Season 4

Entry #37
This has been one of the most exhausting days of my life. Roger and I did a test run of a new ship that looks just like a flying saucer. We were just taking care of some business and doing some readings when Jeannie, bless her sweet little heart, pops into the ship to bring me and Roger some lunch. She brought us peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Now how cute is that. Anyways, I told her to leave because we couldn't have lunch now. She argued only a little and was getting ready to leave, but Roger just had to know what flavor of jelly was on those sandwiches.

After she was gone, we realized we were thrown off course because of Jeannie's weight. So I landed us so we could fix it. But nothing could have prepared us for the roller coaster ride we were about to go on. We landed amongst some hillbillies (they way they acted, you'd think THEY were from Mars). We walked out of the ship only to have shot guns poked in our faces. We tried and tried and tried to explain to them that we were not martians. We were astronauts from NASA. They wouldn't listen. Next thing we knew, they led Roger and me to their barn and they tied us partly up and had us hanging part ways from the ceiling. Sheesh! I felt like one of those turkeys hanging in a store window.

Now this daughter of the two old folks just went crazy over Roger. She told her Ma and Pa she wanted to keep him. Haha very funny. Even Roger was cringing at that. They (Ma and Pa) still wanted to shoot Roger and me. They also wanted to poke us with a pitch fork to see if we bled red and if we did, we weren't martians. These people were absolutely crazy. So I tricked them saying there would be a reward from NASA for capturing two "martians". So they got that son of theirs to go to the nearby town to phone General Peterson for us. I thought we were saved when Jeannie came walking in. She was not happy to see what they had done to us. She started to blink, but stepped on a rake and it knocked her out cold. I really thought we were all in for it then. I didn't like seeing Jeannie that way. Then I had to resort to something else.

While they were out, they left the daughter to watch us. Now was our chance. I played on this girl's liking for Roger. He just about went crazy because he didn't know what I was doing, but then he played along. I told her "C'est La Vie (pronounced say-la-vee)" (I know that's spelled wrong) meant Roger loves her. This was almost funny. It was all I could do to keep from busting out laughing. Well it worked. After we were down, we tied and strung her up like a string bean. Roger and I carried Jeannie out to a grassy area and managed to get her to come to and she was asking for water. So Roger brings a scoop of liquid that we thought was water. Jeannie kept wanting more and little did we know it was moonshine she was drinking and she was snockered.

Next thing, I know Jeannie was acting so silly and she wanted to play tag so Roger and I were trying to chase her down to settle her down, but that was a joke. She thought we were playing. Then lo and behold those hillbillies started shooting at us. I thought we were goners for sure. Then I said something about being up a tree and Jeannie blinked us up a tree (and I didn't mean literally, but she thought I did). Then I commented about us all looking like sitting ducks sitting on a tree branch. It was the silliest thing I'd ever seen. Jeannie "the duck" looked even funnier with that pink veil. Not having enough time to laugh about it, I begged her to blink us back to normal and to the ship. We landed inside the ship and all Jeannie wanted to do was play tag some more. She was too funny. She then passed out (or so we thought). Obviously she heard me say martians (again) and blinked me and Roger into this ugly, disgusting green thing and of course Dr. Bellows had arrived and saw us. So he took off to report "the sighting" and Roger and I scrambled back in the ship while they shot at Dr. Bellows and tried to shoot at us again, but luckily we were taking off by then. We arrived back at NASA and Dr. Bellows was saying they are earthlings and they liked us (thinking it was really martians in the ship). I wish I could've gotten a picture of the look on his face when I poked myself out of the ship and said he was very kind and we liked him too. It took all the control I had inside not to bust out laughing. I did feel sorry for him though. He really thought he'd seen honest to goodness martians. Tonight after Jeannie's headache went away, she told us that youngest hillbilly chased her and tried to get a kiss (now I don't have to do that if I want a kiss from her). He had no idea who he was messing with. She told me how she had him hanging in the air and I thought that was pretty funny. I wish I could have seen that. I'm off to bed now. I am exhausted.

Entry #38
I seem to be learning something new about Jeannie everyday. Well in this case, it involves her mother, mostly. Thanks to her, Dr. Bellows and Colonel Finch were after me. My doorbell rings this morning and of course Jeannie darts for the door, but I said I'd get it. I open the door and there is a flying magic carpet with a package floating in the air. Jeannie got all excited because her mother had sent her something. I could only imagine what my neighbors would have thought if they had seen that thing floating in front of my door. Sheesh! Anyway, Jeannie opens it up and is delighted that it's her favorite candy. She calls them pipchicks. I wonder where that name came from. She got me to try one and I hesitated at first, but she practically pushed one in my mouth. It was incredible! That was one of the most delicious things I had in a long time. Next thing I know, when my hand was on one of the legs of my couch and I lifted it in the air with one hand. Whoa! Big shock! Where did that come from? With genies, you never know. So I didn't think it was any big deal. I ate a few more and they were delicious. I ended up taking some to work with me for lunch and I told Roger about what happened. Then Dr. Bellows comes and sits down at our table to eat with us. I guess he got curious and ate one of the pipchicks because I looked down and one was gone and I asked him if he ate one and he said yes. All I could think of was trouble (knowing him, he would go on another investigating spree on me). So he ate more. Now I knew trouble was coming.

He got up to get coffee and picked up the big coffee pot full of coffee with one hand. Of course Dr. Bellows went crazy. I had hoped it would be forgotten. How was I going to explain that? But it was no good. Colonel Finch got involved. She asked me to pick her up. I thought she must be kidding. Pick her up?? I knew better than that because she is a rather big lady. Pick her up?? But I had to do it. She outranks me. I put my hands on her waist and tried to pick her up, but I couldn't do it. She then proceeded to do the same thing to me and she lifted me almost all the way to the ceiling. Then she did the same thing to Roger. I knew she must have had a pipchick. How was I going to get out of this? I said that I just whipped them up and couldn't do it again. She said I had to. It was that or be in major trouble. I had to produce that recipe or else. According to Colonel Finch, it was supposed to solve the space capsule food problem.

