I am being terrorized by my own apartment.
Every single move I make generates some sort of electric activity.
At first I thought it was a recipe for a good time. I ran around the house in my little sweater booties trying to generate as much bad mojo as possible and then go after Dave like a heat seeking missile. I was powerful. I was magical. I was a real life Palpatine, shooting arcs of lightning from my fingers and devastating others with the blow.
Okay, so if I back off the hyperbole, I was really just annoying Dave and putting my cats in a very, very bad mood.
But after all the impish fun wore off and everyone ignored me, it was just me and my newfound powers. Alone. All the time. And you know what? I’m really, really tired of it. I want to be able to turn lights on and off again. I want to be able to touch metallic surfaces. I want to stop recoiling in fear every time Dave approaches me.
Last night I attempted to turn off my bedroom light only to be greeted with a massive lightning arc from Zeus himself which shot from the switch to my finger and up my entire right arm. The snapping sound was so loud that Dave heard it in the kitchen.
…There are two rooms between the kitchen and my bedroom.
The worst is when I take all that bad carpet rubbing mojo to the sink. Sometimes I turn on the water to the unnerving sensation of a wave of electricity rippling ever so slightly through my forearm.
It’s the radiators. I know it’s them. I can hear them spitting and hissing their terrible dryness into the air. My apartment sounds like it belongs to the Mad Hatter, with full pots of tea at a high whistle at all hours of the day and night.
I tried the humidifier thing for a while, convinced it was the answer to all my troubles. I filled it up every single night and put it beside my bed in hopes that one day I would wake and my tongue wouldn’t be an arid, cracked desert of misery. But all it did was add a bubbling noise to my bedroom teapot choir and confuse my cats. I spent most of my time before falling asleep trying to explain to them that steam isn’t actually tangible.
I don’t know what else to do. I thought that perhaps my humidifier was subpar so I faced my fear of stupid people one weekend and trekked to a department store only to be greeted by a variety of strange devices that don’t look well-equipped for the job. Since when do people want vaporizers and humidifiers that look like zoo animals? I can’t trust an elephant that shoots steam out of its trunk to understand my problems. I just can’t.
I need to find a solution. I’m going through skin cream like I own stock in it and waking up ten minutes earlier each morning just to allow enough time to reintroduce saliva to my system. Separating my sheet from my comforter when making my bed is the absolute worst part of my day. I’ve abandoned my sweater boots for bare feet in an attempt to minimize my confrontations with Zeus and I’m experimenting with flicking light switches with different body parts until I find the one that has the least pain associated with the zap. I can probably publish my findings in an attempt to aid other dry-dwellers across the land.
Whatever the solution, I need to find it quickly. Because I’m almost considering going outside to ease the anxiety.
And that means it’s serious. ♣
The Jackie Blog 
I haaaaate winter, for the same reason! In addition to the humidifier, I’ve heard suggestions of putting big bowls of water on all the radiators so that the heat from the radiator makes the water slowly evaporate. But, more likely than not, you probably just have to wait until winter is over. And invest in really, really good fabric softener.
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One more thing – I talked to my nerd/geek (like you, we’re just not sure which) boyfriend. He said that if you run a metal hanger along your clothes before you put them on, it should de-static them. Maybe try that with the sheets?
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That works as long as it’s one of those heavier metal ones like you get drapes back from the cleaners on. If it’s one of the standard thin bendy ones, it’s some sort of alloy that doesn’t do much.
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Okay! Thanks guys 🙂 I’ll try the pots of water and the metal hangers. I’m desperate for help.
Though I imagine the pots of water are asking for trouble with my H20 obsessed cat. I’m likely to come home to a kitty water park. 🙂
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I have heard of leaving a pot of water on top of your radiator so as it heats up the steam is released into the house. Perhaps you could experiment with something up this alley.
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Dryer Sheets! I know they get rid of surface static on fabrics. (Not necessarily in the dryer either. I run them over pantyhose before I put on the skirt so the skirt doesn’t cling to my thighs!)
You could maybe try using a dryer sheet like a protective shield for your hand when you turn on/off the light?
(And yes, this is the same girl who suggested Purell for dye!)
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Well aren’t you just a wealth of product knowledge! I visited your blog expecting it to be something aimed at multiple uses for everyday products. But alas, it was Grey’s Anatomy 🙂 Thanks so much for the tip – perhaps I shall fashion some electricity shield gloves.
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Yeah, I love my Grey’s. lol. My blog is a pretty eclectic mix of whatever random thought process goes through my mind over the course of a day, or week, or whatever.
Maybe I should do a post about how to use random products… hmm.. things to think about!
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Wait a minute, you’re missing a great money making scheme here. Our government (in an effort to encourage “green” energy and spend our tax dollars faster, because they found a few, unspent $$ under the sofa cushions over at Treasury), is now buying excess energy back from homeowners with windmills, solar panels and the like. Why not from you?
Hook one of your doorknobs up to a storage battery, and soon you’ll be zapping yourself all the way to the bank!
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LOL I love this so much. I’m always up for money-making schemes!
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