Snowy Weather and "Torture Bells"
Wintery weather was predicted for our area today, first sleet and ice everywhere and possibly snow later in the evening, so a whole uproar was caused at school at the thought of possibly getting out of school early. We were talking about it in Orchestra because we had a concert tonight and if we went home early that meant the concert would be rescheduled to December 13. Ben Rosemann couldn't handle himself. He told Ms. Schlienat, "If we get out of school early, you'll hear a loud voice yelling, "YES!!!" Then he, Shelby Simmons, and Hannah Goldstein did a snow dance. They waved their arms and spun around in a circle, and while they were doing that, they sang, "Hallejulah, it's snowing men." over and over again.
At the beginning of Gifted class, we heard an announcement over the intercom. It said, "Due to inclement weather, we are having dismissals after lunch." Brett smiled and then shouted "YEESSS!" just like Ben said he was going to do. Brett, Gary and Alex Chan couldn't get it out their heads.
We were dismissed at 12:30, right after I ate my lunch with Shira and Lalana. The minute I got home I ran upstairs into my room. At first I didn't want to waste the three extra hours of my time sleeping, so I told myself I wouldn't fall asleep. Instead, I started to read the Guinness World Records 2007. However, all I had left to read of it was the music and television awards, and that got really boring after about ten minutes. Then I turned on the radio and decided that I was going to close my eyes and listen to the radio while I had my eyes closed so that I wouldn't be tempted to sleep. However, when I opened my eyes again, it was three hours later, so I guess that didn't work out so well.
While I was asleep, I had this crazy dream that it snowed so hard that we were trapped in this house. Then my radio broke and I had none of my favorite music to console me. So our family bought three music boxes, all of which played nothing but Jingle Bells. After three days of that annoying song I was so aggravated with Jingle Bells that I busted right out of the door and slammed my way through the snow. I ran into the woods behind my house and found a huge present that was addressed to me. The tag said, "It's what you've always wanted." I opened it and a zombie that looked just like Justin Rosenthal emerged from the box. He carried in his hand a music box. After he wound it up, I heard the same song I had heard for three days, Jingle Bells. I covered my ears and ran from the zombie. Then I fell into a ditch, and I thought for sure that the zombie was going to strangle me. Instead he held the music box right up to my ears, and I screamed, "AAAAAHHH!" At that instant I woke up and it was a relief to find myself back in my own room.
That dream must have been sort of a psychic invision, because later, at about 5 o' clock, Ally got out her music box that she got from Grandma that played Jingle Bells over and over. When I got annoyed by the music, Ally put the music box right in my ears, just like in the dream. All of a sudden I remembered the song I had made up last year called, "Torture Bells". It was to the same tune as Jingle Bells, but it was all about things that a person did to hurt himself. I began to sing that song to the tune of the music box to resist the song. And it also hit me that I had all seven verses that I had made up written down and on my bookshelf. I got out Torture Bells and sang it a few times. Then I made several adjustments to the song that I thought I would never sing again and sang the adjustments into it. Here is the adjusted song:

Chorus:
Torture bells, torture bells
Torture all the way
Let's ride in a cart chock
full of angry lobsters to-day!
Torture bells, torture bells
Torture all the way
You just love to hurt yourself
You always find a way

Verse 1:
Getting hit by cars
On a one-way street
We're running in the way
Of every one we meet

Jumping off a plane
When you've got no parachute
And just to make matters worse
You're in a bathing suit

Verse 2:
Boiling poisonous mushrooms
You want to eat for lunch
Even though they just might be
A dangerous thing to munch

You go in a rocket
And stand right on th sun
You just might burn to a crisp
But, hey, it might be fun

Verse 3:
You're standing by a tree
During a lightning storm
And it's 34 degrees
So you're not even warm

Let's go to the ocean
And jump right off a bridge
Chances are you'll likely drown
But you don't care one smidge

Verse 4:
You decide to wrestle
With fierce man-eating sharks
You are going to lose that battle
That'll leave some marks

In a locked gunpowder room
You light a dynamite
You're locked inside a burning room
But still you have no fright

Verse 5:
During a tornado
You're standing right outside
And then you're caught by snarling winds
That is quite a ride

You're climbing up a mountain
But you don't have a clue
You haven't got a single tool
And quickly down goes you

Verse 6:
You're out on the prarie
In the middle of a stampede
Hard hooves crush your arms and legs
What a fateful deed

You're driving an SUV
But you're only fifteen
And then the car rolls down a hill
And causes quite a scene

Verse 7:
Then you jump off a ledge
Into a cobra pit
The cobras then attack you
And you're quite painfully bit

You put some window cleaner
In a can of cold root beer
And then you glug the soda down
Until the can is clear

I also made up one more verse just for the heck of it:
Verse 8:
In an elevator shaft
You climb to Floor Thirteen
You cut the cord with scissors
And then smash to smithereens

You ask your friend to hurt you
With repeated hammer blows
So he busts the living crud out of
Your jaws and ears and nose
So anyway, here's the two morals of this story. One: Your dreams might tell you something strange about the furture, and Two: You never know wether you're going to suddenly remember something from your past.

Ciao for Now,
-Jess