{"id":571,"date":"2010-11-01T01:56:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T06:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/?p=571"},"modified":"2024-02-17T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T03:04:07","slug":"ill-take-you-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/blog\/2010\/11\/01\/ill-take-you-on\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ll take you on…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s November 1st…there are so many things wrong with that statement I don’t even know where to begin.<\/p>\n

I suppose now that I’ve finished the whole 30 Days of Blogging<\/i> thing, I’ll have to start writing real blog posts again. Again? *snirk* Yeah. I know. I laughed too.<\/p>\n

Modern code for homes is to have all smoke detectors hardwired into the electrical system with a battery backup. (As opposed to just being battery operated.) Also—all of the smoke detectors are wired together<\/i>. So when one goes off…they ALL<\/i><\/b> go off. This is FANTASTIC<\/i><\/b> when the smoke detector downstairs is stupidly placed too close to the kitchen and goes off every time it gets the tiniest bit smokey when someone is cooking…ANYTHING<\/i><\/b>. For the love of all things holy you should be able to MAKE FREAKING TOAST WITHOUT SETTING OFF THE GADDAMN SMOKE ALARM. But NOOOOOOOOOO.<\/p>\n

The smoke detector in the upstairs hallway also yells, “FIRE! FIRE!” As if the high-pitched shrieking of the alarms downstairs and in every bedroom weren’t enough. Well, as it turns out…when the backup battery needs to be replaced…that same talking<\/i> smoke detector…CHIRPS all shrieky-like and yells, “LOW BATTERY!” in intervals that range from every 30 seconds, to a minute, to a couple minutes, to five minutes, to ten minutes…how ever often it damn well feels like announcing to the house…IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT…that we are sorely lacking in 9-volt batteries around here.<\/p>\n

In other news…I’m not going to be sleeping tonight because the fucking smoke detector is going to announce every five seconds that it has a, “SHRIEK! LOW BATTERY!”<\/p>\n

I’m kind of crabby. I have been for the past week. I will be for the next week. It’s the joys of being a woman. And by “joys” I mean, I’m about to start hucking rocks at people just for breathing near me. Because I don’t have the power to smite people. Smiting idiots would be a full-time job. One I would gladly take on. LOW BATTERY!<\/i><\/b> But nobody will let me do it. Dammit all anyway.<\/p>\n

I need to dig out one of the iPods so I can listen to music in bed at night. It would be much easier to stay in bed at night if I had music to listen to. And I wouldn’t disturb Bob if I used an iPod with headphones. I just need to remember where I put them. Then it would be a matter of charging and filling with music. A wipe out and clean fill would probably be a good idea. I haven’t used either one of them since we moved, so I don’t even know what kind of music would be on either one of them. LOW BATTERY!<\/i><\/b> Mine probably doesn’t have much for a battery life anymore. It was tanking in that department when I last used it. It’s been sitting so long, it’s probably lost even more life. My iPod is such a dinosaur…it has HARD DRIVE in it. It’s one of the original models. But hey—I didn’t pay for it. Bob’s at least has a solid state drive. I don’t know what the battery life is like in his. I didn’t use it much when I did use it. At least not for playing music. I played Solitaire on it. If I had one functioning right now, I could drown out the, LOW BATTERY!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

It’s almost 2AM. I should really try to go to bed. Again. I already tried that once tonight. That was before the LOW BATTERY!<\/i><\/b> started. I wasn’t tired then. I’m not tired now. My sleep is all turned around again. If I ever get that appointment made, I’m going to have to address my sleep issues with my psychiatrist. I don’t know what the answer is. I just know it is NOT Ambien. That shit did not work. Surprise, surprise. A drug that didn’t work on me? Really? No way!<\/p>\n

I really need to quit writing these train wreck posts.<\/p>\n

LOW BATTERY!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n\n\n
<\/td>\nHeadstrong
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