Of the wind being an alarm clock (or maybe not)

It has been windy in Lyon these last few days. Sometimes I can hear the wind whistling…you know, like the "ghosts" in story books :P. (more like "howling"…if we want to talk about ghosts ;) )

I have these plastic blinds outside my window where they can be folded up (like a "Chinese screen", though I'm not sure how Chinese those screens really are :P ) on either side of the window when they're open, so that the wind won't blow them closed. And when the wind is strong, you can hear them rattling…pretty loudly sometimes! So it can get rather noisy…and that was what woke me up this morning. (or at least that's what I think…)

I guess we could say that it was lucky, 'cos it turned out that I had forgotten to set my alarm. As it was, I awoke at about 6am, to the banging of my blinds (that was the first thing I heard, which is why I think that is what woke me up…but I can't be sure, as I'm gonna explain later) My alarm's usually set to 6:15am, so that I can have about 15 minutes extra guilt-free sleep after it rings :P But as it was, I tried to go back to sleep (or at least get some shut-eye), thinking the alarm would let me know when to get up. But after some time the alarm still hadn't gone off, and I was thinking, "hey, surely 15 minutes have passed?" So I looked at the time…and it was already 6:30am. I checked my phone, and yeah, well, the alarm wasn't set.

I can't believe I forgot it…I don't usually forget these kind of things! I usually set my alarm before going to bed, just before placing my phone at my bedside. But yesterday I was charging my phone…which was why it was already by my bed when I went to sleep…and I guess that's why I forgot. -_- It just threw off my routine…

But lately sometimes I've been able to wake up a few minutes before my alarm was due to go off…even though it doesn't happen every day. So that's why I'm not sure whether it was the wind that woke me up, or whether I would have woken up all by myself. Oh well, either way, I guess it's still a stroke of luck.