A Dead Battery and So Much Excitement

Who knew?

It was a nice and relaxing day at work...it was time for coffee. And all of a sudden our church's neighbour walks in through the front doors and asked which of us two pulled the fire alarm. Renata and I look at each other and said, "Neither of us!" We are grown women working hard, with no time for shannanigans like that. Time for coffee, of course but that's a matter of necessity!! He said that there had been two calls to 911 in the last 20 minutes and had sent someone to check it out. He asked to go on a walk through with me and we had a tour of the facilities. Upon a proper viewing of the brand new, installed only last week, fire alarm system, fully loaded with automatic dial-up...it was discovered that there was a problem with the battery being low or nearly dead...and for some reason that was a three alarm situation.... I was about to phone my trusty chair of BOT and as I had trouble getting through....the alarm was dialing 911 again....he walked right through the door accompanied by the Fire Chief and the Fire Prevention Officer....lotsa brass. They eventually decided not to press charges since the machine was acting on its own, and no one was making prank calls. BUT...we will get reported in the newspaper units dispatched....so exciting to be in the paper.

That was the fun we had today, and now the rest of the day is kind of anticlimatic. Cleaning the bathroom wasn't nearly as enthralling as it usually is! I went home and tidied up, in case a friend stopped in, but she must be otherwise occupied. Kiddies are both away and I thought it was hightime that I update here and share the excitement.

Yesterday was truly a wonderful day off. I enjoyed it so much, and the fact that it felt strange to not be at work, just reinforced the feeling of a vacation day. It was high time for one of those I guess! I scrapbooked two pages yesterday!!! Not bad for a first day.... I seem to have to get on a roll and right now this stone is gathering moss. I should go and make a card, maybe that will kick start things. It has really been neat to slice up those old magazines because I got so many great ideas. I'm going to go through the "layout" pile in a minute for my next idea. I have really great paper right now too, and some really old stuff that I never wanted to cut up because it is too beautiful. That's just like having a really nice sweater that you don't want to wear because you're saving it for a special time....

The weekend might get wild and woolly and I may be absent from here for a while....I'll be back (say that in your Arnold Shwarzenegger "terminator" voice...)

Love ya!