March 2006
march 1
I'm at a grocery store on Lone Tree and run into Maria and Michelle. We say hi and stuff and all have to leave. I wonder if Maria isn't going into work today, then see it's only 8:00 and guess that she's going there right after. We all walk out into the parking lot together and my car is parked a bit farther out. I'm showing off and jump over this little chain link fence to get to my car. I go to another store, this one art supplies and such. I run into Maria and Michelle again. When I leave that store, it's night. I sit in my car waiting to back out, and it starts to do so even the car is still in park. I stomp on the brake three or four times before it finally stops. I go with Dana to a Mardi Gras party being held at Pitt. Inside the big room the party's in, everyone is just sitting at their tables and talking. There's a DJ but he's not very good. The music isn't loud enough either, so people are yelling at him to turn it up and he does. I look in my purse for earplugs and luckily have some. Dana and I are looking at this stuff they have for sale. There's a cute calendar with a cartoon dog wearing Victorian style clothes - hat, necklace, gloves and all. It's $12. There's also a matching notecard set and Dana says she's going to buy all of it for me, but I tell her it's too much. Something else I have my eye on is this mauve colored rosary. It changes to where the party is in a movie I'm watching, with Fairuza Balk and Kate Hudson. Fairuza is this demented girl who brings a gun to the party to shoot this policewoman who's watching the party, and Kate sees it and shouts for her not to shoot. Fairuza throws the gun at Kate, trying to hit her. Kate gets the guns and shoots into the wall trying to hit Fairuza, and doesn't, so tries again. This time the bullet passes by the policewoman's temple so closely that she gets burned. Kate finds out about this later and goes crazy. The movie ends with a psychic woman looking at this Greek myth style statue/figurine of all the people at the party, and the whole thing bursts into flames. I buy these small maple shelves for my room. I don't notice until I bring them home that they have 2 built-in CD players, a cassette player, a radio tuner and more. I bought them for $10.99 each. My sister sees them and wants one so I give it to her. All of my nightclothes (clean) are in a pile in the living room and I have one nightgown that she also wants (white with flowers) but I won't give it to her.
march 8
We're at the old house in Pittsburg and getting ready to move. It's the night before and we have nothing done, no packing at all. My mom and I joke that we're not going to do anything, just move into the new house with everything new. We're in the new house and having problems getting our telephone to work, so I use my cell to call the company. I talk to a girl named Maria who arranges for us to have a temporary phone number (starts with 207?). She says the company that owns the numers is based out of Miami and is associated with the KKK. I'm cooking some Asian dessert. It's kind of like a pudding, made with caramel syrup, sugar, and also has some savory stuff like onions in it. My mom makes these little bundles of fresh green beans tied with bacon, but doesn't make enough for me to have any. I'm with Dana and we're driving somewhere, and we're trying to get into this radio contest. You have to leave your phone on and when they play a certain sound you have to scream "Cat scratch! Cat scratch!" So we do and we get picked to be in the contest, and scream even more. We're at the studio with a couple of DJ's, a girl who works there and Dominic West. I'm blushing the whole time because he's so cute and nice. While at the radio station the lights/power keep going out and coming back on. The first trivia thing I have to do is draw a CD cover from a description, and then figure out the album title. I draw this picture of underwater, with plants pulled out from the ground floating in it. I guess the album correctly ("I Can't Get Enough Satisfaction"). There are a couple more games which I also get right. Some of the guys from improv club come over and congratulate me. I'm walking home from somewhere and have Pepe with me. He's not on a leash and is following behind me. I make him stand on the sidewalk while I walk into the middle of the crosswalk, and tell him it's safe to follow. There are these people after me who send this computer/robot to attack me. It comes about up to my knee. I kick it away, smash the screen and manage to break the entire thing apart. Pepe runs to me and I pick him up and carry him home. Outside my house, on the sidewalk there, is a huge stack of money. On the top is a $500 bill and I take all whole stack. Inside the house I close all the blinds so no one can see in. I go to take a shower and while I'm in there the girl from the radio station earlier comes and asks if I can do a good British accent. I say no and wonder to myself after she leaves why she didn't ask Dominic West since he was born in England. When I get out of the shower, I go to my bedroom and find this homework project I have to do. There are a pictures of famous people and I have to do some kind of presentation with them. I decide I'll group them into categories by the occupation their TV character has. I think that the largest group will probably be of police. I'm with Rose in a church, and instead of pews everyone is sitting at tables in groups of eight. The priest is dressed like an old-fashioned monk, with one of those brown robes. I'm talking about not being able to take communion but someone says that because of something I did recently (?) I am. So the priest comes over, and he gives me this drink in a shot glass that is sweet and thick like honey. It's so good and so strong that I fall over onto the floor drunk, just lying there so happy. This other kid in the church says how his cousin is the same way now, drunk and lazy.
