I Am a Paranoid Freak
January 9, 2008
I have irrational fears, SugarHubs tells me. I hold my kids hands in the grocery store and they are not allowed to walk even 2 feet away from me or the cart - ever. Apparently, I’m not alone in this. I have visions of my kids being scooped up by a mess of strangers and I look at every single person in public as a possible abductor.
Some of my fears are not so severe. They really are, well, rather ridiculous.
Case in point: I have had some lower back pain since about Friday and my appointment with the chiropractor isn’t until Wednesday afternoon. So I just deal - I know it’s just an adjustment I need after too much hunched-over-designs-time.
Last night I had the heating pad on my back while I sat in the recliner with the laptop but nothing was working.
So I took the heating pad with me to bed and since Daren was still awake, I said, “Make sure you turn this off when you come to bed, I don’t want to wake up on fire.”
He laughed.
“No seriously honey,” I explained. “It says not to sleep on this thing. You could burst into flames or something.”
He laughed again.
“I’m serious! Waking up engulfed in flames would really suck.”
He laughed yet again (and lived), “well maybe you should put it on low, you know, so your kidneys will be okay.”
“What?”
“Your kidneys. They might boil.”
I laughed, “Yeah and then I’d be a mess of kidney stew in your bed.”
“Ew,” he grimaced. “Kidney stew wife. Blech!”
“Well at least you’d have a hot lunch to take to work.”
“Yeah, if you don’t spontaneously combust.”
“Meh. That would be more like soup. Nite!”
This is an edit just for Gorillabuns:
January 9th, 2008 at 1:49 am
You really are weird.
Lmfao.
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January 9th, 2008 at 1:57 am
And that conversation isn’t normal?
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January 9th, 2008 at 2:23 am
I used a heating pad for a few weeks after a car accident. My husband finally noted as I got out of the shower that I had burned the heating coil pattern into my back. As far as I know my kidney’s didn’t boil.
Have you checked your back?
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January 9th, 2008 at 4:41 am
i’m a little skittish about those heating pads, too. boiled kidneys really would suck!
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January 9th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
I swear by my heating pad and being a life-long chiropractic patient and even worked for and EVEN spent a year in Chiropractic school…..dry heat is not good for your bag. You need wet heat on your bag. Dry heat is bad for the disks…now you know right? Anyway, I ended up having back surgery in 2005 (against my own desires because of my belief in good chiropractic, however, my belief in walking triumphed)and I’m still a firm believer that you need wet heat, always wet heat. Basically you can buy heating pads that come with sponges to wet and use. Or, you can just wet a towel or something and put it between you and the heating pad.
good luck!
January 9th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
other side of the coin…. “just cause your not paranoid, doesnt mean they are not watching…”
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January 9th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
now THAT is why i heart you so much!!
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January 9th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
LMAO.
I have the same kind of fears. I think it’s kinda normal. Or at least normal-ish
Regardless, that’s why everyone loves us!
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January 9th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
You are so weird! But I think that’s why I come visit you here. You make me smile
Anyhoo, weird is good!
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January 9th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
I’m afraid to use a crock pot because it would be on and cooking while I’m away from the house. And I can’t stand to go to sleep after we’ve had a fire in the fireplace, even if the flames are out, the damper is closed and the fire door is closed. You’re totally normal.
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January 10th, 2008 at 12:33 am
and he served your kidney stew with a nice chianti?
January 10th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Ha ha ha…
January 10th, 2008 at 2:17 am
Note to handholding paranoid parents: no one wants your little brats (did I say that? OMG what a BITCH!)
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January 10th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
SNORT!
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January 10th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
No, wait, that’s not normal?! Shit.
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January 12th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Oooh…SOTH…loved that movie.
And I’m happy to hear your kidneys didn’t start on fire.
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February 23rd, 2008 at 10:42 pm
I am scared of choking so I try to eat in public