dream a little dream

i've been having the weirdest mash up dreams lately.  odd combinations of people and places that don't belong together doing things they aren't supposed to be doing.  the mash up dreams are always weird b/c they involve a lot of people and places morphing.  like half way through a scene my brain will be like 'hold on, this isn't right...' and then the location changes or one of the people becomes someone else.  but this only makes everything more mixed up and weird.

tuesday night's dream started with me working at dave & buster's and ended with one of the trainers from disneyland teaching me the names of toy monkeys. 

last night involved a house with a series of rooms and when you opened the door on the other side of the room it led to a progressively smaller room but eventually that became no fun so they started leading to awesome rooms ending with a hot tub that looked like a natural spring and a water park style slide into a pool.  meanwhile, my sidekick was every tall male with brown hair i have ever known.

i got my bike yesterday!  i also got a flat tire.  and not the kind where someone steps on the back of your shoe.  that wouldn't have been so bad.  my car got a flat on the way to pick up the bike.  life likes to keep things interesting, for sure.

there it is!  totally adorable bike.  it has a light on the back for night riding and a caddy thing over the back wheel for holding my stuff.  what stuff, i'm not exactly sure but i'll figure it out eventually. 

esmeralda

andrew and i went to disneyland for a bit today.  after some rides and walking we decided to get some ice cream on main street.  while we were there we saw that box that has esmeralda the fortune teller.  it's a fortune telling machine similar to zoltar in big...

zoltar

esmeralda

anyway, andrew gets his fortune it's it's very generic 'follow your dreams and you will be happy' kind of stuff and i was expecting the same.  but it wasn't; it was very specific which made it super creepy.  so here it is:

Beware of the proposals made by a gray haired man, but take the advice and assistance that will be offered you by a middle sized and smooth faced one.  You will receive an offer to go to a small town and engage in business far different from the one now engaged in.  Accept it.  You will meet the one who will love you.  That love will be returned by you.  The first name of this person begins with M and you will be introduced at a place of amusement.

have i mentioned lately that i have a job offer for january for orem?  and it's definitely a different line of business.  ha.  but i'm pretty sure i'm not going to let esmeralda decide on my job for me.  also how would i explain that when i give my two weeks notice?  'well, i got this fortune on main street...'

anywho, i just thought i would share that because it cracked me up!

gotta hand it to me

hay!

whenever i see a picture of my hands and there is something in the picture to give them context for size, it freaks me out.  for example, the above picture.  please compare the length of my middle finger to the length of my face. like seriously, do i have alien fingers?  and why don't they look long when i look down at them on my hands??  it's so confusing.

one more example:

watch out my hands are as big as his body, no big deal.  side note, uhmm is my hairline always crooked?

is your family big black... friday shoppers?

i'm excited for thanksgiving.  not b/c i care about thanksgiving but b/c it means it's almost black friday.  i love black friday shopping... except, no, no i don't.  what i love to do is go to old navy at midnight and buy one pair of pajama bottoms.  this is my tradition that i do every year.  i also like to look at the jeans and then not buy any b/c they don't carry longs in the stores.

i really enjoy the traditions i have created for myself and i think it's a nice thing to do.  my pajama buying is up there with going to red robin for the free birthday burger on my list of favorite elaina traditions.

what are some of your favorite traditions?  hmm?

letter b, letter b, whisper words of wisdom, oooh letter b

hypothetically speaking these are mine

so pictured above are not blanks from the jungle cruise because those stay at the jungle cruise.  but hypothetically speaking if they were from the jungle cruise they would be the first two blank shots i fired from the first boat of guests i took on a tour.  what i love about my first two shots is the object lesson.  you see, all through training when i fired the gun, not once did i have a misfire... both blanks always went off, no problem.  but as you can see from the picture, this was not the case on my first boat.  one has fired and the other, well, it's a misfire.  a misfire basically means that the flat side has been struck by the gun but for whatever reason the explosion just didn't happen.

whenever i see them hypothetically sitting on my desk, it serves as a reminder that in life sometimes it's a hit and sometimes it's a miss.  even though you may have the exact same input sometimes the outcome is different.  you never know.  it's just the way of the road. 

i would love to turn these into earrings but somehow tying a shell with gunpowder to my head doesn't seem like the best idea.  LIFE!

i've been enjoying the new area at work... even working guest control throughout the park (which everyone swore i would haaaate.  actually that's probably why i like it so much.  just to be a brat.).  i am especially loving working fantasmic.  i met a nice guy working that show.  and when i say met i mean met and have unsuccessfully attempted to internet stalk (which is weird b/c i am reeeeeally good at internet stalking).  someone suggested i should go through the scheduling binder to try to find him in the park but i have not yet advanced to stage 2: real life stalking.  things to look forward to, i suppose.

i'm pretty sure the kitten sucks my life force.  she constantly want to be with me and that makes me want to be laying down.  kitten lethargy, coupled with how dark it is all the time has made me feel super lazy the last few weeks.  it's destroying my will to do anything.  the good news: i'm planning to get a bike soon and then i will be outside more often b/c i will be super excited about the new bike.  YAY.

so to recap:
bullets
boy
hiBernation
bike
BAM