My therapist will have a field day
I always promise that I'm not going to do this, but then the dream is either so amazing or absurd that I can't help myself and here I go again. I'm going to write about a dream I had. WAIT! STOP! Before you hang up on me, trust me that this one is totally worth it, although everyone involved remained fully clothed the entire time. But maybe that's just me and my dreams, because the naked ones are NEVER good. There is almost always a public main street with millions of passing cars and people laughing involved. And the Sophie's choice decision of which body part to cover up (boobs usually win).
You guys, I was invited to be one of ten people to roast Brad Pitt. Not on a spit, no, but I imagine that if forced to feast on a fellow human being, he probably wouldn't taste as bad as say, Michael Lohan.
I couldn't figure out why they had asked me, "they" I guess being the friends who planned the whole thing. But of course "they" never made an appearance or gave me any directions. So I was left to come up with something funny or embarrassing I knew about Brad. EXCEPT I DON'T KNOW BRAD. So I grabbed a pen and paper and just started writing anything that would come to mind, like, "Once Brad called me up..." but then I froze. Because a part of my brain knew I was dreaming and that I can't be clever in dreams.
So I just stood there shouting at an absent "they" going DON'T YOU KNOW I CAN'T DO THIS?! How am I supposed to come up with anything interesting to say? One, I don't know Brad! AND, TWO? I'M DREAMING! I was so mad that they had put me in this position.
You know how the timelines in dreams can go, because right then they marched us into the auditorium where the party was supposed to begin. And when I walked through the door I immediately realized that this roast was taking place in sacrament meeting. Meaning, on a Sunday morning in front of a Mormon congregation IN A MORMON CHURCH.
I should probably stop doing all those drugs before I go to bed.
That's when I really started to panic, because I looked down at my notes to see that I'd made reference to the fact that someone sent me the Playgirl magazine from several years ago that featured Brad in the nude. And there was no way I was going to bring this up in front of a Mormon audience, especially not this one because guess who was sitting in the front row? MY DAD.
So I walked up to the podium feeling like I was about to crap my pants, when all of a sudden the words just rolled off of my tongue: "I met Gwyneth Paltrow in New York City last week, so you know what this means, right? I'm too close to Brad now to have him on the list of men I want to have sex with! I guess his vacant spot now leaves room for Donny Osmond!"
Right then Leta woke me up to tell me that Marlo was in her crib making noises. Later that afternoon I added a bullet point to my life list: roast Brad Pitt during sacrament meeting. It's now right behind "climb Mt. Everest alone."
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simpliSAHM said:
I'm sure your therapist will have a field day all right. Only you would manage to have a dream combining Brad Pitt and Mormon sacrament meeting! And throwing in Donny Osmond for good measure? Classically Heather.
08.12.10 - 03:53 PM / 1jacqueline said:
is brad pitt even allowed in sacrament meetings?
08.12.10 - 03:49 PM / 2dooce said:
He's allowed in my sacrament meeting.
08.12.10 - 03:50 PM / 3Sarah Cate said:
"He's allowed in my sacrament meeting."
And that's where I added in my head: "IF you know what I mean." ;-)
08.12.10 - 04:00 PM / 4juliemewood said:
you know, i totally heard that Brad was taking the discussions. :)
08.12.10 - 04:16 PM / 5josephine said:
Oh man, you just brought up a good reason to NEVER meet Gweneth, b/c I don't know what I'd do if Brad was off my list!
08.12.10 - 04:15 PM / 6mrswilson said:
Thank you for making my day.
08.12.10 - 04:21 PM / 7doobrah said:
Apparently I have been reading this blog too long. I *knew* Gwyneth Paltrow was going to be part of the scenario. How about next dream have Coco spray poop on someone totally deserving. (You know who you are, Sarah Palin!)
08.12.10 - 04:37 PM / 8tallnoe said:
FAN-tastic. Thank you.
08.12.10 - 05:00 PM / 9Babydoll said:
I grew up watching the Donny and Marie show, and I had a small crush on Donny Osmond.
Nice to hear that he's making appearances again...even if it's in a dream.
08.12.10 - 05:04 PM / 10WVKay said:
Celebrity dreams are so disconcerting. I don't have many, but Johhny Depp has made a couple of appearances. The most recent was sex with Don Draper. It was going pretty good until Betty caught us.
08.12.10 - 05:47 PM / 11Meaghan said:
I would imagine Brad tasting EXPONENTIALLY better than Michael Lohan. Bleh.
