So it’s quite possible that having my sister come stay with me for 9 days was not such a good idea. In fact it would go on that list right under sliding down a banister made of razorblades, but just before drinking the tap water while on vacation in Southeast Asia. We had a good stretch, we really didn’t fight at all, but this weekend might just turn out to be more quality time than either one of us can handle. I mean really, we barely make it through holidays when staying with my parents and they live in a pretty large house. We are jammed in my tiny little one bedroom downtown. Though there are plenty of things down here I can do to keep me out of the house, I really just want my peace and quiet back in my own place. She did however just take off to a movie so I have a few hours at least. (Which is ironic because I got pissed at her for pathetically pouting on the couch because she wanted me to pick her medicine up from the pharmacy I’m assuming at a pace rivaling that of Spider-Man but I wanted to download a song to my ipod before I left and this upset her. So, she went to the movies when I got back to avoid our getting in a fight and the pharmacy is maybe a block away.)
I decided I wanted to make a hot Italian sausage for lunch. These actually come out perfect if you broil them in the oven but I got distracted because I was surfing itunes for some more music to download. I was about to buy the song “So Here We Are” by Bloc Party when I turned and saw that the oven was on fire. Apparently I got so wrapped up in the springy Joy Division-y lyrics that I almost didn’t notice I was two seconds from setting my kitchen ablaze.
I jumped up (obviously right quick) and got the small combustion out with little to no consequence. I’m not 100% sure because I’m scared to open the oven door in case it’s completely fucked up in there now. I did however set off my fire alarm so I had to stand at my door and fan it for a few minutes to push the smoke out so that it would stop shrieking at me. While I did this I heard someone upstairs yell “SHUT UP,” which baffled me because a person wasn’t making the noise, it was the fire alarm. I have often found that people tend to prove how completely idiotic at the oddest of times and this definitely qualified.
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