So I went to Jeannie and told her she needed to get that recipe for me. She wasn't sure she could, but she would try. She succeeded, but I was to find out in what way later. Her mother had put "something else" in the recipe that I was to see the effects of later. But before that, I still tried to get out of this. This recipe called for unbelievable amounts of stuff. It called for a truck load of dates and ½ an acre of oranges. Now what kind of a recipe calls for that much stuff? It was crazy! I thought I might be in the clear because Dr. Bellows agreed with me, but no good. Colonel Finch didn't care what it took. She wanted those pipchicks. So Roger and I began to make them. We were stirring this large pot when Jeannie pops in to check on us. So to help out, she blinks in a donkey to do the stirring. A donkey! Knowing I would get in trouble, I told her to blink it out, but there wasn't enough time. Dr. Bellows came in and Jeannie popped out before he saw her. Of course he went crazy when he saw the donkey and told us to get it out of there, but Colonel Finch didn't care. She said if that's what it took, then okay. So we finally got a mess of them made only to discover they had a different side effect. A big side effect. A very big side effect. I came back in the kitchen and something very strange happened to Colonel Finch. She started to hit on me. She wanted to kiss me!!! Whoa lady, hold it right there! She got a hold of me and I couldn't get away. Roger came in and was shocked and said she outranked me and I commented she also outweighs me. So he got her to let me go. She then started to act like a butterfly.

I got loose to go find Dr. Bellows only to find him on top of his desk acting like a sea mariner, sailing to Alaska. He was going crazy. Talk about goofy. So I herded him to the kitchen. Then I found that Roger had eaten one and was acting like General Patton. So I go to General Peterson and he had eaten some too, but it wasn't affecting him, at least not yet. A little later he went nuts acting like he was going after Indians to avenge Custer. So I had to get Jeannie to help. I told her what the pipchicks had done. General Peterson had put some in the mail to go to Washington D.C. to the president, vice president, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (yeah instead of the white house, it would have been the chaos house). So Jeannie blinks into the mailbox and starts tossing mail out at me. The mail man comes by and sees me talking to the mailbox. Sheesh what he must have thought of me. Next thing I know a pipchick comes flying out and flies into my mouth by accident. I was later informed by Roger, General Peterson, Dr. Bellows, and Colonel Finch that I came chopping the door down acting like a madman. We all decided mutually that these pipchicks weren't worth the trouble after all. Jeannie apologized profusely, but I told her not to worry about it. I know she went and had a little talk with her mother about it and even though she acted innocent about it at first, she admitted it and Jeannie said that wasn't very nice and that was the end of it.

Entry #39
I am in the base hospital right now. Someone was kind enough to bring me some things from my house, including my briefcase. Why am I in the hospital? I have the Persian Flu. It all started the other day.

I came home the other night and brought Roger to have dinner with Jeannie and me. We came in and Jeannie was nowhere in sight. We called and called for her, but no answer. We started up the stairs and all of a sudden in pops this huge sign that reads, "QUIET NURSERY ZONE". Nursery Zone??? What in the world? We went upstairs only to have me trip and roll all the way into my study area on a baby toy. There I find Jeannie holding a screaming baby. I asked where it came from and she had to inform me it wasn't an "it"; it was a "he" and his name was Abdullah. He was her nephew. Jeannie had agreed to take care of him while her brother and his wife went on a long overdue honeymoon. I thought it was a bit late for a honeymoon per say. So needless to say she convinces me to let him stay. I was able to quiet him down once. But he kept me up all night long just about. He was up all the time. Jeannie did her best, but it wasn't doing much good.

We made it to the next morning, but I was basically a zombie, so much so that after Roger, who came to pick me up for work, told me Jeannie was gone and left the baby with me. With me?? Now how did she expect me to explain that to Dr. Bellows? I learned later she was taking her brother's place with the Sultan. But how did she expect me to care for him? He started getting fussy again but quietened down and Roger and I noticed a rattle he had that "came out of nowhere". It dawned on me that THIS WAS Jeannie's nephew. He was a djinn. The only thing I knew to do was have Roger tell Dr. Bellows I had a cold and couldn't go to work. So naturally Dr. Bellows had to come check it out (he always does). I don't know what Roger told him, but he said it sounded like I had the Patagonian flu. Huh? Now what in the world is that? How many types of flu can there be? Sheesh!! Dr. Bellows sent me to bed while Roger tried to keep Abdullah quiet.

To try and throw him off the course, Roger made up some excuse about my garbage disposal being out of whack. Then Dr. Bellows changes his mind and sends me to the base hospital. Roger stays with Abdullah, but Abdullah would not quit crying. I pretended to be Dr. Bellows to try and get myself out, but no good. Roger shows up there with the baby saying he had to be in Dr. Bellows office in an hour. What was I going to do trapped in a hospital? And with a baby? We were all over the place trying to hide him. I had to pretend to be a pregnant woman while I was hiding under a sheet and Roger in the closet with Abdullah when this guy came looking for his pregnant wife (I felt like such a dope). Roger and I made it through but barely. It turned out that Abdullah had the Persian flu and that was why he was so fussy. He went home early, but he did indeed manage to pass it on to Roger, myself, and to Jeannie. Jeannie is in Baghdad right now being treated. I didn't even know I had it until Dr. Bellows told me. He said I didn't have the Patagonian flu, but the Persian flu. Oh well. Things happen. Dr. Bellows was baffled because this is the first case reported in many years. I couldn't say I was sorry to see Abdullah go, but in a way, it wasn't bad having him around. He was a good baby, except for being sick, but he couldn't help that. Even though it was enough to eat your nerves with his fussiness, I kind of enjoyed watching how Jeannie took care of him. She would make such a wonderful mother. She's so tenderhearted, kind, warm, gentle, and very loving. I guess those are some of the things I love most about her. I surely miss her right now. But I'll be out of the hospital in a day or two and she'll be home from the Baghdad Hospital.

Entry #40
Anyways, here comes the tricky part. I explained the traditional Thanksgiving dinner that most everyone has; especially the most important part of it: the turkey. She thought it was wonderful and that it sounded great. I told her that even though I had had dinner with some people at the base, that if she wanted we could have dinner at the house and that she could have her first Thanksgiving dinner. Of course she was thrilled and leaped with excitement. I also told her we would invite Roger. I then told her I would go shopping and get our turkey. Well she asked me if I wanted her to get it, but I said it was okay and that I would get it. But she pleaded with me saying she wanted to get into the whole experience including getting the food. So I told her to look for a good plump turkey and she said she would. So she blinks out and I head off to work.

