D+A (5.5.09)

1. Stephen and I are in a tall tower next to my parents' house in Victoria. He is craving a tomato and I tell him that our neighbors, the Buellers, grow beautiful, ripe tomatoes in their back yard. We decide to sneak onto their property and steal a couple, so we descend from the tower and begin walking down the street. As we round the corner of the block, we witness Mr. Bueller (a crazy-looking old man both in my dream and in real life) stabbing a woman to death. We both freak out and run into my parents' yard to hide. While peeking through the fence, we see him bring a large trash can full of blood and water and the body of his victim and place it with the other trash cans at the edge of our driveway. I run inside and try to explain to my parents that they are being framed for murder. They don't seem to be worried about it at all, and I was trying to stress the urgency of the situation by yelling at them and flailing my arms. I finally decide to just call 911 and report it. As I'm speaking to the dispatcher, I am interrupted by a loud commotion in the yard off the side of the kitchen. My parents are fighting with a flock of angry birds, and through the birds emerges Mr. Bueller holding a knife and a large 2-pronged fork. He is smiling ominously as he enters the kitchen prepared to attack me. I unplug the phone from the wall, for some reason thinking that it will allow me to continue to speak to the dispatcher while gaining mobility to better defend myself. However, when I realize that all I've done is disconnect the call, I throw down the receiver and call out for my dad to come help me. He is smiling a little bit and says "I'm pretty sure you can handle it." I decide that he wouldn't say this if he was really worried and that this must mean Mr. Bueller is very weak. I lunge toward him and wrestle the knife away from him. He is very weak and I kick him to the floor and begin to cut him into tiny pieces. His body becomes paper-thin and I slice it without any blood - it's like slicing a pizza or something. I am afraid that if I don't cut him up enough he will be able to come back to life and continue to attack us. Then I see a little blond toddler in a pink frilly dress standing in the kitchen next to me. She is Mr. Bueller's granddaughter and I realize that she is in fact the culprit of all of this. She's the one who murdered the woman and moved the body to our driveway and she's also the one who wanted to attack me in the kitchen. I try to yell at her, asking what is wrong with her that she could do this. She just stares at me with a blank expression as Mr. Bueller peels himself off the floor and explains that she just couldn't help it.

2. I am in a hotel with Laura at night and we head downstairs for a drink in our pajamas. In a small, dark TV lounge we run into Tom Selleck and his teenage son. Laura and Tom do not like each other, but Tom and I are in love. Tom and Laura begin bickering and Laura wants to go back to the room. I realize that we don't have our room keys with us, so I go to the front desk to get one. The front desk ladies pull out a key with a black string attached and a key with a blue one. The keys got mixed up and they don't know which is mine. I don't remember what my room key looked like, but I guess the black one. I take it to Laura and ask her if we had a blue key or a black one, and she said a blue one. We go back to the front desk and swap for the blue key, then return to the lounge. When I get back I decide that I want to stay with Tom and he and I decide to start a relationship. He lies down on the ground and I snuggle up next to him. Laura is very frustrated by this but I decide that it doesn't matter. She returns to the room alone.

3. I am at a launch party for a clothing line in a large house. The entire house has 20-foot ceilings and is bathed in green and blue light. There are models walking around and posing in the new outfits and dresses. One model is given an antique bike to ride, but the front wheel doesn't turn. She quits, so I put on her dress, pull up my hair, and begin to ride the bike around myself. I feel very pretty and boys all around are approaching me to compliment my beauty. I see Stephen and he is getting hit on by a snotty boy. I try to discourage Stephen from engaging, but he seems willing to give the guy a chance. I move to another part of the room and Jackie comes running in with a huge smile on her face. "Did you see the snow?!!" she asks me, and I look out the large windows to see beautiful, sparkling snow falling from the sky.