I’ve had a theory linking the random ringing of our doorbell to the power going out for a while now.
Since I work from home, I’ve been sitting at my computer when the power has shut off a couple of times. A few months ago, the moment my computer randomly turned off, the doorbell rang and yet no one was at the door. Odd.
I immediately began to wonder whether or not there was a correlation. I told Ryan my theory and he shrugged his shoulders saying it was a possibility, but certainly strange.
Well, last night, in the middle of the night, our doorbell rang. Creepy.
Sadie spiraled into a fit of crazy and ran around the house barking. Ryan and I sat up, looking at each other, admittedly a little on edge. A visit from a random looney, perhaps?
Then I saw the digital clock in our room blinking. The power went out!
I proudly proclaimed, “The doorbell rings whenever the power goes out!”
Theory proven.
Even with our minds at ease, it was a little hard to fall back to sleep after the commotion, though nothing will top the evening when Ryan had me convinced someone was in our house. Yikes. I was on edge at nighttime for a solid week after that one.
Breakfast
I think the incident from last night took a lot out of Sadie.
She’s a sleepy little thing this morning. I have a feeling I’ll get about 20 minutes of sleepy Sadie before psycho Sadie returns in full force.
Sadie wasn’t even curious about what was going on in the kitchen this morning as I made breakfast.
Pancakes!
I made a batch of banana vanilla protein pancakes and topped them with a bit of syrup to start the day. Nice and comforting.
Hopefully today will be less intense than last night!
Question of the Morning
- Have you ever been totally freaked out by something only to realize it was absolutely nothing later?
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Woah, crazy!
Our front door was once wide open…although we were sure to have locked it. My sister and I ran up the stairs, locked my room, called our parents who were in the room next to us and together we roamed the whole house (4 floors) with pans and pots and a bat…
We didn’t find anybody but it was terrifying for sure!
Oh my goodness, such a coincidence that you wrote about this today because I was just telling my roommate that on the weekend, I woke up in the night because of a dream I was having. The dream wasn’t really anything special, but when I actually was awake, I looked towards my bedroom door. I have hooks on the back of it and there was a purse and 2 of my hoodies hanging on the hooks. My eyes and the light from the window were playing tricks on me, because when I looked towards the door, it looked like someone was standing there watching me. I got so freaked out and burst into tears, but then I realized there was nothing there and felt like such a tool! I have a ‘usual routine’ if things like that happen though… I’ve got a playlist on my iPhone and there are 3 or 4 slow John Mayer songs near the end of it. I just put that on and within about 2 minutes I’m back to blissful sleep again!
Sorry that freaked you out!! I’d be nervous too! But……… I have to say that the phrase “spiraled into a fit of crazy” and that picture of Sadie have me CRACKING up. She is so hilarious!
Creepy and bizarre about the doorbell! Thank goodness nobody was there.
Last year when my husband was out of town our alarm went off in the middle of the night. I almost had a heart attack and was even more shaky when the alarm company called and told me to go downstairs to check it out!
Haha, I’d be like “Go downstairs? You’re freakin kidding me right?!”
That is so scary!!!! I would have been freaked out and I probably wouldn’t have been able to go back to sleep.
A couple of months ago, I stopped at my house to drop something off with my sister. My fiance and I live together. I walked up to the door and noticed that it was half open. He wasn’t home. I started freaking out and walked around the entire house expecting to find someone lurking. I couldn’t get ahold of my fiance because he was at the gym. I had him paged there and he later told me that he went to get the mail before going to the gym and left the door half open but the mail wasn’t there and he completely forgot to go back and close the door. I seriously thought someone broke in! I have never felt so scared before!
Odd!!
I am a total baby and I get freaked out so easily. In fact I have a very irrational fear of being home alone when it is dark. And yes I am 31.
When I was younger, something freaky actually did happen but my parents thought it was nothing.. They can thank me for being a light sleeper!
