{"id":2638,"date":"2011-10-28T08:29:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T15:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:50:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:50:48","slug":"pesky-pixies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2638","title":{"rendered":"Pesky Pixies!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day I was plagued by Pixies.<\/p>\n<p>Pixies made me forget to turn on my alarm.\u00a0 But my body thwarted them by waking up on time.\u00a0 Unfortunately it was also very, very dark &amp; my narcissist kept trying to shush my body so my brain would go back to sleep.\u00a0 Lucky for ME (sarcasm) I had to pee &amp; I&#8217;m always suspicious these days of my inner narcissist.\u00a0 Sure enough, I only had 10 minutes of the usual 30 I have to get out the door if I was going to stay on schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Pixies also got to the clock in the shower at the gym, which\u00a0 is stuck at 4:50 am.\u00a0 But I don&#8217;t take that personally since its affecting ALL of us!<\/p>\n<p>Pixies have completely invaded my sprinkler system.\u00a0 As for some completely unknown reason its going off twice&#8230; once at 7 am and again at the time I set it to go off at 9:15.\u00a0 I recently discovered its got a battery since my contractor kept turning off the electricity &amp; I kept having to reset it.\u00a0\u00a0 (The conversation went&#8230; ME:\u00a0 Are you almost done with the electrical cuz I&#8217;m sick of resetting the sprinklers.\u00a0 HIM:\u00a0 Is the battery out on the timer?\u00a0 ME:\u00a0 Battery???)\u00a0 Pixies obviously screwed the pooch when I reset it again this last time.\u00a0 When I check it, it looks set perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>That same day&#8230;. Pixies hid my cell phone.\u00a0 I spent an hour looking for my cell phone.\u00a0 Turned everything upside down trying to figure out where I set it down.\u00a0 Not in the car, not in my purse, not on any shelf, desk, surface.\u00a0 I called it, but I get sucky reception and went straight to voice mail.\u00a0 Lucky for me (as I was walking in from checking the sprinkler timer &#8211; still no idea what the Pixies did) I heard that familiar beep that said I missed a notification from my cell. \u00a0 And STILL couldn&#8217;t find it, but I knew it was at least in the house!\u00a0 I called again and waited and waited&#8230; silent, listening for the beep.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 Then upstairs about to turn my bed upside down I looked at the window sill and there it was. \u00a0 I set it there sometimes cuz its one of the few places I can get enough bars to get a text or two.\u00a0\u00a0 No idea how the pixies made me forget that&#8230;\u00a0 lucky for me its a red cell phone.. easy to spot.<\/p>\n<p>Happy to have THAT drama solved I&#8217;m getting ready to head out to Costco &amp; now I can&#8217;t find my iPod Touch.\u00a0 Shopping alone is soooo much better with my music!\u00a0 And I had a lunch apt and the Touch has internet in case the place had free wifi&#8230;..\u00a0 grrrrrr&#8230; I spend 10 minutes looking for wherever the Pixies had placed it before I had to give up &amp; leave or be late.<\/p>\n<p>When I got home with the kids I offered a $1 reward for the kid who found it.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky for me Pixies are no match for Evan!<\/p>\n<p>Who found it camouflaged amongst the other electronics (PS3, Wii)\u00a0 where I must have set it down for some unknown reason.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the Pixies were just celebrating Diwali&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day I was plagued by Pixies. 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