A few hours later, I was working in my office and I received a surprise. All of a sudden, in pops a big flock of live turkeys in my office. I nearly jumped to the ceiling. A flock of live turkeys in my office!!! I called out for Jeannie and she pops in. I asked her why in the world she popped in a big flock of live turkeys in my office. I thought I was going to croak. Those things were noisy and I just knew everyone could hear turkey gobbles coming from my office. She said she went to look for a turkey like she had said she would, but that they all looked plump and she couldn't decide which one to get and she wanted to know which one I liked (oh my word). I was going crazy. A flock of live turkeys! In my office! I started to tell her that this wasn't what I meant and that I meant a frozen turkey at the supermarket when Roger comes in to remind me of a meeting we were to have in a half hour and walks out as if he didn't notice the turkeys. Then he slowly opens the door and steps in closing the door behind him and looks like he's seen a ghost. The look he got on his face was priceless. He wades his way through the turkeys to my desk and very plainly and casually says that it seems I have a flock of live turkeys in my office (yeah no kidding). I said I knew that and that Jeannie did it. I explained to him that I had told her all about Thanksgiving and that we would have dinner at the house and invite him. I told him she begged me to let her buy the turkey. I said I thought she knew to get a frozen one at the supermarket, but obviously she didn't. Roger understood.

Then I told Jeannie to blink the turkeys out and she was just about to, but Dr. Bellows came in and Jeannie blinked out before he saw her, but the turkeys stayed. Oh boy, here it comes, I thought. I could only imagine what was fixing to happen. Dr. Bellows' eyes got as big as baseballs. He said there was a flock of live turkeys in my office and what were they doing in there. I tried to think of one of my fancy explanations of an experiment, but I couldn't. Then before I could even say anything, Dr. Bellows told Roger and me to stay put and not move and he'd be right back. I just knew he was going to get General Peterson. I called out to Jeannie and she blinked back in having an innocent look on her face. I told her she's just about to get us kicked out of the space program and to get these turkeys out of here. She said okay and she blinked them gone. She said she was sorry and that she was only trying to help and that she didn't know to go to the supermarket to look for a frozen one. I told her it was okay and I was sorry too and that I should have made sure she knew what I meant. She then blinked up a turkey that still had its feathers, head, and feet on its legs in a block of ice and asked if she should look for that and I said no. I explained that the turkey would already be defeathered (if that's what one would call it), head and feet off. It would be clean and wrapped in plastic. It would be ready to cook. All we would have to do is defrost it, season it, and put it in the oven to cook. She said she understood.

Then we heard Dr. Bellows and General Peterson coming and I told her to blink out and she did. Dr. Bellows came bursting through the door and looked as surprised as before. He kept reassuring General Peterson there was a flock of turkeys in my office. Thank goodness General Peterson didn't even ask me about it. He told Dr. Bellows that he thought it was time that he (Dr. Bellows) was analyzed again and did he understand. He said yes and that I had done it to him again. I told Roger that was close and he agreed.

Tonight when I came home, I discovered that Jeannie had bought the right turkey. She said she asked a clerk where they were and he showed her. Then she asked him which one looked the most plump in his opinion and he pointed one out to her and that's the one she got. Bless her heart. I have to remind myself that there are things like this she might not know. She has such a good heart. I can honestly say that except for my good health, my family, my friends, and my job, that I am most thankful for Jeannie. I don't know what I'd do without her. I have been too hard on her and ugly to her at times and I felt like a cad afterwards, but she always forgives me. I have to remind myself that she comes from a different place and generation and she still has to learn and that I need to bear with her. She's not supposed to be real, but she is. She may be a genie, but she's my genie and I'm grateful. This is going to be a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Entry #41
I thought I had been told about almost everything about Jeannie's magic until I met Djinn Djinn, Jeannie's dog from Baghdad. He has made more of a nervous wreck out of me than Jeannie ever has. He's a cute little dog, but chee whiz! First off he can disappear, but still "be there". Then come to find out, he hates uniforms and anything that resembles a uniform he will rip them to shreds. Why? Well, let me start at the beginning.

Mrs. Bellows drove me home the other day and we found a cute and scrawny little puppy dog scratching at my front door. Mrs. Bellows just flipped over him and wanted to keep him. She came to look at some stuff in my garage that she needed for a bazaar. So the dog followed her to the garage. I didn't think anything of it at first. Then while I was on the phone to Roger, I heard this growling noise and my jacket was on the floor and it was moving jacket. Now how in the world could that be? Mrs. Bellows came back in and saw the dog and wanted to take him home. Thank goodness I was able to talk her out of it. With him turning invisible and all that, I knew I couldn't let her. She would have wound up in an asylum. Jeannie had to have something to do with this.

Next thing I knew he started to rip my uniform to shreds while it was still on me!!! Roger came in about that time and he and I both bolted out the door. Next thing, I saw Jeannie through the window holding the dog. Roger and I went back in and she pleaded with me to let him stay. I said no, but she kept on. This was when I found out he was Jeannie's dog, Djinn Djinn, from a long time ago in Baghdad. I finally relented and said yes. She had that sweet look on her face again. She knows that weakens me. Why am I such a softy when it comes to her?

Then, couple of days later, I was in my office talking to Dr. Bellows when I heard that growling noise again and something started tugging on my pant leg. Now how did that dog find me there? I bolted out of my office and I had a hard time getting out of that one with Dr. Bellows. Sometimes I think he lives under my nose trying to figure me all out. I mean, he has reason to but I can't let him know that or I'd be washed out of the space program for good.

Later on, I had given Djinn Djinn some food and Jeannie had fixed me a steak and I had cut but one bite and that piece of meat disappeared. I looked over and it was in Djinn Djinn's bowl. Chee whiz, you'd think he never ate before! I was later walking him in the park and we saw the Bellows. I tried to act like I didn't see them, but no good. When they caught with me, little did I know that Djinn Djinn had disappeared again. How was I supposed to explain a collar with no dog? I just told them he'd gotten away. But then he comes walking up to us and Mrs. Bellows picks him up and says she's taking him home. I tried to stop her, but I couldn't.

