Water and smoke... whew.

Okay… so last Sunday (not yesterday, but the one before) was the funniest day!  I’m going to start at the end of the day and move backwards.

 Whit decided to make some soup.  Canned soup.  Meaning… from a can.  Sound hard?  Yeah… I didn’t think so either.  I was standing in the kitchen with her, and suddenly there was this nasty smell.  I turned around to see thick black smoke coming from the stovetop.  Why, you may ask?  Because Whitey turned on the wrong burner.  Yep… the one with tupperware sitting on it!!  Now, you should probably all be aware that I’m REALLY good at handling emergency situations.  I keep a cool head and act quickly… which is really lucky because if I hadn’t been there, Whitney wouldn’t have had anyone there, jumping up and down in place, pointing, and yelling, “Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah!  Get it, get it, get it!”  At great risk to her own hand, she pulled the orange plastic from the burner.  We were then faced with a problem.  Our landlord’s church got out at 12:00 and she told us she was coming over right after.  What time was it? 12:30.  Our apartment was smoky and smelled HORRIBLE!  We didn’t want her to come over and fear for the safety of her house.

Now lets back up a bit.  Why was our landlord coming over?  Ha.  Whitney and I decided Saturday night that we would drive to Salt Lake Sunday morning and go to Music and the Spoken Word.  So we awoke faaaaar too early in the morning to get ready to leave.  We were close to being ready when Whitney made a tragic mistake.  She turned on the water in the bathroom to brush her teeth.  I know… what was she thinking, right??  I hear an, “Uh oh,” and turned around to see the water running full strength from the faucet. She was turning the handle to the faucet back and forth, but it had no effect on the water stream.  It wouldn’t turn off.  That, in and of itself, would have been funny, but lets add another layer.  Our sink drain was plugged and would only drain really, reeeeeaaaalllllly slowly.  The sink was filling quite quickly and we couldn’t get the water off!  I ran to the kitchen, grabbed a bowl, darted back to the bathroom and started bailing the water into the shower.  We grabbed a few things (ya know… scissors, knifes) to substitute for a screwdriver, since we didn’t have one, and tried to take the handle off of the faucet.  What did we manage to do?  Strip the head of the screw, making sure that there was NO POSSIBLE WAY we were getting that handle off.  Well, great.  Meanwhile, we’re still bailing water.  Finally we realized we were going to have to call someone.  It was about 7 in the morning, and we felt bad calling, but knew we had no choice.  We called our friend, Brigham, and he didn’t know what to do, so we decided we’d have to call our landlord.  Unfortunately, she didn’t know either!  Brigham figured out how to turn off the water to our sink and called us back.  Our landlord said she’d come over after church to see the sink and figure out what to do about it.  After we turned off the water, we jetted out the door and made it just in time for Music and the Spoken Word.

So, back to 12:30 with our smoky apartment.  We ran to open the windows, only to learn something interesting.  They don’t open!  Or rather… they haven’t been opened in so long that it would probably take some serious convincing to get them to do so.  There is NO circulation in our little basement apartment, and we couldn’t think of any way to get the smell to leave.  Thank heavens she didn’t end up coming over for quite a few hours.  Yikes.

I tried to upload a couple of pictures to go with this story, but yep... still can't seem to do it.  :S

More pics-

Okay, so these are just a few more pictures from Pickleville.  I know most of you won't really care about them, but really they are just for my parents and fam who want to see more.  :)

Oh, and I had a dang fun time hanging out at the derby/Peach Days with my roomie, (well... EX roomie, I guess) DeeAura.  I thought about writing a little about it, but lucky for me- Dee put it on her blog!  If you want to read about it, go to my side bar and click on DeeAura's page.

Pickleville fun!

Okay... so Pickleville officially ended for the season. How do I feel about this? A myriad of emotions of course. (You should probably be aware that it took me about 5 minutes to figure out if #1- myriad was a real word or one that I made up and #2- how the heck to spell myriad. For those of you like me, I'll supply the definition: a countless or extremely great number. You're welcome.) I'm excited to have time to myself and to actually have my nights free, but at the same time I always feel a little sad when something so great ends.

For those of you who don't know anything about it, Pickelville Playhouse is the theatre that I worked at over the summer. We did two plays- Thoroughly Modern Millie and Chuck Wagon's Wild West Showdown (a melodrama).  In Millie I played the part of Mrs. Meers (the villain who pretends to be Chinese) and in Chuck Wagon I played Clemenine (a hoe-down towns girl) and Dallas (an outlaw). They were so so much fun and I got to work with some dang cool people- you know who you are. We started rehearsals in April and performed through the whole summer. I'm not really in the mood to write aaaallll about it, and chances are that most people wouldn't want to read about it anyway, so I'll just leave it all at that, then post some pictures for people to see. I like pictures. I'm a visual learner. I have a whole bunch of pictures, but unfortunately- I don't have them HERE. Hopefully I can update and add more picures sometime.  So, for anyone in the cast who is hurt because you aren't shown... it's not that I dislike you in anyway... it's just that I haven't gotten the pictures of you onto my computer.

(Oh- random sidenote. For anyone who might wonder why all of my posts are done in EXACTLY the same format with one picture up top and then a slide-show at the bottom, it's because I can't figure out how to put pictures in the middle of my posts. "Oh, but it's easy!" several of you might be screaming to yourselves. To that, I reply, "Yeah. Right.")

What is next in my life venture? Who the heck knows! I actually just got cast in a show-choir-type thing called the Sun Valley Carolers. Let me tell you everything I know about it: we sing. We sing Christmas songs... at Christmas time. Yup. Don't know much. I know that we go to Sun Valley (which I believe to be in Idaho, although someone recently told me they thought it was in Wyoming...) half-way through December, then perform Christmas stuff until the end of December. Beyond that... all I know is that I don't know any details. I'm sure I'll be posting more about it when I actually DO find out what is going on. Besides that, I am substitute teaching... yes I know... everyone's dream job. I actually love being in the schools, though, so it's good.  Except the time I subbed for a math teacher and he left me instructions to teach them a chapter out of their pre-calculus book. Hahaha... that was a looooong day.

I also just moved into a new apartment, however I think I'll leave that for another post because this apartment... deserves it's own post. Ooooo... got you hooked? Good. Then tune in next week- same station, same time. (And by that I mean I have no idea when I'll post about it.)