Sometimes I go to work to relax. . .

Yeah, so, I'm EXTREMELY thankful to be alive right now. This morning has been CrAzY.

Last night wyoming girl and I sprayed our bathroom for ants, left the vent fan going, and shut the door to get the smell out. At about 4 am I got up because I thought that my fan was pulling in the odor from the bathroom. I shut my fan off, went to the bathroom, rinsed EVERYWHERE we sprayed to "try" and stop the smell. It didn't really work, and so I opened my window and willed my stomach to shut up because I wasn't going to get a snack when I had to get up at 6 anyway. I really wasn't feeling the greatest, but I had read the warnings on the can of bug killer and it didn't say anything about exposure so I figured we were fine. I did go to sleep thinking "I hope this doesn't kill any brain cells." I didn't sleep very well and hit snooze at 6 and then once again.

At 6:26 my alarm went off and I was going to get up when K came pounding up stairs to wake up wyoming girl. All I heard was get out and gas. I figured that since wyoming girl was parked in front of k that she had to move her car. Then K opened my door and told me to get up and out of the house because of a natural gas leak. It was loverly. She also called 911 INSIDE the house. . .we are lucky we didn't blow up! I'm glad that A smelled something strange and woke K up and k called our guy friend J* who didn't answer so she called her mom. K's mom freaked out and told her to get us all out. Thank goodness cause the neighbor smokes and if he had lit up. . . KABOOM! (*Just for the record J did call back because K is NEVER up that early so he figured something was wrong) Also I think we should point out that even though A was the last one out she was out in record time ;o)

The fire truck came and we stood outside for a while making phone calls and such until the fire woman said we should go some place warm. Village Inn it was. . . in A's car. . .I had yummy french toast with bananas and strawberries. A's boss called and asked when she could be in by. . .the latest the boss would wait was until 8:20, so A took wyoming girl back to the apartment to get her car so that we would have a ride home. Our food came shortly after they left. At least A got to take her's with her to work after eating some of it. I think A was having the hardest time with what was going on.

When we got back Qwest star cleared our apartment to be able to get into it, and K got her stuff and went to b-town. wyoming girl and Steph also gathered stuff to go to b-town. I got stuff so that I could take a shower at the gym and go to work.

While I was in the shower the qwest guy called and left a message that we could get back in and they would do a final walkthrough and turn things back on for us. So at about 9:30ish I went back and let one of the qwest guys in the house to turn on the gas and re-light the pilot lights. They were very helpful and nice. Our house is now safe and we will actually have hot water and all of those things tonight. YAY!!! It turns out that the neighbor's line had broken (his meter wasn't going). Our poor neighbor, when I went back they were moving wheelbarrels full of snow so that they could get to the problem. I figured I could be neighborly and see if they wanted me to make them any hot chocolate. They thanked me but declined because they prefer coffee. But one of them said you're a good neighbor.

Then I asked the qwest guys, the guy opperating this TINY back hoe said "Is the little lady buying?" replied "No, but I will make you some if you would like some." They also politely declined, but thanked me for my hospitality. I thanked them for taking care of the problem. They let me know that it was a pleasure and they were very happy that it had turned out this was, and that everything was in one piece one of them said "We like it when it turns out this way."

So probably about 10:30ish I made it to work. . .and am now "relaxing" trying to deal with a headache that is probably from being high on natural gas.

Prayers do work, even half-asleep mumbled ones at night!