Today I woke up at 10:30 a.m., boiled and ate breakfast. I then watched the entire Lord of the Rings (extended version) while lying on the couch, swallowing asprin. The movies are over now and I am suddenly bored. I have $9 to last me until next Monday. I really ought to use that for gas, but... perhaps I'll spend a few bucks at Leroy's tonight. I'd like to see PrettyLiz and BlondeLiz again. BlondeLiz and I had a very interesting conversation a few nights ago, one that left me in a peculiar mood for several days. I'd like to see her right now, check in on her health. But I didn't write tonight to tell of movies or Leroy's...SOMETHING VERY STRANGE
I'll ask you guys to briefly forgo what skeptisisms you may have about "second-sight" and "soothsaying." I am not claiming that either of these are headlong abilies I have developed in some sort of speedball of wishful thinking, but only, what I have to report certainly smacks of it.
Two weeks ago I was riding around with Double O and told him something moderately weird. I had been thinking about Aandrea (that girl, Tigger) and our wonderful break-up 5 years ago. I also thought of her friend, Kali, who was to marry us on the big rock at Beluga Point at 3 a.m. I also thought of the walk I took TO Beluga Point and then the drive out there over the very same route to measure the distance with my trip odometer. It was on that trip that I picked up Josh, a hitch-hiker on his way to Soldotna. I decided to take him there, where he introduced me to several of his friends working as winter care-takers of the Solid Rock Bible Camp. We ate Doritos and watched Clint Eastwood movies until Sal's Klondike Diner opened. A diner I had recently visited with Mary and PrettyLiz on our Dairy Queen run. It was on that trip I was thinking of these three people: Aandrea, Kali, and Josh. It was the last two, in particular, that I could not shake from my head. This was more than a passing thought, and for some reason, I KNEW I would see them before the end of the month (February), and likely the VERY end of the month.
Two days later, a Thursday, I saw Josh. He was walking through the isles of Sportmen's Warehouse. I didn't speak to him, I was over-whelmed with the oddity of the sighting. I just stared at him as he passed me, stopped in my tracks, him looking oddly back at me. I have the guy's picture in an old photo album, a photo taken of the whole group at Sal's. It was him.
This is the moderatly wierd thing I told Double O in the car. I wasn't sure if he believed it, or if he
did believe it, I doubted very much that he attatched much significance to it. I also told him about Kali, and that I was sure I'd see her again. I told him that the last I knew, when Aandrea had come back from Minnesota and I saw her at Village Inn, with Eddie, she said that she was leaving for New York, with Kali, and they were moving there for good. So, the last I knew, Kali wasn't even in the same part of the country, some 6000 miles away or something.
Monday, February 28th, the last day of the month, Double O came into the Sportsmen's Warehouse to try on some shoes. He left after deciding on a pair of Merrel Yukon's that I can get him for $35.91. (Orig. $189.99) 15 minutes after he left the store and I was joking around with Aaron and Nick (about a fart machine we put in the maniquin's coat pocket to set off when customers walked by) Double O came screaming back into the store, moving faster than I've ever seen him move before, hooking his finger at me, reeling me in. "Come on dude, she's next door. What was her name? Aandrea's friend?" We ran over to PetCo, I couldn't believe it, there she was, looking at artificial aquarium plant life.
This time I did talk to her. Must has seemed strange to her though, talking to an out-of-breath blast from the past, really excited to see her again. It wasn't so much that I was excited to see HER, but that somehow, I knew I was going to see her, on pretty much that day. She works at Evergreen Helicopters now, and since Double O is about to get laid off, he's excited to hear that Evergreen is hiring. I was interested to hear that Aandrea is in California, doing lots of drugs and trying to "make it" in Hollywood. I wish her all my best.
Maybe to you it's easy to shrug off as coincidence, but me, I'm convinced. There's been too many crazy things happening lately (things I've not even begun to mention in the blog) and this is felt far too deep inside for it to be a coincidence.
Peace and Love,
Mungo
Song of the day: "The Willful Suspension of Disbelief" - Modest Mouse