Monday, March 4, 2013

Mucus, Divas, and Black Eyed Children

Never mention to someone that you don't get sick very often. The day after I said this, Branden and I came down with a nasty cold...oh joy! So that's where I've been all last week and it was a head cold so my head didn't work very well. My head is more clear today and I think I'm clawing out of this cold which is great as we have friends from the States coming to visit at the end of the week!

The good thing is that Netflix got all 4 seasons of Drop Dead Diva so I've been flying through them! Especially now that I saw in the news that it's been re-negotiated with Lifetime and will come back for a 5th season, which means that our Netflix may lose the seasons since Irish Netflix seems to only have shows that are dead or dying! If you haven't watched it, then you should as I love that it's fun, clean, and has a fabulous lead character who is plus-sized.

I don't like being scared AT ALL! I don't watch scary films, I'm not into scary stories, and I hate scare pranks. A couple of weeks ago, Branden's mom was talking to us on skype and mentioned the black eyed children. We had never heard of them before, and since my mom-in-law has always liked to tell tales of aliens, big foot, and other creepy creatures, she told us about some article she read on the web. When she tells stories of scary things I actually find it funny since it sometimes gets Branden and his brother all ruffled and bothered (especially big foot stories told in their sun room at night!). After we talked, I got online and looked up the black eyed children. Click HERE to see the website I read. I read a few articles on this site and then also looked around the web at other freaky tales and legends. Not a good idea considering it was night time! When I went to the bathroom I totally freaked myself out imagining some creepy kid with solid black eyes trying to see through our non-see through, warped glass window. Uncovered windows at night completely freak me out, due to something that happened as a kid, and eyes also freak me out, especially big open eyes.

When I crawled back into bed, all creeped out, I told Branden that maybe we should sleep with the side light on. He started laughing at me as he realized that I had scared myself and had become a big weenie. We watched something pleasant on Netflix to take my mind off of all the stuff I had read, but by the time I had to pee again, I was still freaked and made Branden stand in the bathroom with his back towards me, blocking the window so I wouldn't have to see anything out of it. He continued to laugh at me. When it was time to go to bed, I still hadn't calmed down so Branden's laughing and teasing turned to tickling. He rolled over and pinned me in the bed, poking at my sides while mentioning my pansy-like qualities. I was giggling when all of a sudden we heard a huge *BANG* to which I promptly screamed but also caused Branden to jump out of his skin and yell out as well! We then started to laugh again as we realized it was one of our housemates coming home and slamming the front door.

Still giggling but still a bit jumpy, I realized that Branden had jumped too! For all of his teasing me, he had genuinely freaked out just as much as I had and even managed to sucker punch me in the kidney when he jumped...thankfully not hard! I took advantage of this realization and pointed it out to him, which caused us to laugh more, and then even more when we wondered if our housemate heard our unison scream when he shut the door. Later we asked him and he said he didn't hear us, but he thought the story was funny.




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  1. No, I will not click on that link. I'll be up all night, but I'm glad Branden ended up being startled, too.

    Love,
    Janie

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    1. If you value your sleep, then you chose correctly to not click! I was happy Branden freaked out as well...hehehehe

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  2. I don't do "scary", either.

    And I can freak myself out if I'm alone at night.

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  3. I don't tend to scary films or TV. But I think the most frightened by a film I've been was Birds by Hitchcock. And that's years ago.
    Nowadays what was a scary genre, that of the Vampire, has become little short of soft porn. And worse, not all that good a soft porn either. If you see it they are using camera techniques to con one to thinking it's somehow cutting edge.

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    1. I watched Birds a long time ago but sadly, I found it funny. Although, I can see how it would be scary in those days! Modern stuff also tends to be blood baths where the gorier the better. I don't do blood, or torture, or pain in general.

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  4. I just bought an olive tree to make that olive leaf stuff. Holland&Barret were charging €40 for 500ml and €35 for a few pills. Since I have a small blitzer and a morter and pestle. Anyhoos, my only issue is the vodka http://www.about-olive-leaf-extract.com/extract-of-olive-leaf.html
    Ta for the tip btw. The more I read about it the more I think it will work.

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    1. Oooh, going for your own tree sounds brilliant! The pills we get at Here's Health are about 13euro for 60 pills. Olive leaf extract seems to be extremely beneficial and I love reading about different ways it's helped people.

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  5. Um this was totally me last night. Minus the watching or reading anything scary. I went pee in the middle of the night and then I knew I should make the long walk in the dark to double check that the front door was locked but I just couldn't force myself to do it. I scuttled back to the safety of the bed with Erik.

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    1. AHHHH! I hate door lock checks! We have windows around our door, they aren't see through, but the thought of a shape of anything on the other side of that window freaks me to no end! At least you peed already ;)

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  6. GAH!!!!! Just went to the link. Double GAH!!! How the crap am I supposed to sleep now?

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    1. Yeah sorry about that. At least I won't be the only person not getting her beauty sleep!

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  7. I haven't had a chance to watch a scary movie in years, not since getting married to a woman like you, who doesn't like scary movies. But I swear to you that I haven't punched her in the kidneys or anything.

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    1. My husband wasn't into scary stuff much before marrying me but now he seems to have become more sensitive to it...probably because he's been away from it for so long. At least you don't kidney punch your wife ;)

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  8. The scary movies that get put out today I just don't watch, because for the most part, they're just what's become known as slasher porn: brutality for the sake of brutality, nothing left to the imagination. I prefer the suggestion of fear, instead of throwing it in the face.

    That said, I had to click on the link regardless.

    I'll be looking at pairs of kids entirely differently now....

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Does this straitjacket make my butt look big?