Posts Tagged ‘awoken’

1. A 150 year old house is happy to oblige you with many sounds when you’re frozen, listening for movement and trying to decide where the original noises came from.
2. A sleeping parrot’s squawk in the night means there’s a man with a gun nearby instead of the usual explanation: they just felt like making noise.
3. Our neighborhood seems to have a surprising (or not) amount of activity in the earliest hours of a Thursday morning. Mutterings, barking, and someone preping for the world record for sneezing volume & reps
4. The decision as to whether or not to flip on the lights and see whether it makes someone downstairs panic is a surprisingly tricky one to make.
5. The decision as to whether or not to wake your husband up and sound like a ninny is even worse.
6. Saddest of all: it’s time to accept that the fierce (looking) dog you adopted a decade ago can no longer be considered any sort of protection when it takes her 15 minutes to wake up and stumble down the stairs while you prod and poke her. Realistically/ironically, I’m convinced it’s the little bastards who’d rip your heart out anyway.
7. Having discovered (of course) nothing downstairs after a thorough, dog-assisted search you think you’ll never get back to sleep, but you will. Half an hour before the alarm goes off.