Hellooooo, Johnny!

Last night we were supposed to go out but got sucked into watching The Shining on the AMC channel instead. And although I've seen this baby many times before, it never ceases to completely and thoroughly scare the life out of me. Kurt fell asleep on the rug halfway through and I was left awake and watching it, too petrified to even get up and go to the bathroom for fear of scary things lurking around. I swear, I only get this way right after watching a freaky movie, it's not a long term thing. But then the worst part was that I had to stop watching and change the channel all together because I just couldn't handle it...Kurt wakes up and I start telling him how freaked out I am and he just starts mimicking some of the movie scenes with lines like, "But I would never, never, never hurt you, Stephanie" and I just start going hysterical. He and Jack Nicholson share a few facial traits (its the nose, I think) and he can even put on that conniving evil "Shining" look. Damn him! He grew up with brothers, where i was mostly a single child and avoided sibling torture. This went on for some while with me starting to get really mad and freaked out and he finding it sort of amusing. But of course this morning when we wake up and he's come to his senses he realizes he should not do this to me in my heightened state of Shining-induced fear and duly apologizes.

Fear--it's a crazy thing. I'm not afraid of speaking in public or doing all sorts of things, but get me right after a scary movie and I just *know* that I'm the next one to be offed, or see an apparition, get attacked by a shark, or whatever!