How to defend yourself from a burglar

*I have a new rule. As of today, I'm not putting up a new post until I have at least seven comments. It might take weeks, but I'm drawing my line in the sand!*


At around five this morning when I woke up unaccountably in the pitch black dark, I had a stroke of genius. As I lay there trying to go to sleep, I began to hear sounds that clearly indicated a robber was in my house. I have cat-like hearing. Or the hearing of something that hears really well. Ahem. So that popping sound? The burglar's knee-joint clicking as he cased out the downstairs. That strange thumping noise? His burglar gunny sack dropping to the floor.

I lay there, thinking about what I could do, wishing I'd hid a butcher knife under my pillow the night before. And then it occurred to me: the perfect solution. I just pulled my blanket around me really tight and huddled beside my husband. Ha, ha robber! I have foiled you! No way can you get through my incredible fortress of cotton sheets with your club or your gun or your knife or your...



Wait. Maybe it wasn't a stroke of genius. Maybe it was just a stroke.

Well.


In other super exciting news, I got one of those blog award thingies from Alison Wonderland whose blog I love. It made me so happy! It looks like this:







Cute, right? So the deal is now I'm supposed to pass it on. So here's a list of the blogs that I stalk every single day because I'm too lazy to figure out how to set up a feed that will tell me when they've been updated. I just click periodically and hope for the best. The lazy woman works twice as hard. Some of these are in my blog roll and some aren't but they're all cool:

http://www.twas-brillig.com/index.php
http://divergentpathways.blogspot.com/
http://borrowedlight.blogspot.com/
http://blog.annettelyon.com/
http://mormonmommyblogs.blogspot.com/
http://juliewright.com/blog4/
http://www.twas-brillig.com/index.php
http://janette-rallison.blogspot.com/
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/
http://theextraordinaryordinary.blogspot.com/
http://www.walkingkateastrophe.com/

Yeah, so it's a huge list. Most of these people have no idea who I am or that I come to their blogs and would probably find it creepy that I'm giving them an award. Who are you? they are whispering fearfully to themselves. Some blogs I go to I didn't list because they are of the professional variety and would think I'm dumb. And I've found a couple of new ones that I really like but haven't visited enough yet to say I love. And yet still my list is huge. Can you guess how I spend a large chunk of my day?

But I love my award nonetheless. Thanks, Alison Wonderland!