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November 17, 2004
sickness dreams
being sick = much sleeping
this morning dreamed that i bought two more old vw's. an old bug, convertible i think, trashed exterior but i think it ran. i don't remember much about that one.
the other one was a brown vanagon just like mine, except i determined that it probably wasn't diesel. the engine compartment looked funny but i couldn't really tell what was what. the paint was really nice on it and the engine cover was painted metal, not crappy trashed fiberglass like mine.
it ran, but the belts were really, really loose-- so loose that had this been real life and not a dream, it would not have run, or at least the water pump wouldn't have worked and driving it would have killed the engine eventually. my mom decided she wanted to drive it and i was having a hard time stopping her even though i knew i needed to keep her from driving it with those loose belts. the console-- speedo and stuff-- was off to the side and there was a sort of table in the very front. i was kind of worried about anyone driving it with that weird setup.
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later i dreamed that i was at the cafe where you cannot get what you want!
let's see. to begin with, i think i ordered potato chips, chocolate pie, and a diet pepsi. maybe something else.
first the woman working there said she wasn't sure she could give me potato chips, with the lunch rush coming up-- she might not have enough for later customers if she gave some to me now. somehow, the notion of french fries as a replacement for the potato chips came up. however, she discouraged me from getting the fries, "because they're kind of greasy." i finally convinced her to give me some fries, but she only gave me a very few. i mean, i like fries all kinds of ways, i don't care if they're greasy.
then i kind of stood there for a while, waiting for her to take action on the rest of my order. she ignored me.
so i asked for the diet pepsi again. she seemed annoyed. she walked into a back room and brought me a soda but it wasn't diet and it wasn't pepsi. so i got her attention again with some difficulty and asked for a diet pepsi again. she looked completely annoyed with me. i looked down and realized it was a pepsi. then, after she'd started to walk into the back room again, i realized it was diet. i tried to stop her but didn't succeed.
i woke up.
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i was so out of it when i went out this afternoon to get kleenex and movies that it was kind of like a dream, too. right now i'm watching '50 first dates' and drew barrymore is driving around in a bright yellow vw thing with a big hibiscus flower painted on the side. it is SO making me want a thing, or possibly a convertible old bug or ghia. but mostly, a thing.
Posted by lisa at November 17, 2004 03:01 PM | TrackBack
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I love the "Thing". My friend Cate's dad had one, and we drove around it it a lot in high school. It so cool.
Posted by: Steph Mineart on November 17, 2004 04:42 PM
50 First Dates is a funny movie. Big character change for Sean Astin too, from Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings trilogy to a steroids-using, lisping bodybuilder-wannabe :)
Hope you're better soon Lisa, enjoy your rest :)
Posted by: Steve Meister on November 17, 2004 05:49 PM
Get well!
Yesterday I was admiring a new New Beetle, gray/blue with a ragtop. The owner, a man in his 70s, had just purchased it last week. Said he, "I've been wanting one of these since 1953!"
Posted by: Phil on November 18, 2004 10:44 AM
ok, so a) your comment won't post right away because i have to approve it first and b) you might get a server error but your comment probably posted anyway and c) previewing doesn't work so i've removed the preview button.