Where is that Other Shoe?

Last night I figured out what is wrong with me. Why I am in this temporary funk.

Its cause I am CRAZY!!!!!

Not the she needs to be locked away crazy or I am dangerous to anyone crazy but definitely crazy.

I was home relaxing with The BF and the "pseudo" step-kids and while we were enjoying Discovery channels Shark week I realized that I am waiting for something bad to happen (sharks attacking people will do that to you). Everything is going to good something bad has to be lurking? Like any minute now a great white shark is going to swim up and bite off my foot while I am watching TV.

See that is crazy!!!!

Do I really belief a shark will be swimming in my family room? No!

But I am waiting for some drama or tragedy to unfold right before my eyes.

Is it from years of watching horror movies?

Is it due to the fact that I read to many mysteries/suspense books in my life?

Maybe I have watched to many Lifetime movies.

It could be my teenage love of Shakespearean dramas (except Romeo and Juliet that play is stupid) is to blame.

I need to stop worrying and enjoy my life again.

Where has My Sanity Gone?

I'm in a total and complete funk. My chi is out of whack, my chakras are on vacation and my zen has followed Iron Maiden's advice and ran for the hills.

My thoughts are all gravitating to the negative and not the hilariousness of my life.

For example, I got my car fixed. Which should make me be doing a dance in the streets and I did for about an hour but then I drove home from work and started to imagine all sorts of crazy horrible scenarios in my head:

I am barreling though the canyon driving at the posted speed of 60-65 MPH and I swear I feel my new wheel wobbling. What if the guys at the tire place didn't put my tire on correctly, they did complete it quickly and it was lunch time, and now I am driving and my wheel is going to fly off like in some action movie and I am going to die. And the irony* is that I couldn't drive my car because the rim was unsafe and after replacing it I died anyway because of the new one.

Is this normal? Do other people imagine the same thing? Is the heat finally getting to me? Have a finally gone of my rocker? Is it time to finally get that intensive therapy? 

*Is that the correct use of irony? I can never remember. I was in school a long time ago

Books Books and more Books

I recently read a book that had a deep impact on my life and psyche. Not in the way that profanely changes your life and makes you reevaluate the world it was more in the way that it scares you and now you obsessively walk through the house checking all windows and doors and if you see some guy running in the evening and you are alone you run into the house pretending to talk on your cell phone so that he wont want to kidnap you. Yes that's right I read a book and I am now scared of being kidnapped.

I would like to say that this is a rare occurrence. I would like to say that the number of books that have impacted me in this way are few and far between but that would be a great big fat lie. Often I read a book and decide I can do that or it changes my views or it scares me so now I refuse to leave my house in broad day light by myself.

From books I have learned about the past and wondered about the future. I am able to survive a Zombie attack. I can not only solve a crime but possibly commit the perfect murder. I am fully aware of the ups and downs of dating a vampire. Know what to do when the Empire attacks my planet as well as Romulans (that one I may have learned from TV/movies). I can planet a garden and do crafts (things I start but don't finish). I know that pirates are romantic but only if they are hot. I’ve learned partially how to cook from books as well as how to cook on the grill. I've learned about countries I will never visit and historical people long ago dead.

I have a family book group, an online book group okay 3 online groups. I get countless emails and magazines and catalogs regarding books. I buy them new, used, paper and hardback. I listen to them on CD, my Ipod and I am saving for a Kindle. I take books every where I always have a pile from the library, a few in my car, in my purse, on my desk at work.

I like to think I read a variety of different books my favorites are mysteries and paranormal. But I read Romance, fantasy, Sci-Fi, Biography-Autobiography, Westerns, Chick-Lit, Historical and Contemporary fiction, Self-help, Suspense, and True-Crime. I am always making a list of new books to read.

What does this mean to everyone? Nothing unless you are playing a game of trivia and you want me on your team.

Do you have any good book recommendations?

To see a list of books I have read or to see my book reviews please visit my goodreads page
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/782069