What keeps you up at night?

What a night! When Joe and I headed to bed last night there was a mouse in our room. I thought, “It’s sure to be a fantastic night.” Little did I know it was going to get sooo much ‘better’! Around 1 am this morning our fire alarm went off. Some of you will know that my biggest earthly fear is of house fires. Yes, more than car accidents! I panicked! There wasn’t smoke anywhere in the house so on to the next thing… GAS! Is the smoke detector a carbon monoxide detector as well? I still don’t know. So the windows were thrown open and the fans turned on while we walk from room to room trying to detect any odd smells. I turn to Joe and ask, “Do you feel oddly tired or faint or anything?” He’s tired and so am I! Oh God we’re all going to die! WAIT WAIT I bet we are tired because we were scared out of bed at 1 am. Joe rolls his eyes as he always does when I say/do something ridiculous. Silly Alice. So we change the battery in the gadget that has caused so many issues tonight and has continuously gone off in spurts until we unplug it. After a quick google search it would seem we just have a crap detector that likes to torture people in the middle of the night with its false alarms. Thank you, Kidde 1275, for an eventful night filled with chaos and nightmares for the remainder of my sleep… well when I did sleep… the baby WOULD wake up AFTER the alarm had gone off multiple times and I FINALLY get to sleep. Did I mention that the pesky mouse showed up again right after this debacle? We called Meeko into our room and had her lay at the foot of the bed for the purpose of scaring away the mouse. We didn’t hear from the mouse again instead Meeko laid there making awful smacking sounds with her mouth! I start giggling and say, “We just can’t win tonight!” The dog decides she’s had enough of our schenanigans and storms off to guard the kitchen from intruders. * sigh * Today is definitely a 2 pot o’ tea and extra prayer kind of morning.

On the flip side, I recently drove our SUV down our driveway.

“Joe, give me the keys I’m driving.” “Sure babe,” (rolls eyes knowing I WILL NOT). I’ll show him. I start the car and wait for him to walk outside. Insert evil laugh here. Joe reaches door and I move another 5 feet. Ok enough games. “Get in Joe.” I move again and nearly pee myself I laugh so hard. Ok OK for real this time… NOT BAH HAHA! I think myself a pretty funny person for about 1 minute. I reach the bottom of the drive. Joe catches up. Game over. This has carried on for far too long.