Things that go bump in the dark...

So, last night after finishing a very long Skype chat with Miss D at 2am, I finally got into bed. Now, most nights I just turn off the light and convince my brain to hibernate for a few hours but not last night.

First I just had to read another chapter of that inspiring book about a witch, then replay the day's events -which weren't so great - and argue with self that I am right, then thought about randomest things ever and by the time I knew it, it was 5am!! 5am!!!

Panicked as I was to fall asleep asap, I heard a sound outside my ground floor -one-whole-side-in-windows-floor-to-ceiling - room and saw a moving light behind the curtain. OMG!!! Got so scared that I actually could not move. So as I lay there unmoving and not breathing, and all the while imagining all possible escape plans and routes, I noticed the moving light again! But it wasn't moving! Its was blinking. A new panic and fear washed over me... I imagined the intruder would charge through my window, shattered glass making a fierce noise, while I perform a karate-like move jumping out out of my bed and running through the door. Or, I could perform the same karate move and run for the bathroom at the same time pressing the blinds-up button and opening the window (small problem is that I really don't like walking barefoot outside).....

Alas none of it happened. The blinking light turned out to be my a/c and the sound outside my window was just a dry leaf of a palm tree scraping against the window. Phew!

In the end, had to congratulate self on extremely wild imagination and the ability to think clearly in an emergency. My escape routes were all valid and had this been a real situation I believe the intruder would have been disappointed.

Note to self: Must tell gardener to remove the scary plant.