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First and foremost, thanks to everyone who weighed in yesterday on my sofa debacle. It ended up that two guys drove down from DeKalb to get the sofa last night. For those of you not in the know, that's about 60 miles away. Those guys really wanted that sofa! (Thank God!)

( Other apartment crap. )

( More tales of our money pit. )

Getting off the topic of home repair altogether, tonight we're going out for my best friend Debbie's 30th birthday. It's me, Debbie, her husband Craig, the Scientist, fava_bean, and Debbie's mom. So that should be nice. After that we're going to go home and unpack some more.

And finally, it's the reader participation portion of today's blog. But first, some backstory. The other day on Gapers Block, the Fuel question of the day was "What really scared you as a kid?" Of course there were a ton of responses about clowns, basements, natural disasters, and Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video. (I was in that last camp, no thanks to yakgirl traumatizing me at the roller rink with it.) So I posted my response, but then remembered my most irrational fear of all:

( A Dr. Suess poem. )

So I ask you, what was your totally irrational childhood fear that made absolutely no sense? I've shared mine. Come on, it will be fun to laugh at each other ourselves.