Fire Alarms In The Morning
A weird way to start the day
Hello everyone!
So the fire alarm went off this morning.
I stood in the kitchen in my bathrobe with my hair wrapped in a towel, wondering if I should finish my coffee and wait for it to subside. Or should I take it seriously? False alarms were pretty common in most the cheap buildings I’d lived in previously. So I thought I’d wait it out.
Yet the building had designed these alarms to be sharp, incessant, and insistent. I couldn’t ignore them. Which is actually kind of the point. And you know what? I am impressed by my building for making them so effective.
Plus when I peeked outside my door, I saw other people fleeing and decided I should probably get out as well.
Because of my paranoia I have a grab bag, a folder where I keep those documents that I’d be sorely sad to lose. My tablet and phone in my purse, I made my way outside just as the fire truck pulled onto the small street. Oh gosh, I thought. Maybe it was serious. Maybe I should have tried to grab more things. HOW COULD I HAVE LEFT MY COMPUTER BEHIND!?
It was at that moment that a fellow woman, in pink sweats and hastily-ponytailed hair, sidled up to me.
“You think everything is OK?”
Shrugging I said, “I don’t know. I hope so.”
I never thought the first potential friend date I would have in this new city would be with a random neighbor. We went to a local Starbucks to wait out the sirens. Life is strange.
Everything turned out well and I was able to return to my apartment to do what I love most near Christmas. Baking treats for friends and neighbors while resisting the urge to eat all of my creations.
Then the day was dedicated to job applications, online art classes, and cleaning. I wrote as well, though less than I wanted. I will admit I am having trouble of late transferring my nighttime creative energy to the day. It seems my brain is most active starting around 9pm. This is a problem that I will have to solve.
Though one thing I can stop doing is ingesting hot chocolate and holiday flavored coffees. Perhaps their strange magic (Cough! Sugar) is throwing me off my normal sleep patterns.
STORIES
I’ve been in the holiday spirt this year and wrote several new humorous posts. Most of them are 2-3 minutes, and I hope you’ll take the time to read one (if any catch your fancy) and tell me what you think.
Do you ever think that the world needs Clickbait titles for popular Christmas stories?
Christmas Treats On Tinder shows you that finding the right dessert can be as hard as finding the right partner.
Ghosts of Christmas I Dread More Than Past, Present, and Future is a take on my own personal A Christmas Carol.
Jane Austen’s 12 Days of Christmas will make you sing along with lyrics that utilize Miss Austen’s most common tropes.
Dark stories behind the popular Christmas songs you love is a favorite of those who like a bit of dark humor.
Thanks for reading! More coming soon! If there is anything you’d like to see, feel free to drop me a message.
Kyrie