Bang, bang, bang, bang!!!
Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring!!!
Bang, bang, bang, bang!!!
This is what Eric and I had the pleasure of waking up to at 3:30 in the morning!
Two people decided that it would be a good idea to wake us up by pounding super loud on our front door (and a few windows) and ringing the doorbell 6 or 7 times. I tell you I have ever in my life woken up in such a fright. The adrenaline was pumping through my veins and I was instantly awake, despite being in the middle of the night.
I did what any girl would do in my situation; I shot out of bed and put on a pair of jean shorts.
Eric said, ‘Where are you going?’
‘I don’t know, but should I need to leave I will need shorts on.’
It’s kind of one of those things that you look back on and laugh. At the time I was all business. I had a plan and my shorts were coming with me.
My heart was pounding in my chest. Just before the loud banging, I was having a scary dream, so my nerves were already on edge.
Eric and I walked to the front bedroom to peer out at the street.
We saw two sets of footprints going diagonally across the lawn, where the people had run across the lawn. The grass was still bent into the ground.
All kinds of thoughts were going through my mind. Who would do such a thing?!
‘Just some kids playing nicky nicky nine doors Ange. It’s summer…’
Sketchie too was anxious. You know when you can see anxiety and fear on an animal’s face? They kind of perk up their ears, get very still, and listen closely. When Sketchie does this it totally creeps me out, lol.
I didn’t sleep for a long time.
I looked at the clock and it said 4am. I said to myself, ‘Not even 2 hours until daylight, then I can get up and everything will be better.’
From 4-5am I listened to every creak in our old house (there are many more than I ever dreamed). Finally, I calmed down and sleep won the battle of the nerves. I had nightmares about someone breaking into the house. However, my Brother in Law Dave brought over a Great Dane and saved the day (hahaha!). I woke when the sun rose. I thought to myself, ‘I’m glad it is light out now.’ before drifting back to sleep until 7am.
Needless to say when we got up this morning we both felt like we were hit by a truck! I woke up with a headache and dark circles under my eyes.
A Green Monster was called for…I had planned for vegan overnight oats, but I just wasn’t feeling it. I needed greens and I needed Maca!
And tea. Copious amounts of tea!!!!
I felt better already. Her Mix-A-Lot calms me. The blending is very hypnotic to watch.
Look at this awesome Green Monster glass that Nancy made me!
hehehe!!
In the green monster: 1 cup almond milk, 1/2 scoop Amazing Grass wheatgrass powder, ice, kale, blueberries, 1/2 frozen banana.
and a Raw Energy Cookie Bite on the side!
I felt a lot better after this breakfast.
Have you ever been woken up in the middle of the night with a fright?
I’m so sorry you and Eric had to experience this, Angela! My biggest fears (and worst nightmares) consist of someone trying to break into the house. Although my dad is incredibly tough, my parents are separated and so I live in a house with my sister and my mom. I don’t know what would happen if we were in that same position!
It’s unbelievable how immature people can be. This past year I was a freshman at university living in rez, and in our last month of school the fire alarm was pulled 4 times. It’s very annoying because not only was it exam month and everyone wanted their sleep, but the ENTIRE residence had to be evacuated (that’s almost 400 of us!) and wait for almost an hour across the street.
The worst was when the alarm was pulled on the night of almost everyone’s last exam.
You’d think people would find a better way to entertain themselves without disturbing everyone else!
I’m just relieved that it was only a prank and nothing more dangerous than that. I hope the rest of your day will be better and that you’ll manage to have a good sleep tonight!
One night we were woken with a tremendous bang from under the bed.
It was heartstopping.
Turned out that one of the cats had chewed through the wire of the clock radio under the bed, electrocuted himself, jumped into the air, hit his head on the underneath of the bed and that is what had woken us.
AFter a vet check up he was just fine. Although it took me a day or two to recover!!!
OMG!!!!!!!!
I was looking at your adorable engagement pictures just now.
Not only do you have more glow in your face, but I noticed that your hair is more alive now. Don’t get me wrong. You have always been lovelier than the law should allow. But your hair has definitely benefitted from Green Monsters!!!
I’ve now had two in a row! Green Monster is my newest habit!
yes, as a matter of fact, I have. It was a cop though. There was a car parked on the conservation land near our house for a few hours and the neighbors called because they were worried the person might have been injured on one of the trails. Well, the car was registered to the previous owner of our house (creepy sounding, I know) so they came knocking on our door. It turns out, he was in fact on a run but had locked his keys in his car. He is still friends w/ one of our neighbors so he was hanging out at his house for the night. My heart was pounding out of my chest when I heard the door bell too, except I was not brave. I made my husband look out the window. I went down stairs w/ him when we realized it was a cop but I was still nervous until he told us why he was there. I had a hard time falling back to sleep that night too.
