First, I’d like to thank everyone for their kind words yesterday.  It meant a lot to me.

 

Now on with our regularly scheduled program.

 

My alarm clock is possessed.  It hates me – really.  I don’t lie … not much at least.  Now, I’m good to this clock – I don’t beat the sleep button in the morning, I don’t throw it across the room when it wakes me up – I treat it well and what does it do – IT SCREWS WITH ME! 

 

None of it was my fault, nope.  I refuse to admit user malfunction.  Sunday night I go to sleep around midnight as usual.  All’s good – sleep well (probably snoring).  Most of you know that I have to be up at 6:00 a.m. in order to be awake enough to deal with mom when she gets up around 7:00 – just wanted to throw that in.  Anyway, can you imagine my utter shock when my eyes pop open at 6:50 – THAT’S 10 MINUTES BEFORE 7:00!  10 minutes before mom usually gets up.  I have 10 minutes to smoke a cigarette, have a cup of coffee and toss a few crackers into my stomach.  Oh, and did I mention WAKE UP!  Oh please, oh please let this be one of those mornings when she sleeps to almost 7:30 … um, no.  That dog won’t hunt.  7:0something or other she was up and perky as ever.  Thank God Bebo is here – she got mother coffee while I finished waking the dead – that would be my brain.  That alarm clock tried to make it look like I hadn’t turned it on – but I knew better than that.  Kinda looked like it had a smirk on its face, if you ask me.  I had so much trouble waking up that morning.  Kept dragging my butt on the ground and just couldn’t seem to catch up.  So off for my nap I went.  Set the clock for 4:00 – carefully taking note that I had pushed the button (I’m wise to it this time) and went to bed.  Woke up with a start at 5:04 (damn digital clocks, you always know precisely what time it is) - I laid there for a moment and listened to a faint clicking and static.  The exorcist clock had switched from AM to FM – where there was no radio station.  I told you it had it out for me.  Now the entire day of Monday is a faint blip on my radar screen.  But I got it that night.  I pushed the button over, pushed the sleep mechanism and listened to the radio station.  I was set.  (insert theme from Jaws)  So imagine my surprise when I woke the next morning at 6:30 (6:34 for those anal enough to want the exact time).  You read it right – the Angelina Jolie of my relationship with my clock had struck again.  I just laid there staring at it – the little light indicating that the alarm was set stared right back at me.  I checked the alarm.  It was still set.  Wasn’t the radio, wasn’t the self-turning off auto button.  Someone had changed the wake time to 4:00 p.m. – just a coincidence that it was the same time I was supposed to wake up from my nap the day before.  It picked that time on purpose to totally confuse me.  I’m on to it now.  I brought a witness in Tuesday night – Bebo.  She watched me set that alarm to 6:00 a.m., push the auto button and then the sleep mechanism to insure the radio station was right.  I had it.  Only this time it behaved itself.  Like a ticking bomb it’s waiting for when I’m the least aware.  I can feel the evil emanating from it now.

 

Did I mention that the electric skillet is possessed  …? 

 

 

Revenge of the Stalker …

 

HA! {snort}

I hate alarm clocks--thoug don't think they've ever hated me!! I used to stick mine in the wardrobe under a duvet and I could still hear the alarm :(

Who is that lovely man in the hat? Looks a bit like Gary Allen :)

Chris Cagle - Dennie's man - she put MY Hugh Jackman up on her blog yesterday, so this is my revenge.
Just got through reading Jill's on-line book at eharlquin.com and it is wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was pretty good too.

Mmmmmmmm my man *drool*

HEy, have you ever noticed that on X-files Scully's phone always rings just as the clock flips from 11:21 to 11:22 (11 and 22 are master numbers in numerology ;)

I understand all about mechanical appliances being possessed. I used to live in a very old house where the (gas) stove would turn to high heat whenever I tried to cook on it. In this case I could actually see the knobs turning - very freaky.
At least I think you & I have banished the poltergeist that was inhabiting the alarm clock....

