weekend update.

"it's hard with a telephoto lens to tell exactly where the riots took place."

these were the first words out of matt's mouth the other morning whilst he was caught in that state of mind where you are capable of incriminating and/or extremely creative word vomit.  never fails... matt can always count on his dreams to include one if not all of the following elements: a) war, b) matt leading a war, and c) hero worship (usually directed towards matt).  he wakes up feeling like a million dang dollars.  my dreams are often just as vivid; however, i usually wake up panicked, drenched in my own sweat, and praying that what just happened was purely fictional.  like that same night matt dreamt of capturing riots on telephoto lenses, my warped brains produced the following three scenarios:

1. details are sketchy, but i remember tornadic winds, heavy machinery, getting stuck somewhere while traveling through time, and someone trying to steal fox's clothes
2. just your your run-of-the-mill "being chased by a psychopathic axe murderer" dream
3. tubing down some huge wild-riverlike waterslide and my parents telling me they were getting a divorce

so what can matt and i glean from our respective subconscious experiences?  matt wishes he were russell crowe and i should have never let that xanax prescription expire.

new story: we don't have a washer or dryer here, so usually our mexican housekeeper washes the laundry by hand, except when she gets the stomach flu and disappears for days on end, which, oddly, has been happening on a regular basis... (?).  i digress.  so when our pile of laundry started taking on the girth of pluto, i chucked our dirty clothes in a sack and headed to the neighborhood lavanderia.  i plopped my bag of belongings onto the counter, just as some hurried-business-type walks in and stands right next to me at the counter and starts to "hover."  hoverers make me nervous anyway, but i was especially uneasy about his over-bearing presence when only a few inches and a plastic sack separated the hoverer's face and my underwear.  then the lavanderia woman inexplicably dumped my dirty laundry all over the counter top and started picking through it, all while the hoverer was leaning, LEANING, directly over my loot.  wow, is it getting hot in here?  unbelievable.  i don't care how clean you think you are... to have two total strangers sifting through and/or eyeing your skivvies all while you helplessly observe is a new and interesting level of mortification.  finally some guy from the back room came out to help the hoverer, leaving just one person to publicly examine my person effects.  no wonder my dreams are slightly unhinged.

new story: i don't know how he did it, but the other night fox somehow found the american airlines paper bag tag from underneath the bottom of his pack 'n' play and managed to eat it.  as he was going to sleep, i heard him gagging slightly and looked in on him, but everything seemed normal and i wasn't too alarmed because he'd been teething and choking on his own fingers, saliva, etc.  next morning i found the slobbery remnants of the bag tag in his bed, and the next day i saw the trusty american airlines logo perfectly in tact in his soiled diaper.  comforting to know if he were lost someone would have been able to return him to his rightful owners.

fin.