Fire Alarm @ MindSay

The fire alarm just went off....yet there's no fire...

I called mumsy to let her know.

She said if I was showering with the door open (which I was since no ones home) than more than likely the steam sent off the alarm.

So all's good.

(:

Thank you, Lira.  I could not have said it better myself. 

This is gonna be a long one, folks.  Bear with me. 

Well, Monday really didn't start off that bad.  I mean, it did, but it was one of those things that's funny after the fact.  I woke up that morning at about 11:00am, and it was just me and Momma in the house.  I decided I was going to grill me some cheese sandwiches for brunch.  I guess I put the heat too high, or I didn't use enough Pam or whatever, because it created more smoke than usual. 

Which, of course, set off the smoke detectors.  =P

Millie (the dog) went absolutely nuts, barking in every direction known to man and a few she just invented on the spot.  Momma was yelling at me over the sound of the alarm, all the while trying to get to the other side of the house to turn off the damn thing.  She finally got to it and punched in the code, which thankfully shut it off.  So I finished cooking, cleared out the smoke, and sat down to eat my sandwiches.  (Which were actually not very burnt, btw.)

Now, I must explain this before going on.  The reason I have not been blogging much in the last few days is because we've been having internet trouble here at the house.  We still are, but it's not nearly as bad as it was.  What does that have to do with this story?  Well, before I woke up that morning, my mother had been on the phone with Centurytel, trying to fix our internet.  They made her unplug all kind of things, and then plug them back in.  Somehow, something didn't get plugged in right, because after she hung up with them, our phone lines went dead.  But we didn't know that.  Yet.

So the alarm company called our house when they detected that the alarm had been set off.  They got no answer, so they called the next listed numbers.  My mother was home, so her cell phone was off.  And my father was at work, but he didn't have his cell phone on, for some reason.  Sooo.....Of course they're going to send out the fire department.  =P

Now, let me warn everybody beforehand:  My mother is a very strange woman.  She's not crazy, she's not Obsessive-Compulsive, she's not any of that.  She's just...She's one of those people that wants everything (house, herself, me, etc.) to be presentable at all times.  I find this particularly annoying, or at the very least unnecessary.  But it's how she is. 

I had just finished my sandwiches when we heard the knock on the door.  Let's picture this:  Neither of us were dressed yet.  She was in her long blue robe all buttoned up, and I was the large t-shirt that I had worn to bed.  When they knocked, she jumped up and ran off to go do something, I don't know what.  She acted as if she had nothing on and she had to go get dressed.  She told me, "Go answer the door!"  I was like, "You're more dressed than I am, why should I be answering the door?!"  I quickly threw on some shorts and answered the door. 

At first, it was only my Pomen and another man whose name escapes me at the moment.  Then I peeked out the door and saw that the fire department was there.  (I guess I should explain here that Pomen is my Nanny's husband.  Nanny is my Momma's sister, and they live just down the road from us.)  My mother all of a sudden showed up behind me, I don't know how she did that.  Anyway, they were like, "Well, we got word that your alarm went off over here, is everything ok?"  We were like, "Yes, everything's fine, it was just a false alarm."  Momma asked Pomen why he was there (he doesn't work with the alarm company or the fire department), and he said, "Well, they tried to get through and your phone wasn't working, so they called me and Nanny at the house to ask if we saw anything."  Momma was like, "Our phones aren't working??"  And she ran off to go figure out why they weren't working.

In the meantime, I went outside to talk to whoever was there, since the whole thing was my fault anyway.  Obviously, I was a good bit embarassed that I'd have to explain myself to the fire department.  But luckily, this being a small town and all, I realized that I knew a lot of the people that had shown up.  So I felt a little more relaxed and I was able to explain what had happened.  One of them got out of the truck, looked at his watch, then asked me, "So, I guess dinner's ready?"  I laughed and said, "Something like that, yes."

I still had to give them my statement, just for procedure and stuff like that.  So me and Mr. Brandon (the man who asked me if dinner was ready) went inside.  When we got inside, my mother was washing the dishes that were in the sink.  *rolls eyes*  As if the firemen care that we have dirty dishes, Momma.  Anyway, so I sat down with Mr. Brandon and gave him my statement.  I apologized once for them having to come out here, and I figured once was enough.  My mother apologized about a dozen damn times.  She was all, "I'm so sorry y'all had to come all the way out here for nothing, I'm sorry to drag you away from your jobs, blah blah blah..."  I'm thinking, "Momma, this is their job."  They responded, "We're just glad it was only a false alarm."

When they finally left, Momma was still fussing.  Not at me for causing this, but at Daddy for not having his phone on.  Because of course, "If your Daddy would turn his damn phone on and leave it on, they would have called him and not had to send the whole fire department out here!  Now the whole town is gonna be talking about us!"  I was like, "Good grief."  At some point, I found out that she had gotten the phones working again.  Oddly enough, she had to unplug one phone to make the rest work.  =P

Anyway, my Nanny had called while I was outside.  Not surprisingly, she was worried sick about us.  So while my mother called Daddy at work to fuss at him for not turning his cell phone on, I called Nanny on my cell phone and told her what happened.  I felt at the very least I owed her an explanation, if not an apology.  Once I had explained the whole story, she laughed about it.  So I think she felt better.  =)

*chuckles*  Yes, it was quite a morning. 

More later.  This is a long enough entry already.

TheFallenAngel

OK well today was a VERY interesting day!! !st off our freaking school caught fire!! Oops!! Something in the boiler room started so smoke!! Next thing you know the alarm is going off and we're all running outside!! Now mind you it's like 32 degrees outside!! I was numb!! Everyone was running to their cars and stuff! The teachers told us to go to the complex and half way there they told us to go into the gym to wait it out! We sat in the gym for and hour and a half!! We ate lunch there!! The school smelt sooooo freaking bad!! It was gagging!! AEP had to shut all the power off and crap so we went and sat in the balcony!! It was actually kinda fun!! I was freaking out cause I didn't know where Joel was but he found me!! It's kind wierd how a catastrophe (sp) can make you realize how much you really love that person!! I mean I know/realize that I love him more then I love life but I came to reality today!! Cause I didn't know where he was or if he was okay!! So I was flipping out!! Nichole was giving me hugs and trying to reassure me and I was bout ready to cry and I was shaking RLY bad! I love him so much!!

We had our vball banquet tonight!! Same old bull!! Massarra started to cry!! SHe announced the fact that she wasn't coming back!! Not a single person cried!! It was actually kinda funny!!

Alrighty well I beter run!!

TTFN

I love you!! And I did know that but the whole thing made me realize how much!!