pirate jane @piratejane@mastodon.social

It was when I tried to reach my phone, but I couldn't move (sleep paralysis) that I started to realize maybe it hadn't really happened. I fought the paralysis to wake up for real, but I'm not sure I actually did fully awake. I remember wanting to get up and peek out the window, but somehow I never actually did, so maybe I was still in a hypnagogic state, I don't know.

Anyhow it was disturbing and I'd like to request dreamless sleep tonight. 😴

In the middle of the night I had one of those sleep paralysis episodes. You know, where you think you're awake in your bed but you're actually still dreaming? I was lying there listening to people argue out in the street. There was a little kid singing or chanting a nursery rhyme too. I was wishing they would all shut up and go away. Then suddenly, gunfire. At least a dozen shots. The voices stopped and there was silence and I was terrified.

In other news, the white cat got splashed with iced tea because she surprised me with a very sharp claw to my leg when I had a full mug in my hand.

She's now in the other room washing herself thoroughly. #cats

Heat index 117°F 😰

Good morning! #cats

good morning mastodon

I was trying to click a side arrow on a web page... then realized it was a speck on my screen

Maybe time to clean it

Good news, sister-in-law is fine. They got buckets of rain though.

#Hurricane Michael. Woken by intermittent screeching metal sound. Appears to be the barricade around the construction site next door, being blown around by gusts.

Lost power but only briefly. Streetlights rebooted, was weird to have total darkness outside, I'm not used to that.

Worried about my sister-in-law in central Georgia.

Several waves of Hurricane Michael-related rain came through today and this evening; it's like 1:00am and I'm tucked in bed with my phone, enjoying another blast of lashing rain outside, when suddenly I think: MY HOUSEPLANTS.

I knew I couldn't go to sleep till I checked on them. They were fine, probably protected by the side of the house they're on. I'll bring them in tomorrow, before the storm actually hits us. #hurricane

Soylent Beige

Two nights a week the street sweeping machine comes by and my grey cat gets excited, running from window to window to watch it. I wonder what she thinks it is.

Thought I saw a cowboy hat with cat ears among the Halloween stuff. Turned out to be just a squashed witch hat and I'm honestly disappointed