THE DAILY DIVERSION

Well, my wife and I celebrated four months of marital bliss last night. I know a lot of people don't pay attention to anything but annual anniversaries, but we're goofy like that. Also, it gave us a reason to leave work on time so we could spend a little more time together.

In honor of our anniversary we did the usual things: haircut, pick up a couple things at Wal-mart, look for Adrianne a shirt at Marshalls, etc. Obviously I'm joking about that, but it did lead us to something much better. While we were waiting for me to get a haircut we heard a commercial on the radio that reminded us of a friend we hadn't talked to in a while. So, before I hopped in the chair, I called him up, only to get his voicemail.

He called me back while I was being sheared, so Adrianne took the call. We quickly changed our plans from eating at Red Lobster to Bluefin downtown. This is a big difference, but a good one. Bluefin is a sushi bar just down the street from us that Adrianne never gets to go to, mostly because I'm not a big fan of sushi. However, she'll go anytime someone else wants to, and I just get dragged along. This time, however, I didn't mind going. I don't get too much time with my friend, or my wife for that matter, so it was good company. I had also heard that Bluefin's pizzas were pretty good.

We met up with John just after 7 pm at Bluefin. It was a nice evening, so we decided to enjoy the great outdoors for our meal. I wanted a tasty libation, so I ordered a Young's Double Chocolate Stout. Adrianne had a glass of Reisling, and John had his usual Miller Lite. Well they didn't have my beer, so I had to order something different. I ended up getting a Xingu, which is a Brazilian beer, which is black, but isn't a stout. It's pretty tasty regardless.

Adrianne and John discussed the various types of sushi they wanted while I went over the checklist of options for my pizza. I decided on the tomato sauce, with mozzarella & parmesan cheese, spicy Italian sausage, pepperoni, capicola ham, and mushrooms. They chose the Hurricane, Tornado, Spicy Crawfish, Crunchy Crab, Eel, and two other kinds of sushi. I tried all of them except the eel. The Crawfish and crab were both good, and I could probably eat them again. I've found out that it's the cream cheese in a lot of them that I just don't like. As long as there is no cream cheese, then I'll probably like sushi. I think I was ruined a long time ago by trying some really, really bad sushi at a place that was not known for sushi. At that time, however, the options for sushi where I lived were less than stellar.

So, we sat around, ate, drank, and were married/merry (okay, I stole the eat, drink, and be married from a wedding we went to over the weekend. I really liked that phrase and have wanted to sneak it in some conversation since I saw it). It was fun catching up with John. He's about 1,000 times busier than myself, and works more hours than he should. Adrianne is working on hooking him up though, so we'll see how that goes.

The food was really good, of course, but it had some lastly after effects. I had the craziest night of dreams that I've had in a long time. I slept really well too, so that helped it out. I know I had at least five dreams, but I was having mini-dreams in between me hitting the snooze button on my alarm clock this morning, so I probably had close to ten or more dreams. Unfortunately, I only remember two of them. I'll try to keep them short and sweet (but don't count on it):

Dream #1: I'm somehow in the middle of the movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It's not the old one, nor the remake, nor the new one coming out. It's my own special version of the movie. It ends up that it's Adrianne, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and myself starring in the movie. Leatherface is actually a teenage boy who is a little off his rocker, to say the least. There was a lot of things that happened prior to the starting of the chainsaw killings. I ended up trying to fight off Leatherface with a golf club (a putter to be exact). I'm not sure how it worked out for us, but I know I said "Run... Bitches... Run..." at least five times in the movie. I can't remember how the movie ended.

Dream #2: Adrianne, John, and myself are back at Bluefin. We're sitting outside in the exact spot where we sat last night for dinner. The patio is full of fellow patrons. We're doing exactly what we were doing while eating dinner. All of sudden this guy comes walking down Main street. He's got a baseball cap on and has his t-shirt pulled up over his nose and mouth. He's shouting about polish sausages and something, but I can't make it out. Our server walks over to him and says something (trying to keep him from bothering us) and the guy just says "Fuck you!"

The shouting guy doesn't say a word as he walks by all of the people at Bluefin. However, once he rounds the corner, four more guys dressed the same way come around another corner toward all of us. They have guns and stick us up. John says something sarcastic toward the guy looking over our table. I tell him to "chill out" and that we should just give him our money.

Personally, I didn't think I had any cash on me. I didn't that night, so why would it be any different in my dream. However, as I reached into my pocket, I had several twenties and a few fives. I tried to only give the guy some of it, but he saw my wallet (which had some bills sticking out of it) and snatched it out of my hand. Once he opened it up he saw that I had pictures of our ringbearer and flower girls in there. He asked me "Are these your kids?" I looked at Adrianne and then looked up at him and said "Yeah, that's two of them. We don't get to go out very often, and don't make much money, so this is a big treat for us to be out tonight."

The guy feels sorry for us and says "Well, I can't take food out of these kids mouths, and I can't steal your money, so here you go." He gives me back my wallet and a bunch of twenties he had taken from everyone. I actually think it was more than he had taken from me.

Next thing you know, they all run off back around the corner they came from. I look at John and Adrianne and say "I wonder how long it'll take the cops to get here?" No sooner had I gotten the words out of my mouth, at least four police cars came flying by us. They stopped right at the corner where the robbers ran off, which was still in plain sight of us. A UPS type truck backed out onto Main Street, crashing into one of the police cars. They peeled out as they took off, but didn't get to far when one of the police cars t-boned them, stopping them in their tracks. All of the people at the restaurant stood up and clapped. It was insane.

There's actually more to this dream, but I've gotta get to work. That's all the best parts of it though!

This just goes to show you... Lying can get you through life!!

By the way, I posted a new "Rule" today, finally. You can check it out HERE. Have a great day!