a break in.

theres been a break in. at my house. reports of a shortish in stature, mid-20's in age,female, dark brown/blk hair, was seen climbing through my living room window today. sampson the 'attack dog' promptly jumped out the window after the attacker. nothing was reported stolen.


okay. the real story is this.....i went downstairs in the basement to put some laundry in the wash machine. my basement is connected thru my garage-so i have to go out to the garage and then down to the basement. occasionally, my lock to the house gets 'cockeyed'. so imagine my surprise, when i came upstairs, in my pajamas, and housecoat, and lo and behold, i am locked out of my house. thank god, i had my cell....i called kelly, and asked what to do....all my spare keys were IN the house-doing me no good. also, i have a punch code to my garage, the only time i actually LOCK my door to my house in the garage is at night time, so i dont even KNOW where said key is. the front door keys???? no clue. dont EVER use them. i know--its a horrible thing. anywhoo....kelly says he doesnt know how he's going to help, but he'd come over. meanwhile, im standing in my garage, thinking of how im going to get into my house....suddenly, i get this wonderful idea--i had all the windows open!! i had just steamcleaned the carpets the day before with a rugdoctor, so the carpets were still damp. in an effort to get the carpets to dry faster, i opened all the windows. my bay window is about 6 feet wide and 5 feet tall-give or take. its pretty big. its about 4 1/2 feet off the ground. im only 5'3 and extremely, um, clumsy, as stated in previous posts....so, i called kell and told him id just climb in the window, not to worry. all under control. right. so i go get a chair from the garage. the first chair was too short for my stubbys. there was NOO way i was going to make it in without seriously injuring myself or my female parts. im sure my neighbors were getting quite the spectacle of me....so i opted for a bar stool. this proved risky, as it was quite wobbly. as i perched myself on top of this bad boy, sampson realized that i was outside said window....and comes leaping out at me, full force. almost knocking me down. *insert string of curse words*. crisis narrowly averted, i careened into my living room floor. hmm. that sounds like an action movie. it was more like i crashed into my living room floor and not gracefully. banging my knee on the window frame and heel as well. but, i got in. it was a sight to see, i tell ya. geez.

that crisis averted, we had another very near, and much more serious crisis tonight.....the girls have bunk beds in their rooms. and a ceiling fan. can you see where this is leading??? yeah. not good. well, once again, to keep the air circulating, to help with the damp carpets, the ceiling fan was on. jaelynn had run into her room, which was dark (due to it being 'night time'), and the light wasnt on, but the fan was. she went leaping up her bunk bed ladder for something on her bed, not knowing the ceiling fan was on, and her head/hair hit the moving ceiling fan. i was in the living room, and heard a piercing scream-one that immediately had me on my feet running, and kelly. once i got in the room and realized as she was climbing down the bunk bed what had happened, i immediately started running my hands over her head for blood, sure that she had cut her head.....we NEVER have the ceiling fan on when the kids are in their beds, we will run them until they are ready for bed, and then turn them off, but thats it. and if she needs to go on her bed and the fan is on, she knows to turn it off....but jae not knowing that it was on, and me not realizing that she had gone into her room or onto her bed for that matter, had led to this accident. i felt horrible. luckily, there was no blood, and jae was left with a bit of a goose egg on her hard little head, bless her heart, but she was okay. aye.....i still feel horrible.... :(

emersyn has her first soccer game tomorrow. i bought it up tonight to her to which her response was, 'aw, i dont WANT to play soccer.' so, we shall see if we can get her out there. bribery, anyone???? i post some pics if i can get her out there.... :)