Unnecessary Assetts

I went to see our local car mechanic/used car guy [Steve] and he had an old roadster convertible that he'd just put out on the lot to sell. It looked like the above pic, but a compact 2 seater 60's car that i can't find a pic of.
I told him i'd take it and he took it home for me.
But then i realised that i hadn't got any info about the car before i bought it.
I hadn't asked how much it was.
When was the rego due?
Was there any flaws in the car?
I hadn't even taken it for a test drive!
All the important stuff!
I hung around the workshop to talk to Steve about that stuff, but he was really busy and i had to wait around for a while [with the kids]. When i Finlay saw him, he told me the car was 3 grand. Rego was due this coming Wednesday [today] but he'll pay for all of it because the motor in the car had actually been dropped before being put in the car, so he'll compensate for that by paying the rego [$500]
I was pleased with that, and i hugged him and kissed him on the cheek, lots of times. He told me not to kiss him on the cheek so much, and i was a bit disappointed about that coz he looked a bit cuter than he usually did lol
He asked what i was going to do with my other car [The Celica i absolutely adore in reality!] I hadn't even thought about that.
But i said i was going to keep that too for now.

When i got home, i told John about the car. And about how i hadn't even found out anything about it before. He told me off before following me out to see it.
But in the car park, the car was actually a little old UFO that looks like a car off The Jetsons. Apparently when you lock it up, it turns into a UFO looking thing for looks.
John and i talked about weather to take it back to Steve and say we don't want it, or keep it and try selling it. I think we decided to keep it.
Then the dream went off on some other bizarre tangent......

Start Darn it!

The other night i was dreaming about the lawnmower. John can start it ok, and Rose can start it ok, But i can't. In my dream it bothered me and i was trying really hard to start it. Then i woke up because i knocked my bedside lamp over, while pulling the mower chord lol

Driving By The Pool

This is a picture of my beautiful car that i love as though it were a part of me!
Last night i dreamt that i swapped her with a friends [T] car because i wanted a change. I went over it and showed T the little things about my car that only know about.
I regretted the swap as soon as i'd done it, but i thought i better go to bed [We were sleeping at T's house] and sleep on it. I tossed and turned all night, kicking myself over what i'd done. I got up at first light and ran downstairs, crying, to renig on the deal. T was getting her kids ready for school and they were just walking out the door. I told T that i had to take my car back and i was looking for the keys. She said, "Is this about the news last night?" When i gestured that i didn't know what she was talking about, she turned the tele on. And there was a news item showing her hubby [J] in thier pool, getting drunk with a bunch of their mates, and someone was driving my car into the pool behind him!
I ran outside, and there in the sparkling clear water in the bright morning sun, was my car in the middle of the pool. I rushed over to her and pushed her out as much as i could. I got the bonnet just out of the water so i figured it was ok to start. So i turned the key and she started first turn, but i couldn't drive her out of the water completely. As she moved, there were little fish like leaches where she had been. I kept trying to drive her but the edge of the water kept moving away from me. Before long we were driving down the street which was covered in water.
Then some of J's friends from the night before saw me and tried to catch up to me in their own cars, trying to get the car back. Eventually i lost them and drove back to T's. All their friends were back there and they were partying again. I snuck in the house....

And that's where i woke up :o)

I just spend nearly an hour blogging about an awesome dream and blogger didn't auto save it and it didn't post. I am a tad annoyed at that! lol

Hello?

Yesterday morning i was woken up by the phone next to my bed. But i didn't really wake up, the noise just got Incorporated into my dream. But i was aware of reaching over as if to pick up the phone, putting my [empty] hand to my ear, and saying, "Hello?". It was the sound of me saying "Hello" that really woke me up, and i really answered the phone.
How odd lol

A Rose By Any Other...Form?