A little while later in the day, Roger and I had to do a weightless experiment at NASA. Naturally, Jeannie had to pop in. She always seems to at the most inopportune moments. Anyway, she got worried when I didn't bring Djinn Djinn home and I told her Mrs. Bellows took him. I told her to go get him and pretend to be the owner if she needed to. Of course, she had to make it clear she didn't need to pretend. She WAS the owner (good gracious). Next thing I know, Dr. Bellows comes barreling in and his uniform is all torn in shreds. I knew Djinn Djinn had to be around. Mrs. Bellows had dropped him off and well, Djinn Djinn attacked Dr. Bellows. Since Dr. Bellows had floated up to where Roger and I were when he came barreling in there, we had to get a Lieutenant to let us down. We went and found General Peterson had been terrorized. His uniform was in pieces and he was fit to be tied. I asked permission to go to Dr. Bellows office to get "the dog" to prove it was a dog because he never "saw" a dog. Jeannie finally pops in and upset she could not find him and I filled her in on everything. She finally concluded it was the uniforms. Djinn Djinn had been mistreated by some guards in Baghdad. All in all, everything worked out. Jeannie pretended to be a little granny (she looked so cute) and she was Djinn Djinn's owner. Djinn Djinn had a crack at Mrs. Bellows too when she came in wearing a new outfit that looked like a uniform. She and everyone else ran out, but Djinn Djinn popped back into my arms trying to look innocent (yeah whatever). This was quite exhausting.

Entry #42
I can hardly believe I have had Jeannie with me for three years now. They have been the best three years of my life. I decided to be the first one this time to tell her Happy Anniversary. I surprised her with something for her bottle (a bottle warmer). She proceeded to give me a surprise. She put Niagara Falls outside of the house or should I say moved the house to Niagara Falls. It was very nice but I had to have her move it back. I had big plans for us to celebrate, but they got ruined.

Dr. Bellows sent me on a mission to Washington D.C. to take a secret film there. I wasn't allowed to say a word to anybody. I wanted so badly to tell Jeannie so she wouldn't think I was just skipping out, but I could not say anything. Somehow Jeannie got the wrong idea somewhere and there was a mess of chaos at the airport and on the airplane. A girl called Valerie fell on my lap. Our seat belts tightened to the extreme. Our chairs were thrown back. Water spilt on her. I did find Jeannie in the back of the plane, but nothing I said could calm her down. She really thought I was going to be living it up with a girl. I get to D.C. with the film and obviously Jeannie had done something to it. It showed me and Roger in an 1800s western film. We looked like a couple of hicks from the south. We looked absolutely ridiculous! I called Jeannie and she wouldn't talk to me. I called again and she said she was planning her wedding. I figured Roger was trying to seize the moment knowing how angry Jeannie was with me. Then as our conversation went on, I realized why she was mad. She heard me talking to Dr. Bellows on the phone about Sgt. Marion and all she heard was Marion and thought I was living it up with a girl. Well she popped in and said she would fix the film. She fixed it alright. A big blazing picture with fireworks that said "Happy Anniversary Master" came on the screen. It was then I fainted.

I woke up to Jeannie caressing my face and her sweet talking me and telling me to wake up. I sat up to see all of my colleagues frozen. Jeannie apologized and said she got lost in the moment after finding out I wouldn't be with another girl and she just blinked the fireworks on the screen, telling me Happy Anniversary. After she realized what she did, she froze my colleagues and proceeded to wake me up. All I could think of was explaining to Dr. Bellows, General Schaeffer, and the others what happened. Jeannie said she had taken care of all that. She froze them and at the same time she erased their memories clear back to before we even started the film the first time. So I got to show the film with no quirks and no trouble. I just can't get over how amazing Jeannie is. She goes nuts whenever she thinks I might go for another girl. I want to tell her so badly that that's just not possible because I'm too much in love with her, but I can't. It just wouldn't work. She's a genie and I'm a mortal. I'm a scientist and I'm not supposed to believe in genies. They're not supposed to be real, but yet she's just as real as anyone else. She's just different. I just wish I could tell her that I love her, but I can't. What can I do? Gotta jet for now.

Entry #43
Something fishy is going on. Jeannie's sister has popped in again. But this time, she seems to be looking another way. What I mean is, she appears to have her eye on Roger. Now I know Roger would jump at the chance to have a genie, but I know this genie all too well. She is up to something.

Strange things started happening the other day. Jeannie started acting so strangely, strange for her that is. I came home from work the other day and found a swing of flowers hanging in the sir. Not on a tree, but the air. Okay, hold on a minute. A flower swing hanging in mid air on my patio? I should come to expect things like that, but anyways. Jeannie was on that swing and before I knew it, she had accidentally swung into me and one of her shoes, the toe of it, was in my mouth. I'm probably the only one whoever had the toe of a genie's shoe in his mouth. It took me a bit to gather myself. I was kind of sore after falling down like that. Jeannie apologized her little heart out. I know she didn't mean to. I just couldn't put my finger on why she was acting so strangely. Then yesterday, Jeannie made a nice dinner. That didn't seem strange because she's always doing sweet little things like that. The strange part came when she put a spoonful of shredded cardboard in my mouth. Shredded cardboard! Now what in the name of the space simulator was that all about?! Shredded cardboard!! She appeared hurt that I didn't like it, but why on earth would she serve that?

Next in sequence comes Jeannie's sister. She and Roger show up at my house. Her sister had her arms around Roger and just the sight of her freaked me out, but she seemed different. That's when Roger up and said they were getting married. Married?? Roger?? Jeannie's sister?? I thought I must have heard wrong (you know---ear wax in the ears). Roger said they were getting married and he was serious, but I know this genie. She is up to something and she is using Roger. And her being around may explain why Jeannie is behaving the way she is, but how? She has to be behind it. I don't know how, but she is. I've got to talk Roger out of this somehow. He cannot marry Jeannie's sister.

Entry #44
Well it's all over with. I knew Jeannie's sister was up to something. I tried to talk Roger out of marrying her, but it didn't do any good. I finally gave in and decided to be his best man. Then Dr. Bellows revealed that he and Mrs. Bellows were hosting the wedding in their garden. It was really going to happen. Roger and Jeannie's sister were getting married! I even tried to stop it by going through Jeannie, but she was just as thrilled as could be about the whole thing. She was going to be maid of honor. I tried and tried, but all it did was upset her and make her cry (oh how I hate seeing her cry). She said she was sorry I was so against marriage and I said I wasn't against marriage, just THIS marriage. She went on and on and brought up the previous incidents saying it worked when her sister tried it on Roger but when she tried it on me, it didn't. She then smoked into her bottle and I tried to talk to her, but she just ignored me ad blinked some iron bars around her bottle. Now I knew why she was doing all those strange things. Her sister was trying to give her lessons. Yeah, that will be the day when anyone learns anything from that genie (except disaster).

