So I had this really odd dream last night that just kept going and going and getting odder...

Kevin and I were out at the store. We got back in my car and I was driving. For some reason, we stopped and Kevin got out of the car for a moment. At that point, I tried to pull over to the side of the road to get out of traffic, but I went too far away from Kevin. I could see him in the rearview mirror with the expression of "where are you going?!" So I tried to turn around and drive back at which point my brakes weren't working. I was pressing them down as hard as possible and with both feet, but the car wouldn't stop and I zoomed by Kevin. As I was coming up to an intersection, I pulled the emergency brake and turned into a parking lot. The car still wouldn't stop and I crashed into a building.

The crash totaled my car, but I walked away perfectly fine. Instead of staying with my car to apologize to the building owners or going to find Kevin, I started walking and ended up at this house. In the house was a lady that in the dream I sort of knew, and she let me inside. We chatted for a while and watched her about 3 year old son play and the family dog run around. The dog then pooped in the hallway and she cleaned it up and I followed her out to the porch as she went to throw the mess away. Her husband had come home and was tending to their massive garden and remarking how the carrots were just about ready to be picked.

Her husband was Rick Bayless! I started putting on my sneakers so that I could go outside and met him and look at his garden. As I was tying my shoe, Rick noticed the small pepper plant that was attached to my laces. I explained that my husband and I just had a little garden with peppers and tomatoes, and this particular pepper plant attached to my shoe laces had been damaged in a storm, and so I thought that my shoe laces would be the best place to nurse it back to health. He inspected the little plant and noticed some problems with it (but apparently not that it was growing on my sneaker).

In order to tell me about my plant, he decided that instead of just explaining things, we should watch an episode of his TV show. So we went inside to his computer which was in this small nook in the house. He sat in this huge leather swivel chair and I sat on the floor. The ceiling was very low. Apparently, he didn't even have all of his own shows on DVD, so he had to find the episode on the internet. As we started to watch the episode, I asked him if it ever felt weird to see himself on TV and to watch his own show. As we continued to watch, other children showed up and joined us.

One pretty little girl about 6 years old was sitting next to me and telling me about her day at school. Rick says, "oh I think you know her mom." And I so, "oh really?" Rick says yeah, "her mom is Lauren Wright." At which point, I turn around and there's Lauren and I say "oh my god Carly!" (Lauren plays Carly on General Hospital.) I start stammering about how I should have seen the family resemblance and her daughter is so pretty just like her. She laughs and tells me to stop trying so hard. (In the dream, it felt as though I was more familiar with Lauren than just watching her on a TV show, there seemed to be an implicit knowledge that I worked for her at some point or was currently working with her.)

I wish there was a thrilling conclusion where Rick cooks us all dinner and Kevin magically shows up and the car is no longer crashed, but as always seems to happen, the alarm went off. And so now I have this odd dream to ponder and Lady Gaga stuck in my head.