When I got out into the garage, I could hear the wind blowing against the metal garage door and I figured that it was just the vibration that was causing the alarm to go off. So I disarmed the Jeeps alarm system and went back into the house, upstairs, changed out of my clothes, and back into bed.
I wish that I could have fallen asleep as quickly as I normally do, but no such luck. I lay there for what seemed like most of the night and finally fell asleep. I finally awoke and got up about 0800, but I was by no means rested.
I think that I was in slow motion all day long; I made myself some cereal and coffee and then sat down for breakfast. After eating, I went through some of the coupons from yesterday’s paper. After sorting the coupons and throwing out the expired coupons, I went into the living room to read the paper.
I thought that we were going to go grocery shopping today since we have not done it the last two or three days, but Kathleen never came down to go. I went out to the garage to check on the Wrangler, and found out that the battery was just about dead and that may have added to the alarm going off last night. The alarm goes off if some one tries to cut the power to it, so when the battery is getting low the alarm will sound.
At first, I was going to use the jump starter, but then I thought that I would just put it on the charger, so I did. When I checked on it about an hour later, the charger was giving me an error, so I unplugged it and then plugged it back in again. I kept checking on it every hour or so, and it seemed to be working okay.
I spent a while picking up some of the branches that had been blown down the last couple of days and put them into the yard debris container. When I went inside, I heated up some of the leftover turkey and stuffing and put some of the gravy on it for my lunch. After eating, I went out to the garage again to check up on the battery’s charging progress.
While the battery was charging I decided to clean up the mess on my office desk, it seems like I did that not all that long ago, but it was stacked pretty high again. This time it was much easier and I can see the top of the desk once again.
While I was working on the desktop, I remembered that yesterday as I was looking for a program disk on the shelf above the desk, everything started to slide off. I just kind of restacked everything and thought that I would have to sort it out one of these days, well; one of these days was today.
I was able to throw out several outdated manuals and put some other things into the file cabinet with the contracts. Then I put everything left back on the shelf and it is now usable. I also sorted out several disks and was able to throw out several that were out of date. Before I threw them away, I broke them up, because they contained backups to my bank accounts.
When I finished I asked Kathleen what plans she had for dinner and she said that she was going to make some tuna noodle casserole. After dinner, I went into the living room and promptly dozed off. I was awaken when Alyssa called, Kathleen answered at the same time I did, so I just hung up and decided that I better get in here and do my blog, before I fell asleep for the night.
I have a feeling that it will be a real early night, as I did not get much sleep last night at all. So good night!
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He tells last night's noise problem pretty much like it was - except that he must have gotten out of bed, stumbled to the window to grab the keys to hit the button to turn off that alarm three or four times and I think I did it closer to six times before we both realized that this wasn't going to stop.
I thought some animal must have sneaked into the garage and was jumping around on the Jeep. What would have been small enough to get in there and large enough to set off the alarm, I don't know. Cats have been known to jump up and walk around on it without setting it off. And what animal would be stupid enough to keep making it go off.... It is pretty loud.
That our bedroom is upstairs above the driveway facing the front of the garage was fortunate for us. The thing I thought was amazing was that little beeper signal went through the glass (not a problem) and through those old metal garage doors AND/OR the cement block walls of the garage. To set the alarm on my Acura I have to be at just the right angle with nothing in the way.
Getting to sleep usually is my problem, not Bob's. If I'm cold I cannot get to sleep even if I'm exhausted and I'm usually cold even with the five layers I sleep under. We don't use an electric matress pad or blanket any more so I turn on the heating pad and lay it over my sore shoulder and that warms me up. When I'm all toasty, I turn it off and slip it to the floor before I drop off. My cold feet make ME cold if I touch my leg with a cold foot so if I still can't sleep I put on a pair of socks. I think that Bob was just too wide awake and too cold to get back to sleep. I should have loaned him my heating pad ...or my socks.
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