Its a scary world

Dude, I am so horrifyingly sick. I got sick after 3 days at the preschool and then spent about 2/3 of my first paycheck on doctor's co-pays and fog-inducing medicine then went back to work for 4 days and then was torn back down into crazy-stupid-incoherent sick and spent the remaining 1/3 of my first paycheck on another doctor's co-pay, some stronger antibiotics, a warm mist vaporizer and numerous bags of lozenges. My tonsils are so swollen that the doctor had to get a medical student to come look at the amazing sickie and then called Paul over to look as well. Paul said it was 'gruesome' and the medical student asked if I was able to eat at all around the swelling.

Anyway, its a good thing that I'm too sick to go on our nightly dog/exercise walks cause Paul and I have scared ourselves off those with the dumbest game ever. We walk at 12:45 am when Paul gets home, so it is pitch dark (there are only a handful on street lights in our whole subdivision) and deeply creepy. A bear has been sighted in our neighborhood and a skunk lives outside our back door. So, in this already frightening environment we play 'you know what would be scary?' For example as we walk we point to a particularly dark corner somewhere and say 'you know what would be creepy? If some guy was just standing there, watching us'. Or, 'you know what would be creepy? If the lights on that truck at the end of the street suddenly came on but it didn't move at all'. I now play this unintentionally even inside the house. Our spare bedroom has a big recliner in it and when I went to the bathroom in the middle of the night the other day I could just see the chair in the glow of the hall nightlight and I thought 'you know what would be creepy? If someone was just sitting in the chair, looking at me'. As you can see, we have rediscovered a classic horror movie theme...that someone running headlong towards you is scary, someone standing still and staring at you is WAYWAYWAY more horrendous. I guess because it is totally unexpected?

So, between all this, the Montauk Monster and the Chupacabra , we are staying inside for now. Its creepy enough in here.