There will be a detailed entry on Thanksgiving parts two and three, but not tonight. I have a different story to tell tonight.

After getting home from my very first Sounders game last night, freezing my ass off {and toes and fingers and many other appendages} it took me a bit to finally warm up enough to get comfortable enough to fall asleep. The fact that I was wearing fuzzy socks and had 4 blankets on top of me helped only slightly. I was asleep for a couple hours when the smoke detectors started going off. Now, usually, they only sound for a couple minutes at most before whoever it was that triggered it was able to fan the smoke away from the detector and sleep can come easily enough again.

Not this time.

After a good 5 minutes of listening to this stupid thing screech and echo through these paper-thin walls, I glanced outside and noticed the neighbor from upstairs standing outside talking to someone else who apparently lives in my tower. So I grab my sweats, lace up my boots and zip the hood back on my fuzzy on the inside, wind-resistant on the outside black jacket and prodded my sleepy, pissed off self downstairs ... back in to the freezing cold that I had finally warmed up from. This whole getting dressed ordeal took another 5 minutes.

5 more minutes and I phoned the property manager to let him know that we were standing outside with no idea why the smoke alarms were going off. Another 5 minutes goes by and he finally makes his way to our tower. 10 minutes more of investigating, he can't find the source either, and with the fire panel reading normal the fire department wasn't notified of this incident. He proceeds to contact the maintenance guy.

30 minutes later it was discovered that a smoke detector in an empty unit had a short in the wiring and that was what tripped the alarm. 2am, the tower is finally quiet and I was about 15 minutes away from calling out for my shift this morning. I wouldn't have been able to get enough sleep for work and I might have snapped at someone more than normal. Instead, I was able to sleep for about an hour and a half before my work alarm went off and I walked around work looking like a zombie. It was very obvious that I was incredibly tired.

The entire day, the plan was to come home and take a nap. Instead, I came home, put a load of wash in {being away all weekend, I didn't get the chance to do laundry when I normally do} and took a shower. Once I showered, it woke me up a bit and the nap just got skipped. I plan on watching one more episode of Grey's Anatomy before I call it a night. A very early night for me, since I'm normally up until 10 or 11. I need to catch up on the sleep I missed out on last night and going to bed a couple hours early should do the trick.

Here's to hoping that the building doesn't decide to wake us all up again. I'd really rather not spend another unnecessary hour in 20 degree weather.

Yeesh, that sounds awful. I remember having to stand outside in the cold when the fire alarms went off in my dorm at St. John's during the winter, and it sucked. Hope you don't have to deal with it again.
» randomjunk on 2014-12-01 11:48:42

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