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Monthly Archive for September, 2008
This happened about two weeks ago, and I can’t believe I forgot to blog it! It was so intense! I wanted to make taco soup for dinner, so I put a big pot of beans on the stove to cook. Then, I got all the laundry together and went to do it while they were cooking. I went to the boys apartment to do it (I know… I know… so cheap… but going to the apartment laundry room costs $1.65 to wash and $1.75 to dry!!! It is highway robbery and I REFUSE to support such corrupt institutions! [I refuse to buy airport food and call tow trucks for the same reason.])
So I went and put the laundry in and since the playground is right next to their apartment, I let Jace play for awhile. He was having so much fun that I totally lost track of time. After an hour we went back to our apartment. When I reached our floor, I could hear alarms going off. When I got to our door I realized that the alarms were in our apartment! I opened up the door and was hit with a solid wall of thick, dense, smoke! I ran inside and grabbed the beans off the stove, threw open the balcony doors and dropped the flaming pot onto the balcony floor. I could hear Jace screaming inside, so I ran back in and tried to find him. The smoke was so thick I couldn’t even see my hand in front of my face. I found him in front of the front door and rushed him outside, both of us gasping for air.
When I got him outside, I picked up the pot so he wouldn’t touch it and it had burned a hole through the wooden deck! So I put it on a big plastic cooler that we had to throw away anyway, and it melted the plastic down an inch!
All of the alarms in the house were blaring and smoke was just billowing out of the opened doors. I doused a shirt with water, tied it around my face, and then rushed to open all the windows. Every time I opened one, thick, black smoke would pour out. There were people down on the ground watching me do all this. Finally, all the windows were opened, and Jace and I waited out on the balcony until it was safe to go back inside. It was so intense. But that is not the worst part– the entire house has smelled like smoke ever since. I Fabreeze everything every 15 minutes, set out things of baking soda around the house, and scrubbed all the surfaes with a baking soda paste, but it is still SO smoky. The smell just hits you when you open the door. It has been slowly going away ever since it happened 2 weeks ago, so now it just smells like a bunch of chain smokers live here. Isn’t that SOOOOO intense?!?!?
It’s called HDR and you take three different exposures of a picture and then blend them into one highly saturated and detailed image. It produces the coolest– almost painted– effect!
For the past 10 minutes I could hear Jace in his room stomping around saying, “Cheese! Cheese!” He finally came out and I saw he had found my pink peeptoe shoes and had been practicing walking in them. He pranced around for me doing various poses and saying, “Cheese! Cheese!” with each new flip of the foot. He walked as well in them as he does in his sneakers! Trevor will be so bugged when he sees this post! hahaha!
Last night we put Jace to bed at 10:00 PM and then Trevor and I had a “Burn Notice” marathon until 4:00 AM. When we finally dragged ourselves into bed we were absolute zombies. The next morning Jace awoke at his typical time of 6:00 AM so I went and got him and begged him to go back to sleep with us. I was positively dead. He was as wired as a squirrel and jumping all over us, grabbing our faces, pulling our eyes open with his finger, getting in our faces saying ,”MOMMY? AWAKE?! Mommy, PLAY!” He was crazy and I wanted to cry because I was so exhausted. To remedy the problem, I stuck him in the tub with a bunch of toys, turned the water on a little bit so he could just splash in it and then I went to bed. What must have been an hour later we were suddenly awoken by pounding on our front door– we opened it to find the maintenance men, frantic, because the apartment below us had water leaking from the ceiling down into their master bedroom and the leak had created a huge stain on their ceiling. We ran into the bathroom to find that Jace– for the past hour–had been filling bowls up with water and dumping them onto the bathroom floor. It was completely flooded. Jace. He is the biggest mess ever. And our neighbors hate us. I don’t blame them.
Our Canon was destroyed in Costa Rica and our XL2 was just on ebay - so, this video was filmed with my iPhone. Excuse the quality of video and sound. Also, this video is unedited - meaning, certain shots will last a long time (like the shot of my feet). But, this was our fun day - and most are just like it.
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