I heard the front doorknob jiggling at about 5am and was immediately alerted. I slowly creeped downstairs to check it out, and there was a man standing at the door!! I screamed to my parents that someone was trying to break in, and my mom said ‘it’s just the cats, go back to bed’. It wasn’t until I assured them that there was a man standing there trying to get the door open that they called 911.
The police took forever to get to the house, but by that point we realized he was high and pretty harmless– wasn’t trying to pick the lock, just jiggling the door knob. The police immediately recognized him as a local druggie and took him home to sleep it off!
It was terrifying initially, but I’m so glad nothing worse happened!
Ok thank goodness you figured that out! I would have gotten so freaked out…. I’m such a baby, and any noise I hear in the middle of the night, I automatically imagine the worst!
I had to laugh at this because I’ve been in your shoes quite a few times. I think the funniest story is when I nearly had a panic attack after I heard what sounded like scratching and someone trying to break in, only to realize it was my ice maker. Ha! Thank God I was home alone, otherwise I would never be able to live that one down.
Your pancakes look delicious! I have a question…the recipe calls for cottage cheese. How does this cook up, do you have cottage cheese bumps or does it blend in without the taste of cottage cheese?
Once I lived with these girls who kept our front door unlocked all the time. While I was all alone in the house, about a week before I was supposed to move, our doorbell rang about fifteen times in succession. I ran to it, and before I got there, this guy barges in and goes “Are those girls here?!” I said no and he left. I promptly locked the door. So glad I didn’t live there much longer.
Um, that would definitely freak me out! Actually just two nights ago, I SWORE I heard someone down in the basement. It was like 2am, and I didn’t want to wake up my husband right away if it was just nothing. I tossed and turned for quite awhile, when I finally decided to wake him up. He went down there and it was just the water softener! Haha. I felt like such an idiot.
I am sorry about last night. We once woke in the middle of the night to the sound of glass shattering. It was only a mirror that had fallen off the wall, but I really don’t think I’ve ever been so scared in my life.
Thats weird about the doorbell!
Once my son opened the front door at 2am and my husband and I were freaking out because we thought someone was breaking into the house. Talk about a heart attack!
That it totally it! Too weird! I always freak myself out over things that is nothing. haha
It wasn’t in the middle of the night, but I went to my apartment complex gym around 5 am to do some morning cardio. Hopped on the arc trainer and then all of a sudden the treadmill next to me started running. I WAS FREAKING OUT. Literally mid stride grabbed all my stuff and ran straight to my apartment and got back in bed. Scariest morning of my life. lol.
Such a weird coincidence! If I’m ever sleeping alone, whenever my dog gets rattled the least bit in the middle of the night I freak out! Of course, it’s usually nothing 🙂
A few days after I moved into my new apartment, living by myself, I woke up to a huge crash and loud yelling. I, of course, freaked out and grabbed a random hammer (what would I have even done with it?). I dialed 911 immediately and told them that I had no idea what was happening but it was loud and I was terrified and OMG AM I GOING TO DIE?! Turns out, there was a car accident right in front of my house. I think I got to the police before the people in the cars did!
Haha I’ve had plenty of actual creepy situations, especially in charleston when the houses we could afford weren’t in the nicest parts of downtown…
Wow, that sounds so scary! But being right definitely takes the edge off 🙂
The other morning, right after we moved into our new apartment, I was taking a catnap on the couch around 6 AM. I woke up to the sound of our door opening (which I had forgotten to lock). I sat straight up, and I was really confused about whether what I had heard was part of the dream or reality. I went back to sleep for a few more minutes and then finished getting ready for the day. As I left, I found a newspaper inside our front door! Our door is too low to the ground for the paper to be slid under the door, and we don’t have a paper delivery! Anyway, I was pretty freaked, and I never forget to lock the door now!
Julie, I just click your link and read the post about Ryan convincing you about someone in the house and literally laughed out loud at your escape sketch. Funny girl!
AND, regarding yesterday’s post – I thought I was the only one that is in love with Sister Hazel’s Champagne High. One of my all time favorites!
isn’t it amazing! i LOVE that song.
