Dreams!
I've never been skiing before. I had a dream I was at a ski lodge with Jet, Es, Stephanie F., a bunch of other people....
I remember being scared shitless of the course and being really bad at skiing (like, I was having trouble moving), and the snow wasn't really deep enough (the sun shining and melting all the snow didn't really help, and I could see asphalt through the gouges in the track from where all the skis had gone), so it looked like I was going to keep getting stuck. It looked like it could have been a go-cart race track in the summer.
There was a big open space where something happened that made me stop (I don't remember), and I was like "Fuck it, I'm just gonna follow the Italian couple" (who seemed to know what they were doing it but were taking it easy on the baby course for funsies).
This was the second course; we'd been in another location before. The second one was in or near Buffalo because there was Sabres shit everywhere. :D I had finally gotten the hang of the controls at the end of the run, because I didn't realize how I'd controlled myself and my balance while looking around at all the ads that had suddenly appeared from nowhere until after I'd done it.
I decided once was enough for me, and I wasn't going to be any good at this skiing thing, no matter how hard I tried. I took the skis off (they looked like those hard plastic ice skate guards, and when I took off the ski boots, they looked like four-wheeled roller skates. Really '90s looking, in teal and reddish-purple. I made my way to the back of the line to forfeit the skis and get my sneakers back (it sounds more like I went ice skating the more I talk, lol. Next week! :D), but Esmeralda was ahead of me on the line and waved me over to her.
This was all outdoors. I was ready to turn in my skis but the person at the booth wouldn't be back until 1:49 (awfully precise, huh)? I felt around in my pocket, and pulled out a Tamagotchi that was still on. I thought I'd had it stopped, but Jet got all excited over it, and said we would play with it on the bus. She wanted me to give it to her right then, but then the booth clerk came back, so Eggfriend went back in my pocket. Booth Clerk took the ticket of the person in front of me (who looked familiar but whom I cannot place) and gave her my cell phone (I don't know why they were keeping phones instead). I said that it was my phone, and so did someone else behind me, but as someone else held it out in their hand without looking, I took it and walked off.
Somehow it was now indoors. Freckles was playing, so Stephanie and I were dancing on imaginary DDR pads in our socked feet (YOU KNOW YOU DO IT), and a stranger was looking at us, but she was jumping up and down and clapping, so she knew. And then I went over to a table where Esmeralda was, and I guess I started to put my shoes back on, but that's when I woke up.
There are probably other details I'm forgetting.
I had other dreams. In one, I was mailing my brother $20 in a card, and I wanted my parents to sign it before I sent it out. Matt was still around in the house for some reason, and my dad took too long reading the card, so Matt saw the address on the envelope in my hand, even though I hadn't written his name in as the addressee. ONCE AGAIN, Dad ruined the surprise.
In another one, not the ski dream, I was on a bus with many other people, and something was happening and we were going somewhere (there were lots of trees and rope bridges?); there was some bartering system for something, but I don't remember any more of the details.
I remember being scared shitless of the course and being really bad at skiing (like, I was having trouble moving), and the snow wasn't really deep enough (the sun shining and melting all the snow didn't really help, and I could see asphalt through the gouges in the track from where all the skis had gone), so it looked like I was going to keep getting stuck. It looked like it could have been a go-cart race track in the summer.
There was a big open space where something happened that made me stop (I don't remember), and I was like "Fuck it, I'm just gonna follow the Italian couple" (who seemed to know what they were doing it but were taking it easy on the baby course for funsies).
This was the second course; we'd been in another location before. The second one was in or near Buffalo because there was Sabres shit everywhere. :D I had finally gotten the hang of the controls at the end of the run, because I didn't realize how I'd controlled myself and my balance while looking around at all the ads that had suddenly appeared from nowhere until after I'd done it.
I decided once was enough for me, and I wasn't going to be any good at this skiing thing, no matter how hard I tried. I took the skis off (they looked like those hard plastic ice skate guards, and when I took off the ski boots, they looked like four-wheeled roller skates. Really '90s looking, in teal and reddish-purple. I made my way to the back of the line to forfeit the skis and get my sneakers back (it sounds more like I went ice skating the more I talk, lol. Next week! :D), but Esmeralda was ahead of me on the line and waved me over to her.
This was all outdoors. I was ready to turn in my skis but the person at the booth wouldn't be back until 1:49 (awfully precise, huh)? I felt around in my pocket, and pulled out a Tamagotchi that was still on. I thought I'd had it stopped, but Jet got all excited over it, and said we would play with it on the bus. She wanted me to give it to her right then, but then the booth clerk came back, so Eggfriend went back in my pocket. Booth Clerk took the ticket of the person in front of me (who looked familiar but whom I cannot place) and gave her my cell phone (I don't know why they were keeping phones instead). I said that it was my phone, and so did someone else behind me, but as someone else held it out in their hand without looking, I took it and walked off.
Somehow it was now indoors. Freckles was playing, so Stephanie and I were dancing on imaginary DDR pads in our socked feet (YOU KNOW YOU DO IT), and a stranger was looking at us, but she was jumping up and down and clapping, so she knew. And then I went over to a table where Esmeralda was, and I guess I started to put my shoes back on, but that's when I woke up.
There are probably other details I'm forgetting.
I had other dreams. In one, I was mailing my brother $20 in a card, and I wanted my parents to sign it before I sent it out. Matt was still around in the house for some reason, and my dad took too long reading the card, so Matt saw the address on the envelope in my hand, even though I hadn't written his name in as the addressee. ONCE AGAIN, Dad ruined the surprise.
In another one, not the ski dream, I was on a bus with many other people, and something was happening and we were going somewhere (there were lots of trees and rope bridges?); there was some bartering system for something, but I don't remember any more of the details.