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The Music Box…

Remember last Christmas Eve
When we sat next to our first tree
Ornaments reflected light
Of a candle in the night

And I gave you a music box
Back then that seemed like so much
We watched it go round and round
As the melodies unwound

But all these things are now long gone
And not to be wished upon again

But the musical box continues to turn
The candle in the window continues to burn
But I know they’re just memories
Like Christmas past and you and me

Those are some lyrics that are stuck in my head from a Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s song.  The guy that sang the reprise of this died a few months back.  I don’t know what from, but he sang the “Music Box Blues” on their second album.  He’d been on the East Coast tour with them for a few years, so I’d seen him sing… He was crazy good.  He had a Ray Charles kind of voice.

And now for something… completely different.

So last night I had a few crazy dreams.  Lately I’ve been having some bad nightmare-ish dreams…. it sucks cuz I haven’t slept well.  Yesterday night I dreamt that my head was peeling so I ripped of sheets of skin from my skull.  My head was all shiny and metallic looking to me, but no one else noticed… and it was really tender and sore.  Creepy.  I think I had a headache that night so I dreamt that.

Then last night I dreamt first that I was in a college town trying to find somewhere to stay the night.  It was late, dark, and terrorists were striking the city.  I almost got jumped by gang members…I dreamt that I found this store that gave me directions, but it turned out I walked in totally the wrong direction from where I thought I was going.  Then I got a map from that store and was trying to make it to this Christian Campus house to crash for the night….. strange.

THEN last night I dreamt that I was in my parent’s house and woke up at 7:30am on a Sunday but didn’t go to work.  Instead I hung around till 9:30 when my neighbor said, “Look’s like you got up late today…” At that I realized I was now 2 hours late for work and the first service had started 30 minutes ago.  So I ran upstairs to brush my teeth hoping that someone was covering for me at work.  Then my mom came up and said, “Where’s the baby?”  (Her baby, not mine. )  It WAS in the bathtub, but now the tub was empty and baby was gone.  Then we heard a thump in the attic.  I said, “Mom, I’m sure it’s around somewhere now… trying to kill me.  That’s how these movies go.”  At that, she lifted the attic door and the baby was now a goblin thing with the scream mask on and a sledgehammer in it’s hand.  It said, “Hellow Abram.”  to me…. and my name isn’t Abram…. Then it hit my mom’s hand with the hammer.  Then I woke up… … …

WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT??!?!?!?!?

ANYway, that’s enough craziness for one night… but I was creeped out when I woke up and my wife left for work… so I got up and am now sharing it with all of you.  So with that, I bid you adieu.