Showing posts with label Sabriel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sabriel. Show all posts

Friday, January 28, 2011

This morning

Anyone ever had half-awake adventures/scares? I did this morning. And I think it's pretty funny, so I'm going to share it.

So this morning, somewhere around 3:00, I sort of half woke up. This was, I thought, due to Sam getting up to go to the bathroom. [This in itself should have tipped me off; I never wake up during the night unless there's a deafening fire alarm going off, and even that can take a while.] A minute or two later [or so it seemed] I thought I heard him cry out, like he'd hurt himself or something.

I was a little worried, so I contemplated getting up and seeing if he was ok. Before I could make up my mind if my love of and concern for Sam was greater than my desire to stay comfy in my warm bed, I heard heavy breathing in the room. As I was fairly sure Sam was in the bathroom, someone breathing in the room besides me was fairly alarming.

Then the thought occurred to me, "Someone broke into our house and hurt Sam! That's why he cried out! And now whoever it was is in here and I'm going to die!"

[Note: All of this, from when I thought Sam got up to this point, took about 40 seconds, I think. Possibly even a whole minute.]

Well, I was working up to getting really nervous [working up to due to me being mostly asleep] when I shifted slightly in bed and felt Sam next to me. I think I gave a gasp of death [which, if you've ever been around me when I get really excited about something all of a sudden, can be rather frightening] as my heart lurched, which of course woke Sam up, since he's a fairly light sleeper. He also may have awoken because my gasp was accompanied by my limbs flailing, which of course connected with his sleeping form, sort of like a sneak attack.

I'm not sure if we mumbled anything to each other, since those details are a bit fuzzy, but it was so disconcerting, since I guess I dreamed the whole thing, even though it'd felt so real. Weird. And then when I woke up and remembered, I just laughed. Talk about funny.

Anyway, on a completely different note, I just made the connection today that if iTunes has audiobooks it might have ones I'm interested in having forever (e.g., Goose Girl, the Chrestomanci series, Howl's Moving Castle and accompanying companion novels, Sabriel). This would be particularly exciting for the Diana Wynn Jones books, since they're not exactly available in the U.S. it seems like. And has iTunes failed me? Indeed it has not! I now know what my future iTunes giftcards will be going toward. Shazam. If only it offered the Queen's Thief series, my life would be pretty much complete.

And please, no comments about how I'm a little slow if I've only just come to this realization about iTunes + audiobooks. Thanks.

xoxo

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