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I go to the movie theater with my brother. The lobby is small and very bright, kind of Starbucks-looking. They have TV's everywhere where you can look at previews of each movie so you can decide what to watch. I don't think I ever do decide, and my brother spends the whole time reading the newspaper. I'm at my grandparents old house with a bunch of other people. We're being held there by this man who's trying to make us do all this freaky stuff. He brings each of us these bloody worms and tells us we have to put them in our mouth to clean them. I flat-out refuse to do it and tell him he can go ahead and kill me if he wants. He has to go see about some of the others and says he'll come back. I'm starting to worry about how he's going to kill me - if it will be painful or weird - and decide to kill myself first. I have a bottle of Tylenol and I take three, and make up this elaborate schedule of how many more to take and when. I'm still at my grandparents house, and I'm a fashion photographer. It's 2:00 and I'm panicking because I have three models due to come in half an hour and I have nothing ready. While I'm running around, Maria calls me and we talk for just a couple of minutes before hanging up. The models are two women and one man, and they all show up at the same time in their own limo. I tell them I've set up one bedroom for each of them, to relax/sleep in before it's time for their pictures to be done. I'm getting them drinks and the guy is kind of annoyed because we don't have any green diet Coke. I tell him, "If you had put that in your contract, I would've made sure we had some here for you."
march 27
We're at the old house, and my mom has gotten a mobile dog grooming company to come take care of the dogs. My mom has gone somewhere so I go out to check on the dogs. The dog groomer did their work in the van, and the door is open so I look inside. Pepe is all alone and he's thrown up. I start screaming about the dog groomer and how my dog could have run away or been taken. I tell my dad that if he does the initial cleaning in the car I'll do the stain remover part. It's later and I'm inside when my car alarm goes off. I go outside to turn it off and can't seem to do it. My dad yells at me from the house to shut it off, and when I say I don't know how he says that when I either start it up or start driving, the alarm will stop. I get it shut off and go back to the lawn, where this guy and a little boy are working on this Christmas tree. The dad is putting up little notes scribbled on tiny scraps of paper, almost fortune cookie sized. I start talking to him and figure out that his kid is supposed to be in my tutoring class. The dad has an accent and I ask if he's Italian, and he says yes. I tell him that I've heard how beautiful Italy is and how I've always wanted to go there.
march 28
I'm at this Avon store, which looks a lot like the Brentwood post office. The line is very long and I'm the second-to-last person when I get out of line to get a catalogue. A young boy who was behind me says that I have to move to the back of the line now, and I roll my eyes and say "I know." I'm looking through the catalogue to see if there's anything else I want to buy as long as I'm there. There are these necklaces with small charms for each zodiac sign as well as a kind of fortune or horoscope that follows it. The charm for the Libra necklace looks like a sideways cross, and there's no fortune with it. I look at my watch - it's 5:40, and the store closes at six, and I hope I'll be able to put in my order before they close up. The line doesn't seem to be moving. A girl gets in line behind me, and when I look back I realize it's a girl I knew from high school and had been thinking about. We hug and talk for a few minutes, and I ask her why she isn't on MySpace. She says she is but she's using a different last name.
march 29
My mom and I get a white trash bag full of old toys and games from somewhere, and we're going through it to see if we want to keep any of them. A lot of the stuff - like the board for Candyland - are scorched and smell burnt. I find a few dolls that look identical to one I had as a kid. A lot of the stuff gives me bad feelings and I don't want to keep them. It's later and I'm talking with Dana and another group of people about something that had happened at this school. The classroom was in a two-story building kind of set apart from the rest of the school. Three little girls dressed in bunny outfits (it was around Easter) had gone up by themselves to play on the second story. Dana is reading me a poem someone wrote about what happened. When the little girls were found, they were all still in their costumes but when they took off the masks, one of the girl's heads was missing, and another's had been turned completely around. As Dana reads me the poem I can see how the room looked, and the carpet had been soaked through with blood. The last line of the poem is about how it could have been prevented but "the statisticians hadn't been able to figure it out in time." I realize that the toys and games my mom and I got were from that same classroom.
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