Temerity Jane

I need to remember this one.

So I’m working from home today, because I would be the only one actually IN the office if I went in, and I can just as easily do everything I need to do sitting here as I could from my desk 35 miles away, so home it is. Obviously, since my commute is so long, cutting out the whole commute part of my morning (along with the showering and getting dressed parts, of course) allows me to sleep in until just before 10am, instead of getting up at 8am.

So of course, I woke up at 7am.

It was a false alarm, though, and I eventually went back to sleep, only to have this long and weird epic dream that involved me driving through the world’s weirdest parking garage and repeatedly driving my car into walls (and getting phsyically impossibly placed and arranged dents in my car while doing it), a party full of small, thuggish children – the girls knew how to step dance and the boys knew how to do cartwheels, an old friend’s uncle singing some sort of theme song that I’m pretty sure was from the Transformers, and… ok, none of this makes any sense, and apparently it didn’t in the dream, either.

So anyway, at one point in this dream, my dad and I (because my dad was suddenly there) are standing at the hood of my car, noticing how one of my bumps in the parking garage had managed to crinkle my hood all the way across like wrapping paper, once you crumble it up and smooth it back out, and I was telling him I didn’t want to talk about it.

Then he walks over to the driver’s side window, looks inside, and says,

“YOUR CAR… needs gas.”

Now, having had quite the day, what with bumping my car into walls and little thuggish children, I assume that dream-me had had quite enough, and so turned to my father and said,

“So what are you going to do? GET ALL CONFRONTATIONAL AND UNNECESSARY ABOUT IT?”

And in my dream, this outburst completely diffused the situation, and since it worked in dream world, I am of course convinced that it is the key to avoiding all similar real life situations, so after I finish working today, I’m pretty much just gonna run around trying to give people minor, insignificant reasons to yellat me so that I can test that line out on them.