June 9, 2006
5:52 am • Filed under: Uncategorized
…And I’m up. I can’t sleep. I should be exhausted. Spent half the previous day out in the blazing sun on a broken down boat in the middle of a lake with 5 children and three other adults besides myself.
Ok, that sounds like a nightmare but it wasn’t that bad. The kids were good, we all had fun. The boat got towed back to shore by some very nice people who kindly helped us out. I feel sorry for our friends though - it’s gonna cost them some $$ to fix that boat.
I’m sunburned, my nose looks like Rudolph’s. I used sunblock, I swear! I feel asleep early - right now I have no writing projects I want to work on late into the night (though I have things to do, none of it appeals at the moment).
But I woke up about 15 minutes ago and just laid there. Snuck out of bed and came to my office. Heard a coyote howling like mad. I really hate that sound sometimes. Reminds me of being young and they kept showing the commercial for “The Shining” with Jack Nicholson on TV. It was summertime, I was about 8 and at my grandparents’ house. Went to bed, heard coyotes howling outside and all I could think about was Jack Nicholson with an ax. Begged my grandma to shut my window. She did. Love my grandma.
So now on hot nights when I hear coyotes, I think of Jack Nicholson and an ax. What’s up with that? The mind does weird things, makes you associate certain moments in life with sounds, smells, etc.
Ok, I went off on a strange tangent. See what happens when you blog in the middle of the night?
Stacy Dawn says:
Yikes! Hope you got to go back to bed or at least got a nap.
Shelli Stevens says:
Stuck on a lake in a boat? Now there’s a plot for a romance!
Minus the kids and other families, just add in a hero.
I only saw the Shining like a year ago. It was way too freaky. EEEEK!!
Sarah L. Castleberry says:
LOL Karen. Fortunately, I don’t have much trouble sleeping! If I do, there’s always NyQuil!
My grandma is a real horror fan (and romance fan, go figure), so we always watched scary movies at her house. I remember my cousins being there one time and we all watched The Cat People - hardly slept I think!
Sue aka MsCreativity says:
Wow Karen! Yes, it does sound like a nightmare to be stuck on a boat like that.
Has anybody ever told you that you should be a writer with your experiences and imagination?! ;-)
I was with Sharon about not knowing what a coyote sounds like - until you mentioned Jack Nicholson and The Shining. [shudder].
I hope you get a good night’s sleep tonight.
Karen Erickson says:
A coyote sounds like a howling dog or wolf - plus they yip and bark a lot. Sometimes, they’ll be a pack of them doing this and it sounds like there are hundreds of them but there are really only a few.
Freaky stuff.
And guess what was on TV last night? The Shining! Can you believe it? The scene after he hacks up the old caretaker and he has the ax in his hands and the creepy look on his face - that’s the scene I remember in the commercial that freaked me out.
So when you’re a little girl and Jack is in your head and you hear coyotes howling outside your window? Not good.
April says:
Hope you were able to manage to get back to bed and get some good sleep! Hubby and I actually watched a bit of The Shining last night when it was on tv. Yeah, i ended up staying up late too :-)