Ever Heard 4 Fire Alarms Go Off At Once? This morning was interesting. An Emergency Electricity outage was planned from 8 to 1 today, which we were informed of yesterday afternoon. Awesome. Ate cereal for breakfast and fruit for lunch (at Carlee's command: grapes, a banana, and an orange, yum) Everything was going fine (a little boring, but fine) until a bit before 11 am when the fire alarms went off upstairs. All 3 or 4 of them. The cats tore through the house on beserk mode, and Carlee immediately started crying and freaking out. I tried to tell and show her to cover her ears (because the sound just really blares and echos through the house). I ran upstairs to see if I could turn them off (I knew they were probably on because of the electricity.) I could reach one in the hallway, took it down, looked in the bedroom at the vaulted ceilings and knew there was no way. Ran back downstairs to comfort Carlee who was screaming for me with her little fingers in her ears. Ran back upstairs to try to think of something. Called Tony at work instead on the only phone that works when the electricity is out which happens to be in our room (where an alarm was going off)... *he later asked why I had called, and honestly I just get so stressed out I just need to hear his voice to calm me down lol* "Go to the fire station, and ask them to come turn them off." He's so level headed isn't he? Unlike me.... haha.

So I run back downstairs, grab Carlee (with one sock on and one off,) throw on my flip flops and head outside with the fire alarms screeching at me the whole time. I glanced at the fire station and instead, decided to run into the housing office first. When I entered, everyone was just sitting around, obviously since they couldn't do anything with no electricity. I told them about the fire alarms. "Do you have electricity?" No. "Oh, that's normal then. They're probably low on batteries." Well, okay. But I'm home. And my daughter is freaked out. And I need them fixed. (... Italian was spoken for a few minutes....) Finally, the girl looked at me and says, "Okay. We'll put in an emergency call, but he has a 4 hour window to respond." Awesome. I ran back home, and stood on my porch for a few minutes before entering the ear searing house.

We finished our lunch somehow, Carlee kept wanting to be held. Seriously, she was freaked out. Finally about an hour and a half later, the repair guy showed up. Went upstairs and fixed them. Turns out one of the alarms was completely broke. Nice. Comforting, no? Anyway, things finally calmed down, my splitting headache slowly subsided. Another hour later, the electricty finally came back on. That actually freaked Carlee out too. She was walking into the living room when all of a sudden everything came back on, the air condition, the lights, noise!!! She turned around and her face just scrunched up in shock and fear and she ran right to me in tears. I laughed and felt bad for laughing, but comforted her and finally calmed her down. We enjoyed the rest of the day though.

The good thing: We're hoping to get on a flight this weekend!!! *CROSS YOUR FINGERS!!!!*

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