Cece - did you miss the "skirmishes" yesterday over Hugh on Dennie's blog?
Bebo - we shall see - and then if it worked we'll try it on the electric skillet.

what's funny ... the boys somehow erased my wallpaper on this computer so I put up and new pic - can you guess which one - I mean out of all the CC pics HOW in the world did youi pick the exact one..... FREAKY

Yep that's me - miss freaky

It's always been my feeling that alarm clocks are all evil creatures, not to be trusted.

See! See! I told you it wasn't me - Thank you Tori for your support! Evil creatures.

I think your alarm clock is trying to keep you on your toes!

I just read Jill's on-line book and couldn't agree with you more.

Good book, good book, oh hell of a good book!!!!

Susan - the clock is possessed. It's waiting to get me and it's in cahoots with the electric skillet.

Damn! my first comment is not here?? I should have came back and checked! Oh well!!

I just finished Jill's online read...been trying to read it for a couple of days now--I could not get to the site? But whoa! it was worth the wait :) wouldn't it be fun to go to that hotel :) whoo whee!

Oh and that guy on the cover of the book...really have you ever really SEEN abs like that??? I haven't but I would sure like too :P

and the smilies are not working today???

A couple of years ago I stopped using an alarm clock on a daily bases. I found that the internal clock was getting me up with sufficient time to get my butt ready for work. I still have the clock in the bedroom set about 10 minutes fast so that when I wake up and see the time, the brain thinks it's later than it really is.

Glenice - I don't know - maybe the smilies are on strike? They seem to work for everyone else. Damn - maybe they've been talking to my alarm clock. And yes, I do love the abs on that book cover.
Susie - you are out of your ever loving mind if you think I am going to trust my internal clock. My internal clock says SLEEP!

My internal clock is permantantly set to 10 am :) which is not quite early enough!

I should think not!

My watch refuses to stay set at school time, so it's always a little OFF from the bell. Do you think it's related to your alarm clock? I reset it every morning when the first bell rings, but it doesn't stay on track for long. Maybe if I had an expensive watch like my students. . . .

Your watch, my alarm clock and skillet - it's a conspiracy!

I completely believe you about your clock. I have two freaky alarm stories myself. Evil clock.

Thank you Jennifer - I sit vindicated!!!!

Hahahaha!

Brandy - that's just about what my alarm clock said

Sorry, don't know yet what happened yesterday, but I can tell by the interesting way in which you so vividly recounted your trials with the evil alarm clock surely points to your skills as a writer. At the moment I'm using two non-electric alarm clocks. I don't have a spare place to plug in the radio-alarm. I'm still waiting to find at least 2 more power bars. This place has too few outlets or else I have too many electricity-run "things". It's annoying. I've had my problems with the alarm too. Do you have to set it every night? Mine, though about 15 years old and not expensive (I wonder why my former boss bought it for me for one of my birthdays soon after I started working there.) has a one-time set button. You set it once for the time you want to get up, e.g., 6:00 a.m. and then push the automatic button. It'll go on at 6:00 a.m., play for two hours and shut itself off. The only flies in the ointment come in when I played the radio at a different time--I had to shut off the automatic and sometimes forgot to reset it. If I needed an alarm for another time, I'd use one of my regular alarm clocks. Oh yes, I do have to watch that the power doesn't go off at any time--as it is very prone to do in our fair forest city. The backup battery in the clock-radio has long ago expired and I can't seem to replace it. Maybe I need a man to do that.

Now my watch is truly evil. I set it a few minutes faster than the real time. But it keeps going faster and faster so that I'm never quite sure if it's 3 min. or 12 min. fast. Must be another relation of your and Jana's evil instruments.

Jana, are you sure it's not the school's clock that is off. Don't always blame yourself for everything.

If I didn't have to re-set it for my nap that would work - except that we're saying that it's my fault and not the clock - and we all know that the clock is evil and possessed.
Thank you for the compliment about my writing. What a nice thought before going to bed. Have a great evening Ruby.

Ruby - the clock in my car runs like your watch, it gains time. I usually let it go until its at 15 mins. fast, then I reset it. The DH hates the clock because he never knows what time it really is.

Does anyone really know what time it is, does anyone really care about time.

Too early for song trivia!!!!!

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