what a night :P

yes, it's 3:30 a.m. PST and i'm working on my blog. i really wish i were in bed fast asleep, but apparently that's not meant to be tonight.

today at 10:45 p.m. our fire alarm went off. we made our way downstairs, and our resident manager was there as well. she was pretty sure it was a false alarm, but the fire trucks were en route so we had to stay outside. as predicted she was correct, but the firemen still had to do a complete inspection at the source of the alarm, so we were outside for about 1/2 hour. not too bad, and after shlepping up 8 flights, chris and i were asleep by 1 a.m., which is sometimes our norm.

well, the 2:15 a.m. wake-up call was not the norm. yes, our fire alarm went off again. if i were one of those ppl who could sleep through anything or didn't have a conscience, then i would have been content to stay in bed. however, i am neither of those types of ppl, so off we trudged back down the stairs to "safety". also, since i'm a fire warden at work, i guess i feel some moral obligation to set an example.......even though none of the ppl in my condo know this. at 2:15 a.m. i also didn't really care what i looked like......i was the only person outside in a bathrobe and flipflops. everyone else (including chris) put on some clothes. i couldn't care less. even the possibility of really hot firemen couldn't motivate me. but of course, they were the same crew that had visited us 3 hours earlier. why would anything change in the middle of the night?

so after the pretty hot firemen let us back into our building, we trudged back up the stairs to our home, where it's like 30 degrees inside.......so much for a cool north-facing unit :P perhaps i can't sleep because i'm anticipating the alarm to go off again, so what's the point of sleeping? btw, the alarm was tripped at the same location in both instances. or perhaps it's because i know i'm getting up in 3 hours to go to work, and seriously, my night is shot already, so i'll just order myself a quintuple-shot latte in the morning, and see where it gets me. i'm going to be soooooo cranky!!!!!!!

and to top it all off, earlier today there was the sound of splashing water outside our balcony, and since it was a super-hot day, i peeked outside to see what was going on. there was a torrent of water cascading down onto my balcony......someone above us was washing their freaking balcony! well, i stuck my head out and looked up, only to get my face splashed with dirty soapy water. so gross! i called our resident manager and left her a message indicating that the unit 2 floors above me was conducting this disturbing offence. hopefully this person will get fined - after all, we've had warnings at our AGM and in our strata minutes, as well as notes posted in the elevators! i tried yelling up at the unit above, however, they were obviously ignoring me or else they just didn't care.

so it's now 4:24 a.m. no, it hasn't taken me an hour to enter this blog. at 3:44 our fire alarm was tripped yet again and we've just come back from sitting outside. this time only 5 ppl actually left the building. the only reason we left was that i was up anyways, and chris couldn't sleep through the annoying alarm - i'm not sure how it didn't bother other residents!?!?

now i only have 2 hours until my alarm is going to wake me up for work. after trudging down and shlepping back up the stairs 3 times, i just don't think i can sleep. but how can i make it through a MONDAY with only 75 minutes of sleep? wish me luck!