I go bump in the morning...it goes bump in the night

Yesterday I said we officially lived in the country, well today we officially live in a BIG OLD house!!!!


So this morning I woke up as usual, put on my robe as usual, opened my bedroom door as usual, walked out into the hallway as usual, then saw a shadow...unusual. Looked up and saw bat...really unusual. Then I went screaming from my hallway to my kitchen!!!!! UNUSUAL! So OH MY GOSH THERE IS A BAT IN MY HOUSE first thing in the morning when your husband is already at work is not what I want to think! So here I am standing in the kitchen not knowing what to do. Luckily I always take my cell phone with me into the bathroom in the morning so I can listen to music in the shower. So I texted Mike at work in hopes he would call me. No luck. I got up enough courage to go back into the bedroom so I could gather my glasses and clothes. I got a blanket to cover me head. So here I went, I got a running start and when I got into the hallway and saw the bat I started to scream until I got my self shut in our bedroom! Then I was shaking. So then I remembered that Cassy didn't have to work this morning so I texted her in hopes that Corina had gotten her up at 6 am. I was in luck! So Cassy called me and got me slightly calmed down in between laughing with and at me. SO she helped me decide that I needed to unlock the front door, which is in the hallway, and get the cat box out of our room so I could find the cat and lock her up with it. I was standing in my room trying to hold me clothes and put a blanket over my head and figured out there was no way that I could do all this and unlock the door, grab my shirt that was hanging up and close the hallway door. So I put all my clothes on...over my jammies...why? I don't know! And got myself all psyched up to do this thing. So I covered my head with a blanket and promised myself that I wouldn't look up you know where the bat was circling!!! So I slowly opened the door and there he was so I QUICKLY slammed it again! Oh and did I mention every time I see the thing I scream?? LOUDLY! Good thing it was cold enough to shut all the windows last night or the neighbors would have thought I was being murdered!! Ok so this whole time I am talking to Cassy and she is pumping me up. Giving me courage. So I open the bedroom door again, walk over to the front door. Unlock the front door. Then something wangs me in the back of my right calf. So I SCREAMED and ran into the "dining" room and remembered to shut the door to the hallway but forgot to get my shirt from the hallway but decided I could find something somewhere to wear and that I didn't really care as long as that bat was trapped and I could take a shower. But then...there he was circling my head again!! He some how latched on to me or the blanket that was on my head and came out of the hallway and now has access to the rest of the house. So what do I do? I scream of course, and start running, running towards the back door because I wanted to get out as fast as I could!!!! Well we have these 3 stairs that go from the "dining room" to the living room. Well I missed the 3rd step and fell down. Please picture this is slow mo, it's really really funny. So I'm falling down (slow mo) and I fall on my side with my arm straight out (slow mo) and my cell phone goes flying out of my hand (slow mo) and under Mike's corner desk. Ok back to fast mo. I get up and run screaming out of the house and slam the back door. Safe. I called Cassy and beg..."will you come save me" at this point I am about in tears. I am standing on my back patio, shoe less, freezing in a tank top on my cell phone waiting for Cassy to come rescue me. Well she did. She put me in her van with sleepy Corina and she went into the lions den! Apparently it had landed on the door jam to the hallway so Cassy in all her 7 month pregnant glory, tried to

A. Catch the bat in a Garbage can and cover with a cookie sheet.

B. Swing a push broom at it hoping it wont come back and get her

C. Help Carrie get her purse and get the hell outta here!

She went with C. :) Well I went in to try and help her at one point got about 2 stairs up our breezway, saw a shadow and took off screaming. So she ended up coming to get me saying he had parked himself above one of the livingroom windows so I ventured in. Cassy had enough guts to take a picture and I will post it soon! Ok so she packed me and my things up and took me to her house to shower and get to work. So here I am, I shook for about 1 1/2 hours but I am doing better now. I finally got a hold of Mike and he said "well I'm not going home" haha! So Cassy as I have this little evil plan. We are going to go "shopping" and park outside the window with a video camera and win us $10,000!!! :) I will let you know where I sleep tonight!

Oh and how ironic this was my fun fact of the day on my blog alert...

Bats also invert our common beliefs regarding their eyesight. The bat, a nocturnal creature, hunts its prey at night, and rests up (or down, as is the case) for the evening’s events by day. One would be incorrect in assuming that the bat has keen night vision, to assist it in its feeding frenzy. Not so. The bat employs an echo system, whereby it tosses out a high-frequency sound, inaudible to humans, which in turn strikes a target, and then bounces back to the bat, thereby letting it know what lies ahead. Were it not for the bat’s radar, we would hear even more bumps in the night than we already do.