Why I didn't answer the phone.

Ok, so I just had the weirdest dream with the scariest awakening I've had in a long time.

Starts out as a road trip. Noah, three of his siblings, and I are going to see Isaac at Basic Training. AND Renee. Also at Basic Training. With Ike. So we go to the training facility, which is down the road from Covenant. It looks like Three Springs' entrance. We go inside (I'm carrying a laundry basket full of stuff) and are taken to where they are. The woman who takes us there seems very capable, but looks like an overgrown Barbie.

We come into the visiting room. This is also the shooting range. People are shooting at targets around the outside of the large, almost square rectangle of a room. There are tables all throughout the room, I think it was the mess hall too. So we're talking to them and then another woman (also Barbie-like) comes into the room and barks an instruction. She starts walking around the room and the people are aiming their guns at her and not firing. Until one guy does accidentally fire. It sends a shoot of light out and burns a hole in the wall. But. Doesn't. Even. Phase. Her. It shot right through her. And it was like a fake lightsaber. The light cut through her but didn't hurt her. At first I wondered if she was a hologram, then she took his gun and unloaded the other bullets in it into the wall because he was such an idiot. She gets to us and immediately sends all of the Army people out. (Save Ike and Renee) We are taken to the middle of the room and told to wait there. There are now no more tables. Then they come in and tell us that visiting time is over, besides, Renee has to go for her breast exam anyway (WTF?). So everyone else says goodbye while I'm packing everything up. I'm putting things in the basket, and I realize that this basket is full of everything we weren't supposed to send him. And I wonder if they'll ever let me out. Then I say goodbye and... Barbie woman wants a hug goodbye too?? I am now officially creeped out.

SO I'm rushing back to the parking lot and get there WAY before anyone else does. I can't find the car. It's raining. Hard. They finally get there and show me that the car is right behind the big column that I didn't look around. And Elnat (who is not like the real Elnat, but is someone my age with no beard and who acts pretty much like... Oh my gosh- he was a Catacombian... Odd.) asks me how I feel about cooking. I tell him he's dumb, I can't cook outside with 1)no pots and pans, 2)in the RAIN, 3)no food, and 4)DID I MENTION IN THE RAAAAIIIIN???!!!?? And then I realize that the dream facility is right next to Covenant. Which means it is right next to our house. Where it is not raining. So I say sure.

So we go to our house, which in the dream is a trailer that looks like it was built/updated in the seventies. (it is NOT like that in real life) And our front door is flapping open. (It's sunny here- I told you- it doesn't rain at our house in my dreams...) We go in and I go to the kitchen. Our fridge is unplugged, there's a panel off the wall, our fridge is open and "defrosting" even though it's stuffed with food. There is no sink and it looks like a construction zone. I turn around to tell Noah that someone's destroyed our kitchen and it must have been....

Steph H. pops around the corner to claim her handiwork. She says she was just visiting and because it was raining and she had walked over, she tried the door handle when there was no answer. You see, (here she speeds up and I was still looking around my ridiculous kitchen so I don't know if her explanation was that her Father had designed the wiring in the house or that they'd lived there before us and she knew a little about it. It might've been both). So she decided to take a look around.

When she got to the kitchen she knew why she must've come. Someone dumb had changed everything. So she was going to put it right. There had been a panel installed over a closet and a full-sized Ironing board that came down from the ceiling. Also there were all sorts of things in there- like a picnic basket, a costume, a bunch of wooden Tupperware, etc. However, the outlet for the frige was on this wall panel, and in taking it off she'd damaged the plug. Instead of having three metal prongs. it now had four wires coming out. Three of the four were covered in this spongy goop and the other was naked. One of the goopy wires was sticking out of the end. She tells me that the outlet the plug is supposed to plug into is under the counter, not on the opposite wall like we'd had it. So all I had to do was climb under and plug it in. But be sure to plug in the right parts or I'll die.

So I climb under and yes, the outlet does only have three openings. And I can't decide. I contemplate trying various combinations until I figure it out, but that seems too much like not knowing which wire to cut to stop a bomb. So I'm about to plug in the goopy ones. And then, I look at them and the one exposed wire and the one partially exposed wire are going to connect!!! I can't stop it!!! IT ELECTROCUTES ME!!! And wakes me up. Because the buzzing is actually my cell phone on vibrate on the bedside table. I thought I was dead.