a Fro, a Dad, a Tornado, a Microscope

I was chasing a black lady thru a library. She was that really cute girl from American Idol that has a fro. I remember searching for her amid lots of people in cubicles. I had a team of people beind me chasing as well. It was like we were the CSI people.

In another dream Dad and I were standing in an aisle and I can't remember what he said, but I got upset. So I walked away and went to sit down by mom. Dad walked over to us, and he was yelling at mom telling her it was over. He sat down leaving one seat in between us. He said to me "you just walked away without looking," but I had no reply.

Then I was back at the house packign things up. I looked out of the window and saw a tornado. There were 4 different kinds of tornados, actually and they were different colors. Two tan, one green and one dark brown. It was as if I were in a house or on a plane above the tornados watching them. The tornadoes were lined up all in a row (like AT&T bars). They would all touch down and pick back up. The brown one was really scary and dusty and whatevery I was in the house or plane was moving around and spinning and at one point I thought we were going to crash into the dark brown tornado, but I never did. It was really cool.

Then I remember a microscope. I think I was looking at cytology trying to ID neoplasia.

Job applicant & a Tornado with Lemon, please

I was applying for a job - can't remember where. There was a HUGE black man who was interviewing me (I think it may have been Biggie Smalls!), but I could tell that he really wasn't interested in my resume. I didn't have what he was looking for or whatever, and he kept on giving the same speech about how I'd fit in better somewhere else - blah blah blah... so I just stared up at the ceiling fan. It was purple with a short shag carpet look, and rather than hanging from the middle of the ceiling, like ALL fans, it jutted out of the top portion of the wall (almost to the ceiling). Also, instead of having 5 blades like a normal fan, it had 2 and a half. I don't even know why the half was there. So then I started paying attention again.... he was Biggie was saying something along the lines of "I need someone who can solve problems" so I said "You want someone with all the answers." He said "Yeah," but then I said ...."what about hiring someone who may not have ALL the answers, but rather someone who knows just where to FIND them?" ......... he thought about that. and said "you know, thats a great point....someone to find the answers" And he hired me.

In the next dream I remember a TERRIBLE tornado heading our way. I was in a yellow house with white trim- all wood- and the wood was creaking SOOOO bad. I think we thought the floor was going to fall through. There was a small group of us at first, but then Shelly and Julie called and wanted to come over too. Mary Kay had already been at my house, but she was back in her bedroom doing something. Rachel from "Friends" was there too. COOL! so I asked everyone to help move all of the wedding gifts from out of the storage room so we could make room for us in there. I remembering packing up a bunch of tiny porcelain crayons (nude colored.... all nude)- I put them in the cabinet so they would be safe (porcelain crayons!??!!) so just as we were finishing clearing out the storage room, Mary Kay comes out of the hallway all decked out as if she was about to go out... we asked... and she said she wanted to go out with a smile. Ok then. So she leaves, and we all cram into this little storage room, Julie is the last to come in and she has a tray of glasses full of lemonade- what a proper hostess. We sip our lemonade and wait for the tornado to come.

If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself

Dad was supposed to be buying me a plane ticket for a trip I was taking. The day I was supposed to leave, I called him to ask where it was and he instructed me to check my email- I guess he had the ticket emailed to me. So I finally found it in my inbox, but I couldn't print it off... I figured I could do that at the airport so I just gave up. Shelly was in charge of packing me for a trip. I guess I never double checked what she packed, because when we get to where we were going... I had no clothes!!! Well I had clothes, but it really was only 1 OLD t-shirt and 2 SUPER OLD pairs of cut off jeans. She did remember to pack 3 different colored ribbons for my hair..... b/c I wear those so often (NO!). I remember being so irate and swearing never to go on a trip again. Guess if I had bought my own ticket and packed my own suitcase, I would've been fine.

Rockstar

I had a dream that my band had just finished touring, and we were about to announce the debut of our new album. When I went to check out the artwork for the cover, my name wasn't on there!! They had kicked me out. My band was broken up. :(

2 deaths and a train

I was at some random house with my Medlock Maddness family. I assume the house belonged to someone in my family. Everyone was the exact same age, except for Matt- he was 4 again,and very mischievous! He was running all over the and VERY close to the train that ran very close to the back of the house (so close you could touch it without leaning over). We saw Mitchell on the other side of the house try to catch him, but he ran away, and actually towards me and Julie. I motioned to Julie to catch him, and she did!! But then she couldn't scold him for being naughty, because Linda didn't want her to dicipline Matt. Then I remember telling Sue Anne that I needed a check for Meredith's _____. I don't remember what it was, pictures perhaps? I had my envelope all addressed and stamped and was waiting on the check when my mom told me she already paid for it. So I put it away, and then Meredith put her drawings away. I folded up the miniature table she had been workin on and pushed the single steel led into the ground and the table was gone. The top of the table acted like a rug when pushed into place.

