Ok, so apparently when you're pregnant you have crazy vivid dreams much more frequently than not... and that is true. Here is my most recent and it actually makes a decent amount of sense....
It's long, but it's funny. Here it goes:
So, my parents were up for my graduation and we were planning on going to a concert in Salt Lake one of the nights that they were here. So, we all (parents, Sean and I...) jumped into my parents minivan and headed off to Salt Lake. On the way, we realized that we were an hour ahead of schedule. It was perfect because I still had some last minute projects I needed to finish before I could graduate two days later. So, I had my parents drop me off at another university that was on the way to Salt Lake. This university focused on computer engineering and robots [I'm serious....]. I had to go to this University so that I could gather some qualitative data for one of my projects.
I walked into the University and made my way to the cafeteria/gym area. There were thousands of students there working on computers and building robots of some kind. I went and sat down in an empty chair next to student. This girl was busy building a robot and asked me if I could help her. I didn't want to give away the fact that I wasn't a student at that university for fear that that might bias the data [silly...] I said of course I would. She started asking me all these complicated things that I had no earthly idea what they meant.... I tried to act like I hadn't taken those types of classes in years....
Another guy came and sat down next to me. He was kinda bigger and weird and started asking me all these questions about myself. It was weird... I was trying to do research and he was flirting with me... I tried to gently blow him off and he left. I turned to the other girl next to me to figure out why there were thousands of students in the gym at 10 pm on a Friday night building robots.... Apparently, their school got a grant of $200,000 for them to build robots, but they had to use that money before the weekend ended or else they would loose the money. Everyone was pretty bummed about the timing of the whole thing because apparently their university was in a town that's main source of income was in dairy farms and that night was the annual Milk Festival [for reals....]! Once a year the town shuts down and there is a huge festival with carnival rides, cow shows, milk drinking contests and everything. Apparently it's the greatest thing of the year. But, being good students, everyone wanted to use the money to further their robot studies so they decided to opt out of the festival to build robots.
At this point she was pretty convinced that I wasn't a student there because I had no idea about robots or the Milk Festival and she started questioning even more and I was about to tell her the truth when all the lights turned off. The cafeteria doors slammed open and a spotlight shown down on that weird guy that sat next to me earlier. He had a microphone in his hand and he started singing a love song that he made up for me. He ran all over the cafeteria and jumped up on tables singing this song about how much he loved my robot brains and that if we weren't building robots that he would take me to the Milk Festival that night. I was quite embarrassed to say the least. His song ended with him on his knees arms outstretched in front of me asking me out for next weekend.
Ahh!!!
The entire student body had watched his presentation and were sitting at the edge of their seats waiting for my answer. I gently told him to get off of the floor and to sit by me. I put my arm around him and said, "I'm married... and 4 months pregnant..... I'm off the market......good luck!" and I left. I calmly walked out of the cafeteria and once those doors closed I ran out to the parking lot. Aughh... I was so embarrassed and I felt so bad for that guy....
At this point I was pretty hungry [pregnant...] and so I pulled out a granola bar and started eating it. My phone was also the granola bar [weird...] so I couldn't eat all of it or else I couldn't call the husband or my parents to come pick me up. I tried to dial my husbands number to let him know I was done with my project and that we should head to the concert. It was very difficult to dial my husband's number [imagine using a granola bar as a phone.....no real buttons, you just have to do it by feel.....], but I eventually got it and he answered but all I could here was the concert. It had already started, he only accidentally answered the phone and couldn't hear me. I tried screaming his name, but it was to no avail. I hung up and took another bite out of my granola bar.
At this point it was pretty late and dark out and I figured standing by myself in the middle of an empty parking lot was the safest thing for me to do and there was no way I was going to go back into that school. Luckily, there was a Burger King right next to the University and I thought that staying in there would be safer than staying outside so I made my way inside of BK. As I walked in the BK worker guy behind the counter was like, "Ehh! Hola chickita! alhowiefash [random muttering in Spanish...]" I ignored him and tried to find a seat so I could figure out what to do next.
Most of the tables were full, but I did spot one empty seat. I went over and sat down. To my surprise, I was sharing a table with an old friend of mine, Laci! Apparently, she wasn't studying trombone anymore, but had changed her major to Robot Building and was now attending that University! She was upset that she couldn't make it to the Milk Festival but had no intention of spending a Friday night building robots so she was just hanging out at BK. Random!
Well, this turned out to be great news because she had a phone that was not a granola bar. Bingo! I asked her if I could borrow her phone so I could call my mom or dad to come pick me up. As soon as I got her phone I realized that I didn't have either of those numbers memorized and since my phone was a granola bar with no screen, I couldn't look up their numbers in my phone, either... Dang it!! What was I going to do!??
Turns out, Laci had Abby's number, a mutual friend from middle school [true story] and I gave her a call. I told her about my predicament and Abby said she knew what to do. Abby called her Mom who lives in Switzerland [true story] to get my mom's cell phone number because for sure she would have it. BINGO! I told Abby where I was at so that she could tell her mom so that she could tell my mom so that she could come pick me up.
Perfect!!!
I spent the next few minutes eating a cheese burger and fries [I had finished my granola bar at this point] with Laci while we chatted until my parents came and picked me up. It was so nice to catch up with her! My parents and husband arrived and then we took off to go finish the concert.
The End.
Wasn't that the craziest dream you've ever heard? Well....not the craziest...but it was probably the longest most cohesive dream I have ever ever had.
Anyways...... Hope that made you laugh just a little bit.... :)
Another guy came and sat down next to me. He was kinda bigger and weird and started asking me all these questions about myself. It was weird... I was trying to do research and he was flirting with me... I tried to gently blow him off and he left. I turned to the other girl next to me to figure out why there were thousands of students in the gym at 10 pm on a Friday night building robots.... Apparently, their school got a grant of $200,000 for them to build robots, but they had to use that money before the weekend ended or else they would loose the money. Everyone was pretty bummed about the timing of the whole thing because apparently their university was in a town that's main source of income was in dairy farms and that night was the annual Milk Festival [for reals....]! Once a year the town shuts down and there is a huge festival with carnival rides, cow shows, milk drinking contests and everything. Apparently it's the greatest thing of the year. But, being good students, everyone wanted to use the money to further their robot studies so they decided to opt out of the festival to build robots.
