genre warping: suspense

[newmistakes]

Having an over-active imagination is one of the keenest joys a person could ever experience, short of using all your letters to make a triple word score in Scrabble or picking off crusty scabs. The only problem is that sometimes, just every now and then, it can backfire on you. I woke up at 3am last night experiencing the kind of dread that only an

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[newmistakes]

Pfft I suspect you win at many things, but you're just not able to see that about yourself right now. For instance, I bet you win at computer games A LOT and you've clearly won at having great a boyfriend with temptingly cuttable hair :P

My mind always races off to weird worst case scenario places and it invariably turns out to be a possum or my crazy mutt wanting company to go outside and pee. I wish I had a more sensible brain sometimes, but where would be the fun of that?!

[newmistakes]

That's not the way haircuts work - he should pay me and talk about a hair pampering prima donna!!! But I would never dream of cutting it - I thought YOU wanted to cut it and I wouldn't want to deprive you of that joy :)

Gah I hate when cats fight.. or bonk.. they're soo noisy and I always think one of them is being murdered and have to go out to investigate. I love that you have a cat called Yoda by the way.

Sadly I had to google bokkan haha :) And pfft to your nudity worries - an intruder should be so lucky!! (Well, until you use the bokkan on him anyway :P)

[uyuki]

That brain of yours certainly has a wild imagination. I think your dog probably got more scared of you after that ninja kick. I do hope she is fine now. And that you get to sleep better tonight. XD

[newmistakes]

She growled at me for about ten minutes then let me take her outside to watch her pee - after that she seemed to almost forgive me. Right now she's lying by my feet snoring loudly so I assume we're all good today :)

[blue_aardvark]

I was so expecting a mouse!

(Cordy Roy should have taken care of that--I'll have to have a word with him.)

Did you know that smoke alarms beep periodically, every thirty seconds or so, when they are low on batteries? And did you know that this beep sounds identical to a cricket's chirp? And did you know that as the day heats up, the battery inside the alarm also heats up, reanimating the battery, at least for a while, and thereby silencing the beep.

I do. After almost four days of trying to find the disappearing cricket in my room.

[newmistakes]

Haha awww that is TERRIBLE Paul! You must have been going slowly insane trying to figure that out. I didn't know any of those things and I suspect after four days I'd have just gone around smashing everything in hopes that one of my hits silenced the cricket / smoke alarm :)

(I've had no mice problems since Cordy Roy has been in residence, so I'd say he's doing a good job!)

[schpydurx]

The guilt you felt wasn't food related, it was from not participating in my meme!

[newmistakes]

I responded to your post! And I even asked you a question about your shelves that you haven't deigned to answer yet. If anyone's feeling guilt it should be you!

[schpydurx]

I was just getting around to it. Hold your horses Miss BossyPants!

[newmistakes]

I maintain that my pants are no bossier than anyone else's.

[schpydurx]

I feel your insomnia pains. I've been battling my insomnia off and on over the past few weeks. It's no fun to wake up at 2 in the morning, not be able to get back down and having to debate, "do I take sleeping pills that won't kick in for another hour or so and wake up groggy, do I stay up and go into work super-early or do I just take a sick day?"

[newmistakes]

Is my adrenalin inspired lack of sleepiness insomnia? I never thought of it that way. Usually I'm out in 10 to 20 minutes of putting my head down so I don't think I really classify.

So which one of those options do you usually choose?

[schpydurx]

I've been through all of them lately.

[newmistakes]

I'd imagine going to work early after taking sleeping tablets doesn't work out too well.