though it still moved forward. There was a barge in front of the cruise ship carrying all of the cruise ship passengers. The ship wanted to get to port before it went all the way under.

John walked up behind us and convinced us to go for a ride on his boat. We all piled on John's boat and went out for a short ride. We passed another cruise ship also listing to one side and mostly underwater, and I wondered if there was anyone still aboard.

Steve could see a few people in the ship waving frantically and making prayer motions with their hands. I wondered how much longer they would have breathing air.

Hidden Lies

I brought Steve to the airport to send him back home.

B and I were at my parents' house, and we were going to have dinner. I went into the basement and saw Steve's legs poking out of the covers of the couch's hide-a-bed. Sure the legs weren't real and that I was just seeing things, I grabbed his legs and he woke with a start.

I growled at him to get up and get dressed because B was home. He grabbed his pile of clothes and ran into the upstairs bathroom. I walked by the door and saw him putting on his costume overalls from Halloween.

B starts to walk into the kitchen from out on the balcony when I stood in the doorway and blocked him. I said, "You know what I would like? It's such a beautiful clear night and I can see all of the Homer lights perfectly. I'd like to eat dinner on the grass outside." He was surprised, but willing to change plans.

I asked B to go downstairs and grab a blanket to sit on while we ate, but he insisted in coming inside first. I worried about him finding Steve, but Steve had slipped out of the bathroom. In the dark, Steve came out of Melissa's room hunched over and mumbled an excuse before going back into the bathroom.

B looked at me, rolled his eyes, and said that Melissa had some of the weirdest friends.