Have you ever set out to do something impossible?
With the knowledge that you will almost positively most definitely fail?
Would you do this impossible task...if you were ordered to do so?
We have a game in our apartment called Stratego.
Its like a board game version of Capture the Flag.
With an Army to defend the flag of different ranks.
From 10 to 2. The goal is to find the flag.
Though defeating the other army is also fun.
But, there is a little problem to this game of 10s killing 9s and 9s killing 8s etc.
There are bombs. That only the 3s could disarm.
Well awhile ago I was playing Stratego with my sister.
And one of my players...not a three, had discovered a bomb...to his demise.
well. For some reason I decide to go try and have one of my 3s to get that bomb and disarm it.
Basically my thought process was:
"GO GET IT THREE!"
And my brave little three responded: *Salutes* Okay!
He went a trudging onward into the mass of the army.
And got slaughtered in the first ranks.
*sniff*
My poor little three.
he was so brave.
Going to do his job, even when he knew he would die.
Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
Note: My blogging will be sporadic in the next week due to iffy Internet access. So if I don't blog. :) Its because I'm having too much fun on vacation :)
The Dream
My sister and I were at a wedding.
But before that point....
There was some sort of test all the girls had to go through in order to pass.
We all lined up in our fancy dresses so that a woman and her assistants could inspect us.
It seemed like we were being prepared for a competition.
And I was basically the underdog, the outcast, the poor one.
Part of this 'inspection' involved us "cleaning off."
We'd step under an overhead shower to wash off.
When it was my turn I took all my clothes off and spinned around for a quick cleaning.
Well...that was apparently a scandal, because of all the gasps and rude remarks and such.
Apparently the other girls had left their underwear on.....
Anyway. I got past, with the help of one of the guys. He became my escort of sorts.
And then we ended up in the wedding.
And I got bored rather quickly.
So i was packing up preparing to leave all the bright wedding festivities.
When I ran into my sister.
She was sitting outside (the wedding was outside)
looking at...I guess it would be an iPhone....one of those phones with all those apps.
I asked her what she was doing and she said "I heard our church was on fire I was trying to find footage, but it doesn't look like its on fire, or there's just alot of smoke. But there is a fire somewhere. We should get there right away!"
I tried to look at her iPhone to see this footage but I didn't get a clear picture of anything. She turned the phone away from me as well.
The application she was using was rather cool though.
It acted like...a satellite camera. She could access some satellite and have it focus on the area she wanted to see and give real time footage of what was actually happening. Not just pictures. Actual footage.
I thought she was still interested in the church, but my sister (now that I could see what she was looking at) was looking at houses. One house at a time. Seeing if they were on fire.
Well. She finally found one that was.
It was an old Victorian looking house that was brown in color...and I think made from wood. so a Wood looking Victorian two story cabin type house. That was on fire.
Then the video began to play and ti was like a news report.
But the screen got bigger as I looked at the burning house, until I was there in the action.
Me and a group of younger kids ran up to the house to help save the family inside.
The fire people kinda just stood and watched...kinda. They were getting hoses ready and such, but I and the younger ones were the ones to go inside the house to get the family out.
There was an older gentlemen. With a bald head/fringes of brown hair above his ears and a moustache. he was telling the story in the background. And I could see him get his family out of the house and away from it. Actually he and two others...I think they were girls were sitting on the porch swing, almost dozing, with fire burning in front of them and behind them. But they acted like they were safe.
Until the swing broke.
Then suddenly it was just the guy there. Laying against the side of the house. He would twitch and move as fire appeared behind him. But then fall back...well eventually the heat of the house and the fire burning behind him got him to move.
"We need to go now to help them!" I said suddenly back at the wedding.
It was going to be a trip though. We were still in college, and my family's home ward was 50 miles (two valleys) away.
But even though I had the intention to leave...i kept getting delayed.
With wedding stuff.
Anyway I'd gathered up everything. And i was heading out the door just as the wedding ended.
A bunch of people came out and I basically went in....I was sneaking, trying not to be seen.
And then an...uncle...grandpa came into the picture.
And another extended family person said "To ask what Grandpa did for the wedding."
So I did.
I could see the fridge (it was big, like closet sized) and all the shelves so I figured that he had hidden himself on one of the shelves during the wedding or something.
(It seemed more like a "This is what I did at so and so's wedding when I was younger" story.)
Anyway. They had a 'breakfast dinner' that served pancakes.
And my grandpa had stuck balls of dough (no bigger then a dime) in the middle of every pancake.
(I could see this happening as he did it so I knew what the balls of dough looked like)
And when people would bite into the dough.
It would explode and send martian green goo/slime all over them. (not really explode...but it was a surprise..it dribbled more then exploded, like a leaky pen getting everyone green)
The bride (in the background but also the foreground cus I could see her) was complaining how this trick had almost ruined her wedding dress! But luckily she'd noticed in the nick of time to avoid the green stuff.
Then the unholy tones of daylight pulled me away....
and I became myself again.
Extra Info.
The part of the dream where I was being inspected and judged by others was based off of a daily blog comic that I had checked out yesterday about fox. http://www.redtailscomic.com/ is the link. In almost the same situation.
There was a story in the news a while back about a guy who drove past a house and saw that it was on fire so he stopped and knocked on the door getting the family out to safety. It was amazing because the smoke just looked like it was coming from the chimney. So it wasn't easily noticeable that the house was on fire.
Also yesterday, or the day before yesterday I saw a story where firefighters had to let a man drown in some city because policy bound them so they couldn't help save the man's life. -This was reflected in my dream by the firefighters not rushing into the house themselves.
The whole wedding idea....came from a story told yesterday or the day before on Entertainment Tonight about some diva's wedding and how it was turning into a big mess yadda yadda.
And that is why
The fox never came home :)
-S.N.D
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