House Sitting Shannon = Chaos!

After a long weekend of no sleep it’s back to work bright and early. My big plan was to go home for lunch and sleep, but of course my place had too many surprises and distractions in it for that to actually be a possibility! My bed was decked out with the cutest kitchen supplies I’ve always wanted, an adorable apron and mittens for hot stuff, another to go coffee mug (cuz I keep stealing all my moms), a welcome rug, etc. Also, my Christmas present arrived!! Garrett got me not only a record player, but a record player in an old vintage suitcase!! He knows me so well! I didn’t even know he knew I wanted one, I guess my ooing and aweing over them and wishing I had one every time I saw one must have gave it away! I swear, I had no alterior motives, and I didn’t even know you could get them in a cool suitcase! Anyways, of course I had to open it immediately! But alas, I had no record to play so I just sighed at how happy I was to finally own one and went back to work. 

It's a suitcase...

No it's a record player!!

Here comes the fun, I’m a mess, story… I’m house sitting for Kenzie the dog with the biggest personality you’ll ever meet (although she may be tied with bailey but she’s way bigger so the things she tries to do are funnier) first I try to get all cozy on the couch and make a nice big bowl of popcorn and hot chocolate. There’s something in the microwave, which I assume is some kind of helper tray for microwaving (P.S. as I type this Kenzie is trying to sit in my lap and snuggle up in my neck), however 2 minutes later with a kitchen full of smoke and smells like fresh burnt popcorn and rubber I’m running around like a crazy person flapping dish towels around in the hopes that the fire alarm won’t go off and running the popcorn outside so the smoke that is never ending from inside the bag can waft around outside! All the while Kenzie is running around staring at me and running circles around me like I’m a crazy person! I find the “helper tray for microwaving” melted/melting in the microwave so I throw it in the sink to cool it off to hope I can salvage the damage, no luck, it was destroyed =( I don’t even know what it was so I can try and replace it!! 

That’s not all, I get all ready for bed and am turning off all the lights when I think the switch to turn on this enourmous fan that pushes air in from outside is a light switch… not… good! It’s SUPER loud so Kenzie is all scared and hiding from it and I’m doing everything I can do turn it off, flipping multiple switches try to turn the heater off, I even get up on the cupboards to try and reach the vents to close them manually, nope, that’s not the trick… so after about 45 minutes of trying to figure it out, even calling their daughter, I just leave it on, close my door and turn up the personal heater in my bedroom full blast. It think to myself, maybe its just windy so the fan keeps spinning? When I wake up in the morning it will be off. I even prayed my heart out that it would somehow turn off on it’s own! I wake up annnnd it’s still going strong and loud and the house is FREEZING!!! I finally get a hold of their daughter and the texts go like this me: “hey, I hope this doesn’t wake you but I’m having trouble wth this fan thing in the hallway. I thought it was alight switch and it turned on this natural fan from outsie that won’t turn off, I don’t’ know what to do! Her: “Lol um not sure… might be suction that won’t turn it off… try opening a few windows and then try?” so I tried that… and the suction went crazy the vents flew open all the way and got twice as loud! Me: “hmmm I think you may have been right about the suction thing but opening the windows seemed to have made it worse! I think maybe it’s windy outside so the fan is stuck turning?” Her: Uh oh… Is it turning but really loud? Cuz if it's on, it’s really loud! I think the switch has three settings low high and off…” I’m already in the car just throwing the towel in when I got this text but Me: “yeah it’s super loud! Really? I just flipped it back and forth maybe I’ll try having it balance in the middle!” so I run back in the house… Her: haha… oh my gosh! You poor thing… I wonder if it’s broken… I’l try texting my mom to see if there’s a trick to it.” Me: “ahhh you’re a genious!!! It worked! Thanks so much!!!” I’ve never been so relieved in my life! 

Luv Shannon