Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Olympic Superstar

Funny story:

Our last night at Disney I dreamed that R left me in order to pursue his dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer. I was bereft and cried constantly. I moved back with my parents and my dad saw R on tv at the tryouts. There he was among all these young, toned guys as his 40 year old out-of-shape self. And in a yellow Speedo, I might add. He did make the Olympic team and could never understand why I was so upset with him ditching our life for this because the water called to him.

The only explanation I have for this is that I'd seen on the news about the people protesting the Olympics and we took Parker swimming in the hotel pool. Somehow my warped brain put these two events together in an entirely laughable way. I guess it's funnier if you know R, but seriously, although he's a good swimmer, it isn't like he was ever a competition swimmer at any time of his life. & yeah, he's out of shape now and there would be NO WAY he'd make the team. I woke up initially still quite mad at him for abandoning me, then realized the absurdity of my dream and had a good laugh. He thinks I am just a tiny bit insane for coming up with this one, but wanted to know if he could tell his work buddies what I'd dreamt up for him.

Then last night I dreamed I worked for Scott Baio at his new detective agency in LA. I was doing work on real estate titles (which is something I did in m former life) and all the deeds for stars kept getting rejected, but the deeds for "regular" people were fine. I was so excited because Nikki Sixx was one of our clients and there was the possibility I was going to get to meet him. While we weren't busy in the detective office, we (me, Scott and the buxom blond who was the secretary) played a kind of laser tag game in the warehouse portion of the office.


I have no idea what is wrong with me.

11 comments:

Erica said...

um. wow. I have no idea what to say.

Swistle said...

I dreamed that we'd named our daughter Shannon because Paul liked the name so much, but then we never called her anything except the name we did in fact name her in real life, so I was saying, "Um, maybe we should legally change that? Like, before she goes to school? Because that is a little weird." I woke up and was really glad not to have to deal with that kind of paperwork.

Saly said...

Wow.....

I actually don't remember my dreams last night (that is a good thing)

But CA woke up dreaming that there were spiders in her bed and ED was up at 6 because there was a bad guy shooting him.

Oy.

Donna said...

I don't judge dreams because I have some very whacked ones myself.

I had a dream a couple weeks ago about lions prowling around our town, to the point that no matter where you went, you had to be escorted by a safari type guy with a rifle. And it was so scary in the dream, to see the lions just snarling and roaring so close by, just waiting for someone to be careless. But in the light of day, boy does it sound stupid.

Shelly said...

That is hilarious! Why do I never have funny dreams like that?

Jill said...

I had a dream one night that a squirrel (a squirrel!) attacked me and Joe was *right there* but didn't do anything to stop it. I woke up and hit him in the arm. He was like "what happened?" and I shrieked "you didn't protect me!"
um, what?

Marie Green said...

Forgive me...

But I have really vivid dreams like this when I'm pregnant...

Jennifer, Playgroups Are No Place For Children said...

What marie green said.

OR! Too much wacky tabacky.

genkileslie said...

I never remember my dreams except recently I dreamed that I got my ears double-pierced. This is actually a hilarious dream as I got my ears pierced when I was 9 for my b-day after begging for years. I almost passed out after the first one and they were so painful and Mom wouldn't let me change earrings for at least a year. Getting them double-pierced is the LAST thing I want to do in real life. But clearly in my dream I was rocking serious diamonds. :)

Mommy Daisy said...

Strange! I occasionally have bizarre dreams like that. Then I won't have dreams for a long time after that. Doesn't make sense.

Pickles & Dimes said...

Scott Baio? Hee!

Loved your dreams!

I just had the same one 2 nights in a row: I'm searching for a little blond girl but I can't let her see me. If she does, she turns into a horrifying zombie with a greenish-black face and cataract eyes, and then she starts shrieking and flying toward me really fast.