Weird Dream

I’ve got to start this post with a disclaimer and mention that I don’t normally dream of rainbows and fluffy bunnies. My dreams are filled with far manlier topics like motorcycles, sports highlights and race cars, but the other night I woke up laughing at the weird dream I had.

The dream took me back several years and I was sitting in class at BYU. I looked down and could see the ends of what looked like a flame or tribal tattoo on my forearm. (This was so common at BYU I can’t count how many students had tattoos like this.) This in no way surprised me because I could clearly remember getting the tattoo several months earlier – with Kamie. Naturally we went and got them together. (Can anyone say “date night”?)

When I got home that night I took off my shirt and above the forearm tattoo was our anniversary date and .......…. a pink Care Bear next to a blue unicorn – WHAT???. This came as a total shock to me and I realized there had been a terrible mistake months earlier. (Why it took 4 months to discover the error was not fully explained.)

You see, there was a mix up at the tattoo parlor and although they got the forearm correct, Kamie’s tattoo of choice was put on my upper arm, and she got mine. Unfortunately I woke up before finding out what she got. There you have it, a mix up at the tattoo parlor.

You’re welcome to take a stab at interpreting the dream on your own, but unless you’ve got something really good I am sticking to the fact that we saw Toy Story 3 a few days earlier and that the Care Bear was Lotso Huggin Bear and that a blue unicorn made an appearance in there somewhere. I’m not quite sure how it fits in with the tattoos, but it must mean something.

In Other News

We just wrapped up Ben’s final season of T-ball. I was the coach and Josh did a fine job as the assistant coach. My main goal for the kids was to have fun, create some memories and hopefully teach them a thing or two about baseball.





Most of the kids showed improvement over the season, I’m pretty sure they all knew which way to run around the bases by the last game. We had a chance to tour BYU’s baseball facilities which if it wasn’t a highlight for the kids, at least it was for me.

It was fun to be Ben’s coach and have Josh on the staff. As a bonus, the parks and rec gave each of the coaches $20 off our next sports activity. That sealed the deal for me, and I will see you next year for Ben’s inaugural season in coach pitch.


Joe