Dust
Dust
Quick note. I have added a new short story to my media, but it is some where in the middle?? not the top of my text media... it is rather interesting about a god who likes beer and his ex-wives... check it out..it title "The Spring".... thanks,
I have been back a week… Shanghai is still Shanghai… nothing new… just SOSDD… so I get home last Friday from work…stop @ McD’s… double cheese, large fries… head on home… get home… Stolie on the rocks… lots of Stolie… few rocks… turn on the new DVD player…old one died a few weeks ago… so picked up a new one… so cheap... Philips… $40… not too bad… so I throw on some DVD’s… First one Star Trek… OK… just a bit lame about the Spock character coming back… then Lesbian Vampire Kills… the title tells it all… it’s a comedy BTW… wrap up the night with “Adoration”… about a kid who finds out his father was a terrorist… good plot… terrible movie… chat rooms are the basis of this movie and everyone giving their opinion…where do people get the money to make these movies… or are they all tax shelters…then off to sleep… just fall asleep… awakened by screaming cat in heat someplace down on the street… OMG… well I can’t repeat what I said here… finally sleep comes… get up… look under one of the pieces of antique furniture in the bed room… dust… oh well no big deal… I look again on the other side of my bed… see my foot prints in the dust… OMG… too much… break out the vacuum… quick once over… looks OK… get ready to go out… going to a Halloween party… afternoon party for the school… asked me to go… its cool… dress up.. SEE NEW Photo of me… looking good baby… walk down to pick up one of my buddies… get many assorted looks… no problem… grab a cab… the driver can’t take his eyes off me in the rearview mirror… no problem… the party is on…cool location…looks like an ancient Egyptian tomb…really interesting… well the kids come rolling in… my costume gets a good laugh…one older grandma just stares and stares… I guess she can’t figure out if I’m a fat man with boobs… or a fat woman with a beard… oh well maybe my make-up was better then hers… ha.. ha... old Chinese women do not wear make up… ok the party is over… rock on home… there is some dust under the place that I cleaned this morning.. must have missed it… break out the vacuum… quick once over… looks good… Oh well I plan to give the entire house a cleaning on Sunday… by now dinner time… grab a vodka rocks… started cooking minestrone soup in the slow cooker in the AM… turned out superb… black bread and soup… as I grab another drink I see some dust where I had vacuumed… I’m sure I didn’t miss that place twice… well no never mind… watch some Dennis Hopper flicks…started to watch Water World… Kevin was so bad… stop...on to the next one…Land of the Dead…great zombie flick… George Romero at his best... then for the finally…Blue Velvet… a bizarre psychodrama… David Lynch pre Twin Peaks… good movie… go to get a drink of water… more dust… it looks like is growing… well need to clean in the AM… hit the shower… go to turn off the lights… it looks like the dust has gotten deeper in the last hour…must be an optical illusion…off with the lights… sleep comes quickly…but just before I drop off hear some noise…resembles screaming… but very high pitched and very very quiet… like from under my bed….impossible… only dust under there… off to sleep… have the strangest dream… “I open the door to my house... the stairs are covered with dust… thick dust… I walk up the wooden stairs… they feel soft…my feet are sinking in the dust… start to walk faster…dust is holding me back… finally fight my way to the top of the wooden stairs…feel exhausted… my shoes are covered with dust… I remove them… I look for my slippers… I barely see them…covered in dust…start to cough… mouth feels dry… need a drink… get a glass…it full of dust… oh kaka pooh pooh, ewwww!…go to the sink and wash it out… back to the water cooler.. open the spigot… dust comes rushing out…oh no…” … I wake up… more noise under the bed... flip on the light… dust...its only dust… but it looks like it has gotten deeper since I have been asleep…got to get a drink… ah no dust in the glass… get a nice cold glass of water… off with the light… back to sleep… her the cries again… this time don’t look…now become a bit frightened…must be the soup and the movies…drop off into sleep land… dream about dust again… this time it is more real… it's filling the house…I can’t open the windows… oh kaka pooh pooh, ewwww!… I wake up in a cold sweat… need to grab a cup of coffee…brew some up in the coffee press… fry some eggs…the dust HAS gotten deeper in the bed room… or is it an illusion…it is multiplying like rabbits…yes rabbits… once they start to have babies they never stop…endless machine… more and more rabbits…the dust has taken on its own existence… I need to get the vacuum and this time really clean…look again I can see the dust in a single shaft of sunlight that is entering my living room the small particles dance their way down the small beam of light to disappear on the floor… where is it coming from…the windows are closed…the door is closed…it has taken on a life of its own…I need another cup of coffee… ah.. much better…I get the vacuum… the dust is thick…as I vacuum it into the machine it is as if it …the dust…is screaming… I’ve finished… tough job… need to rest... lay down for a few minutes… wake up… I’ve been asleep 3 hours… oh well... was going to wash and iron… well too late… get up… OH MY GOD!!!... the floor is dustier than before… I can’t believe it…I must be going mad…I go to the closet to get the vacuum… the wrestle with the door… for some reason it jammed… finally I jerk it open… OH MY GOD!!! A seven foot DUST BUNNY is wafting in the closet to kick my ass…. I wake up or was I ever asleep??? … LW
