I grew up in a small town where street lights were a normal everyday illumination in the evening.  When I went away to school I went to the big city, where slag dumps lit up the night sky like you wouldn’t believe.  It was actually pretty cool and for some this was a family event…driving across town to see this nightly occurrence (I liked on the right side of town).  I am now a country girl, a country girl who enjoys the darkest, dark there is to be had.  I have troubles sleeping during a full moon because the moon is too bright for me and actually keeps me up – it’s worse in the winter when the moon reflects off the snow, I’m miserable the next day if I don’t fall asleep on time.

And what exactly does this have to do with my possessed satellite receiver?  It’s out to get me, I swear it is.  This phenomena has been happening for months, and Hubby wouldn’t believe me.  Now the receivers are banding together and they’re out to drive me nuts.

Sometime over the winter I was awoken (okay, I wasn’t really asleep yet, but the eyes were closed) by a bright light, a light so bright I could see it through my eyelids.  It was the little green glow on the satellite receiver box.  It was bright, I was annoyed.  I was annoyed because I knew darn well that I had turned the box off and why, or why was it on again, waking me up?  By the time I rolled over to grab the remote it had turned itself off.  Was I imaging this stupid light being on?  No!  Is it possible it was on and then turned itself off?  Hubby doesn’t think so, he thought I was nuts and the time and I haven’t brought it up since.  But you know what, the damn thing has continued to do it, not nightly, but enough to drive me nuts with annoyance.  I need my sleep people, I’m an 8-9 hour  a night person.  I’m grumpy without my sleep, sometimes very grumpy!

What ever the stupid box in the bedroom seems to be out to get me.  I’m starting to think TVs in the bedroom are a bad idea, but I like the comfort of being in there when I don’t want to watch what’s on the livingroom.  Hubby falls asleep with the TV on nightly, so I guess it’s staying.  Stupid box and all.

But you see, the other night, the night where the boxes seem to be plotting for my sanity, the same thing happened in the livingroom.  As a matter of fact it’s happened twice in the past few days.  I distinctly remember turning the box off and when I look up again, the little blue light in back on taunting me.

The first time I noticed, I had turned off the box the other night and was sitting here doing the internet thing.  Next thing I know I saw a little blue light out of the corner of my eye.  I questioned myself, but yes, I did  in fact turn it off.

And why am I sharing this with out now?  I part because the stupid one in the bedroom did it again last night!  And in part to see if anyone else out there has had this experience – by the time I would wake Hubby the stupid light would be off again anyway.

What’s really funny…seeing Hubby’s face when he wonders why there is a sock thrown over the receiver box. Sometimes it’s the only way I can sleep though the night.

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