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dreams and quarantines

I have a tendency sometimes while sleeping to in-part wake up and continue my dream, only to realize that I'm not still dreaming but awake...very strange. Well, this happened last night, and I must recount it, because it leads to another funny story.

Not sure what I was dreaming about, but in the fuzzy-headedness of not quite awake, I saw a shadow on the backside of the bookshelf/wall at the end of my bed...I HAD to see what it was, for, it seemed in my dream that it was significant. So I turned on my light and read what was on the shadowy thing posted there...whew...the blast of light shocked me into realizing that I was no longer dreaming...it also hit me I wasn't dreaming when what I read reminded me of a funny reality. The pamphlet (posted there for reminders to laugh) says "Your Mail has Breached Australia Quarantine Laws." Haha! Here's the story:

I have a friend studying in Australia. Last autumn here (spring in Oz), he was missing the gorgeous Michigan season, and so being struck with a creative and fun thought, I gathered some colorful and quite awesome leaves, pressed them in waxed paper, and made a schnazzy little autumn leaf book that I mailed down under to cheer him up and give a little glimpse of Michigan autumn. Well, with great disappointment, my piece of mail was confiscated and quarantined, probably incinerated, and I received this letter back from the Australia postal service saying, "Your Mail has Breached Australia Quarantine Laws!" Who'da thought? So I saved the warning letter and posted it on my wall to make me laugh...which it does (even in my sleep!) and hopefully it makes you laugh as well.

posted by FaithChristine @ 09:01