Kinemortophobia

Well I never thought I'd be the kind of person to have an irrational fear of anything. Did you just cough the word "crickets" under your breath? Idiot. I am not talking about crickets. By the way, my fear of crickets stems from looking in the mirror and finding one on my neck. Oh and let's not forget when I was pregnant with Evan and one crawled down the back of my shirt. Eeek my shoulders just rolled together thinking about that one. My rational fear of crickets is built on my foundation of bad experiences with them.

I write today of another fear, fear of zombies. I gave up watching "Always Sunny In Philadelphia" with my husband months ago, but last night I watched the Christmas episode. There was this scene where Charlie sees a line of children at the mall waiting to see Santa and goes nuts. Charlie attacks Santa by biting his neck and when he is finally pulled of the poor jolly fat man, Charlie's mouth and chin are covered in blood. It was gross. It reminded me of the zombie's in The Walking Dead.

Every time I watch a zombie on TV I have a difficult time sleeping.

So this morning at 4 AM when Evan shouted gibberish in his sleep, (from the pet bed), and my husband sat up in bed and shouted, "what the heck was that", and I said with a snotty tone "it was Evan having a nightmare", and everyone else was back to sleep in a chirp....I stayed awake for an hour considering zombies.

Thinking thoughts like "is the door locked" (yes), "was that someone walking on the stairs" (no), "what is that in the corner" (guitar), "what was that creaking" (the house creeks), ......

My husband told me if zombies are keeping me up at night he NEVER wants to hear me complain about being tired again.