Until life is interesting again...

I have found that I am afraid.  It's this whole future thing that gets to me and how unsure it is.  And in running from my fears or avoiding them, I have become stuck.  So I am now trying to get unstuck.

Since I never have anything worth sharing about my own thoughts, I am putting writing them down on hold.

I do write about my puppy, though, so my family and friends can see pictures of her as she grows.  That blog is belladonna-adventures.blogspot.com.  That is totally dedicated to things about how she is growing and what she is getting in to.

So until my own life is interesting, I bid this blog farewell for now.

Praying some exciting doors open up.

Rabies through my window

My rabid friends are back again!  With the winter season going full speed ahead, we have had to have the heaters on and fires lit many nights.  With my room being the only room upstairs, the air conditioning is linked to the downstairs unit. This is a dumb idea in my mind.  Heat rises.  A lot.  So this winter, my room has been able to melt candles because all the heat ends upstairs.  To counter the big wax melt I had opened my bathroom window to let some out that hot air vent out.  I could not open my bedroom windows because they don't have a screen on them.

The screen on my bathroom window is not a trustworthy screen.  I had to duct tape some parts of it in order to make it stay.  I had full faith in the system.  And it seemed to prove itself to work for a couple of days.  The hot air went out while the duct tape reinforced screen kept anything but cool air from coming back in.

I woke up to some kind of scratching noise at the window.  It freaked me out because Bella started barking from her cage, too.  Every sound and movement seemed amplified by my half asleep/ half awake state of mind, and I couldn't tell which parts I was dreaming or not.

I am pretty sure it wasn't a gorilla or dinosaur hand sticking through the window.  All I could see was this little paw pulling on the tape trying to get the screen opened.  All I could think was rabies, so I shut the door.

Luckily, it never came inside.  I don't know what I would have done had it breached the barrier and made it into my closet.  I would probably have waited until it was quiet, opened the door, and then succumb to its full on attack of biting and scratching and spreading diseases.  But luckily, the sound of the door seemed to scare it away, and I closed the window.  Now candles can melt again, but at least Bella and I are safe.