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In this dream, my oldest daughter, Alix, was living with us. And all was good. We'd had a party and everyone had left so we went to bed [John was working night shift and i dunno where Jason was] The girls slept in my bed, as is the ritual when John works nights. Alix lay across the end of the bed, Rose was on my side of the bed, and i was in Johns spot.
The light was off but there was a nice glow from the bedroom window.
We were chatting happily when we heard a noise like a wimper coming from a little storage room just outside the bathroom. I told Alix to go have a look and when she came back she said, "Mum, you're not going to believe this, but there's another Rose in that room!" I didn't really believe her, but i didn't really not believe her either. So i said, "Go and get her then." So she did. She bought her in and we all looked at her. I said, "Just put her in the bed next to me." [so i was in between the Roses. Does that make me a thorn? lol]
Rose didn't feel threatened by this other Rose [Let's call her Rose2?] Both Roses looked just like Rose did when she was about 6, Cute with a little bob haircut. But Rose was 12 in the dream, Rose2 was not. Yet they were exactly the same.
Rose2 started to change as she lay there looking at me. Her hair grew longer and browner. Her eyes grew browner too. She eventualy looked nothing like Rose but she still was.
I called John and said, "John, You're not going to believe this, but..."
And he told me to get my car keys and his car keys. I need to go to sleep with one set of keys, mine if i want Rose to be the only Rose still here in the morning. And his keys if i want Rose2 to be the only Rose.
Rose is the apple of my eye [in reality] and i knew both these Roses were my Rose, so i had to think hard. If Rose stayed, life would carry on as normal in the morning. But if Rose2 stayed, because she was a little younger, i'd miss the stuff that Rose and i had lived till now. But who can chose between two equally awesome kids?!?
I was just swaying toward keeping "now" Rose with me when my alarm went off :o)

Targeting The Lost

Last night i had a dream about a [real] school excursion that's coming up at the kids school where we are going to a place 4 hours away and us parents are all following each other down there in our cars so no-one gets lost.
So in this dream i was driving but i was the only one in the car. The kids were in someone elses car for some reason. I was last in the line of traveling cars, and when i got 2 towns over, Lithgow, i got sidetracked and ended up at a Target shopping centre car park that doubled as a security checkpoint, like at an airport. The car park had roads with arrows that went everywhere and i was getting lost. I came to a car park attendant who gave me a parking ticket and told me where to go to get out of the car park [and it was all very complicated] So i decided to leave my car there and take Johns car from there on so that i could concentrate on driving and getting out of there rather than spending all my time thinking about changing gears [coz my car is a manual/stick shift]
Then i got to a part in the car park where Rochelle [My sister] was standing outside her car. I asked how long she'd been there [She was one of the parents that was traveling with us. And that's bizarre coz she doesn't even live near me] She said she'd just got there and that everyone was there.
So then we all had to go through a checkpoint to make sure we weren't traveling with anything we shouldn't be. I found a room where people had dumped items they thought may be questionable. I had a look through some of it and took some stuff. Like a cloth handbag full of fire crackers. And a white rectangle cane basket full of newspapers from different countries that looked like good reads for the trip. A painted rock with a bead on a string and when you twang the string the bead makes music, and a few other bits and pieces.
Someone said that i might be lucky and get a checking person who is kinda lapse. But i looked over to were bags were being checked and the lady was being kinda thorough.
So i searched through the bags, looking for my own. And i made a mess of everyone elses bags and mixed things up a bit and even lost some things, causing some people to get upset. I didn't let on it was me who'd rummaged through their things though :o/
After finding my bag, i got rid of the fire crackers because i knew they'd definitely not be let through! [they are illegal in our state] and i went through the basket of magazines to make sure there was nothing hidden in there, like child porn [Eh???]
Then once i was as sure as i could be about not having anything questionable, i looked over at my car that was parked and decided I'll swap Johns car back for mine.
Then i realised i had about 20 parking tickets and i couldn't find mine in amongst them. If i couldn't produce my ticket, i couldn't get my car back! As i looked at the tickets, the writing on them got smaller and smaller until it was really hard to make out what each ticket said.
Eventually i found mine and put it in my pocket. Every so often i took it out to double check that it was mine.

And that's where the dream ended.