I Get Nervous

• I ran to the post office last night to check my P.O. box. While I was sitting in the car, I wrote a check for my gas bill, which was due in 2 days (postal service don'ts fail me now!). As I sat in the car writing out a check, someone drove up, riding a motorcycle. They turned off the engine and went inside. As I finished writing my check and was digging around for stamp to mail it with, the motorcycle engine started up and I almost made my car a convertible.

• My den is off the kitchen and before going to bed, I went to the kitchen to get a drink of water. While I was refilling the water pitcher (with the sprayer, 'cause it reaches to the counter and there were dirty dishes in the sink), I glimpsed out of the corner of my eye, a human form in the den. Startled, I jerked the sprayer and sprayed myself in the chest. It was like When A Stranger Calls meets Phoebe Cates (Fast Times At Ridgemont High-style), just not as sexy. The "human" turned out to be the torso mannequin/stand I use to put clothing on when I sell shirts online. I'd left it out in the middle of the floor.

• I was in the garage looking for an empty box to mail something in and found a few, which I stacked and held onto while I continued to look around. When I bent down to pull out some stray bubble wrap that caught my eye, I heard a hissing sound and immediately thought "Snake! Bite! Flee!" And so I did. As it turned out. The "hissing" sound was one box sliding down the side of the other box. Thank goodness too, or one of those boxes might've been turned into a makeshift bedpan!

And these are just a few of the incidents I can remember. Oh! Also, my overhead light in the bedroom burned out and I still have not gotten around to replacing it (it takes me forever to get the light fixture cover off). So, now every time I start to get into bed I see the end of the bed, where the slats are, and flash on that creepy scene from Twin Peaks, of "Bob" at the foot of the bed. I can't get it outta my head! I don't know what set this off, but I hope it ends soon before I induce a heartattack.