electric mist

anomalies

I just wanted to let you know that if the world ended abruptly today, I DIDN'T MEAN TO DO IT. Okay? Good, just so you know. Because I not only went to sleep before 4 a.m., which is the usual time (except it's been moving back toward 5a.m. then 5:30 a.m. for the last two weeks)... I actually went to sleep.... by 11 p.m. I know. Scary. And! I woke up this morning at 7a.m.! Awake. Actually opened my eyes, couldn't fall back asleep, the whole "get up, it's morning" sort of thing." Wow. The sun comes up in the morning. Did you know that? Kinda cool. What is it you normal people do in the mornings? Besides go to work, I know that part, but this whole wide awake thing is kinda weird. And! I have energy. I know. In the morning. Very scary. I'm expecting meteorites to hit the earth at any minute now. Really sorry about that.

In other random news, I have squirrels in my attic again. No, that is not a euphemism, thank you. Real squirrels. Or, at least, I think think they are squirrels, unless it's like last time, and a mama raccoon got up in there (I have no idea how) and we ended up rescuing her four baby raccoons and feeding them for a couple of weeks until a rescue place could take them in. (They were adorable... until they were able to climb out of the box. Then, they were cute, but the whole pooping everywhere diminished that a bit.) So... I think it's squirrels again, because this time, there are a lot of running sounds during the day time (squirrels) rather than at night time (raccoons). Last time, we caught the mama raccoon in a wire cage trap (very safe and humane) and moved her (didn't know she had babies at that point, hence the rescue operation later). I suspect we'll have to do the trap thing again. I wish we could find where the little buggers are getting in. We checked the spot we thought they were originally getting in and it's closed up.

Anyway. Squirrels. Are noisy. Very busy, with the running, to and fro, right over my head. I kinda expect to hear cheers and the scream of "home run!" any minute now. See, when I was asleep in the morning, I didn't know they were up there. They may have been there for a year, hell if I'd know. But now, it's me against the squirrels. Because I cannot write while they are going to and fro, with the thumping and bumping and rearranging up there, building a stadium or whatever they are doing. Driving me nuts.

I know, not far to go.