I was at an apartment... but it looked like a house. It had two pools and lots of rooms and tons of windows, backed up to the lake and was beautiful. But my friends told me it was an apartment; I believed, them because when I looked at our neighbors, they were apartment buildings! Anyway, we were coming together to perform a ritual. We had a friend who passed away wearing a bridesmaids dress and we all wanted to see her one last time. Each one of us wore a lanyard with a piece of paper in a plastic pouch. There was writing on one side, but the other was blank. When we said our words of the ritual, one by one her picture would show up on the blank side of someones paper. We all were crying and reminiscing. My picture showed her and another girl in the room hugging. After, I remember looking around the room and seeing lots of hunted game on the wall, along with lots of green colors.

I also had a dream that my Great Grandma Gee died, but my mother didn't tell me. My mom told me she didn't want to upset me.................... I cried and cried and cried. I think in real life too.

Honduras and Oil

Mom, dad, and I were going to Honduras, so I was really excited to finally get to go. I know that in real life the landing in Tegucigalpa is a bit of a rush because the landing strip is so short, but in my dream it was so wild. It was as if we went from 35,000 feet to 800 in one second. THEN- two planes were coming at us from the side and one was coming at us from the front end! I was so scared we were going to crash. As we were coming closer and closer to the runway, it looked like we were going to land on the highway! I think we even hit a truck!
So I assume we landed just fine, because then we were hauling a bunch of stuff (coolers, food, cheese puffs, suitcases etc...) into a log cabin. It reminded me of going to Sue Anne's lake house in Hand Cove.

In another dream, Stacey Craig and I were driving through the hills of Northwest Arkansas. We saw a train crossing a bridge that ran perpendicular to the interstate we were on. It looked like the train was carrying huge black bins. I asked Stacey what the bins were, and she said "Well if you knew how big oil was in Missouri, then you'd know what that is."

strange vacation

Josh and I were at some beach resort, and we were swimming in the beautiful pool. Josh realized that he left something in the room and went to retrieve it. As soon as he left, some old man came up to me and started hitting on me. I asked him to please leave me alone, but he was very persistant. So I knew what I had to do. I vomited..... all over the pool!! It was so gross. Hamburgers, lettuce, I think maybe a tennis shoe! crazy stuff. The fat lifeguard just looked at me and rolled her eyes.... I guess she thought the old man was cute or something. So I left the pool.
Then all of the sudden it was morning. I was getting out of bed, but Josh was still sleeping, so of course I walked around in the dark. I went to the bathroom and was going to take a shower but it was still dark. There were 3 huge lamps in the bathroom, but I picked this wimpy teeny tiny lamp with a red light bulb. I switched it on, and noticed a new box of bar soap had been opened.... a box? ..... I think there were probably 50 bars in there! Why did we bring that with us to the beach?? Anyway.... thats not what I thought was so weird. I remember seeing 3 bars of soap in the shower, all Josh's... but I remember thinking it was so weird that he only had 3 open- I guess it was normal to have more than 3 open at a time..... whatever.

Float Trip

I was supposed to catch a train in the next town, but I was running a little late. As I was headed to the next city, I was crawling along side the train so I knew I was going to miss it. I was a little bit ahead of it, but I still didn't think I could beat it. I don't know why I was crawling, but I was.... on all 4s. As I was crawling (rather quickly) I noticed a police car pulling out behind me, so I knew for sure I was going to miss the train. It didn't dawn on me that since I was crawling, there was no way I could be breaking any sort of speed limit! I was relieved when he flew right by me.