The wedding appeared to still go on. But just as the minister got to the "I dos", Jeannie's sister did a switch-a-roo. She blinked and Roger and me switched, with me as the groom and Roger as the best man. Then I knew what her real intentions were. She was trying to marry me!!! No way! Not in this lifetime! I knew she was up to something. It was all chaos for the next few moments. Once Jeannie finally realized what her sister was up to, she took action. Jeannie blinked in fog to cover up her and her sister's "blinking war". Jeannie got her by blinking the ring out of my pocket and into the champagne bottle and her sister went in after it and Jeannie corked the bottle. We got the Bellows and the other guests deterred by telling the Bellows that the bride just walked out on Roger. We accidentally uncorked the bottle, but caught it just in time before her sister caused any more trouble. Jeannie later tried to play a trick and marry me in my living room, but I stopped it. Jeannie was a little frustrated. She was hoping I'd marry her anyway. The thing she and no one else but me knows is that I want to. I want to marry Jeannie. I just have to keep fighting it I guess. Gotta go for now.

Entry #45
Jeannie has had quite a thrill the last few days. I let her use her powers to get me out of a mess. She didn't do anything this time, but I let her help. Dr. Bellows was out on one of his discovery expeditions again to figure me out. He had documented "everything" that had taken place (the elephant, the tree, etc…). He never seems to quit. So he gave a copy of all that to General Peterson. I thought I would be done for. Don't get me wrong. I like working for Dr. Bellows, but he doesn't ever seem to leave well enough alone. Yes, he has good reason to do what he does, but I couldn't let him find out about Jeannie.

Anyways, I felt better when General Peterson said he didn't believe any of it. Then he went on to say Dr. Bellows was cracking up and was being replaced. So now I had a new guy to deal with. He was even worse. His name was Dr. Corbett. He's like someone from the twilight zone. He put me through every physical test possible and then said he was going to hypnotize me or use truth serum to get me to tell him everything about me. Whoa! Red light! If I had to go through that, he would find out about Jeannie. So I enlisted Jeannie's help so it could be proven that Dr. Bellows wasn't crazy and I could come up with some scientific explanation. I tried to use the snowing indoors thing, but it didn't work because I couldn't get General Peterson and Dr. Bellows in the same room. So we were back to square one. So I decided to have Jeannie masquerade as Dr. Corbett's new secretary and use her powers right in front of him to do everything so he would think he's going nuts. Roger and I sat in my office dying laughing talking about it. Jeannie popped in later to say it wasn't working.

So we had to go to phase two. I kept my hypnosis appointment with Dr. Corbett, but I faked like I was going under and tricked him into being under hypnosis and then I escaped. I had Jeannie blink up a bear to appear in Corbett's office, but the bear ended up wandering all over NASA. The bear ended up with Corbett on his back. That was the goofiest thing I ever saw. General Peterson eventually saw it when Corbett was on a bench in the hall and the bear sitting on Corbett's back. He was finally convinced Dr. Corbett was crazy and reassigned me to Dr. Bellows. He may be hard to deal with at times, but I'd much rather deal with him than Corbett. Jeannie was so excited I let her help me. She told me later she had such fun.

Entry #46
Dr. Bellows is trying to get me to enter this rodeo that's in town, but I said no. It's not for me. But now Jeannie is involved. She became the one millionth customer at the supermarket today. She's won all these prizes and she didn't want to accept, but thanks to Roger, she did anyway. Sometimes I think he was born with a radar in his head because when he hears "prize" or anything to that effect, he goes crazy.

Earlier this afternoon, these cowboys came to my house looking for Jeannie. Being the winner and being single (oh how I wish she wasn't single-I could've told them she was mine-heck, she IS mine), she was made rodeo queen and the rodeo winner gets a date with her (yeah, let some cowboy try it and I'll---oh never mind). I tried to get her out before they knew she really was there, but it was no good. One of the guys in the group that came here is supposed to be the best cowboy and these guys swore up and down he would win and this guy obviously thought a lot of himself. If you ask me, I think the doctor must have dropped him on his head when he was born. He made Jeannie very uncomfortable because he was very forward and he put a cowboy rope around her and when I tried to defend her, he tried to act like a big shot and I was knocked on the floor. So that naturally made Jeannie mad and she blinked the rope around him, but he was so dingy that he thought she didn't mean anything by it and he picked her up and swung her around and Jeannie did not like it. I should've told that guy to take it all and stow it, but I didn't. What a total dufus this guy! We later talked it out and Jeannie wanted to blink that guy out of the picture and I said no she couldn't. She'd have to go through with this whole thing and hope for the best. So I'm getting Roger to help. I'm entering the rodeo to make sure she behaves herself and Roger's going to be one of those rodeo clowns. I wouldn't tell her this, but I think I might try to win to keep that guy away from her, but I don't know. I stink at this. How am I going to stay on a wild bull? Who knows. We'll see.

Entry #47
Well this was quite an interesting experience. I must have been crazy to try this, but it paid off (yeah I'm crazy alright---crazy about Jeannie). Roger entered as one of those clowns (which fits him to a tee because he can be a clown) and I was a contestant called the Pinto Kid (maybe they think I like beans or something). At one point I was trying to rope a calf and my horse roped me instead. I was so embarrassed. I can only imagine how many laughs that must have gotten in the audience. I was trying everything, but I wasn't doing any good. I stunk at everything. I was going to give up. I sent Roger to tell Jeannie I was here, but before I had a chance to escape, I was on that wild bull. That dumb cowboy who thought was all that did pretty good and was ahead so far. I was sure that bull was going to finish me off. I knew Roger must have gotten to Jeannie because while that bull was bouncing me up and down, I froze in mid air for a brief moment before it all started again (now that was weird). Next thing I knew I had been on that thing over five minutes. Then I finally fell off. At the end, I was so sore and tired, I couldn't even walk. I was hanging over my horse! All in all, it was good. I kept that cowboy away from Jeannie (with her help). Jeannie and I had a nice time on our date tonight. She kept telling me how wonderful I was to do what I did. I said it was no big deal. But it really was. When I saw how that guy handled her, I got really jealous. I won't tell Jeannie that though. If I did it would just incline her to the fact that I am in love her with her and I just can't let on to that.

