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Thursday, April 27, 2006

What To Post On?

Let's see; a few things have happened that you might want to know about.

1. Wednesday night I was home alone because Huz was off studying with classmates at a local restaurant. How one can study in a loud pizza place is beyond me, but, then again, I'm not a professional student like he is. Anyway, I'm beginning to wonder why shit happens to me whenever he goes away (e.g., tornado warnings one night and locking myself out of the house another night - I haven't told you about that one yet, have I!?).

I'm not typically a scared person (well, okay, unless it's at night and he's not there and I'm trying to sleep when every mundane creek and crick of the house becomes very audible all of a sudden), but Wednesday night about freaked the shit out of me. I just finished watching American Idol and was going back to studying starting to watch House when a helicopter flew overhead. No big deal; we live several miles from Vanderbilt University Hospital and their Life Flight flies over the city from time to time. Well, the thing came back a few minutes later and then again and again and again. It was hovering, making circles, and shining a spotlight all around my neighborhood which promptly freaked me out because they were obviously looking for someone on the ground. I also began to hear booms (fireworks? gun shots? car back firing?) so I called the police to see what was going on. She told me that there were fireworks in the area but the helicopter was an unrelated incident. I asked if I should be concerned because I was home alone. Her response? "Shut and lock your doors and windows."

Fantastic. Nothing can make you feel more safe than to be given no information from the police other than to lock your doors and windows. I immediately turned off the t.v. and the lights and tip-toed around my house closing and locking all the windows. I felt like a prisoner in my own home. I tried to call Huz 8 times, but he never heard his phone ring in the loud pizza place. Ugh! I was pissed and afraid. My friends down the street came and got me and I hung out with them for a while, the helicopter continued its search all the while. I finally went home when it went away, but never found out what they were looking for.

Talk about unnerving! You expect that kind of thing in Chicago, not a small neighborhood in Nashville. Plus, in Chicago I was on the 3rd floor of an apartment building, not on the first floor of a house. Yeesh!

2. I went off the pill a week ago. (OMG!) I'm not really freaked out yet, actually, because we'll be protecting for several more months. But, come on, I've been on that medicine for ELEVEN YEARS, people! I have no idea how my body will be off of it. I don't know what to expect - zits (God forbid), weight loss, weight gain (God forbid), less moodiness, more moodiness (God forbid), less cramps, more cramps (God forbid)?

Somebody give me an AAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Posted by Bird On A Line @ 9:45 AM
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