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on why vanity is indeed one of the seven deadlies
So. I'm in my house, and I can smell wood burning. For like an hour. During this time, I'm wandering around, looking in heat vents, wondering if the kids have dropped something down there... checked the furnace... all the levels of the house. Nothing. Then I go up to my bedroom and it's stronger. Look around, don't see anything. Back downstairs. But then it's stronger so I go back up, and as I'm walking into the room I can see the windowframe beside my desk *smoking* and um, it's not really supposed to be doing that. So I have a double-sided makeup mirror that my brother and his girlfriend bought me for Christmas, which was on the desk. And was apparently focused right at the right angle to reflect the sun into the wooden (unpainted) molding around the window, hence causing it to catch FIRE. Fire, people! It burned right through the molding and burned and melted part of the plastic window casing, and the insulation underneath. I am so very lucky I was home. Seriously.
Also? We were just last night watching some episodes of Modern Family on DVD (which is really hilarious if you haven't seen it) and one of them, the parents discover a burn mark on the sofa, which they accuse the kids of smoking and causing but turns out to be from a mirrored Christmas ornament shining on the furniture. And they notice it when they walk into the room and the sofa is smoking. When this happened LAST NIGHT on a SITCOM my husband laughed and says "that's exactly the kind of stuff that happens to you all the time!" And it so is. And LOOK!!! Jeebus.
on why vanity is indeed one of the seven deadlies
So. I'm in my house, and I can smell wood burning. For like an hour. During this time, I'm wandering around, looking in heat vents, wondering if the kids have dropped something down there... checked the furnace... all the levels of the house. Nothing. Then I go up to my bedroom and it's stronger. Look around, don't see anything. Back downstairs. But then it's stronger so I go back up, and as I'm walking into the room I can see the windowframe beside my desk *smoking* and um, it's not really supposed to be doing that. So I have a double-sided makeup mirror that my brother and his girlfriend bought me for Christmas, which was on the desk. And was apparently focused right at the right angle to reflect the sun into the wooden (unpainted) molding around the window, hence causing it to catch FIRE. Fire, people! It burned right through the molding and burned and melted part of the plastic window casing, and the insulation underneath. I am so very lucky I was home. Seriously.
Also? We were just last night watching some episodes of Modern Family on DVD (which is really hilarious if you haven't seen it) and one of them, the parents discover a burn mark on the sofa, which they accuse the kids of smoking and causing but turns out to be from a mirrored Christmas ornament shining on the furniture. And they notice it when they walk into the room and the sofa is smoking. When this happened LAST NIGHT on a SITCOM my husband laughed and says "that's exactly the kind of stuff that happens to you all the time!" And it so is. And LOOK!!! Jeebus.