I was awoken in the middle of the night (I live in the city near a park where homeless people sometimes gather) and heard a woman screaming. I was SO scared and was thinking of even calling the police but the more the screaming went on, it sounded like an animal. I looked it up and it was a female fox mating call but it sounds like someone is DYING. It was so freaky but at least now I know what it is lol!
When I was a kid, our’s did the SAME thing!! It always scared the crap outta me!
so weird! i googled it and apparently it happens to people when the power comes back ON, too!
Oh my Goodness. I once had a roommate from a tiny little everybody-knows-everybody kind of town in Iowa. But we lived downtown in a city of a few hundred thousand…… One night a drunk lady in a night gown started yelling, cursing, and banging on our front door; and my roommate let her in!! Like, opened the door and invited her in! I couldn’t believe it! She was drunk out of her mind, so I called the cops. They came very quickly, thank goodness, because she did start to get a bit violent. I still can’t believe she did that!! Lol!
That’s crazy! I’d be freaked out! hopefully thats not a short in your house…. might wanna check that out.
My fiance and I were living in a house my car had gotten broken into a month after we were there, talk about freaked out!! well a few nights later my fiance left for work ( at the time he delivered the newspaper to stores) I was a wake when he left, freaking out because what if they came back….. He had a friend come pick me up to take me to him, his friend pounded on the door!! I screamed bloody murder, while his friend was outside laughing soo hard!
Scary…and annoying to be woken up! The other night in my dream, the doorbell was ringing & someone was trying to open the front door. I woke up from the dream right after that & was certain someone was at our door…even though it was the middle of the night. Ha!
Oh how weird that your doorbell rings when the power goes out! That would freak me out for sure! I tend to scare myself often when I am home alone and going to bed, if I hear a weird noise I immediately think someone is trying to get into the house.
That picture of Sadie is too funny!
One time I heard a loud bang in the kitchen in the middle of the night (which is obviously freaky), and I made my boyfriend go check out the situation (that’s what they are for right?!)- and apparently, a pineapple had fallen into the sink. So odd.
That is just crazy!!! But yes, that happens to me all the time. Mostly because I’m a giant scaredy cat, and I live by myself. I’m constantly convincing myself that there is something in my house. I definitely sleep with my lights on at least once or twice a month. It’s bad… haha.
My bedroom is directly under a pecan tree, and when the pecans drop and roll across the roof it sounds like a person running across my house. Not a squirrel or some reasonable animal, but a full sized person. Completely freaked me out the first night I heard it (they never seem to drop during the day!).
I’m sure if you opened that can of salmon again, she would have woken right up! 😉
i would bet a million dollars that you’re absolutely right about that one!
I’m ashamed to admit this but I love it when I’m proven right about certain things that someone thought I was crazy about 🙂 must be the competitive side of me haha
it was really me playing pranks on you guys. did you see the flaming bag of poo i left you? youre welcome 🙂
I live kind of rural, so yes. More than I care to admit.
PS. Sadie KILLS me! That is so much Nim when he is a little haggard from a long night.
I had pancakes for breakfast this morning too!
I work in a lab full time, and whenever the building loses power, even for a couple seconds, all the temperature-sensitive machines have an alarm goes off. The power doesn’t go off too often in the building since it has all sorts of generators, but I got to work one morning and about 6 different machines were going off! So maybe your doorbell has a some sort of weird system set up that it rings when it gets an electrical spasm or something.
I love Sadie! She is so darn adorable! One night when I was home alone, half the house went out, then my dog started to bark facing the electric box. Very creepy! Still don’t know what happened, or why…Have a happy thursday!!
Once in middle school while changing in the locker room, we heard a really loud booming/shaking noise. Somebody (very immature) shouted “BOMB!!” and I flipped out, and ran outside..only to find out that the athletic department’s washer and drying was going a little berserk…hahah.
