I hate noises!!! It is now 12:38 in the morning and I have
been up five times in the past hour, due to hearing these strange noises in the
house. I never heard noises when my husband was alive (except for the noises he
made), but never heard noises in the walls, the floors, the doors, the garage,
outside – wherever they are coming from. I never paid attention to noises in
the car or anywhere else for that matter until I started to live alone. Now I
hear them all the time and it drives me crazy because I don’t know what they
mean!
A little while ago, and again a few minutes ago, when I got
up to write this, I heard a pop outside the bedroom window – at least I think
it was outside! I had just begun to fall asleep when I heard it the first time,
so I got up, turned on the light and started going through the house to see if
anything seemed out of place or unusual – nothing seemed to be – so back to
bed. Again, short time later, same thing – so again, I get up, look through the
house, go to the garage, turn on the front porch light - oops funny, hadn’t noticed those huge icicles
– maybe one of those fell – but it’s too cold, nothing is melting.
Think I’ll check at the library tomorrow to see if there is
a book on Noises for Dummies and Widows! No, not tomorrow – supposed to be so
cold that nothing will be open and I shouldn’t be going out anyway. Next chance
I get, will check on that book. If there isn’t one, maybe I should think about
writing one! Big problem with that – I don’t
know what the noises mean – so not a good idea.
Best advice I can give to my lady friends – if you are still
fortunate enough to have your husband by your side, ASK HIM! Pay more attention
to the little noises – and the big noises – and ask what they could be. If I
ever did ask my husband what a noise was, his stock answer was always “don’t
worry about it, I’ll take care of it tomorrow!” Big help that is. And now there
are no tomorrows and no one to ask the questions of anyway – so back to square
one – what the heck is that noise and what does it mean???
Now that I have this off my chest – not that I really feel
that much better, since I still don’t know what the noises I heard are – guess I
will try to go back to bed again and maybe I’ll fall sound asleep enough not to
hear it next time it comes – that could be a good thing or a bad thing, guess
we’ll know – TOMORROW!
