Do I Smell Gas?

So tonight has been very eventful to say the least! The picture above is a great representation of what I thought might happen (worst case scenario of course, but I go there often in my head) to my little piece of heaven.

It all began Saturday night when Mike and I were watching a show and I caught a whiff of something that smelled gas like. (Not human kind, but fuel type.) I mentioned it to Michael and of course he smelled nothing. The smelled persisted into the next day and again today. Not overpowering but at times more strong but ....it is so hard to describe a smell and how much of it you could smell. I don't want to drag this out so to the climax I'll go. I am talking to Mike tonight on the phone (yes, this did all happen when he was out of town) and I realize that the heat is not coming on and I am chilly. I go turn it up to 90 to kick it on....nothing. while I am on the phone with him the phone starts doing wierd things like someone is pushing buttons and has picked up the other phone. I go make sure the kids are in bed and not doing it and they are sleeping. I go to the other phone but it is hanging up. Creepy, I HATE that weird crap. I know lines can cross but still I hate it!

I get off the phone with him and I am thinking I don't want the kids freezing all night and I might be smelling gas. So I call the gas company to tell them I smell gas and our heater is not working. They tell me they are sending someone out. Then I call my dad and he tells me that those two things (smelling gas and furnace not working) are not a good combination and that I should take the kids out immediately and open some windows and doors. That freaks me out so I go to open up the doors and forget the alarm is set so all the alarms go off the kids wake up freaked out. I get them settled down then try to continue the conversation with my dad then the phone does its weird little beeping thing so we can't hear each other talk.

Now to some this may not be a big deal. For me I am alone, I smell gas, we have no heat, and someone is messing with my phone line all going on at once......overload for me! I am happy to report everything has worked out. Our furnace was off because some sweet little child flipped a switch and as far as a gas smell nothing was detected. So I am glad that we did not go up in flames tonight as I thought we might but disappointed because we still have no answer for the smell.

I will have to figure that out tomorrow. This post has helped me calm down and now I am ready for bed. One more thing however, I learned something very interesting. My kids are terrible in an emergency! I will have to remedy that through an emergency FHE in the very near future so when I have to wake them up in the middle of the night to come with me I am not hammered with questions and defiance in getting them to cooperate. Wow! What a night I am happy to go to bed and start over tomorrow.