Sometimes my cats will just sit at the bottom of the stairs and look up… like they’re watching something. Creeps me out!! lol
that picture of Sadie is so funny…
I had my first official (not related to me) babysitting job when I was 12, and once evening I heard the screen door open and slam shut. The kids were in the other room playing, and I knew the parents weren’t home yet…It turned out that their dog and snuck through but it scared the crap out of me and I was sure someone had broken in!
Last week my husband and his best friend went out and I took advantage of the time to myself to take a quick nap. When I woke up, I realized that I had a series of texts on my phone from a number with an area code about 2 hours from me.
The first was a random picture. The second was “hey sexy, you get that pic my kids”. The third was “you not talkn to me now?”. Whoa, man. I immediately checked to make sure the curtains and blinds were all closed so the text creeper couldn’t be spying on my, then I went to check the back door to make sure it was locked because I just knew that this would HAVE TO be the first time my husband decided to not lock the door when leaving me home alone.
Thankfully he did lock the door (so caring of him), but then I heard noises outside. Turns out it was my husband and his friend pulling into the driveway immediately after the “incident” and caught me all disheveled from jumping out of my sleep in a panic after reading the texts lol
Pancakes, in my mind, are the ULTIMATE comfort food. Nothing tops them.
Random question, Julie. Does Sadie sleep in the bed with you and do you let her on your furniture? My boyfriend and I aren’t allowed to have a dog at our current apartment but we know we want to get one when we have our own place. He told me that the only deal was that it wouldn’t be allowed on furniture, which I am okay with because my parents have a lab, which is the breed we want, and it sheds all over the furniture.
O goodness…I have had so many scary instances like that! The scariest one was about a year ago when I was a senior in college and lived with roommates who never locked the door, and our front door was pretty old. You had to slam on it to even get it to properly shut. There had been a recent string of robberies and men breaking into women’s apartments, so I made sure to lock my bedroom door at night since I knew that my roommates would most likely forget to lock the door. Well, I woke up one night because it was freezing in the apartment and in my sleepy daze I opened up my bedroom door and looked down the stairs and saw that the front door was wide open! I completely panicked and sprinted down the stairs and slammed the door shut and locked it. I checked the entire apartment and no one was in there. The wind probably just blew it open, but I almost had a heart attack I was so scared. The next morning I told my roommates what had happened, and after that they never left the door unlocked again!
That’s so weird that the doorbell rings whenever the power goes out. I feel like that shouldn’t happen. Or at least it would make more sense when they power comes back on.
That is creepy! I moved into an apartment with my husband a few weeks ago, and I’m still getting used to all of the noises. Sometimes it sounds like something is in our apartment, when it’s really the people above us. I kind of miss living in a house, because now I don’t sleep as well at night!
eeep I can’t handle the cuteness of that picture of Sadie!
Once, I was with a guy I dated in college, at a hotel near the Hamptons. In the middle of the night, he started kicking me (I’m 5’2″, he was 6’1″), and saying, “they’re coming, they’re coming through the door, they’re going to get us.” Every time I wased, what or who, he answered like he was fully concious. Needless to say just a minute of that, I was freaked out, and even though I eventually realized he was sleep talking, I was so mad at him for scaring the crap out of me! I did fall back to sleep after a while, but woke up still angry until I told him what happened. He was so apologetic, but I was still not a happy camper. At leats my current boyfriend just sleeps with his eyes open occasionally– no threats of an attack! 🙂
that’s crazy! it reminds me of that 30 rock episode when jack tries to fix nancy’s doorbell and it makes the light flash haha.
I had a similar wake up moment the other night, my husband was out of town and my dog started barking. Not like her, he something is out there bark, but her high alert something is wrong bark (you know what I mean haha). Needless to say we didn’t sleep much after that.
whoaaa that sounds like it’s straight up from a mystery book! but I’m glad it’s nothing big! That would have been so so creepy if suddenly someone was at the door. I hope you have a better day today Julie! 😀
My doorbell does the same exact thing!