Okay– so I whined a bit about being in a piss-bitchy mood yesterday and then went back to write.
I woke up this morning, and it hit me like a big scaly monster with wings: I’ve been riding the goddamned dragon. No WONDER I’m sleep deprived. No WONDER I’m punky. I’m writing–my brain is in the place where it doesn’t turn off, and well, hell–here I am. A piss-bitchy-scaly-winged horror, ripping my family’s faces off and dining on their angst.
Well–there’s a cure all for that, you know! It’s called BUFFY! Sure enough, six, eight episodes later, and the dragon is tamed and ready to be cut loose on another couple of chapters withOUT the side of family faces for dessert. The family is much relieved.
But, I do warn you, there are some consequences to watching Buffy and ripping faces off. For example, there was THIS conversation with Squish yesterday:
“I had a bad dream, mommy!”
“Really–what sort of dream?” She is sitting on our bed as we have this conversation, and Mate and I are still under the covers.
“You waked up the man-that was bad!”
Mate and I look at each other. “I woke up your daddy, sweetheart?”
“No, no–the man. He was a sawmee.”
Again, we exchange looks. “Saw-mee?” we mouth. “Saw-mee?”
I turn to Squish again. “Okay, Squish–you got us. What’s a sawmee?”
She put her hands together in front of her. “Saw-mees! You know! Saw-mees! They is skeery!”
“Sawmees are scary?”
“Yes. Because they’re with goats.”
“The sawmees are scary because they’re with the goats. What do the goats do?”
“They chase the sawmees!”
“So the sawmees are afraid of the goats?”
“Yes. The goats make scary sounds.”
“Do they go “naaaaahahaahaaaa?” I ask. Trust me–I do a killer goat imitation. She couldn’t have been confused.
“No–they go “wwhooooooooooooo”!” And, yes, she does a good imitation of the scary transparent dead.
Suddenly the light bulb goes on. “Honey–were the sawmees being chased by ghosts?”
Again, Mate and I, meeting eyes. “Sawmees? Being chased by GHOSTS?”
“Yeah. The sawmees want to eat my brains.”
And now, can you see it? The glory-be-and-hallefucinglujia lightbulb?
“Squish–were you being chased by ZOMBIES in your dream?”
“Yes! I told you! The sawmees chased me, and the goats chased the sawmees!”
Mate and I were happy. We met eyes and said, “Of course. It all makes sense. Sawmees and goats! In our family, what else would you possibly want to dream about?”
Wow – I would NEVER have gotten to zombies from sawmees! I was trying to figure out where Squish would've heard about swamis. 🙂
Is there any way you can get this conversation into the next Little Goddess book? It is just priceless!
She could do worse than absorb some Buffy attitude.
That's awesome!
Hope squishy is over her scary dream, but sounds like the conversation I had with Kathryn about toe mines. Turns out she meant snow men.
I kind of think Squish already has the Buffy attitude. If she ever acquires the skills to go with it those sawmees better look out!
swamees and ghosts? omg how funny.. well scary for poor Squish, but still.
I too have been utilizing Buffy and Angel therapy. Whenever I get too stressed out from school I just pop in some Joss Whedon goodness and boom, instant calm. I do still have nightmares about the "genlemen" from season four that take away your voices and then come and cut your heart out. "you're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard"….creepy.
Had to get this posted before Knittech did.
According to some Internet rumors, Jensen Ackles is under consideration to play Captain America in the upcoming movie.