So, there we are, Sweets and I snuggled together in bed — she, sound asleep, and me just slipping past the stage of dozing lightly and into a sound slumber.\u00a0 My arm and leg are draped over her, we’re all cozy and warm.<\/p>\n
Suddenly, Sweets sits bolt upright, sloughing me off to the side, and turns her head toward the big window behind our bed, a look of concern on her face.\u00a0 I’m instantly awake — my heart is beating fiercely in my chest, my adrenaline glands go from zero to full production in a split second.\u00a0 I’m ready for action.<\/em><\/p>\n “What?\u00a0 You ok?\u00a0 What is it?”<\/em><\/strong> I ask.<\/p>\n “Oh.\u00a0 Nothing.”<\/strong><\/em> she replies, and promptly lay back down and instantly falls back to sleep, snoring softly.<\/p>\n For the next forty-five minutes I toss and turn, straining my ears to hear even the faintest footfall outside the window.\u00a0 Listening to the sounds of the sleeping house trying to detect something amiss.\u00a0 Checking, double checking, and checking again that the red light on the alarm control panel was lit, signifying that the sensors were on and waiting for some intruder.<\/p>\n She remembers nothing of it.\u00a0 Has a good laugh when I tell her.\u00a0 Me too, to be honest.\u00a0 It was pretty funny, now that I’m an evening and a few hours of sleep away from it.\u00a0 Better to chase goblins, than to miss their presence when they arrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, there we are, Sweets and I snuggled together in bed — she, sound asleep, and me just slipping past the stage of dozing lightly and into a sound slumber.\u00a0 My arm and leg are draped over her, we’re all cozy and warm. Suddenly, Sweets sits bolt upright, sloughing me off to the side, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestica","category-house","category-rambling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}