Tomato Pirate.

Morning at the Spears’ house:

Me, laying in bed with my laptop: Brian, what should I write about today?

Brian: I don’t know.  Let me kiss the baby.

I lifted my shirt; he kissed my belly.

Then we discussed our schedule this weekend, trying to pinpoint an ideal time to celebrate my little brother’s birthday.

Here’s what’s fresh on my mind this morning: my dream from last night.

For the record, I’m not one to typically make dreams public.  I find them to be deeply personal (sometimes more personal than I realize).  To me, sharing a dream in public can almost feel like confessing hidden places of the heart that I don’t even know exist yet.

But today’s was enjoyable enough on a surface level that I’d like to share the highlights:

My friend, Adele, and I went to Berryville, VA hoping to get tattoos.  Whether or not we’d be successful in the venture really depended on Jason’s schedule and the difficulty of our tattoos.

I assured him that this time my idea wasn’t complicated (like the knitting tattoo).  No, I wanted an hourglass-shaped tomato.  This tomato was a female pirate with a pirate’s hat tipped to one side of her head.

It seemed that the best place to put this Tomato Pirate was inside my upper arm.  (Though I was concerned that it’d look tacky when I dressed up.)  Yes, I wanted to go through with this in spite of the fact that I was pregnant, but not showing.  Jason wasn’t able to tattoo me that day, so we left and eventually I fell asleep and had a dream within the dream.  

In my dream’s dream, I saw how ridiculous this tattoo looked on my body.

I awoke from the dream within a dream and saw Jason later, telling him that I hoped he’d let me know if something that I wanted looked completely and utterly stupid.  It seemed that he was so maxed out and in such high demand that he didn’t have the energy to form an opinion.

Finally I awoke from the dream altogether and spent a good part of my morning amused by the concept of a female tomato dressed like a pirate.

5 Comments

  1. April 10, 2012
    adele bernard

    LOL….that is so funny!!! When i come out in October you will have to come with me to get my next tattoo. 🙂

  2. April 10, 2012
    Sherri

    Holy X’s and O’s and girl pirate tomato. oh yeah.

  3. April 10, 2012
    Manny

    Veggietales considered this but that would raise the rating from PG to PG-13. No sexy veggies or fruits. 😛 a ha ha. J/K

  4. April 10, 2012
    Momma

    LOL @ Mandy ….. Charley literally LOL
    could you hear him down there, LOL

  5. May 1, 2012
    melody

    Love the tummy kisses, forget the tomato pirate

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