Have I Disturbed Some One? (Revisited), page 33

We've had a couple of incidences in the past week. Either they are happy about the Christmas decorations or they're active because this thread got active again...that's my two theories anyway.

Last Saturday my daughter and I started putting up the tree and all our Christmas decorations. At the same time I was painting the last 8 ceiling tiles to finish my living room ceiling. These tiles take three coats of metallic paint - two coats of copper and one coat of silver. I can only paint four ceiling tiles at a time because that's all I can fit on my work table. I usually do it like this - coat of paint, wait between 1/2 hour and 1 hour, coat of paint, etc. I got four tiles done Saturday and four tiles done Sunday and then finished putting them all up Sunday evening.

So about every hour I would take a break from helping my daughter with the tree decoration and I'd go back to mix my can of paint up, open it and go paint my tiles. Now, on the utility counter there is a space where the paint cans were sitting and then on down the counter is where the hammer was laying. Four times in a row, I went back to mix my paint can and the hammer was laying right where I need to work, so I'd pick it up and move it over where it was supposed to be. Every time I went back for four times, the hammer would be laying right in the middle of the place where I need my paint can to sit so that I could mix it up, and I'd have to move it back out of the way!

Then comes Tuesday when I went back to work after the holiday. I have two hard badge cards that I wear around a lanyard on my neck at work. One is a badge and the other is a safety procedures card. They have narrow slits at the top of each badge (about 1/8" tall and 3/8" wide) that the lanyard hook slips through. The hook on the lanyard is about 1/8" thick so you actually have to put one card at a time on because you have to work the narrow slit of each card down around the curve of the hook and then put the next one on the same way. The lanyard has a spring-loaded hook closure that is also about 1/8" thick, so once you get the two cards on and let the closure go, there's no way the cards can come off. I've worn this type lanyard with these two cards for years now.

Every evening when I come home I pull the lanyard off and wrap it around the cards, tuck the loose end under the wrap, and stick it in the bottom of my purse - every day.

So Tuesday morning I'm walking toward the turnstyle and I reach in for my lanyard and badges and I pull the lanyard out and my badge isn't on it! So I stick my hand down in my purse and feel around and finally pull my badge out, slip it on the lanyard hook and go to wave it across the reader and it won't work! I think to myself - oh great! now the darned thing is demagnetized! I look at it and it's the safety card, not my badge and it wasn't until that moment it dawned on me that BOTH cards had "come off" the closed hook and were laying loose in the bottom of my purse!

In over five years of wearing this style of lanyard, I've never had a card "come off" the closed hook. To get both cards off, you would basically have to take each card off one at a time, squeezing the hook closure open to get each card off.

So for some reason the ghosty is being a bit poltergeistish this past week. mrsdudara has asked me to take up the habit of writing down stray thoughts in the house - that's proving to be a more difficult habit to form than I first suspected - and she has asked me to start noting if certain things may be trying to tell me something. With the hammer being repetitively moved I wonder if the message is "keep working on the house", or "I like what you're doing", or something to that effect. And then the badges off the lanyard, I wonder if it didn't want me to go back to work! Oh well - if I'm going to keep working on the house, I better darned sure keep going to work!