Baby Come Back

Now that I know carbon monoxide alarms going off = Firemen, I don't think i'd mind having the alarms go off every once in awhile. Monday night, as I was making some delicious rice krispie treats, alarms started going off in the house. My first thought was that it was the fire alarms from cooking over the stove. Susan, Nicolette and I immediately started opening up windows and doors to air out the house. After checking the fire detector, we soon realized that the alarms were actually coming from the carbon monoxide detector. Instantly we were on the phones with our dads asking what to do. First response our sweet father's gave us was to GET OUT OF THE HOUSE and call the fire department. After being able to only save one of our precious kitties (Scraggles was scared out of his mind from the alarms and hide inside the couch, so we left him to die...), we gathered together in the driveway. As we stood in the driveway, the most beautiful sight started driving down our street and parked right in front of our house. 5 angels jumped out of the truck to save us. I wasn't able to take a picture of them, but they looked like this...We melted. They made sure we were alright and then quickly ran in the house to detect the level of carbon monoxide. However, we were unaware that you're not supposed to open any windows or doors when your CO detectors go off, you're just to immediately evacutate the area. By opening windows and doors, the outside air will dilute the amount of CO which makes it harder for the hot firemen to get an accurate reading. Which is exactly what happened. The hot firemen couldn't find any readings of carbon monoxide in our house. They determined it was faulty batteries and suggested we replace them. The hot firemen stuck around for a little while afterwards to chit chat about football and "The Big Game" on Saturday with us girls. It turned out to be a pretty awesome night. I am so grateful to be part of a country where service men and women risk their lives daily to protect us. God bless America!

You can congratulate me now... or later...

Children have fears growing up that most eventually overcome with age. But, some people always have these fears with them. Mine was E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Until just 24 hours ago, I was horribly afraid of this little alien ever since I watched the movie when I was younger. I would hallucinate him at night, knowing that he was planning on attack on me with his eerie long glowing finger. Recently, I was at home sick for a few days. While scanning through channels I came across E.T. on tv. At first I hurriedly changed the channel like I always did when I saw the capital letters of the "E" & the "T". But then I thought... I am 23 years old! Why am I still afraid of this movie?? What was so scary about it? I decided to watch it. The entire movie. By myself. I knew it would be difficult, but I wanted to finally get over my long-lived childhood fear. And I did! I watched the complete movie by myself, start to finish. There were times when my heart started racing and I wanted to cover my eyes, but I held strong and finished like a champion. I learned an important lesson that day... E.T. is your friend not an enemy. God Bless E.T.!

Pants Party 2008! AKA Halloween

Halloween this year failed to disappoint. My roommates and I threw a HUGE party at our house Friday night. We estimated about 75-80 people showed up to party their hearts out. We had food, dancing, karaoke and games. Everyone had a brilliant time and the costumes were fantastic! We had voting for best male costume and best female costume. The winners were crowned King Halloween and Queen Halloween. We had such a great time that Halloween has now moved up on my list of favorite holidays. Definitely top 5.

I love bunnies. Poke poke...

The Trekkies

Our good friend Charles the swimming ninja pimp

The Cupid Shuffle. Hollllaaaa!

Randah (as Minnie Mouse) was crowned Queen Halloween and Blaine (as the Joker) was crowned King Halloween.

Until next time.... PEACE