Comments on Is There Any Mommy Out There?: Balance

So it's nighttime and my husband is at work and no...

2008-09-18T23:11:00.000-07:00

So it's nighttime and my husband is at work and now I don't think I can walk upstairs and go to sleep. No way can I turn off the lights in the bedroom and make the dash to the bed. Puh-thetic.
Also, our husbands are kindred spirits. In the Al-Gore-global-warming-conspiracy thing. I wonder, does yours also believe the moon landing was fake?

Yes, on the drink thing. Water is for washing clo...

2008-09-18T01:04:00.000-07:00

Yes, on the drink thing. Water is for washing clothes and dirty dishes. Period. The dark. I am so terrified of the dark it is stupid. If one of the dogs gets left outside and it gets dark. I won't go get them. I can't. I cannot go out of my house after dark. I can send the children. Now how messed up is that? Especially is Alaska in the winter when it is dark from 4pm until 10 am. Doesn't leave me a lot of time, does it?!

Great now we all have a new list of each other's f...

2008-09-17T20:53:00.000-07:00

Great now we all have a new list of each other's fears to add to our list. Fabulous idea Stacey.

No, seriously, as usual, I feel far less alone. I had no idea that we would be such a phobiaful bunch. Excellent. I attract my own ;-)

Mam - I saw that killer leaping sting ray story. FREAKY.

Birds don't scare me, but I hear you guys because they are nasty, gross, disgusting!

MamaDawg - Thank you for telling me that. I thought only my brain tortured me in that way.

I'm reading these comments at night and I totally just had to go and turn all the lights on and turn on the TV for normal noise. Hi I'm Stacey and I have a problem.

Casey - Being stabbed would be unpleasant. Please don't, I like you whole!

I'm with your husband on Twitter, I just can't get...

2008-09-17T18:43:00.000-07:00

I'm with your husband on Twitter, I just can't get into it. Does anyone really need to know when I'm wiping my kid's ass?

I hate showering when nobody is home, I keep waiting for someone to pull open the curtain and stab me. I've never actually ever been stabbed so it would be a new experience, but I'm sure it would be unpleasant.

Oh, you make me giggle. I love the fears. The Ri...

2008-09-17T18:30:00.000-07:00

Oh, you make me giggle. I love the fears. The Ring was creepy. The Blair Witch Project... funny in an unintended sort of way. I promise to say nothing about the bees in Candyman because I don't want to introduce any new fears for you. And the rest? Never saw them.

I am you and you are me. I have never intentionall...

2008-09-17T13:14:00.000-07:00

I am you and you are me. I have never intentionally watched a scary movie or movie trailer. That hand thing from the shower? I think it's from the ad for Rosemary's Baby. My evil husband made me go to the first Scream movie and I still get scared from it.

this is why you are definately in my top 5 fave bl...

2008-09-17T12:41:00.000-07:00

this is why you are definately in my top 5 fave bloggers. you crack me up!

This one? "2) Mirrors. I can't look in a mirror by...

2008-09-17T11:59:00.000-07:00

This one?

"2) Mirrors. I can't look in a mirror by myself in the dark. I've draped them with blankets in the past. This one stems from the move Candyman. Never seen it, but someone once told me that in the movie if you looked into a mirror and said Candyman three times a psycho killer appeared and killed you. With lots of blood. Also, because my brain hates me, apparently, frequently when I look into a mirror, even in the daytime, the word "Candyman" pops into my head. Yes, I am sick"

I totally get.

I'm so sick, I actually say it TWICE in my head and then chicken out.

Then, if I go by a mirror again, I say it once and then freak out thinking..technically, I've said it three times. And then I walk quickly away.

Ok now I know to send you an e-mail warning you if...

2008-09-17T11:05:00.000-07:00

Ok now I know to send you an e-mail warning you if I ever blog about my favorite scary movies. I love them.

But I'm with the ladies that are scared of birds. I watched my friend get attacked by pigeons once. That and the movie the Birds have put me off of them for life. I even hate the bird house at the zoo.

The butterfly house creeps me out too. Those suckers are scary close up.

I like this post for a couple of reasons, one: I a...

2008-09-17T10:17:00.000-07:00

I like this post for a couple of reasons, one: I also have to have only drinks that have sugar, alcohol, or caffeine, esp. caffeine though! and two: your fears are similar to mine, I'll have to a post on that:) I don't think it'd be good for me to post my fears in your comment section, it's prob take up a bunch of space. Btw, changed my linky to mach my titlesy:
http://currentvents.blogspot.com/
I'll be visiting again soon:)

I love Marinka too. But sometimes she scares me.J...

2008-09-17T10:06:00.000-07:00

I love Marinka too. But sometimes she scares me.

Just kidding. Birds scare the crap out of me. The claw feet, the greasy feathers... yuck.

Silence of the Lambs. I cannot walk anywhere near...

2008-09-17T08:31:00.000-07:00

Silence of the Lambs. I cannot walk anywhere near a van in a parking lot. Unless it's a minivan, in which case, I have to walk close to it because it might be mine. But seriously, that guy, the dog, the moths...nightmares for years.

I am the same way with horror movie previews. Peo...

2008-09-17T08:16:00.000-07:00

I am the same way with horror movie previews. People are always telling me that the previews are worse then then the actual movies, but I watched half of Silence of the Lambs once and they were WRONG.
I was afraid of my closet for years after accidentally seeing a commercial for one of the Nightmare on Elm Street, which was sad because up until then, my closet had been my favorite place.
I have an irrational fear of barns on hills because a preview for the remake of a movie involving wax I've forgotten the name of.
Fortunately, my husband has learned to mute, pause, fast forward and/or change the channel whenever a horror movie commercial comes on, so even though I am terrified of the Saw movies and shiver whenever someone mentions them, that fear hasn't settled on any object.

