Only In My Dreams...Again!

(Michael Shopping on April 9, 2009)

Everybody has a hobby.

Some people collect stamps or Barbie dolls or rare, out of circulation coins. Take a wild guess at what my hobby is.
Go on, I'll wait whilst you look at the background of my blog at the sexy little man staring back.
Michael Jackson. Of course.

I like to think of myself as a pretty level headed woman. Perhaps outspoken on occasion but level headed. Except around Michael Jackson. I don't know what it is, but if I get thrown into a situation where there is MJ merchandise at hand and no one really there to stop me, I will buy up everything until my wallet is empty.
Food? Who cares about food when there's a magazine with MJ on the cover? That's my mindset.

And its that mindset that decided to kind of haunt me in my dreams the other night. So, before, my mind was racing as I was trying to finish my latest chapter for my Strawberries story and post it to Eternal. (It has since been completed and posted) But Michael was running rampant in my mind because of the story and Bad 25 dropping on Tuesday. And it followed me right to bed.

I dreamt I was in something of a music store like FYE or something, and as I was going down the aisle, my friends Ebonie and Stacie appeared. In real life, they'd usually stop me after a certain point in my MJ bingeing.
Not so in my dream.
Instead, they began just pushing MJ stuff at me. Ink pens with Michael's face on them, shirts, teddy bears, dolls. Anything imaginable, I was having it handed to me.
It reminded me of that scene in National Lampoon's European Vacation where Audrey Griswold couldn't stop eating and eventually popped.
Like I was being literally loaded down with MJ stuff.
(And at some point Jermaine Jackson made a very brief appearance for some reason or other. He didn't sing Let's Get Serious though.)

Anyhoo, I got out to the counter to pay for it. and clerk seemed so happy I was even there he told me to take it all ON THE HOUSE! Loads and loads of MJ trinkets for free. And he even gave me an MJ purse to top it off.
It was all so wonderful.

Can you imagine how disappointed I was to wake up and realize it had all been a dream. I was so angry, it was unreal. Like a child who didn't get presents on Christmas.

Gosh, I'm the kind of fan that as soon as I buy whatever it is I'm getting for the particular month, I turn around and start planning for the following month. The longest I ever planned ahead for anything MJ was probably six months ahead of the release of an album. I planned like a mad woman before Invincible hit shelves. It wasn't just buying the album, it was asking the store for the poster--which I got for free--skipping school to watch all the MJ specials on TV. Everything.

Well maybe next month I can make my dream a reality huh? LOL.

Till next time.