"Minds can play awful tricks"

(Just in case anyone's wondering, this is not one of my kids. I just needed

someone lookin' scared!!)

So, Todd is on night shifts right now, which doesn't really bother me anymore. When we were first married and he would work until 1 or 2 in the morning, I have to admit I would get scared sometimes being all by myself. So, last night things went just like normal, I put the kids all to bed and after finishing a few things I headed to bed myself. The phone rang at about 3 am, and woke me out of dead sleep. I'm thinking who died, what bad thing has happened, because why else would you get a call in the middle of the night. The caller ID said private caller, so I was thinking it was someone on Todd's side since that how some of them came across on caller ID. So I pick up the phone to hear the bad news, and instead of that I get heavy breathing and someone talking through the heavy breathing, but I can't understand what is being said. I hung up the phone, and at first didn't think much about it, just figuring it was a prank call from some bratty teen, (which is still I'm sure what it was). But it was late, and it didn't take long before my mind took over and thought of every bad thing it could have been. For instance, some crazy man, who knew my husband wasn't home and now was going to torture me, and freak me out. Then of course, are they going to try to get in and kidnap my kids, you know anything bad that could happen with this scenario was going through my mind. Then to top it off the wind was terrible last night and made all kinds of fun noises to help my imagination out. So since Todd was up anyway I call him at work, hoping to have him make me feel better, but in some ways it made it worse for a little bit. He and his co-workers called the cops down here, to have them run by and check things out just in case, because you see when you work at the jail, you can get enemys and physco's trying to find you after they get out, one of the first things they tell you when you start working there is, "it's a good idea to change your name in the phone book or make it unlisted". These crazy things that were running through my mind do really happen out there, so it is easy to imagine them up. So despite my efforts to not think about it and try to relax, I didn't get any sleep the rest of the night. Nothing of course happened, and all was fine this morning. Todd is a little more parinoid going to work tonight, but has to anyway. Don't you love how the mind works and can make something that was probaly a stupid prank into something way more, but just incase it was one of the ex-inmates or just some other crazy person, we are going to take a few more precautions.