Entry #48
I've not been able to write for a few days as things have been quite interesting around here. First, Jeannie tries to make me the next governor of Florida, nearly getting me kicked out of the space program (me? Governor? Haha!). There were posters in my office and campaign stuff all over my house. She blinked up her stereoptican machine to prove all the good in it and what would happen if I did win. I tried to deter her by sending her to Baghdad to get voters there, but that didn't work. She knew I tricked her.

What broke it for Jeannie was when she saw me marrying this brunette girl in her drachma machine and she went crazy. I seized the moment and said I would only marry her if I became governor and that did it. Jeannie wouldn't have it. I played a little joke acting disappointed about not being governor and she got her "I'm sorry, Master" look on her face and asked for forgiveness and I couldn't help but smile and I lambed a big kiss on her. I don't know how it happened, but I just did it and boy did it feel good. But not even that governor stuff could top the craziness I've just been through.

This morning, I could not seem to get awake. I even showed up to work in my pajama pants. Now I know I had to be out of it to do that. General Peterson could hardly believe it. Then all of a sudden my work pants popped on me and I figured Jeannie did it and General Peterson thought he was seeing things. All day because I kept going to sleep, I was almost removed from our upcoming moon mission. Roger and I eventually discovered a pattern. Anytime someone whistled, I would go to sleep or wake up if I was asleep. Now something was major weird. When I was telling Jeannie about it, she popped off to Baghdad. I didn't know why. But I didn't think much of it. I still continued that sleeping stuff at home. Then when I woke up the last time, Jeannie's mother was in my living room and Dr. Bellows was out cold on my couch. Uh oh! What did her mother pull?! Jeannie praised her mother in front of me saying she made me well, but in the process, accidentally put Dr. Bellows to sleep. Then I knew her mother was behind it all along. I just can't figure her mother out. Why does she dislike me so much? I didn't do anything to her. Oh well.

In the meantime, her mother had "fallen in love" with Dr. Bellows and was determined to keep him. So I had Jeannie try to reason with her mother while she blinked me to NASA so I could stall General Peterson. General Peterson was convinced he was cracking up so I had him lay down on my couch while I went back to check on things. Jeannie was having no luck and I decided to try my luck with her mother (taking a very big chance---I could've been sent to the desert for all I knew). I told her congratulations and that pleased her. I went on to say that I wasn't aware that Dr. Bellows had agreed to become her master and she said he didn't. So I made it look like a big no-no to "take a master" against his will. So she agreed to wake him up and "ask" him. So she proceeded to do so. To do it, she did the weirdest thing I've ever seen. She started dancing around in a circle and kicking her right leg outwards. What was this? "The Arabian Nights Weirdoes Dance"?

So Dr. Bellows woke up and found himself in these turbans and robes that Jeannie's mother blinked on him. Of course, she was trying to "be sweet" to get him to like her so she could keep him. He said he was happily married and he didn't even know her. So I discreetly motioned to Jeannie to blink him to NASA. That saddened Jeannie's mother and she thought he just left. So she left and went home to Baghdad. Then I had a thought. Dr. Bellows was probably still in those turbans and robes. So I had Jeannie blink us (myself, her, and Roger) to NASA. There he stood talking to General Peterson in those turbans and robes. The two of them were arguing as to which one of them was cracking up. It was almost comical. So Jeannie blinked Dr. Bellows uniform on him, but forgot the shoes. It took us a second to realize it and she changed those too. I think by tomorrow they'll be fine. They both decided to finish work tomorrow and go home and rest and that would probably do the trick. I hope so.

Entry #49
This morning I thought Jeannie had flipped her lid. I was giving a moon lecture to Roger, Dr. Bellows, and General Schaeffer when Jeannie came in dressed like a sergeant with a note saying she needed to talk to me and that it was urgent. She knows better than to pull something like that. Was she nuts? Roger did me a big favor and escorted her out. Then the next thing I knew something in my notes all of a sudden changed to, "Don't go to the moon. It is too dangerous." I honestly didn't know what she was up to or what she was thinking, but I would not allow it. I was going to have a talk with that young lady later.

It stopped for a few minutes, but then the really weird stuff came. This huge roaring tiger appeared on the screen and liked to have scared me out of my skin. The weird part is, no one saw it but me. Now what is up with that? Then, this train appears on the screen and comes rushing towards me and I liked to have come out of my skin again. Then it happened again and I was trying to talk above that loud train, but again, I was the only one who saw and heard it. I know Dr. Bellows and General Schaeffer were thinking that I was going crazy. I know I could explain it away to Roger, but not to them. So I go into my office to phone Jeannie to tell her to stop it when this lunatic operator comes on the other end to tell me to deposit $.15 for the first three minutes. Huh? I tried to tell this person this wasn't a pay phone, but then it said it was a recording (or so I thought).

Then Dr. Bellows comes in to check on me and more stuff comes. I hear a big clap of thunder, a machine gun, and a very loud clang. Again, I was the only one who heard it and Dr. Bellows called General Schaeffer saying they needed to replace me on this moon mission. Now I was mad. Very, very mad. I came home and started chewing Jeannie out and she kept repeating over and over that it was for my own good. Sheesh! I was finally able to reason with her and told her about the technology that would keep me safe. I had to sweet talk her into helping me get back on this project. So I had Jeannie replay all those noises and I was able to pass it off as an experiment so Dr. Bellows put me back on the project. Then later, she pulled her stunts again. I was in the examining room getting my weight. First it was 190 and then 205. So I asked Dr. Bellows if it wouldn't show had I gained all that weight and he agreed. So he asked me to go to his office and try the scale in there. After he and Roger walked out, Jeannie blinked in saying she had changed her mind, but I ordered her to fix everything. So she gave me a pill that was supposed to fix it all. Instead, it turned me into a 300 pound blimp. I mean I was like Major Fatso!! So I tried to go through the door and part of the wall and sheet rock fell. Dr. Bellows was appalled and went to get General Schaeffer to show him I couldn't possibly go on the mission. I was madder than a hornet. Jeannie had really done it this time.

