A few years ago there was a spate of dog thefts in our local area. Having a Staffie (at the time) and knowing how they are a breed often stolen, we secured our gate and garden better than it was (even though it wasn't too bad to begin with) and I bought a couple of security cameras - one for the back garden, one for the front garden. At-the-time we didn't have anywhere out the front to put that one so we ended up setting it up indoors at the end of the hallway (this covers the front door, and living room door, so the front of the house, whilst the one out the back covers the back of the house).
Recently we've been finding our front gate open when we get up in the mornings. Not really an issue (as such) until you factor in that our gate is an absolute arse to get open, and it will only open the shortest of distances before it stops dead. We've often discussed fixing this so it swings open more easily, however, we realised it acts as a bit more of a deterrant, and so we've left it like it (we always have to apologise to any new post people who bring the mail). Because of this it means someone has had to deliberately open it, and for it be open as far as it has been they've had to have entered the garden. We do have a lot of nasty thorny bushes outside our living room window, and the soil there is so soft if anyone tries to put up a ladder they'd sink about 6 feet, but on one side (not the other because again there is a rose bush with thorns like daggers) they could potentially use our neighbours wall to get up onto our porch - they'd be brave to do such a thing as the roof is not the safest in the world and they'd most likely fall through before they even got near to a window.
However, if they were to navigate themselves safely across, they'd find themselves below my bedroom window (unless they were 7 feet tall they'd not be able to reach the bottom of my window without some form of ladder, or another giving them a 'leg up' (the roof would most definitely not take 2 people) so this means it is pretty safe (ish). That doesn't mean it's no possible though and so because of this, I bought a new camera to cover the front of the house, and garden.
I made a bit of a boob when I did though and the first one I bought the cable wasn't long enough - this has now been rectified - and so I found myself with a spare camera. We don't really need another as we have front, back and inside covered (even if the camera out the back missed someone getting in, the one in the hall would pick them up inside the house) so I was going to keep it as a spare. Then, last night putting stuff away again (if you read yesteday's post you will have seen I emptied all my cupboards on Sunday - I didn't put all the stuff away again) I came across it.
Living in a house where things often go "bump" in the night and having recently had someone bang on my bedroom door at 3am, I thought I'd set it up in my room. It wasn't until I'd gone to bed I realised what a crazy idea that was, for more-than-one-reason. What if someone decided to try and hack in to it? My room is tiny; it doesn't matter where I put the camera, it's going to pick me up entering/leaving and when I'm in bed, unless I put it right on the end of my drawer unit, at which point it will only pick up the bedroom door (the unit is that close). This would mean any hacker would be able to view me in my room (although I am sure they'd quickly move on to someone else!! 😂😂 you'll find out why a bit further down the page). Then I thought about how I would shit myself if something/one was to show up on the camera in my room. I know I have questioned the very existance of ghosts (and still don't believe them to be real) but if they were and the camera was to pick one up, I'd not only have to re-think my whole belief system, I'd also have to re-think where I live 😂😂.
I'd set it up though and if someone is that desperate they want to watch me sleep, then they have my sympathy. And if someone did appear that wasn't there, then maybe I could be the first person in the world to try capture a spirit, so I left it running. With trepidation (and a little bit-of-fear) I opened it up when I got to work this morning to see if it was triggered in the night, to find that it was. In fact between midnight and 6.30 this morning it was triggered 41 times. 2 of those were when a moth of some kind flitted about the room, the other 39 though were me; all me. I've been told by anyone I've shared a bed with that I am a fidget, and I know myself I've gone to sleep one end of the bed, and woken up the other, but I didn't realise just how bad I am. It seems that no sooner have I turned over onto my right side, then I am turning back again to my left, before twisting around so I'm diagonally across the bed.
I learned the reason I always wake up so hot, is because I literally cover myself with the quilt - although my feet seem to spend a lot of time uncovered. I then push the quilt off me and pretty much wake up a couple of minutes after doing so, which means I'm waking up uncovered and wondering what's going on for me to be so bloody hot, when in fact my skin to the touch is cold. Now I know! Will be interesting to see if that was just a one-off, or something I do regularly. In fact I quite like the idea of keeping it now for a month just to see how going through a female hormone cycle affects my sleep pattern (although I'll have to wait for a month when it's back-to-normal to do so).
I knew I snored and that I will often go a minute (or 2) without breathing (I discovered that from a sleep recorder thing I've got) but I've discovered it's worse when I sleep on my right, than on my left. Who knew a security camera could be so informative for something other than keeping a property secure?
Yes, I know some of you who know me will be reading this, thinking "she's missed out something else she does a lot too!!! 😂😂". It's true; when I sleep I fart.... a lot 😂😂
For the record. I've deliberately blurred the photo below - the actual camera and footage is crystal clear; I just didn't want you getting too much of a good peek into my bedroom!
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