Yesterday was Todd's birthday, and we had a low key celebration with one of our friends. We ate too much, and then watched a movie. On a Tuesday night! It was really simple, but felt very special. Very rare to watch a movie, with friends, on a school night! haha. I did fall asleep on the couch during the movie, and after our friends left, Todd finished cleaning the kitchen before waking me up to go to bed. If that isn't true love, I don't know what is. Clearly I was exhausted, and needing to sleep. So there we are, SOUND asleep. Snug as a bug in a rug. I think it's been quite awhile since I've slept that hard, but I must have been unusually tired (I mean, the movie ended, and I didn't even wake up to say goodbyes or clean the kitchen - either very tired, or very subconsciously strategic?). All of a sudden, at 4:00 am, the smoke detectors start going off, and we bolt awake. I'm sure you've probably had something like that happen, but its the craziest feeling - your whole body just feels like its jolting with electricity and you are equal parts hyper aware and almost disoriented at the same time. I had so many questions! Its the first time the smoke detectors have gone off in this house, and after a few of the loudest "beep, beep, beeps" ever, I was surprised to hear a very pleasant and calm woman's voice come on thru the whole house saying "fire, fire" on repeat. That was almost MORE terrifying! She sounded too calm, and thru the constant beeping, it was a lot. So I jump out of bed (grateful I have a cute PJ Salvage PJ set on!), ready to go outside. Todd's telling me to stay inside, there is no fire. But the woman keeps saying "FIRE"!! I'm frantic, the dog understands none of this, and Todd is running around without glasses on, trying to figure out what's going on. Its even better because without glasses, he's legally blind. So its almost like he was sniffing the fire out. haha. It was chaos.
Once we have a better sense about us, we realize that the detector in the upstairs hallway is triggering all of them to go off, and there is no fire or harm. Maybe a spider crawled in and set it off? We still haven't figured it out. Thought maybe the batteries are running low, but unfortunately last night, we discovered they're all hard wired into the house they they don't need batteries, and we also can't just rip it out to get the beeping and calm, cool, and collected "fire" lady to go away. Todd fanned them, we hit reset buttons, googled instruction manuals, all of it. They would go off for a second, and then just as you'd think the torture was over and we'd turn back to the bedroom, they'd start going off again. I can still hear her saying, "fire, fire".
I lost track of how many rounds of this we went thru, but finally they went off for good, and we were able to go back to bed. Why do they always do that at night? Why can't it happen around 6 or 7 pm when you have time and brainpower to deal with it? Is it a special law of the universe that smoke detectors will only go off after midnight, but before you actually need to be up for the day? I guess they know they have better chances of more of a captive audience to hear their cries in the wee hours of the morning. All I know is that I cannot wait to go to bed tonight, and I'm really hoping for a full night of uninterrupted sleep. Is that too much to ask?
Sleep tight!
AT
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