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[I had my first dream with Annie in it this morning and boy was it interesting. Keep reading.]

I was going positively stir crazy with the internet being dead over this holiday weekend, and I knew it was a sure sign I should be out of the house. So, the only thing I could think to do was go out to the park and read. And that's what I did... and it was a rather enlightening experience. I'll write about that next time because it's going to be long.

Tomorrow I visit A's place and give her the final word on whether I want to move in there or not. I've pretty much decided to move in with her... wish me luck.

My tushie hurts The muscles are sore from trying to get that stupid bolt out of the headlight assembly of my car

Please don't offer to kiss my tushie better. Or anything beyond that. It will be fine and feel better on its own. I don't need your GERMS

I hadn't listened to Annie's album in a week or more. Redbeard3 insisted I listen to it with him last night so I did... and it was kind of intense When the album started I could feel it through my whole body. My head started to hurt and I even had to turn the fan on

It was overall a good listening experience. I hadn't wanted to listen because I thought I had made myself so sick of it that if I listened again I'd hate it. I didn't!

And THEN!

This morning, for the first time ever, I had a dream with Annie in it. And what an interesting dream...

The first part I remember clearly, I was rowing on a river (this part was because I was reading Siddhartha, which I finished in the park today) and I was trying to get away from some people. Trying to hide.

I had even cut my hair really short and was wearing men's clothes in an effort to hide. And the outfit I was wearing was kind of a throwback to like the 20s or 30s or something. Red suspenders, brown slacks, a matching brown hat that was very old school styled. Interesting... or, to some, HOT!

So anyway, it turned out I was in Annie's homeland Norway (of course ). There was snow everywhere. And somewhere along the line I ran into Annie herself. Not literally heh that would have been funny

She had this big house, a huge lodge kind of thing. And she agreed to keep me safe in her house and have me hide there.

Oh and she had made a snowman (snow girl really) in front of her house wearing this jacket.

Anyway getting back to the story. Earlier in the dream I discovered I had a special power. If stared into another person's eyes in a certain way, it would allow me to bend them to my will. I just had to tell them what I wanted them to do or think. Crazy. Normally that kind of thing REALLY scares me like a LOT but I find that I'm much less scared of things in dreams than in real life. It's one of my number one fears in fact!

I had my car with me in the dream (the car I named Annie) and for some reason I had driven it up a mountain. I wanted to get the car down from there but there was a snowstorm. Annie didn't think my car could handle the trip (in reality I'm sure it couldn't) and she wasn't going to let me try.

So I tried using my power on her to convince her that the car would be fine.

Only to discover...

...that SHE had the same power herself, except stronger than mine.

So it was *I* who bent to HER will, not the other way around.



She didn't actually know she had that power. She didn't realize she was doing it. I don't remember what she said in the dream at that point but I'm assuming she was trying to convince me not to drive the car, and since I was under her spell I decided to leave the car.



Later on in the dream I had to part ways with her and leave her big house, and try to find new ways to hide from the people pursuing me. More stuff happened after that but it trailed off and I woke up.

How crazy is that???

I think that was a great first dream of Annie. I bet if one day I told her about it she'd get a kick out of it. And she'd start staring into people's eyes trying to bend them to her will heh heh heh

Isn't that wild? I bet if the dream were interpreted it would be about sex or sexual tension or frustration. EVERYthing is about sex. Stupid Freud!

There are new Annie pictures in my Annie pics folder including about four that MTV now has up on their site. Which I stole. Heh heh heh. Fellow fan Calum verifies that the earrings she is wearing are indeed calculators. How cute and nerdy is that? The rest of the new pics are the magazine scans that Calum sent me. I left out the actual articles but now I'm thinking I should put the text parts in too. The scans of the articles will have to be pretty big for you to be able to read them though. Maybe if I converted them to grayscale they'd be small enough to upload. So for now I just have a link to the article on my site.

Apparently I have a lot fewer journals up on SG than you'd expect given my new policy of daily updates. To think I only joined this site around end of FEBRUARY. Also, apparently I never mentioned Annie here pre-June 19th. Darn... and I was hoping to see more of a progression of gradual growing fandom and less of a BAM I'm a rabid Annie fan now. I guess it was before the end of February that my friend had me watch her video.

You know what's cool? I converted Redbeard3 into an Annie fan. If that wasn't cool enough () he's into vinyl and has his own jukebox and so he's been seeking out Annie 45s (with the big center hole) to put in there. How awesome is that? I'd like to see his jukebox some day and hear Annie blasting out of it

Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby
Ain't nothing like the real thing

I got your picture hangin' on the wall
It can't see or come to me when I call your name
I realize it's just a picture in a frame

I read your letters when you're not near
But they don't move me
And they don't groove me like when I hear
Your sweet voice whispering in my ear

...

No other sound is quite the same as your name
No touch can do half as much
To make me feel better
So let's stay together!