09.26.08

I need to keep writing here. Sometimes I slow down. Like yesterday, when I was feeling under the weather. I wonder where that phrase originated. Maybe when I feel great I should say on top of the weather.
Anyways, Wednesday I went to trivia night at Pete's Candy Store. It was Jeopardy themed and my team bet it all and lost. I left there and went on to meet Paige at Northeast Kingdom. Her ex was there and she was contemplating whether or not to speak him, as she had vowed not to. She did, and in the course of this time I drank a Boddingtons and a Six Point Obama brew. Obama did not taste very good. A tad too bitter for me. I'd imagine McCain would taste like a Bud Light. He would want you to drink as much of you could of him, so you would forget what he was actually saying. Maybe black out for 4 to 8 years. But Obama beer won't let you do that.
So I sat chatting with strangers while also reading one of those birthday books that tells you what kind of person you are based on the day you were born. I think those details can vary depending on the person you have in mind when you are reading about "them." Also, in this time, Paige informed me that her asshole of an ex, referred to me as the Ice Princess. The guy next to me said that that was probably a nice way of calling my a cold bitch. I agree. So I will nicely refer to him as el Huevo Uno.
This all lead to me returning home to an apartment that had nearly burnt down. My sister explained that there was a grease fire, and she had done everything wrong in order to put it out. She took it off the burner, it caught fire, she moved to the sink and put water on it. There was a small back draft and she put on the floor and suffocated it with a towel. It had just happened before I got home so she was still quite a stoned wreck. She was worried that we might have been exposed to carbon monoxide, and I said it was probably not a big deal. The detector hadn't gone off. Regardless she wasn't convinced. She tried to figure out a way for just one fireman to come over. It didn't work. Two fire trucks, and over 20 firemen showed up, to save us from a small fire that had already been put out. It was nearly one in the AM. I wish I had gotten a picture. It was pretty amazing. They were wielding axes!