Tuesday, June 15, 2010

remember that episode of friends with phoebe and the fire detector?

that was how i spent 1:15 am until about 2:15 am this morning. wandering around my house, searching for a non-existent fire.
also, awesome side effect....the incessant beeping upset patton so much he has a serious case of "loose stool" (is that less gross than diarrhea? whatever, polite isn't really my thing...) all morning.

on a more serious note, i am having a serious love affair with my new fitbit. it's the radness. although lazy jessalyn is a little pissed off about it, because guilty jessalyn is all "hey fatso, you have only taken 4,062 steps today and it is 7 pm. you get up off that couch and walk in place for 6,000 steps". true story. it also tells me how crappy i am at sleeping.

which brings me to my closing thought- i think i need a tempurpedic (mrs. cleanest- i already know you want one...), but anyone else have thoughts, opinions, experiences? i need some input from my bffffs before i go and let manfriend spend monies that would be better spent on sparkles....

21 comments:

blueviolet said...

Why do those things always go off in the night? Never in the day!

Tara said...

omg. seriously, they ALWAYS go off in the middle of the night! i hate those damn things.

my hubby is dying to get a tempurpedic! too bad we're poor. :(

KLZ said...

My college roomie and I dismembered ours before we shoved that veeping nuisane down someone's gullet.

See? The word applies everywhere.

Kelly said...

Boo! I have a dog that has the same problem whenever ANYTHING goes wrong. She's so nervous. And stinky.

Kelly

SurferWife said...

Save your monies for a trip out West.

Did you take the batteries out of the stupid alarm?

Salt said...

I HATE when alarms do that. My neighbors was doing it for the longest time and I could hear it in my apartment. And yet...they were still living with it beeping intermittently. I was about to go postal.

fumblingtowardsnormalcy.com said...

Our carbon monoxide detector recently went off at 3am. It's because the batteries needed to be changed, but I freaked out. So did the dogs. It sucked. Sorry about the loose stool situation.

I'm all for the temperpedic because I don't sleep that well either. But I'm not sure I would trade the sparkles for it.

Brandy said...

Just shoot me in the head.

Ian said...

Yeah I unhooked all of ours the last time that happened like 15 yrs ago. Still off.

Sara said...

Did you wrap it in a towel and put it down the trash chute?

I don't think anyone would blame you if you did.

I know I wouldn't.

foxy said...

OMG, i HATE that. Doesn't it always seem to happen in the middle of the night?? ALWAYS. Stupid fire detectors (unless they really are saving your life).

The Only Girl said...

Sorry, can't help you with the Tempurpedic. However I was also rudely awoken the other night at 4am by the damn carbon dioxide detector. Did you know that stuff is "the silent killer". Yeah. But we're all still here, so apparently it was a false alarm. Or else I'm being slowly poisoned to death . . ack!

The Random Blogette said...

Thanks for reminding me to put new batteries in mine. They have been without batteries since the last time I almost burnt the kitchen down!

As for the tempurpedic...I have heard that the sleep number bed is better. granted it is not from personal experience because I could never afford it, but I have been told it is fantastical!

Kate@AndThenIWasaMom.com said...

Um, at least you didn't have to call the fire department to locate the offending alarm. So, there! You may not be sleeping well, but you are smarter than me.

It's so nice when I can make someone's day.

MiMi said...

Oh geez. Our fire alarms go off like that and we have no clue which one it is. Go to the living room and nope, it has to be in the bedroom.
Go to the bedroom and nope, has to be in the kitchen. We look like blind monkeys effin footballs.

Hutch said...

Because of you I'm no OBSESSED with the fitbit!

Tracie said...

I have a Tempurpedic and I would rather have it than diamonds any day! Seriously, one of the best purchases I've ever made.

meredith said...

bahahaha, i have totally done this.

so, my thoughts on the tempeurpedic - i have a 2-inch tempeurpedic mattress pad that goes on top of my mattress (obvs). quasi has a tempeurpedic king (because he's all fancy like that and swear to sleep on anything else and because he's high maintenance).

my suggestion - get the mattress pad thing first - it's much cheaper and it's really good. PLUS, manfriend needs to be buying you a sparkly ring. no use wasting money on a bed. pfffft!

Cathy said...

Our fire alarm goes off when JT cooks. Mainly because our oven is dirty and creates all sorts of greasy smoke. Want to come over for dinner?

I want to hear more about the fitbit.

Amanda said...

Sparklies first! Then you can think about getting comfortable.

Kelly @ Dare to be Domestic said...

Nothing replaces a good night sleep but when you mention sparkles I started to think about my own sitch which we've discussed before and I thought yeah I'd rather have sparkles than slumbers.

I say get a great mattress topper and see if that helps (more money for sparkles).