Posted by : Sherri Cornelius Sunday, July 5, 2009

So sleepy...Stupid people shot fireworks till 3 a.m.

foom...POP!
foom...POP!

foom...POP!

and then it would change to

POP.......crackle
POP.......crackle
POP.......crackle

for a while, then back to the foom/pop. Geez. They started late because of the rain, but all-told those assholes shot fireworks for four whole hours. Who does four hours of fireworks? How much did they spend on that? I couldn't even watch because of the trees.

Around one I moved to the couch, where the ceiling fan muffled the sound, waking every so often, never going into a deep sleep. Then at 3:30 something(s) crawled all over my face. I shot up like a big screen girl after a nightmare, slapping my own face and neck in the dark. Something tickled my ear, so I rubbed it and found a small, firm lump in a crease, which I pulled off and threw across the room. To my credit, I did not shriek. Then I went to the bathroom and inspected my hair, neck and ears, certain I would find a billion gnat-sized baby spiders colonizing my hair, or worse, alien spiders colonizing my brain via my ear. I found nothing.

After inspecting the couch, my blanket and pillow, and the floor with a flashlight, I calmed down enough to notice the foom/pop had stopped. It took me a long time to get to sleep, what with my hair tickling my face and every itch an alien spider.

I finally did fall asleep, and that's when I dreamed of wandering through Pamela Anderson's house/amusement park/shopping mall searching for a bathroom. Whatever that means.

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  1. I might mean that "POP ... crackle" is the sound Pam Anderson's implants will make when they finally give 'way.

    Creepy. That spider-on-the-face thing is CREE-PEE, ick.

    Sorry you had a bad night, and hope you're shindig-that-wasn't-a-shindig was fun. :)

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  2. It was. Even though we ran out of propane and the fireworks got rained out. You cracked me up with that implant comment.

    And dammit, now that I chose this template I see I can't nest the comments. Poop.

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  3. Alien spiders!! Oh my gosh, that's so like my nightmares! And I HATE that when every little itch and tickle becomes a spider of ginormous proportions that's going to feed you to its young. *shudder*

    I'm so sorry you had a bad night, and had to deal with such rude thoughtless neighbors! Man, celebrating freedom is one thing, being an inconsiderate asshole is something else.

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  4. All I want is my godd**n avatar ... *sniffle* It's only broken on YOUR blog, why doesn't it work on YOUR blog?? ARRRRGGHH!!

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  5. Does it work? Does it? I did something wrong but Fal fixed it. Does it work now? Pleeeeeeaaaase?

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  6. They say we eat some outrageous number of spiders every year in our sleep. It creeps me out just thinking about it.

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  7. Hey, I thought I was the only one who lived in a loser neighborhood with idiots who set off fireworks all night. Now I feel better- there are idiots everywhere!

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  8. Sarah-maybe we're the losers because we want to go to bed at a decent hour on a holiday. LOL

    Holly-thanks for that tidbit. :-

    Knyt-I'm secretly sabotaging your avatar. But seriously, I'll go look at the help files today and see what could be the problem.

    Fal-If I see the spider, I won't freak out about it. In the dark, anything's possible. Ick.

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  9. You know, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the spiders in the mouth thing was an untrue urban legend. I'm going with that one.

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