Oh my that is horrible. I would be scared stiff. Hunni and I had a pizza guy climb our fire escape and knock on our porch door (we live above our church) at 12.30pm. We were still awake but I couldn’t sleep that night.
When my husband and I had been living in a new apartment for about 3 months, I woke up in the middle of the night to our 2 (big) dogs barking, snarling, and pretty much just attacking our bedroom window (we were on the first floor). I slept facing the window, so as soon as my eyes popped open I saw the shadow of a person in a hood with his (or her, we later learned) hand raised toward our window. When I screamed, they took off. Thank goodness for my husband calming me down … if I was living there by myself, I would have moved the next day!
Scary! The only time I’ve woken like that was a couple years ago. I woke to screams of HELP in our apartment and our neighbor banging on our door. Someone had broken into her place, beat her and her husband with a hammer, and took off. She was banging at our door bloody and crying. It was so scary.
oh my gosh that is horrible!!!
Last year my boyfriend and I were awoken around 4 a.m. by pounding on our door and the door bell going off. It scared me SO badly! I thought it was a murderer! Looking back that wouldn’t have made much sense.
Turned out to be the cops because one of us was parked next to a car fire in the parking lot in our apartment complex. :(
UGH! Knocks still freak me out!
‘Looking back that wouldn’t have made much sense.’ LOL!!!
The college I went to was great—the town umm not so much. We constantly received emails from our administration warning us of various shootings, burglaries and suspicious people roaming about. One night at around 2AM there was a LOUD pounding on our apartment door. Mind you, our apartment was 392043 years old and probably could have been knocked over by a toothpick.
My roommates and I were terrrrrified. The person knocked a few more times and even tried to open the door!! I walked out of my room to see my roommates had hidden in the kitchen, one with a fork in hand and another with a butter knife. I couldn’t help but laugh. We reported it to the police and the person went away for good—thank GOD!
Wow that would have been really scary!
Gurrr! I hate being woken up in the night. What a pain in the booty! I remember a few months back I heard these scratching/rattling noises on the roof at like 2am. I think it was a squirrel or something, but it was so creepy and irritating :S
That is so scary! I would a freaked out! I’m sorry that happened to you!
A few years ago, I woke up because there was a bat in my room… I didn’t like that at all haha.
Sounds scary! But that breakfast seems to be perfect after a nightmare.
Actually, I had a freaky nightmare last night. Probably due to a late night yesterday and a tv program that involved aliens. I woke up so sweaty and shaken.
Alien dreams are never good lol
Ugh…stupid kids. (I never thought I’d be the old fogey who said that but it’s SO true in this case!)
We live in a condo and have been woken up three or four times by drunk folks trying to find the party in the condo across the hall. (We have really, really great soundproofing so we never even hear the parties!) The first time it happened at 3am, hey, it’s cool, everyone makes a mistake. When it happened several weekends in a row, it really ticked me off. Luckily they moved out so we didn’t have to bring it up before the condo board.
That truly is a scary situation. Between that and your side-of-the-road creeper incident, you seem to have a few crazy experiences!
I’m glad that you got to wake up to a refreshing breakfast… that green monster glass is so cute! I want one!
that must have been so scary! why kids have to have fun that way is beyond me.and i know what you mean about listening to all the house noises. at night if i hear something that doesn’t sound right, i stay completely still and listen to EVERY noise for about an hour or so until i can fall asleep. and of course it always turns out to be nothing ;)
that green monster glass is awesome!
how scary! I probably wouldn’t have thought to put shorts on and would have been running about the house, peering out windows in my undies!
OMG! Have you seen the movie The Strangers (with Liv Tyler) ??? It is a horror flick that you should definitely pick up if you enjoy scary movies – your night last night sounds just like the beginning of the movie. I got scared just reading your post!
I think I’ll skip that one!!!
Scary! That’s happened to me before and it freaked me out too.
YES! Oh, that’s the worst! One night, I woke up to the sound of the jingle bell on the front door. Of course, I figured the only way for it to jingle would be if someone opened the door. I woke up my husband in a panic and told him I heard the bell. I. was. terrified. He got out of bed and grabbed a plastic basketball pump from under the bed so he could hit the intruder with it.
Turns out, the wind was just blowing really hard on the door, lol.
The next day he told me he could tell how scared I was because I was literally panting out of fear, lol. I guess if our house DOES ever get broken into, I’d better learn to breathe a little quieter!
It might be helpful if I left the correct link to my blog ;o)
I had a very similar situation a couple years ago with someone pounding on the door and ringing the door bell at 4am. I immediately shot out of bed and through on appropriate clothes to answer the door- my husband thought I was crazy, but I did it anyways. Turns out it was the police knocking on my door to tell me that my parked car had been totaled by a hit and run drunk driver! That was not good news, but at 4am it felt more tramatic. Needless to say I didn’t go back to sleep after that because I spent the next two hours dealing with police and getting the car towed.
Glad everything worked out!