OK, here's my weird fear--BIRDS! I appreciate them...

2008-09-17T08:08:00.000-07:00

OK, here's my weird fear--BIRDS! I appreciate them from afar, but oh, their FEET, the underside of their WINGS, their BEAKS, ewww, yuck, ugh. Seriously, I just got a shiver down my back and I've lost my appetite. Fortunately, my dear hubby calmly shoes (is that how you spell that word?) them away from me without a word. I've been trapped places before because there were geese around and I refused to go outside. The zoo is particularly horrifying to me because of all the ducks, geese, and peacocks walking around. Someone should lock those things up!

I also don't like walking in my house in the dark. However, I do turn off the lights as I go.

Glad I'm not the only crazy one out there.

Truda

Wow, so much to comment on! First, I love Marinka,...

2008-09-17T07:54:00.000-07:00

Wow, so much to comment on! First, I love Marinka, too. She never fails to make me laugh hysterically at least once per post. Yet, you do that, too!

I hear you on the mirror thing! I saw the movie Skeleton Key and when you look in the mirror, they steal your soul (or something like that), so yeah. Can't look in the mirror at night in the dark. When I was a little girl, I was afraid of the oven. I thought a lady lived in there and would reach out and grab me if I got too close. I think I read Hansel and Gretel too many times!

Between your continuation of my scary movie/book p...

2008-09-17T07:36:00.000-07:00

Between your continuation of my scary movie/book phobias and all of these comments - I see that there is a real support group in the making here...

I could go on and on about the silly nightmare fantasies that I have on a regular basis. From opening my eyes in the shower to find a psychotic ax murderer (as oppposed to the non-psychotic kind) to imagining a shark swimming up underneath me as I'm treading water at the community pool.

Ridiculous. I need help. I could write an entire blog on this subject. Ever see the Twilight Zone about the evil doll that makes people do "bad things"? What about the Amityville Horror? No? Don't get me started...

LOL :) love your quirks ;)

2008-09-17T07:28:00.000-07:00

LOL :) love your quirks ;)

LOL I'm glad someone else shares my phobias (basem...

2008-09-17T06:54:00.000-07:00

LOL I'm glad someone else shares my phobias (basements and their stairs are second on my list to clowns - anyone who hides who they are behind grease paint could be hiding ... anything. And this includes mimes, Kiss, and Twisted Sister.) I have the same fear of showers but I always imagine the water turning into blood or spiders when my back is to the spray. I get the shivers just thinking about it!

Wasn't that a positive note to end on...

OMG, my head is so huge after reading your post th...

2008-09-17T06:45:00.000-07:00

OMG, my head is so huge after reading your post that I will need an extra large mirror to look at my own reflection. In the dark, of course.

i swear...(and i've said this before) we are one a...

2008-09-17T06:18:00.000-07:00

i swear...(and i've said this before) we are one and the same!

i CANNOT watch scary anything.
even CSI. when i am by myself.

my sister LOVES scary movies and shows. she was watching a ghost show at my house one evening and i said, "you know that you have to sleep here tonight after watching this, don't you?" and she did.

and at night...i cannot walk up stairs. i must run. wildly, and stupidly, i run up the stairs each and every time. if you come over and we go downstairs...we can run together.

Do you really want to hear our fears? Won't that f...

2008-09-17T06:14:00.000-07:00

Do you really want to hear our fears? Won't that feed into your fears? I am so with you on the creepy movies, only my husband enjoys creepy movies so then I spend months unable to go to the bathroom at 3 am and wishing I had a chamber pot. My real fear, though, is a crazy fish phobia. I can't stand to look at fish of any type, including little gold fish or dead salmon or whatever. Just the thought of one of them touching me almost gives me a heart attack. It was really fun when I lived on the coast and had to go over a giant bridge to get any where. I was sure that one day the bridge would collapse and a giant sturgeon would eat me.

Sharks. I hate and fear sharks with a passion. It ...

2008-09-17T06:02:00.000-07:00

Sharks. I hate and fear sharks with a passion. It isn't an irrational fear, though -- those bastards will mess you up! But my fear is irrational, to be sure...I don't even like walking on a beach near the water because you never know if a shark will become grounded and if it does, can you imagine how pissed off it will be, and how much more savage it's attack will be when you happen upon it? I also, really, can't go into rivers for that same reason. Actually, any kind of fish with teeth creeps me out...pike. Sturgeon. Ick. I'd NEVER go on a cruise willingly -- especially because right after the Crocodile Hunter was killed by a manta ray, there was a news story of a woman in Florida injured or killed by a manta ray that JUMPED FROM THE WATER INTO HER BOAT! AND INJURED/KILLED HER! A shark could do that too -- and probably would. Nasty things.

Ohhh, the horror of scary movies...I do all of tho...

2008-09-17T05:51:00.000-07:00

Ohhh, the horror of scary movies...I do all of those things and more! I am constantly freaking my self out! I have a quirky one...my husband pretended to be a gorilla once while playing with the kids and for some reason it was a little too realistic for me. Now if he ever wants to tease me he just does that...he's made me cry...but that was when he decided to wear the gorilla mask he found in the dress ups...I have no idea why pretending to be a gorilla freaks me out.

I'm not afraid of our basement anymore. We finished it and now it is very pretty!!

Funny post...I loved it...and I visit your blog every day too!

I too fear numbers 2,3,5,and 6. I thought I was th...

2008-09-17T05:50:00.000-07:00

I too fear numbers 2,3,5,and 6. I thought I was the only one with such "irrational fears" as my husband calls them. He thinks I'm nuts. =)

muwah. I thought we were keeping our love affair o...

2008-09-17T05:44:00.000-07:00

muwah. I thought we were keeping our love affair on the down-low, though???