Fuzzy Thinking

First, an alert:

Friday the thirteenth falls on a Friday this month!  Those are the worst kind!

Second, a note to darling415 who asked where she can get Swarovski clip star earrings like I picked up at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.  Alas, Swarovski no longer sells them and I couldn't find any other source for them.  I'm not surprised; they were in the clearance section.

---

I have not been sleeping well lately.

A few nights ago, as I was just fading back to sleep, around 3am, I heard a serious bell nearby.  This is one of those old-fashioned bell sounds where the little hammer beats against a half-circle at a high rate of speed.

Once I figured out it was a fire alarm, I actually spent a few seconds wondering if I should get dressed or go out in my nightie, just pulling a jacket over it.

I woke enough to decide the smart (and fast) thing to do was to shed my nightclothes and pull on pants, shirt, sneakers, jacket, and umbrella, and head for the stairs.  The umbrella was because I had glanced out the window and noticed the ground was wet.

follow up:
The fire was small and five floors below me. The rain had stopped.  The weather was surprisingly warm for a DC-area November night.  And the firemen waved us back in only 45 minutes later.  That was it for my night's sleep though.

---