{"id":94152,"date":"2015-01-04T07:03:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T12:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=94152"},"modified":"2015-01-05T07:02:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T12:02:45","slug":"i-scared-myself-to-death-yesterday-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=94152","title":{"rendered":"I Scared Myself to Death Yesterday. Twice."},"content":{"rendered":"

There was driving wet snow yesterday and I needed to walk to the post office a couple blocks from my house. I bundled up (I’ve been sick), with my big white hat, and my long down coat, put on my new water-proof boots, and tromped through the wet to do my errand. By the time I got home, I was covered in sticky snow that immediately melted in the warmth of my apartment. I took off my hat, my coat, my boots, hung up hat, coat, left boots by the door, and padded off into my toasty-warm apartment to continue on with my day. Literally two minutes later, I came back into the hallway, on my way somewhere else, and saw a tableau at the end that turned my blood to ice. I gasped in horror. <\/p>\n

\n\"babadook\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\nIt was The Babadook. <\/p>\n

I had let it in. <\/p>\n

The fear subsided, the tide of it rolling out, and I started laughing at how much that image had made me jump. I moved on into my bedroom, did some chores, then came back out into the hallway maybe 10 minutes later where, once again, I saw that tableaux, and once again, JUMPED out of my skin. I scared myself again<\/i>. In the 10 minutes I had been in my bedroom, I had forgotten about the Babadook. <\/p>\n

“That’s it,” I murmured, and went and took the hat and coat down from the hooks. Damn them! Hung them in the closet, out of sight, where they belonged. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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