Good News and Nightmares

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Me as Max, Leader of the Wild Things!

Mr. Brett Dennen

Well, I finally landed my first sale yesterday! (I figured I'd start off with the good news.) It was a while in coming and required a bit of effort, but it came through! Now I just hope that the set up goes smoothly! But thank you all for your support and man it feels good to have that done and out of the way. With this one sale my manager told me that I'm in the lead for the month, so even if it's only for a day at least I've been at the top, haha.

This week has been nice. I've been busy at work at if feels good to have that motivation and action back in my life. I know, who'd of thought that I would enjoy work. It really is cool to work from home and to put in as much effort as possible because you know you'll be rewarded. Quite different than just a standard 9 to 5. Also, my friend Adrian's friend from CA has been touring out in Australia the last two weeks. His name is Brett Dennen and you guys should really check him out if you haven't heard of him already. Anyways, he came to Sydney this week and on Monday played at a really cool and personal small venue. It was a great show and it was fun because Melissa came along and absolutely had a good time. We were pretty lucky though, since Melissa usually turns into a pumpkin at about 10:30 and the show didn't end until midnight and Melissa was still in human form at that time! Last night he opened for a larger band at bigger venue and it was quite awesome. This weekend it looks like we're going down south again. It's always a fun time down there and should be relaxing.

Now for the nightmares. I normally wouldn't write about this, because prior to moving here I think I had 1 nightmare a year if that. Since I've moved here it's been quite a common occurrence. For the most part I only have nightmares about spiders here. I'm not sure if I've written about this before, but I didn't feel like scrolling through previous posts and since I've just been impacted AGAIN I figured I had to talk about it. Well, spider season is in pretty full swing here, which means: I was going to try and give a cheeky answer, but just imagine an overload of spiders for you in your space and it's probably 10x worse. Case in point, Tuesday I went to pump some gas. I popped open the hatch, started pumping, and looked down to see a spider crawling on my hand. I opened the screen door to our balcony - and a spider fell down. There's webs everywhere and it stresses me out. So then the other day I was watching the news and there was a brief clip about a kid who had been bit by a funnel web and had caught it etc etc. I brilliantly thought to myself, I still haven't seen a funnel web and instead of being ignorant I should check it out online and really take a look at it so that I know what it looks like. I immediately You Tubed it and here's the link if you're interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkzlINZsXu8

That is not a spider. It's like a creature/alien. It's horrible. What is it doing on this planet? It's like a crazy thing that should've died out with the dinosaurs and who's fossil I should be seeing behind a glass window at some museum. It's definitely not something that should be around, crawling around, scurrying on it's nasty eight legs dragging its massive fangs across the earth!!! Needless to say I went for a run right after I watched that video and I was more skiddish than Ewok. I freaked myself out about 6 times. It was pretty pathetic.

Ok, that was the spider background now for the nightmare background. At least monthly I wake up thinking that there's a spider over me, on me, on the wall, next to me, or any other preposition to me. Prior to my latest "episode" I had a dream that a swarm of spiders were running up the bed on top of me. Melissa said that I at first "all of a sudden through the sheets over my head. I was quiet for a second and then started yelling and jumped out of bed". That's when I woke up. She obviously jumped out of bed as well cause I freaked her out. So we're standing there with the light on looking at the bed and she's asking me what is going on. I told her I was swarmed by spiders. She proceeds to investigate because I'm obviously not going near the bed.

It's been stuff like that that's been haunting me for the last year. Oh, there wasn't any spiders in the bed. The nightmares had begun to diminish somewhat leading up to my funnel web investigation. Of course that night I again woke myself up because I had a dream or vision of a spider going across my face from the roof to the well and perched next to my head on the wall. Sigh...

I do feel like I've been able to turn a page though, after opening my eyes to my monstrous foe. Now begins my Moby Dickian hunt. In this story though Aaron as Ahab will not lose a leg to the monster but will hopefully culminate the story with a slaying of creature known as the Funnel Web!