Bizarre Dream

I swear, I have such weird dreams that if I came up with some of that stuff consciously I'd be thrown into the loony bin. I had another set of doozies last night. One thing I'm not even sure I dreamed but it was gross and crazy and I don't even think I'm going to go there.

Now the other thing, which was weird but not that bad, was I dreamed of a merman who looked a lot like Ray Stevenson. This merman didn't have a fish tail and scales but his nether region was grey and more like a manatee in texture and the tail was definitely shaped like a manatee tail. I was swimming in some water, I have no idea where, which is unusual since I don't swim very well, but I was out in the water all effortless and not drowning when this merman comes up to me. Then he starts speaking to me in Italian. He was all smiling and friendly and he seemed like he wanted me to go with him. Well, I don't speak Italian and I had no idea what he was saying so I responded to him in Spanish with, "Yo hablo un poquito Español ." I don't know why Americans always do that to Italian speakers--just automatically respond in Spanish--the two languages aren't that much alike. So that didn't dissuade the merman. He continued to be happy and speak to me in Italian and beckoned me to go with him. I don't remember much more except there was a passing boat with some people on it and we smiled and waved at them.

Anyhoo.

Today I had a bit of an unexpected project waiting for me when I went out into the back yard. It seems that with all the wind we had last night that a bit of fascia on the bottom edge/corner of the roof got blown off and took out the plastic shade on the security light that was just below it. That light has probably been up there for 20 years so the plastic light shade was likely very brittle hence it being smashed into a hundred pieces. Anyway, not much I could do about that.

When I got out the step ladder to take a look at how I was going to put the piece of fascia back on, it was clear that the wood up there was pretty rotten and had termite damage so the nails in the fascia just pulled right out. Seems the last two companies that re-roofed the house didn't bother to replace that rotten/damaged wood and instead had just put new fascia over it to disguise it. So this turned into a three hour project for me. I had to pull out all the rotten bits, getting termite dust and rotten bits all over me, and find some new stuff to stick in there. What a pain in the ass! I had to drag out drills and circular saws and rummage around the dungeon basement for supplies and run back and forth multiple times to get all the crap that I needed and cut wood all while the old woman sat in a chair and asked me stupid questions the whole time. Aaaarrrgh!!!!

I'm still not quite finished with it. I had to paint the new exterior pieces before I nailed them up and it started getting dark before I finished. So I have two pieces to nail up there tomorrow. Boooo!!!!!