08.12.10 - 05:52 PM / 12Blahggy said:
Does this mean you're secretly dying for lips like Angie's? (or is that my desire? even though today my mom told me she hated her lips.)
Dreams are awesome to write about. My COUSIN's dream was so awesome that I'm about to write about it. It includes her brother's boyfriend's new hobby of TAKING STUFFED ANIMALS, SKINNING THEM AND MAKING THEM INTO COATS - not part of the dream. That part is true. And I will have an accompanying photo. So excited. I just got permission to use the photo today. :)
08.12.10 - 06:21 PM / 13austinmomof7 said:
I had a dream last week and in it, my husband totally pissed me off. When I woke up, I knew it didn't happen, but I could not help myself. I was mad at him all day long. He kept asking what he did to make me mad and I just told him that if he didn't know, then it just made me more angry at him. He still doesn't know what the hell he did, other than marry a crazy person. A very fertile crazy person.
08.12.10 - 06:44 PM / 14HeckYes said:
That’s effing awesome!!! I think you roasting Brad Pitt in sacrament meeting is about the only thing that would get me to set foot into a Mormon church building again. So, let us know when that’s gonna happen and I’ll be there on the front row. I’ll bring the Cheerios and goldfish.
08.12.10 - 06:54 PM / 15Sneeka said:
Sounds like Inception. Was Leo there at all?
08.12.10 - 07:52 PM / 16napangel said:
You have an awesome mind, Heather.
08.12.10 - 08:28 PM / 17gitana said:
did you know that if you do a google image search for Mormon celebrities the first picture that comes up is a super cheesy 1970's looking Jesus.....I was just having a looksy because I was all like dude! there has to be a hotter mormon out there than Donnie Osmond...
08.12.10 - 09:09 PM / 18Shannon H. said:
I think BECAUSE you and Gwyneth are such good friends now and have bonded, she would think it rude of you to remove Brad from your list. Since I don't know her, I'll keep him on mine.
08.12.10 - 09:09 PM / 19Mrs. Q. said:
I would have enjoyed that dream. Lately the ONLY dream I have is that I show up for a final test and I've never been to a single class. And I'm naked.
At least you have a therapist.
(And I have every Martha Living ever printed. It's the only thing I collect, as I hate collecting. Reading that makes it seem even more crazy. Whee!)
08.12.10 - 09:21 PM / 20knewlyknitting said:
Your face. If you can choose only one, (and you feel the need to cover anything), you cover your face.
08.12.10 - 09:35 PM / 21Soft Kitty said:
It's really too bad you had to take Brad off your list. Is Chris on your list or is he off too?
08.12.10 - 10:34 PM / 22Cooky said:
I love how you think on your feet even in your dreams. What a fabulous line.
Have you been listening to Donny's local radio show in the afternoons?
Thank you for a wonderful laugh on Friday the 13th. You made the day great.
08.13.10 - 09:32 AM / 23Nhiro said:
I once had a sex dream about Edward Norton, whom I had never, up to that point, even considered to be in the running.
I haven't looked at him the same since.
08.13.10 - 09:50 AM / 24Tracy-Oklahoma said:
I went to Kickapoo High School in Springfield, MO with Brad. He graduated in '82 and I graduated '83. I was in choir with him for 3 years and was friends with him. He was (and is) a great guy. Always a lot of fun and he always had a huge smile on his face where ever he went. He's not quite so preppy now as he was back then. We all knew Brad would go on and do big things....and boy, did he ever!
08.13.10 - 09:57 AM / 25Lily Hydrangea said:
You always make me laugh Heather.
The last dream I remember having involved living garden gnomes.
I've always liked gnomes, but dreaming about them? It was just too weird.
08.13.10 - 10:20 AM / 26Anu said:
Forget Gwyneth Paltrow, even if Angelina Jolie was my BFF, Brad still wouldn't get off my list. There can always be one exception to every rule :)
08.13.10 - 10:31 AM / 27MonicaH said:
Ok, so a few nights ago I totally had a dream that I had a blog but I couldn't think of what to write, so I was just copying and pasting your blogs into mine! Then after I had published them I got worried because I had remembered that one post when you had mentioned Jon finding someone who had plagarized you!
Dreams are weird sometimes! :-)
08.13.10 - 12:33 PM / 28Shana in Texas said:
I received the Donny & Marie "action" figures for Christmas one year. Donny wore purple socks.
08.13.10 - 12:39 PM / 29mommica said:
You know what I can't do in my dreams? Punch people. It's a shame too, because there are so many occasions when it would come in handy. What do you think my therapist would say about THAT?
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