Terrifying!

So this evening I was casually thinking about what I should blog about today, tomorrow or sometime soon. When randomly (i have no clue why...) I remembered that the most terrifying thing happened last night and I totally forgot until JUST now. Don't you love how our brains do that? Looking back now...it's completely hysterical.

I've been sleeping a lot lately. For example, Sunday evening I slept from about 5:30pm until 8am-9am the next morning! Also, at night I've been quickly falling into a deep sleep, which is a bit unusual for me. As such, last night I quickly fell asleep while reading in bed with the light on around 9:30pm.

Well, at around 11:00pm or so (if i remember right...) I literally skyrocketed out of bed! I have never gone from such a peaceful, deep sleep to utter and completely chaos.

Now, I love our new house, but something seriously needs to be done about our smoke alarms. Some genius engineer had the bright idea to connect all the smoke alarms in our house, so that when one alarm goes off - ALL OF THE FREAKING ALARMS IN OUR TINY 1200 SQFT HOUSE BELT OUT THE HIGHEST PITCHED SCREAMING NOISE IN THE UNIVERSE!! I'm pretty sure we have enough blasted alarms to cover the square footage of our whole block!

So as I was happily dreaming away, Dan decided to do a little late night cooking and set off our extremely sensitive smoke alarm system.The alarm in our room is right over my head. I'm pretty sure that as it went off, I felt the earth shake. I was so startled from sleep that I literally thought the world was ending. I can't even describe how fast my heart was racing because I was so disoriented! I stumbled down the stairs to make sure there wasn't a real fire. And of course not....Dan was just cooking (fake smile). For a good minute I was shaking because I was so scared out of sleep and then....within a few minutes I made it back upstairs and I fell back asleep! HAHA! Looking back now, I have no idea how I slept after having so much adrenaline going through me because I was so terrified.

This isn't the first time something like this has happened. Around Thanksgiving, Dan set the alarm off while I was in the shower (like 3 times in a row!) and I thought I was going to have to run out of my brand new burning house in my just my towel. When we have friends over and cook, it goes off with just the faintest amount of smoke. It wouldn't be so bad if only ONE ALARM went off....but instead we have 20 SCREECHING ALARMS. UGH!

Something has to be done about this....