Dreams and Nightmares

Oh man, if only some dreams could come true! It all started out at Aaron’s company party. Every year they pick someone as a “researcher”, and this year, Aaron won. With his new “researcher” position he got to take the year off work, he got 500 free flights, and $100,000 to spend however he wanted during the year. The only requirement was that he study how different countries felt about transformers. As in Bumblebee transformers. So, I quit my job (hello! Wouldn’t you?!) and our first “assignment” was Germany. We went to Germany and met up with our good friends, the Bensons, and hung out with them for a month or two, then went to Italy. Then I woke up, and realized, sadly, that I still had to go to work. Sigh.

In other news, I almost died yesterday. I got off work after watching a gnarly rainstorm, and walk to my car. I get in and look through the windshield. There’s a spider there. On the inside. CRAP! I (amazingly) remained calm, grabbed a tissue, and reached to squish the sucker when it JUMPED.

It was A JUMPING FREAKING SPIDER IN MY CAR.

I screamed like a little girl at that point. It was jumping around on the dashboard and then went down the air vent. I was picturing it jumping out at me from the air vent aimed at my face, so I turned on the defroster full blast. It came jumping back out but this time it had 2 of its million legs reared up in the air like it was angry. I lost my remaining nerve then and decided I would just drive to pick up my sister in law and let it burn in the heat. It’s amazing I didn’t get into a wreck on the way though, because I spent more time looking at the air vent than the road! When Jacque got in the car I told her about it and we both got tissues and cornered it. Jacque’s tissue got it and we screamed like little girls again and threw it out the window. It’s amazing we made it out alive!