Saturday, January 19, 2008

Snow Caps and Dinner Table Nightmares


I'm having a Phantom Toll Booth day. See below:

11 30 PM (last night)--11 30 AM (today)-deep sleep with sad nightmares and dreams
11 30 AM- 1 PM (appx.)--had a thoughtful and intense phone conversation with a good friend
1 00 PM --2 30 PM-Dink's Bagels
2 30 PM--5 30 PM-deep sleep nap with sad nightmares and dreams


I've been awake today for a max total of 3 hours and 40 minutes, and I have a slight headache and a chocolate craving. I bought a huge box of Nestle Snow Caps, aka nonpareils, and am making my way through them, just in case you needed an update. Since I've had them in my posession and in my mouth, I can't stop thinking about Eve's friend's grandmother. The grandmother of Eve's former house mate INVENTED nonpareil candies!!! No joke. I just think its really great to think about the moment when Marjorie's grandmother had her candy epiphany. I personally like to imagine that one day she was making cupcakes and chocolate chip cookies at the same time, and on the counter the chocolate chips and the sprinkles were sitting right next to each other, and the idea just dawned on her and she hopped and skipped with glee...

It's strange because I had a dream about Snow Caps in a different sense. I had a dream that I was alone in my parents house in Santa Fe, and suddenly a huge snow storm happened, and all the clouds were black and shimmery and moving really fast. I was walking around my house looking out all of the windows,watching the storm hit. The coolest part of the storm were these snow bombs that came down. I could see them in the distance falling to the tops of mountains. They were sort of tear shaped balls of snow that fell at high speeds and exploded on to the mountains, and one bomb completely covered the mountain in snow. It was really beautiful, but also really loud in the dream. When I woke up it reminded me of those scenes in Spaceballs when they vacuum all of the trees and snow off the mountains and then flush them all back out on to the hills. So yeah, there's that. Right there. I'm going to drink some water and hopefully stay awake for the remainder of the day. Yeeeeeeeeeeahh...

1 comment:

Eve-Lauryn LaFountain said...

i found out the other night that it was actually marjorie's grandmother's family that owned the candy company and apparently it was her brothers. this just about broke my heart since i had always imagined a scene much like the one you described.
in other news: bagels are delicious.