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Apr. 17th, 2012 01:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ghostdriveSo this morning--well, yesterday morning since its now 1AM--a storm caused the electricity to go out for the briefest of brief moments. And it completely set off the old alarm system in the house and there was no way to turn it off! Even if we did remember the pass-code (which we didn't), the alarm console wouldn't even recognize any attempts at pressing in the keys.
Had to call mom to come back home so we could try to figure out what to do. ("Should we call the old alarm company?" "But we don't have an account with them anymore!" "JUST DUCT TAPE A PILLOW OVER THE SOUND BOX" were some of the few things yelled over the loud alarm.) We--the bro and I--kinda just paced around for 30 minutes and futilely pressing at the alarm console in the hopes it might finally work, until mom came home and remembered the neighbor was an electrician, and he came over and unhooked the wires leading to the sound boxes or whatever those boxes are called. THIRTY MINUTES OF EAR KILLING ALARM NOISES. Mom was lucky and only had to deal with like 10 minutes of it. But she complained as if she was there the whole time lol.
Anyway, all the cats freaked out when the alarm first went off and bolted to the room farthest from where the noise was coming from. All except Old Cat since she's pretty much completely deaf, and the dog Sam, since he's just, um, a simple-minded dog and assumed the noise was because of YAY PLAYTIME :D
Left: Old Cat where she was chilling on top of a covered printer during the entire event; Right: the damn sound box with the wires pulled out of it.
We're gonna have to eventually hook the wires back up again to fix it properly, though. Not looking forward to it since the alarm was never, you know, never turned off in the first place. :(To be completely honest, when it first went off I instantly had the paranoid thought that lightning had struck the home and it was on fire. Man, experiencing one house fire was bad enough, you feel anxiety it'll happen again forever.
...BONUS CAT PIC FOR NO REASON
She managed to figure out how to unravel the paper towel roll to make a bed for herself.
Tomorrow I'll try and put up the list of interesting nail blogs I follow. And possibly the fashion blogs as well? But definitely the nail blogs.
Had to call mom to come back home so we could try to figure out what to do. ("Should we call the old alarm company?" "But we don't have an account with them anymore!" "JUST DUCT TAPE A PILLOW OVER THE SOUND BOX" were some of the few things yelled over the loud alarm.) We--the bro and I--kinda just paced around for 30 minutes and futilely pressing at the alarm console in the hopes it might finally work, until mom came home and remembered the neighbor was an electrician, and he came over and unhooked the wires leading to the sound boxes or whatever those boxes are called. THIRTY MINUTES OF EAR KILLING ALARM NOISES. Mom was lucky and only had to deal with like 10 minutes of it. But she complained as if she was there the whole time lol.
Anyway, all the cats freaked out when the alarm first went off and bolted to the room farthest from where the noise was coming from. All except Old Cat since she's pretty much completely deaf, and the dog Sam, since he's just, um, a simple-minded dog and assumed the noise was because of YAY PLAYTIME :D
Left: Old Cat where she was chilling on top of a covered printer during the entire event; Right: the damn sound box with the wires pulled out of it.
We're gonna have to eventually hook the wires back up again to fix it properly, though. Not looking forward to it since the alarm was never, you know, never turned off in the first place. :(
She managed to figure out how to unravel the paper towel roll to make a bed for herself.
Tomorrow I'll try and put up the list of interesting nail blogs I follow. And possibly the fashion blogs as well? But definitely the nail blogs.
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Date: 2012-04-17 04:52 pm (UTC)On the other hand, KITTIES! :D
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Date: 2012-04-18 01:49 am (UTC)Kitties make everything better! :3 And is that Maru in your icon?
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Date: 2012-04-18 02:30 pm (UTC)