Then when I just barely leaned on the wall, I fell through it and scared a poor secretary half to death. I made it back into the examining room. Then I had a surprise visitor (yeah, someone to make me ill). Jeannie's sister pops in and was supposedly sympathizing with me and that she couldn't believe Jeannie would do what she did (little Miss Phony Bologna if you ask me). I knew better. So she had been behind this mess all along and I had been accusing Jeannie. Her sister had her convinced of all the bad stuff that would happen to me and when Jeannie didn't follow through, she posed as Jeannie to make me mad enough at her so I would get rid of her and she could step in. Yeah, I would eat baby food the rest of my life before I'd ever let her step in (including that dry oatmeal stuff). So I tricked her into thinking I wanted her to stay. I got her to blink me back to normal and we started kissing and I had Roger sneak up from behind to cover her eyes and he missed and we almost lost her, but he got her and pulled her into the closet along with himself. By the time Dr. Bellows and General Schaeffer got there, I was looking at a magazine like nothing was wrong and General Schaeffer was a little upset with Dr. Bellows, but it worked out. I opened the closet for Roger to come out and Jeannie's sister had blinked him into a blimp and he pushed through the door and went flying into the hall. I called for Jeannie and she had to summon her sister's master to make her fix it. So it all worked out. Her sister was going to be punished by spending some time in her bottle (how long will she stay away this time). So I had to apologize to Jeannie for being so hard on her and I wished I had known it was her sister and would've dealt with it early on. She said it was okay and she kissed me. I sure do like it when she does that.

Entry #50
I'm fixing to head off to bed as I don't feel good. I contracted a cold today and of all times, it had to happen on our moon mission. Poor Jeannie, I know she means well. She was watching our mission on TV and noticed my cold as I kept sneezing while trying to talk. Wingate offered the chance to abort the mission, but I said no. I wanted to go on. So Jeannie gets smart and tries to blink me home, but she misses and gets Wingate instead (ah man, not again. Yes again.). So she tries again and does get me and Roger is left up there all by himself. She said she missed the first time because she too has a little cold and her eyes are tearing up and she was afraid to blink Wingate and me back up there for fear we would be floundering around in space. So she decided to blink up there and help Roger (and how did she plan on doing that?). She told me to rest. Yeah, like I could rest at a time like that. She gave Wingate a sleeping pill so he wouldn't know what was going on. So I picked up Wingate and draped him over my shoulder to get him outside and the Bellows showed up and I hid behind the door and then darted back into my bedroom. They were going to decorate my house for a party for me, Roger, and Wingate. I thought that was nice.

So I opened my bedroom window and pushed Wingate through and I climbed out and we made it to the garage. Wingate was half awake then I was doing all I could to convince him we were still in the capsule. Then I figured the Bellows must have seen something because they started trying to get in. So it was very tricky trying to keep Wingate quiet with one arm and keep my garage door shut with the other arm. They finally gave up. So after Dr. Bellows headed out and Mrs. Bellows went back into my house, I covered Wingate up and put him in a barrel and I wheeled him as fast as I could out of there. I knew I had to get back to NASA because that was the only way I could get in touch with Jeannie. Mrs. Bellows saw us and she was trailing us big time (no wonder she and Dr. Bellows are so good together-she's as bad as he is at times). So it as all I could do to get away from her. I had put my globe on Wingate's head to hide his face and we made it NASA and into the men's bathroom before Mrs. Bellows caught us.

Then she thought she could put a sergeant guard on the door to keep us detained, but I got out anyway. I left Wingate in the bathroom (I never thought I'd stash anything in the men's bathroom---Sheesh!). Needless to say I saw Mrs. Bellows face to face, but I said "I wasn't there" and she really went crazy. The look on her face was priceless. I was able to dodge everyone, get in touch with Jeannie, and have her blink me and Wingate back to the capsule. Dr. Bellows really thought Mrs. Bellows had gone off her rocker. We made it back it down safe and sound. Dr. Bellows gave me the day off tomorrow so I could rest, which suits me fine. Since Jeannie wasn't feeling well either, I figured she was always trying to take care of me so I decided that even though I didn't feel good either, I was going to take care of her this time. I made her some soup. She ate it and I sent her to bed. I mean it's the least I can do for her since she does so much for me. I'm going to bed now.

Entry #51
I now see Jeannie's sister never gives up. The Cocoa Beach Cabana just opened up and Roger was dying to go. He wanted someone to double date with him and one of his girls. I said I didn't want to but he and Jeannie both kept bugging me and I finally relented and said I'd go. Jeannie was thrilled. She said she was going to Paris to pick out a gown because she wanted to look her best. I knew she'd pick out something nice. No matter what, she always looks so beautiful. Lo and behold something would have to go wrong.

Dr. Bellows notified me that a special singer was going to be at the Cocoa Beach Cabana, so he and Mrs. Bellows would be coming along as well. That meant I couldn't take Jeannie. I tried and tried to think of the nicest way possible to tell her, but I knew no matter how I told her, she was going to be more than upset. Roger whined about having to be with me when I told her, but hey, I need the support. So as I was finishing getting my jacket on, I called for Jeannie to come downstairs. She came down wearing the most beautiful white dress with sparkling sequins on it with her hair looking so beautiful. It was hanging down so beautiful. I almost fainted at the sight of her. She took my breath away, but she has no trouble doing that. She takes my breath away more easily all the time. I almost told Roger to forget the whole thing and that I wouldn't go without Jeannie, but I didn't. Besides, how would I explain to Dr. Bellows why I didn't go? So I told Jeannie she couldn't go and she went into a frenzy about how long she took to pick out her dress and how long she spent on her hair. I couldn't blame her. I had told her she could go and now I was having to tell her she couldn't. But what was I to do? I thought she was going to blink me into something, but she ran upstairs crying. I couldn't stand that.

But I went with Roger and his date and the Bellows and we expected to see a good show. The guy on stage announced that our featured singer was stricken with a sudden case of laryngitis and her understudy would go on instead. He introduced her as Ms. Jeannie. I almost choked when Jeannie (or who I thought was Jeannie) stepped out on stage. She started singing and then she started walking towards me and I fell out of my chair and my pants came off. My pants!!! I looked like a big geek! I grabbed a table cloth and tried to make a break for it, but she just chased me around the room, still singing. So I darted behind stage, but some other guy pushed me back out.

