#4: Shameful embarrassing thing:  So sometimes?  Alot?  While I’m reading blogs or Fark or whatever, I will click on linked items willy nilly out of half interest or total boredom.  And because I use Firefox and because I have ADD and will totally forget what I was reading if I switch sites suddenly, I will open these new links in another “tab,” which I direct to open up in the “background.”  Meaning that the site opens, but not in the window I’m currently viewing.

Sometimes these links are “videos” and sometimes these videos take a while to load, even with my oh-so-spiffy broadband connection, and sometimes I totally forgot that I clicked on a video.  Sometimes, and this is so much worse and yet makes what happens maybe a little a forgivable, these websites have…EMBEDDED MUSIC.  Oh god…the embedded music.  Make it stop.

So here’s what happens.  I click on a link which opens in background tab, which unbeknownst to me, or has a video that I promptly forget about as it takes more than 3 seconds to load and I DON’T HAVE THAT KIND OF ATTENTION SPAN…sometimes, I open up multiples of such sites.  So there I am, happily reading whatever I was reading in the first place, and then all of a sudden, LOUD OBNOXIOUS NOISE starts EMANATING from my laptop!  At full volume!  And my first thought is NOT “oh, video loaded/sucky embedded music.”  It is more like “NOISE!  LOUD!  PANIC!  WHERE!  WHERE NOISE FROM???  SADIE??? SADIE MAKE NOISE STOP????” and then I go all “2001″ on my laptop and smash it against the wall and jump around “oooh oooh eeek!”-ing and scratching my armpits.

Well, not really.  But the sound DOES cause my heart to stop for a minute, and panic ensues as my wee brain tries to figure out where that noise is coming from, is it my cell phone?  NO THAT IS NOT MY CELLPHONE!!!  WHERE IS IT COMING FROM and OH GOD MAKE IT STOP!!!!

And then I realize “duh, that’s the link I opened,” and feel silly and Kev calls from the other room “what was THAT???” or “why are you freaking out?”

But only Sadie knows my shame.  Because she freaked out too, and is growling at the front door for no reason.

This would really just be an embarrassing secret, except that it happens to me ALMOST daily.