I don't know if this 2nd part was still part of that dream, or if it was a completely different dream.... but I was on a river. There were a bunch of people there. I remember riding on some friends shoulders as if to play in a chicken fight. Some other people were 3 high for a chicken fight. . . I was on top Collins' shoulders and we swam/walked/canoed down the river, but I was wanting down because I saw how shallow the water was getting and the little pebbles on the river bed looked like they could be painful if I fell from above. We made it through the shallow part and all of the sudden, the flow was picking up speed! It was fun, we were all floating on the rapids and then WHOA, there were two big tunnel but we made it through! On this side of the tunnel the river was lined with trees with very elaborate branches that were drooping down into the water. Hanging from one of the trees was a gorilla! But it was half man/ half gorilla, and it was VERY SCARY! The man-gorilla jumped down into the water, and I jumped into the tree and started breaking off little branches to throw at him. I suppose the man gorilla ran away, becauseI jumped down into the water and began floating in the rapids like before. There were a TON of people with me. We were all floating along happily, until we saw a HUGE group of people just a head of us getting gready to take a group picture. The river rapid was so swift and we could not stop in time and we all crahsed into the big group!

Then I was shopping in this cute little boutique, and I was looking for new Burts Bees lip balm. All the little boutique had was Burts Bees shampoo. So I decided to go for the new ipod. I don't really like the ear phones that come with the ipod, so I was going to get some new ones. The only ear phones that they had were green (tolerable) and attached to house shoes. HOUSE SHOES! Why would anyone attach ear phones to house shoes? They were on sale..... so I bought them.

Power Outage

Crystal and I had gone out partying the night before, so getting up in the morning was really hard. I managed to pull myself out of bed and went to the bathroom to start getting ready, but everything was dark. I couldn't get any of the light switches to work, so I pulled out my mirror and turned its little light on (I assume it was battery operated) and went to work putting my hair-do together. Imagine a Reba McEntire haircut, but dirty blonde, very layered, and minus all the hairspray and you've got a picture of the kind of hair cut I had. I fluffed it up and went to tell Crystal about the power outage, but I noticed her ceiling fan was still working.... so strange! She informed me that the lights were out, because I failed to turn something off and it eventually ran the power down. Well I just didn't believe that was the problem, so I ran over to the window to look out on her back yard, and to my surprise.... There was snow EVERYWHERE!! It was so heavy, so it must have weighed down the power lines! Then I noticed another surprise.... MY CAR! Or "my car" in my dream...a Jeep Grand Cherokee, which isn't really what I drive. Anyway, I guess I decided to skip the driveway and park in the back yard right under a tree. I must have skidded to a stop b/c there were very deep tracks in the snow. I noticed that the tree protected my car from the snow, which was fortunate because I had a test that day and needed to be able to drive......................... then I woke up............ TEST TODAY! WHAT TIME IS IT??? whew... 6:00am.

New Mexico

My former youth minister, Steven, was now working for Razorbacks for Christ and recruited me to work on a project. He wanted me to go to New Mexico to check things out and report back. I don't remember much, but I do remember sitting in a very space-age looking food court, all white and glass with a bubble dome and rounded white plastic chairs. I walked over to a yellow and green tri-fold bulletin board, science fair style, read it up and down. I knew I needed to report back, but I didn't want to check into it that far. So I didn't do anything.

Time for a Vacation

Josh and I were going on vacation, somewhere, anywhere.... but we had to drive through "Perkins," and it was quite a town, with a "Welcome to Perkins" sign like what you might find in Vegas. As we drove down the highway, we saw that the interstate was decorated with ALL kinds of things.... an ice-skating rink, a put-put-course, Christmas lights... lots of things. All these things were along the walls of the highway- just for decoration, not threaded along the highway as a service to the people... weird. Anyway, so we get to where we're going and Josh asks me to run in and buy a bus ticket. So I do, and I run quickly b/c I see the bus waiting. When I get to the window, he sells me an apple and tells me to buy my bus ticket when I get on the bus. As we arrive at the bus, she YELLS at us (and gives us an awfully terrible face) and lets us know we should have bought the ticket before we got to Perkins. In my mind (in the dream) I was thinking... we'll, Lady, I tried that, but everyone kept telling me to buy it on the bus. I convince her to let us ride anyway, maybe I gave her my apple, and then we reach our hotel. I call my mother to ask if we can borrow her hotel frequent staying card (do they have those??) and she says no. Cause my name isn't Rita. So we pay with our credit card and start to ride up the elevator. At this point we're both carrying beach bags, mine is pink and his is brown, and he wants to do an experiment to see if he can leave it downstairs and not have it stolen. I didn't want to play that game so I brought mine with me. I was really nervous b/c his wallet was in there, and I just knew that I saw someone glaring at us using one of those convex mirrors for traffic. But, no worries. The bag was still there.


