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ivybgreenflower) wrote2008-03-20 04:09 am
ivybgreenflower) wrote2008-03-20 04:09 am
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Hmm
What appliance is it that, when the electricity blinks off and then back on again, goes "ERGN!"? It sounds like the beginning of one of those REQUIRED WEEKLY TESTS that only happen when I'm watching something and someone's about to say something interesting, like Spock's about to tell why the transporter isn't working or Mandy's about to show a new tanzanite on Jewelry Television. And, wow, I have not seen lightning that bright in years. Or thunder that thundery.
But what appliance is it that sounds like someone changed the channel during an emergency test signal thing? We don't have any fancy weather radios or anything. It's not the cable box, because that thing's always going in and out (and sometimes I have to climb back behind the television and yank the plug out to reset the box myself, because Bright House kind of sucks sometimes.) It's not the microwave. I can't imagine why it would be the oven, and the lamps don't make noises like that, nor does my computer.
And then, of course, I'm terrfied, to an I-need-help-no-seriously level, of the dark, and I'd probably be stuck in this chair until daybreak if the lights never came back on. I am not even kidding. I would sit here, my heart beating faster, my whole body wanting to flail and run in circles, my eyes not daring to close even though everything looks the same whether they're open or not. When I go to bed at night (lol "night") I have to shut the light by the computer, then walk through the living room to the hallway to my room. This takes maybe thirty seconds. The layout of my living room has not changed since my childhood, nor has the layout of any other part of my house. I know exactly where I am at any point in my house, because I've been here for 20 years and there aren't really any different places where you can put the furniture.
And yet every night, halfway to my room, I dart wildly and without an ounce of intelligence left in my brain, to the nearest light switch, because I've been in the dark for over fifteen seconds and I can't stand it. Then I turn that light on, turn on the bathroom light, turn on the bedroom light, then go back to the hall light and switch it off, then either use the bathroom or turn that light off, and go to my bedroom, where I cross the room, turn on the lamp on the other side, and then turn off the first bedroom light. Then I turn on the nightlight. Oh, and the bathroom and bedroom are next to each other, so it's five steps away and yet I can't go that long without another light on. I have a problem.
In fact, when we had those hurricanes a few years back, the darkness at night was my main problem. I was okay with watching snowy broadcast channels on the mini battery TV. I missed the internet, but I coped. Not getting hot food was a little annoying, but I was okay with lunchables. Cold showers sucked, sure, but they were over quick enough. But it was the darkness at night that bothered me. I got very little sleep.
Anyway, I'm rambling.
<3
-4:29 AM
But what appliance is it that sounds like someone changed the channel during an emergency test signal thing? We don't have any fancy weather radios or anything. It's not the cable box, because that thing's always going in and out (and sometimes I have to climb back behind the television and yank the plug out to reset the box myself, because Bright House kind of sucks sometimes.) It's not the microwave. I can't imagine why it would be the oven, and the lamps don't make noises like that, nor does my computer.
And then, of course, I'm terrfied, to an I-need-help-no-seriously level, of the dark, and I'd probably be stuck in this chair until daybreak if the lights never came back on. I am not even kidding. I would sit here, my heart beating faster, my whole body wanting to flail and run in circles, my eyes not daring to close even though everything looks the same whether they're open or not. When I go to bed at night (lol "night") I have to shut the light by the computer, then walk through the living room to the hallway to my room. This takes maybe thirty seconds. The layout of my living room has not changed since my childhood, nor has the layout of any other part of my house. I know exactly where I am at any point in my house, because I've been here for 20 years and there aren't really any different places where you can put the furniture.
And yet every night, halfway to my room, I dart wildly and without an ounce of intelligence left in my brain, to the nearest light switch, because I've been in the dark for over fifteen seconds and I can't stand it. Then I turn that light on, turn on the bathroom light, turn on the bedroom light, then go back to the hall light and switch it off, then either use the bathroom or turn that light off, and go to my bedroom, where I cross the room, turn on the lamp on the other side, and then turn off the first bedroom light. Then I turn on the nightlight. Oh, and the bathroom and bedroom are next to each other, so it's five steps away and yet I can't go that long without another light on. I have a problem.
In fact, when we had those hurricanes a few years back, the darkness at night was my main problem. I was okay with watching snowy broadcast channels on the mini battery TV. I missed the internet, but I coped. Not getting hot food was a little annoying, but I was okay with lunchables. Cold showers sucked, sure, but they were over quick enough. But it was the darkness at night that bothered me. I got very little sleep.
Anyway, I'm rambling.
<3
-4:29 AM