Haunted Housewares, etc.

My alarm clock is most definitely haunted. Just in case you doubted me last time I mentioned it, listen to this...

This particular alarm clock has two separate alarms, A and B. The other day, I set alarm A before I went to sleep. Like a normal non-haunted alarm clock, it woke me up the next morning with its cruel, mind-splitting beep. I dragged myself out of bed after a good half hour of hitting the snooze button and shut it off. By switching it to 'off'.... because that's usually how one prevents their alarm clock from continuing to beep. Well. Once I was up and about and at least half an hour had passed, the clock began beeping again. Out of nowhere. And not Alarm A, either. This time it was Alarm B. Which I could tell right away, because they have distinctly different sounds. Please note that I have not set Alarm B in weeks... haven't even touched it.

Now of course I am not completely opposed to logic, so my first thought was "did I accidentally turn on Alarm B at some point while I was hitting the snooze button?" Which would be kind of hard to do, since the 'on' switch is located on the side of the clock, nowhere near the snooze button... but that surely makes more sense than a haunted clock, right? Well I promise you that I checked and doubled-checked and triple-checked that both alarms were switched to the 'off' position. Which means that I had sitting before me a beeping alarm clock and no alarms even turned on!! So how do you even shut that off?! Not by playing with the 'on/off' switches. That did no good. I was kind of afraid to unplug the whole thing... because if it kept beeping after that point, then I would just have to move. So I finally got the thing to shut off by hitting the snooze button. Since I did that, I haven't heard from it since. Umm...

This is only one of many inexplicable incidents in the life of my haunted alarm clock. Why again did I move that thing across the country with me? Hmm. I think I might be sort of afraid to get rid of it.

Also, this past week was one of the worst weeks I've ever had. So much for getting off to a happy start with November. The only positive thing about it is that it's over. And it's prompted me to consider a lot of large life issues. Like what it actually means to be alive, and how I can best spend the time that's ahead of me. I'm not entirely sure what that involves yet, but I'm beginning to see what it does not involve. Maybe life is a huge game of process of elimination? I'll let you know when I figure it out.