I also dreamt that I was watching a pro golf tournament. After it was over, the cheerleaders ran out and performed. They had amazing stunts and everything was all in motion, running with the stuts, trading flyers by doing the splits... very cool. I video taped it all, but when I went to show my mother the video, I had accidentally rewound it all the way back to the beginning, and we watched John Daly hit long drive. We had to say farewell, because mom and I were going on vacation. We told day goodbye, and rode off on our snow mobile. We rode to the top of the hill, and I asked if we could stop so I could readjust... I was falling off. She hollered back at dad "Tell your mother hi!"

For the first, but the weirdest dream of the night so I saved it for last, is the weird cow dream. I was working in a barn, and I saw a cow calving! It was so.... gross... but cool so I stepped back to watch. As I stepped back, I saw a bigger picture. I saw something else all slimey in the corner. I walk over to it and its a HUMAN! Like a adult size, but it was just born! And this cow was licking her, so the cow was clearly the mama. Ok, so I know the chromosomes don't match up, so this can't really happen, but in my dream I wasn't really baffled by that. What REALLY freaked me out, was that the human had given birth to another baby! (human of course). In my dream, I couldn't figure out how this adult-born thing could give birth.... So wow. so weird!

no crib for his head - no seat in church

Josh and I were pregnant and decided to go to walmart to buy some things; diapers, wipes, rash cream..... but not a crib! Josh didn't want me to buy a crib for our baby. I asked where the baby would sleep and he said said "right in between us," and there was no changing his mind. Then I saw my dad at walmart. Turns out he was trying to help us by buying groceries from a list I had made. To our misfortune, the list was from the week before, but I didn't have the heart to tell him so. Needless to say, we ended up with double of everything.

Josh and I also decided to try a new church. But for some reason, we were riding to church separately, and I got there before him. I went in and tried to sit with my cousin, Julie, but she was sitting with some old Razorbacks for Christ friends (who were pregnant) so I had to find another place to sit. Everywhere I looked there were NO empty seats. The seats were paired off into 2's anyway and separated by what looked like a car console, so even if there was one empty seat there was ususally an umbrella, a sweater, or a person in the other! So finally I found a pair of seats and sat down.
Well, I didn't save Josh's seat with anything, so an old man came and took it! UGH! So then I found some folding chairs and pulled them up at the back at the room and sat down after placing my purse (it was HUGE) in Josh's seat. I sent him a text to let him know the church I chose.
Across from me, there were 3 old ladies and they asked if I was Lindy O'Neal. The Lindy O'Neal associated with Josh. I was completely weirded out, but then I thought... well maybe they went to Jefferson Baptist (our former church) and remembered me from there (one said yes, she did go to Jefferson Baptist). Anyway, one lady introduced me to two others: Jeanie and Gladys- I wrote their names down on my program so I could remember, but then I didn't remember the nice lady who introduced me. I was really really thirsty (in real life too) so the nice no-name lady led me to the cafe outside and I got some water and some pastries from the pastry bar. After I sat back down, Josh showed up and I shared the water with him. Then he shared the water with some teenager next to him and that guy drank it all. Dry.

highschool mystery mission

The ceiling and walls of Central High were painted just like the Sistine Chapel, except with a more modern motif. The reason I was back at school is because I was looking for something specific, who knows what. So I was searching all over Ms. Schlesinger's room and the officers came to escort me out, but after I explained exactly why I was there they allowed me to stay. I wrote her a note to say hello, but she had so many notes already on her desk I didn't know where to put it. They were all colors- yellow, hot pink, really pretty. So I taped it to the front of her computer screen. I called her "Slesh" for some reason. So anyway, I had to go up to Ms. Easter's room, still on the mission. I found all kinds of colored boom boxes and then left the building. I don't really know if that's what I was looking for....

Spotlight

I was back on El Dorado. Everyone lived where they used to, but for some reason I was staying in Ashley's house. Josh picked me up at 5am. He wanted to play spotlight, but we only had these wimpy little flashlights that you get a wal-mart when you're going to camp for a week (the yellow or teal or pink ones). But we played until 8am. Then it was time for me to go to cheerleading 2-a-days. So I went, and told everyone about our spotlight game.