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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Noise

What are three of the most grating sounds in the universe?

1) A baby crying
2) A car, fire, or security alarm
and, 3) Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber making the world's most annoying sound.

Oh yeah, and Fran Drescher's voice. Like nails on a chalkboard. And nails on a chalkboard! That's five.

One of those sounds interrupted our sleep last night. Not once, not twice, but multiple times. Too many times to count. As new parents, people expect us to be underslept and exhausted. Except, Francie is an excellent sleeper. In fact, she slept through the many smoke alarms that punctuated our zzz's, until we finally got up at 3:30 a.m. to spend an hour on the Internet scouring for explanations of the no-smoke-no-fire-new-batteries alarm problem. So when did she actually wake up? At 4:30 when I fed her? No. During Alex and my mid-night shouting match? ("I can't sleep." "Well aren't you going to fix it?" "I don't know why it's beeping!" "Get up and figure it out!") Nope. When the dog decided it was play time and was sniffing Francie and jumping up on the edge of the bed? Still no. How about when she let out that distinctive, resounding fart? Yeah, my baby wakes herself up by shitting her own pants.

As for the alarm. It was a two-hour battle.

Smoke Detector: 1
Closemans: 0

We (Alex) disabled one upstairs alarm. Still beeping. He took out the battery of the other. Still beeping. More shouting, blaming and insulting occurred. Followed by serious online research. Did you know they have forums on this stuff? As for now, the smoke alarm in our bedroom is disabled and the one in the nursery is (supposedly) working. Priorities anyone?? But the important thing is, there's no more beeping, no more noise.

And yet I still can't sleep. If only Alex would let me call my dad (he's a superhero who knows everything and can solve any problem, like the Wizard of Oz meets McGuyver - and always answers his phone) so he can come over and "take care of it." Sounds rather mafioso, doesn't it?! He DOES drive an Italian sports car ...

2 comments:

  1. This cracks me up! Two nights ago our fire alarm went off at 2:30am (like FULL on went off) and you know what my first reaction was? "Jake, can you get up and turn that thing off. You can reach it better than I can". No - I did not worry about a fire or encourage him to check and make sure the house was ok. Just - "turn that thing off". Hilarious.

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  2. about nails on a chalkboard see this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0t1rUFqGQw

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