July 17th, 2008 @ 11:12 am
Last night I fled to my mother-in-law’s for the night because of the severe storms in the area. I think we’ve established countless times how chicken shit I am when it comes to storms. Well, it’s seemed to double since Ian is out of town. If he was here with me, I’d be nervous but fine. I wouldn’t have the strong desire to leave the house every time thunder cracks or a Warning is issued.
When arriving home this morning, I realized I had locked myself out of the house. I only do this about.. oh, once a week? Usually I just climb up through the backdoor (no steps, so its quite a leap) and let myself in since that door’s lock is broken. Well today, it magically fixed itself. I yanked and yanked on that freakin’ door and nothing. Nada. Then I cursed and beat on it for awhile. That didn’t help either. My mother-in-law ended up opening one of our living room windows and shoving me through it.
I cringe at the thought of what our neighbors say about us.
Did I mention that while we were doing this, it was pouring the entire time? Yeah, that was fun.
But I’m in the house now. And I’m permanently attaching my keys to my wrist.
Today’s going to be another long day of storms. I hope Ian comes home early. I hate this working-out-of-town thing. I MISS MY HUSBAND. Dammit.
I guess I’ll go clean something. I’m that bored.
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Caitlin
said,
July 17, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Aww, I’m sorry that you had such a bad experience last night and this morning. I’m glad that you were able to get back inside and that things are back to normal now!
Casey
said,
July 17, 2008 at 2:18 pm
I hate storms too! I don’t have a car so I’m stuck where I am when they hit, luckily we haven’t had anything too bad and the last time there was a really freaky one, hubby was home.
Simply Precious
said,
July 17, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Oh man, I’m sorry that you were locked out! =( Good luck with keeping your keys with you all the time!! Sorry to hear about the weather, and your boredom too… =(
Carolynne
said,
July 17, 2008 at 11:50 pm
I really hate thunder storms too. I think they are scary. It’s good that you had somewhere to go! It sucks that when you finally got home, you locked yourself out. I would have been so mad. At least the good thing is that your lock is fixed now
I would hate to lock myself out. Luckily, we can only lock our door by using the key, so no worries there! 
Julie
said,
July 19, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Wow, that doesn’t sound fun, being locked out in the storm. I’m skeered of storms too. I like to hide under things when the sky goes boom. Maybe you need one of those spare key holders that are passworded so a burglar can’t get it but you can if you get locked out?
Angela
said,
July 19, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Try hanging something near your front door that you can set your keys on, like a little mantle thing or something. Else if you have a table or something near the door, make a “key bowl”. In my old apartment I had a nail hanging by the door that I kept the keys on so I would always remember to grab them.
Melissa
said,
July 19, 2008 at 6:39 pm
You know I’ve never managed to lock myself out and I’m so ditzy usually. It’s amazing I’m allowed keys to open a shop lol
I’d hate to have to ‘break in’ to my own house, I can just imagine the neighbours calling the police or something.
Olivia Kitty
said,
July 20, 2008 at 10:16 am
Yeah, better to be safe than sorry.
lol @ having to go through the window. I have had to do that a lot of times…
Meghan
said,
July 20, 2008 at 1:04 pm
That sucks about getting locked out. Booo. Maybe you could get one of those keyholders that looks like a rock?