Guest Starring . . .

I had a very active dream life last night, this dream that went on forever, and now I'm played out, won't be any good for anything all day.

Scene 1 -- I dreamed I won a contest to go to Montreal and meet Jessica Simpson at a big weekend benefit concert. But before I left there were problems at home. This bird flew into the house. It was a big bird, the kind you would buy in a pet store, not a parrot or any breed I recognised, but we knew it was someone's pet. It was pretty tame and I could hold it and pet it and it didn't bite me or anything. I was short on time, having to leave for Montreal to meet Jessica Simpson, and Mom was away so I needed Dad and/or Lee to take the bird around the neighbourhood and see if anyone owned him. But they wouldn't do it. Dad made me put the bird back outside. I was really angry that they wouldn't help me and I had to leave the bird. End scene.

Scene 2 -- I'm in Montreal at a swanky hotel/casino (much like Vegas, not much like Montreal). Celebrities are everywhere!! They're all staying in this hotel too where the benefit concert is taking place onstage in the showroom 24 hours/day all weekend long. J-Lo, Marc Antony, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilara, P. Diddy, Gwen Stefani, Nickelback, Celine Dion, even Shania Twain (this just shows how little control I have over the celebrity guest stars in my dreams). It was a crazy mix of people, all of which I just saw from a distance across the lobby or in the restaurant, never performing. I never actually went to the concert. The time came to meet Jessica Simpson in the restaurant. Nick Lachey was with her of course. I went and sat down with them, we ate dinner, we talked. She thought the concert was pretty cool. I realised this was being taped and I might end up on their Newlywed show. They were really nice and absolutely gorgeous in real life! The both of them -- GORGEOUS beyond belief!! Nick was taller than what I expected. Actually, they were both taller. They let me take pictures of them and they took pictures of me with them. It was a great time. End Scene.

Scene 3 -- I'm on the train from Montreal to home but I can't find a seat. So, I'm walking around with my duffel bag slung over my shoulder looking for a place to crash. I come across this little room with about a half dozen people lying around on a big bed and two little cots. I go in and ask this big burly man if I can sit on the bed with him. He says sure and I make myself comfortable. I ask if this is what a room is like when you book one on the train and he shrugs so I think it must be. It's bigger than what I would have expected and seems to get bigger by the minute. Everybody is saying where they've been and where they're going, telling their stories. So, I tell them about the great weekend I had in Montreal meeting Jessica Simpson but they don't believe me. I have the pictures to prove it, I say and rummage through my bag looking for them. But I can't find them. This goes on a really long time, me looking for the pictures, arguing with the big burly guy. At first I'm kind of pissed off because I think he's making fun of me, calling me a liar. But then I realise he isn't serious and he's just teasing me. So, I get into it then and we're teasing each other, having a good time. If you've ever taken the train from Montreal you know it's one helluva long night. So, this went on awhile, other people fell asleep, the lights dimmed, and soon I was making out with the big burly guy. End Scene

Scene 4 -- It's morning on the train, bright and sunshiny, I'm almost home. Big burly guy has gone to the washroom and I'm lying on the bed feeling pretty happy when another girl on the bed (it's a BIG bed) asks me if I'm a lesbian. She has blonde hair in braids, freckles and braces. She looks REALLY familiar but I can't place her. I say no, I'm not a lesbian, which I think should have been obvious from the make out session with big burly guy. This bratty girl is like Nelly Olsen from Little House on the Prairie, early 20's, just dying to make fun and torture. So, she shrugs and says I could've fooled her with the way I've been going on. I don't know what she's talking about, she's implying I've been having lesbian relations on the train. Turns out she's from my hometown, she won't tell me who she is though, she just keeps laughing and saying, "What? You don't recognise me?" And threatening to tell everyone about my slutty escapades on the train. I tell her I don't know who she is and she can tell people whatever, I don't care what they think, but I'm getting angry and a little freaked out because I really don't understand what's going on and everything from the night before is getting a little fuzzy so I really don't even know what I've done anymore. Just then big burly guy comes back except he isn't big burly guy anymore, he is a she, and she is the butch-type love-em-and-leave-em hairdresser girl from the show The 'L' Word. This is who I was apparently making out with the night before. I'm freaked out!! The blonde girl is laughing, pointing her finger at me, saying she's going to tell everyone. The 'L' Word chick is telling me to have a good life, she's got to get off, it's been fun, yada, yada, yada. I'm feeling woozy. End Scene.

Scene 5 -- I'm back home and that bird has been hanging around outside the house all weekend, my dad says. He wants me to take care of it because the singing is driving him nuts. I go out on the front lawn to look for the bird and the lawn is covered with birds! I mean crawling with the things, all shapes, all sizes, all colours, crows, robins, blue jays, moosebirds, and more. The lawn is dead, dry yellow, they've picked all the good out of the grass. I can't find the bird amongst them and I worry that the wild birds have done something horrible to him. It's an absolutely beautiful day outside, sunshine, blue skies, a few white fluffy clouds. Just then Stacy shows up and wants to see my Jessica Simpson pictures from the weekend. So, we go inside to find them and I start telling her I had a weird time on the train, met a great guy/girl, lol, not sure who I met, but it was interesting. I send Lee outside to look for the bird while I talk to Stacy and look for the pictures. We're in the bright kitchen with the sun streaming through the windows and all of a sudden the world goes dark. It's like night has come on really quick. I turn on the light over the stove so we can see each other and run to the door. I open it and this really thick black smokish grey dust swirls into the room choking us. This is why it's like night outside in the middle of the day. I scream out the door for Lee to come back, he yells back that he hasn't found the bird yet. I'm flipping out, choking on the smoke, and Lee won't come back inside because it upsets him to interrupt a task. I beg him. But he won't come inside. The house is filling with the dust and breathing is getting more difficult. Stacy and I have to use all our strength together in order to push the door closed again. End Dream.

An odd sort of dream to have I think. I woke up feeling sad. There are some obvious triggers for some of the stuff that happened -- I watched Nick Lachey on Charmed the other night and I like his and Jessica's show. Mom and I had a conversation about Lesbianism last night and at one point I remarked that life might be a lot more interesting and even easy if I could learn to like men less and women more. Mom and I were remembering the last time Mt. St. Helen's erupted and how we got a lot of the ash here. Lee is taking a drivers' course to get his license, which scares the bejesus out of all of us. All contributing factors to this dream I think. What an exhausting sleep!

Mood: Tired
Drinking: tea with milk and eating butterscotch pie!
Listening To: Jimmy Eat World, Last Christmas
Hair: Chestnut brown (yeah, shocking, really dark today)