I came home madder than I had ever been. I had never been so humiliated. I knew Jeannie was mad, but I didn't think she would do something like this to me. I chewed her out, but she acted as if she didn't know what I was talking about. So I put her in her bottle to teach her a lesson. But after I did that, I kept seeing her walking around the house. I couldn't figure out how because I put the stopper on her bottle. Roger stopped by and he was trying to calm me, but I was hyped up about what happened at the Cabana and because I kept seeing Jeannie even after I had put her in her bottle. Roger kept claiming the stopper was off, but I said I had put it on. Then I saw Jeannie in the oven making a face at me and then she blinked and it exploded. About that time Dr. and Mrs. Bellows showed up and Dr. Bellows was pretty upset with me about what happened and he was blaming me. Now I couldn't understand that. It wasn't my fault. Mrs. Bellows was sweet enough to defend me.

Then Roger and I saw Jeannie again and we started dancing with the Bellows to distract them (boy they must have thought we were real dufuses-especially Roger dancing with Dr. Bellows). Then my house started shaking and things flying and I thought that Jeannie had just finally lost her temper. So I covered it saying it was an earthquake and the Bellows actually believed it and Dr. Bellows apologized to me. After they were gone, Jeannie popped in to say it was her sister that had caused all the trouble. I might have known. Her sister again! Then all of a sudden, a block of ice blinked in and surrounded her. Then, well, how should I say this. Well, I'll say Jeannie popped in again and said she was Jeannie and that she was sending her sister to her mother in a block of ice. I wasn't sure what to believe. I thought her sister was trying to pull another one over my head. So Roger and I ran in the kitchen. Jeannie ran in after us, begging me to recognize her. Then she got this gleam in her eyes and she said she knew how I could tell it was her and she gave me the biggest kiss. Then I knew. I remembered the time she did that when her sister was posing as that Dr. Walters for the couple on the moon project and we had trapped her sister in the tube and she came along and looked like her sister did and the way I knew it was her was the way she kissed me. It was the same way this time. No one, not even one of my past girlfriends, has ever kissed me like that. She sure can kiss. If I don't shut up, I'm going to drive myself crazy. Even though I wish it, I know there can't be anything (or maybe there already is) between Jeannie and me. But maybe there could be, no, no, no. There can't be. She's a genie. I gotta go for now.

Entry #52
Man I thought Dr. Bellows was nosey until I met this bird brain news reporter. Roger and I were doing a news conference the other day and at the end, they wanted to know about our personal lives. Well, I wasn't having any of that. Besides the fact that it's none of their business, I'd have to tell about Jeannie, even though there's nothing between us. So what does this bonehead of a reporter do? He gets into my house posing as a plumber and sets up some kind of a camera. He came back later to get some tools he had supposedly left there (what a goon). Jeannie is doing what she can to get him out, but I woke up to him screaming. He was trying to get into my bedroom and Jeannie had blinked iron bars on my bedroom doorway and lo and behold I hit my nose on them not knowing they were there. Luckily, this guy didn't believe Jeannie was a real genie. So this guy decided to play dirty.

Later on, this woman and two boys show up at NASA claiming to be my long lost wife and children. She had a fake marriage license and pictures to show Dr. Bellows and everything. Now what in the world????!! Then I was forced to bring them home to my house to let them stay there. Jeannie believed they were my family and she left. That bonehead reporter showed up and said I could either give him the real story or he'd print one about me deserting my wife and kids. The nerve of this guy!!! Then later on when I was at work again, that lady and her kids show up to have me take them to lunch and those kids made a mess in my office throwing papers everywhere. They were like little monsters!! So Jeannie pops in with a "divorce scroll" for me to sign because she was "divorcing" me on account of this mess. So the reporter guy shows up again to give me one last chance to give him the real story. So I seized the moment because I had Jeannie blink into the coffee cup on my desk with pencils in it. She heard it all and realized I wasn't lying to her. So I decided to let Jeannie have a little fun with him with her blink tricks. It was so funny to watch. It was all I could do not to laugh because she made such a monkey out of him. Then when he tried to explain all that to Dr. Bellows, Dr. Bellows thought this guy was plum crazy (he was-big time). So all in all, this guy gave up and he and his family went home. Sheesh! The nerve of some people! I heard he actually got in trouble with his boss for everything he put me through. Serves him right too. Gotta jet for now.

Entry #53
When Roger really gets his mind set on something, he really does it. He met a girl. That's not news, but he made it seem like the news topic of the day. This girl, whose name was Glattis, agreed to go out with him, but on one condition: that it be a double date and he find a date for a friend of hers, whose name was Bethany. So what does Roger do? Naturally he comes to me and asks me to go out with Bethany. Of course, I had no interest and said no. But Roger was so set on going out with Glattis that he wouldn't let up on me. He was like if it was me, he'd do it for me. I just knew it would be nothing but trouble when Jeannie found out if I agreed. Even so, I could remedy that somehow, but I didn't want to have to. I didn't want to go out with Bethany or any girl (except Jeannie) for that matter. Roger was sure I'd change my mind so he left me alone for a while.

I went home and I did tell Jeannie. At first I thought she was going to do something crazy but I calmed her in time to tell her I wasn't going to do it and I didn't want to. I wanted so badly to tell her the real reason why but I couldn't. I just said I told her that just in case she heard about it and that I wasn't going through with it. So she was satisfied with that. Then today at work, Roger started it again. He actually brought Bethany up to meet me. He said to her that I was the one who was going to be her date and that pleased her a lot. I corrected him and told her I had not agreed. Then I told Roger I wanted to speak to him alone and Bethany stepped out in the hall. I asked Roger why he brought her there and told her I had agreed when I hadn't. He said he figured I'd change my mind once I saw her. I told him I haven't and I wouldn't. He proceeded to beg me. It was then I got heated and blurted out that I SAID NO and if he was really my friend he would respect my wishes and not bug me anymore and besides that fact that I was alread….. I stopped right there. I couldn't believe that I almost admitted to him out loud that I am in love with Jeannie. Luckily I caught myself. I was caught up in the moment of telling him to quit pestering me to go out with Bethany. When I stopped short, Roger asked me I was already what. I said never mind and he asked again and I said never mind. I sensed he knew I was about to say what I was going to say. So he dropped it, said he was sorry and that he would ask Captain Slater if he would be Bethany's date. I was relieved. That was close. Gotta go.