Washington is great if you are outside. If you are inside it's not all that great. I'm kind of a paranoid person anyway, but lately it's been real life freak outs.
First of all we are staying in a fabulous 2 bedroom apartment fully furnished with perks like a washer/dryer, a crib for Alyssa, a fire place (which we have yet to use and probably won't, but it's nice to look at) and even maid service! Sounds great huh? Well the week we got here we went off to church on a Sunday and came back and saw a note that said the lights were replaced. We were like huh, okay cool.
Then a couple of days later I'm sick in bed attempting to entertain Alyssa while I am half awake and half sleeping, granted it's like 11am, but I feel crappy and so yes I'm still in bed. This is when it happened. I hear a VERY loud knock on the door which scares the crap out of me and makes me jump and so now I'm totally awake, but not all the way oriented. I had just been about to change Alyssa's diaper, but I jump out of bed and run into the closet to attempt to put some appropriate clothing on. I'm jumping into a pair of sweatpants when I hear the second heart thumping knock, gotta find a shirt – no a sweatshirt cause – well just because - so I'm searching the closet, nothing. Then I remember Luke has one on the floor on his side of the bed. So as I put it over my head and grab Alyssa I hear a very manly "HELLO!" OH My Gosh, there is a man in my house. OKAY. So I'm like uh, I'm coming. As I enter the living room from my bedroom I see the man walking up the stairs from the front door entry way to our living room. Yikes, okay. So then he is like, 'here's your…' and I didn't catch all of what he was saying, so I was like huh? Then he was like 'your internet box that you requested.' Oh okay. Thanks (I guess). He apologizes and said that he hopes he didn't wake me up because I think he could tell I was shocked to see him in my house and I must have looked crappy since I practically did just wake up. So that was a crazy awakening.
But then it happens again! The next week I hear a knock at the door and I'm racking my brain to think about who it could be this time cause it's not like we know anyone here! LOL And I'm also thinking 'whew, at least I'm up, showered and dressed this time.' So I'm already in the living room and I head down the stairs to open the door, but before I even get to the 2nd stair I hear a key turn and the door open, gosh! Then I hear, "Hello, housekeeping!" Oh, okay that's right I totally forgot, but geeze how come they don't call first or even give me a chance to get to the door!
So now I'm totally paranoid every morning and try to get up as early as I can wake myself up to get a shower in case I have any surprise guests and all the time I'm in the shower I'm praying that no one walks in!