“Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream? Everybody comes here; this is Hollywood, land of dreams. Some dreams come true, some don't; but keep on dreamin' - this is Hollywood. Always time to dream, so keep on dreamin.”

So I was walking in downtown Clearwater and out of the blue I hear this voice which so reminded me of the voice from Pretty Woman – except this voice wasn’t extolling the virtues of keeping your dreams alive so you can go from being a call girl to marrying a millionaire. Nope.

Now I was feeling pretty good. Sorta frisky, if you will. As frisky as a 43 year old, fat, mom of 5 can feel anyway. I had my boots on and I left my hair down that day and man I was….frisky. I even tucked shirt into my jeans and had a belt on! And there I was bopping down the side walk when I hear someone say to me: “2010 is going to be the worse year of your life!”

Wha-huh?

I look around and this guy is behind me repeating what I obviously heard correctly the first time around. At first I dismissed him as homeless but he had a handful of mail and then got into a parked car after he repeated his wisdom to me a second time. I thought he might have been on his cell phone but nope. He was speaking to me.

Great.

Obviously he isn't aware of how I am. Now for the next 357 days I am going to be waiting. Waiting for something terrible to happen. He couldn't have told me I was going to have a bad day or a bad week. Or even a bad month. Oh no. This is going to be the worst year of my life. Sorry bub - already had that a few years ago and I can't think of anything happening that can be worse than 2005. What can be worse than 2005? I shudder to think of the possibilities.

But you know me, now I am going to be looking for it. Waiting. For the worst. Like I needed this added pressure to screw up the year! Thanks a lot sidewalk prophet man and a Happy New Year to you too.

~ame

on Friday, January 08, 2010

Labels: Life