Nightly adventure

My whole life I have been waking up frequently from terrible nightmares, often about choking, getting no air and drowning, or about someone actively trying to strangle me to death. Last year I found out that I suffer from sleep apnea during REM sleep, so that explained a lot. I was actually choking, no wonder I had nightmares all the time! They have invented a lovely machine to prevent this choking routine, and for the last months have been sleeping like I should have all the time: for hours on end, nice deep sleep, no scary dreams. Bliss! Until last night I woke up from an unpleasant dream, and found that the machine was not working. In fact, nothing was working, we had a power outage in the middel of the night. Crap!

Here in Oz the power board is always outside of the house. Yeah, funny, and no idea why really. But it meant that we had to go out into the pitchblack night (where is that full moon when you need it?), armed with a handy headlight (sometimes it pays of to be outdoorsy people) to figure out what happened. Unfortunately the nightly temp had dropped from 30 degrees the night before, to only 9 last night. It felt freezing, probably due to our being scantily dressed. Anyway, could not solve the problem. My heroic husband braved the cold and stayed with the power board, while I unplugged everything in the house. Still not solved. After half an hour we ended up with switching off a whole power group, hooking up the fridge with a very long power cord to the only working power plug, and going back to bed. Where it took about an hour to fall asleep again. Without my lovely snoozer machine. So had a totally awful night sleep.
Sparkie has been in already and could not find anything wrong really. Keep fingers crossed for tonight.

Summer in Oz

We're in the midst of summer. It is dry, stinking hot, with a fierce wind blowing. Still at least a month to go. This year we (or at least I) suffer from an explosion of midges (which we never had before). I found myself allergic to them, resulting in massive bumps after being bitten, which then burst out and ooze yukkie stuff for hours. So what else is there to say about it. Nothing much really, although that may be due to me suffering from brain melt. Gosh, I really really dislike summer in Oz.