paloma is going to be one year old in a week! i can't believe it, she was a little blob when i started working for the Innes'...now she's going to be a little girl and i got to see it all! i feel so privileged ( as corny as it sounds).
i worked 50+ hrs this week! i'm so excited for my pay...i spent all my computer savings on the tour van for sourpatch's "west coastuur" a few weeks ago but i'm on my way to saving more...woooooooohooooooo!
yesterday afternoon i came home to smoke billowing out of our house...
i parked a little down the street and was collecting some posters i made for try the pie shows and other stuff out of my car when i found mandi's debt card and rachel's tights in my car. i proceeded to call rachel and tell her. when she answered the phone i noticed that sarah (our newest housie) came running outside the house with meatloaf (her dog friend). at first i thought nothing until i noticed smoke and then noticed her frantically trying to get neighbor's attention. all i could say when rachel answered her phone was "my room's on fire...". she was very confused and then i said "shit..." and told her i'd call her back. haha.
i ran to see what was going on.
i noticed theo was calling 911 already so i ran into the house after sarah and asked her. everyone was really frantic so i stayed calm and made sure everyone was ok. she told me it was fet's room downstairs so i ran out the back and down to the back patio. he was trying to put the fire out with buckets and trash cans full of water. i ran in not thinking and realized it was way worse than i thought. none of us really should have been going back in there. i told them we should probably stop going in and the fire people showed up in their fire people gear.
all the while i called jackie (go-between landlord) and told him what was up. he was very little help so i hung up on him haha.
when the fire first started, sarah went to ask the Filipino lady next door for help and she just yelled at us for "smoking in the house" (?) and the people who live in the rooms there just closed the windows when sarah and fetish yelled for help (haha) i know i shouldn't laugh but it's just too ridiculous to me.
that lady hates us for no reason and i think was very upset that the house didn't burn down or that noone was hurt. she doesn't worry me at all but theo hates her guts. i just know theres little you can do about a very angry, old, brown woman who hates you except to just let her talk herself tired.
we're gonna clean and make repairs. orson knows a butchie named barbie who'll help us with drywalling in exchange for housing :). jackie says he has a "windows friend" who'll help us out for cheap too. i called him back after everything calmed down, i told him fetish lit a candle that accidentally started the fire and he said "oh.. that guy....jeeez" and then laughed....hahaha. he didn't care.
i'm very happy we can stay even though we almost burned the house down
i'm gonna buy extinguishers and more smoke alarms today, maybe even come up with a lil emergency plan because we have too many people in that house not to have a plan at all.
i'm glad it's the weekend, this weeks been interestingly exhausting.
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