G'night, tommyrot. Hope you feel better when you wake up.

I don't lock my door when we're at home either. Not until I go to sleep. And I live in a suburban street surrounded by ghetto.

Huh.

I'm making holiday cookies following the ATK recipe. But I have no jam to make sandwiches. So, instead, I just boiled and sugared down some frozen apricots and I'll use that instead. this is for the stay-at-home mom group cookie exchange so no matter what I do it will be a fail.

So friend didn't get the arts job. But she's psyched for pursuing similar and is looking into writing a state bill for child mental health. So, that's good. She's written bills before and gotten them passed.

Great. Now I can't remember if I locked my front door before we left Wisconsin.

Need to text the person picking up my mail to make sure that's done tomorrow.

I totally lock my door when I'm home. I walk in and lock the deadbolt before I even take off my shoes and outside pants.

There was a horrible incident at the dorm I was an RA for and I'll never ever forget it. Then, about 6 years ago, a woman in my apt. complex got raped. The guy just walked in to her unlocked apartment in the early evening. I was living a very safe, residential, suburban neighborhood.

Always lock doors, people.

Needless to say, I always lock the doors when the kids and I are inside. This stems more from keeping them in than keeping intruders out, but I do it without thinking.

It's leaving the doors unlocked when we go that I need to work on.

I did once have a drunk woman walk into my unlocked apartment in Columbus. That could have easily ended badly. But that is where I learned to lock them when inside.

I'm not even sure what key on my key ring is for the front door. I'm not sure I have a key for the back door.

Always lock doors, people.

Yeah.

A friend of mine was at home with her boyfriend and two guys walked in through their unlocked sliding-glass door in back. Raped her at knifepoint.

Don't presume the human race is good. You don't have to presume they're evil either. Just...don't depend on an unlocked door.

Now I have to go check my lock (even though one lock is always engaged and I'm in the habit of throwing the deadbolt when I come in).

The cabin I stay in each summer doesn't have any really effective way to lock it.

Always lock doors, people.

One of the many reasons I describe a certain ex-housemate of mine as crazy is because she thought CLOSING the front door was silly and pedestrian. And locking it - please, how boring and mundane could one be, daaaarling? Yes, I wanted to kill her.