Category: Life In the Big House

Gary’s Mom You know how Gary has the Big House Dreams? He mentioned it to his Mom and she has them too. Big House, usually run-down, often invaded by strangers. I never thought dreams could be genetic, but if neurosis can run in families (trucks!) I suppose dreams could too. Me I’ve never had a…

No estrogen for a week and I am imagining every menopausal symptom and adding some undocumented ones. Are strange dreams a symptom of the ‘Pause? In the last few days I have had both the best dream and the worst dream I’ve ever had. The Best Dream Paul McCartney was using The Bookmobile as his…

Gary, as you know, often has Big House Dreams. Sometimes they require extensive analysis. Sometimes the Big House has a giant underground parking garage, or has teenagers running through it. Tonight Gary woke me up with a Big House Report. What was special about tonight’s Big House? “You paid for it!”

Last night I dreamed I was contracting in a military lab. A female scientist said I needed to remove my blouse for safety. After doing so I turned to face the scientist and I felt the cold air on my boobs just as she said, “Why did you take off your bra too?” And in…

I got Gary to agree we would go see Argo this past weekend at the fancy leather-seated Five-star Cinema, but Friday … well, I could have just stopped that sentence with “but.” Or rather, “butt.” Gary’s butt. It is unwell. It became unwell Friday morning, about an hour before we had our yearly physical. Thanks…

Previously in Life in the Big House: Gary has a recurring dream in which he lives in a very big house. I don’t know what provokes these dreams, but I am documenting them. We woke up today after, I swear to you, fourteen hours of sleep, and Gary rolled over to say he had a…

In case you haven’t heard, “Thanks to a fluke of orbital mechanics that brings the moon closer to Earth than that it has been in more than 18 years, the biggest full moon of 2011 will occur on Saturday, leading some observers to dub it a ‘supermoon.’” I tried to see the waxing supermoon last…

… and just like every other post I say, “Go see this movie now.” However, I promise I won’t put in any spoilers. It was too long by a few minutes – just enough for me to go Mystery Science Theater 3000 on it and make connections with Citizen Kane and Twilight Zone. (I really…

(If you don’t know, Gary has a recurring dream in which he lives in a big house. I keep track in the category “Life in the Big House.” Sometimes, they’re obvious, sometimes not. Last night’s was obvious.) Gary said when he woke up, “Oh, I had a Big House dream last night!” “Oh, good. It’s…

Gary has the Simultaneous PukeCoughPee Virus now, only his pee has farther to travel and, as you know, he pukes only once a decade. One distinguishing characteristic of the Virus is, I surmise, that you breathe very shallowly when you sleep so not to cough, this starves your brain of oxygen and you have insanely…