The sounds of my childhood

So I have been temporarily relocated to my sister's bedroom in the basement because we have various sets of relatives here due to graduation festivities (both mine and my brother's). Anyhow, last night I feel asleep to the sound of two things that I haven't heard in at LEAST 5 years: the sound of the dryer and the sound of our cat purring next to me. I know this sounds odd, but I hadn't realized how often I feel asleep to those sounds as a kid until last night when I heard them again. Being upstairs in this house, I am far from the dryer and Goldie isn't allowed up there, so I never hear them anymore. It was just sort of an odd experience.