it is really beautiful outside today. blue sky, slight breeze, 75 degrees. i met becca and her mom and aunt diane for lunch on the boardwalk, and drove there with the windows down, sunglasses on, hair flying, music loud. i’ve fallen in love with the jimmy eat world cd i bought at the big kmart clearance sale last week, and it’s great driving music. so i sang, and drove, and basked in the sun, and in my mind i was gone not to carolina but to california.
i miss california.
last night i joined the mobile bachelor squad of ron and company for some fun. it was a bachelor party, yes, but a few girls were invited. we had dinner at goode company bbq (yum) and then headed to dave and buster’s. between all of us, we racked up 2600 tickets with the idea of getting a big stuffed m&m doll for ron.
the best source of tickets was the strong man game like they have at carnivals, where you hit the block with a mallet and see how high the lights go. highest among the guys was 124, while mary clocked in with 135, and i made the thing light up crazily with a top score of 150. (ok, so mary and i got to hit on the “women and kids” scale…on the “big guy” scale i could only muster a 92.) every time i got 150 though, we got 70 tickets!
when we finally had our 2600 tickets, we told ron to pick an m&m color..but he didn’t want it! so instead, we spent all the tickets on smaller things. mary and i both got smaller stuffed m&ms, while all the guys got d&b pint glasses.
i got home, fell soundly into bed, and awoke at 9:00 to the ending of a perfect dream. do you ever have those? a dream where exactly what you want to happen actually happens? there was a point in the middle this morning when i became conscious that i was dreaming, but didn’t open my eyes for fear of waking up completely. instead, i laid in bed for forever, just enjoying the dream and hoping that it would never end. when i finally opened my eyes, the final image stuck with me for a moment before it started to dissolve. i don’t know if i’ve ever been so disappointed to wake up. i went back to sleep for another 2 hours hoping to return to dreamland, but it wasn’t meant to be.
i wonder if i’m the only one who does this…