I blame this game for the state of our apartment. For my lack of sleep last night, and for the grueling work ahead of me. Let me explain.
Since we got this game, we've played (as a family) every night as soon as we've all gotten home and the homework has been completed (but we usually get started playing before dinner). Last night was no different, other than Jason had gone fishing, leaving Keaton and I to sink into our own little world as Mario and Luigi! The game was pretty intense, and around 5 o'clock I realized I needed to start dinner. I had planned to make
stroganoff (Keaton's favorite meal) just a quick hamburger helper version, because I am not one to spend hours on end in the kitchen. Keaton was talking some serious trash from the living room and kept starting the game without me, which resulted in him killing my man, and wasting my lives.
YOU DON'T WASTE YOUR TEAMMATES LIVES!!! ESPECIALLY WHILE YOUR TEAMMATE IS FIXING YOUR DINNER! I may have yelled that at him from the kitchen. So I hastily threw the ingredients in the skillet, turned the heat on high to get it to boil quickly, set the timer, once it boiled turned (
what I thought was the right burner) down to simmer, threw the lid on, and returned to my game with Keaton.
All this time I'm thinking...
I'm awesome! Spending time with the kid. The husband will get home to some edible food. (stick two gold stars on my
forehead!)
The timer goes off, I tell Keaton to pause the game and I jump up to dish up some yummy stroganoff for myself and Keaton.
What happens next is all kind of a blur....
SMOKE BILLOWING FROM THE SKILLET. RED HOT BURNER,
which doesn't make sense because I turned it down to simmer! DIDN'T I???!!! oh wow, I turned THE WRONG ONE TO SIMMER!!! WHAT!? LIFT THE LID ON THE SKILLET. BAD IDEA!!!! Take it to the sink. going to have to lift the lid at some point. . . Lift the lid and run water into it. EVEN WORSE IDEA. SMOKE GOES EVERYWHERE. I wonder if Keaton will be sad that I destroyed his stroganoff? Should I sacrifice my nice skillet and take the entire thing oustide to the dumpster? Would Jason notice that our nice skillet is missing? OH YEAH HE WOULD!!! Plan B. Garbage disposal....REALLY BAD IDEA! BUT TOO LATE TO DO ANYTHING ELSE! The garbage disposal plan still resulted in clouds of smoke billowing from the drain. Any 2nd grade class probably would have stared in awe.... I wanted to cry. Keaton was yelling from the other room
IS THE HOUSE BURNING? I CAN'T BREATHE OR SEE THROUGH THE SMOKE!!! To which I respond.
No. Keep playing. You can kill as many of my guys as you want! I LOVE YOU! All this time not a single fire alarm has gone off, we really should get those checked....
Meanwhile a knock at the door. Who would it be?
THE UPS MAN! And why not? In total embarrassment for the stench that radiates from my house I try to come up with a 2 second explanation of why my house wreaks so bad. But stopped mid explanation and just said,
PLEASE DON'T PASS OUT ON MY DOORSTEP, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW CPR. I received another blank stare (that I've grown kind of accustomed to) from the poor UPS guy, took the package and closed the door. (after fanning some of the smoke out of my apartment first).
By this time, the damage was done. Windows were open, but the smell had permeated everything. The freshly laundered clothes that layed on my bed, all our bedding, every room of the house. So the only thing to do was... play some more wii and wait for Jason to get home so we could go out and get dinner...
Jason's reaction, by the way, was priceless. He got over the initial shock of what I had done to our house, and then plopped down on the couch to join in the game of Mario bros.
So the rest of my weekend will be spent washing anything and everything washable to remove the smell of burnt stroganoff. :)
Take my word for it. IT SMELLS BAD!!!
**I left out the part that we had to go to the store to get any product that even remotely claimed to remove odors. Especially smoke odors. And that once we got home and I started the process of removing the smoke odor,
THE POWER WENT OUT. AND REMAINED OUT FOR OVER 5 HOURS. DID NOT COME BACK ON UNTIL I WAS FAST ASLEEP... Nope. wasn't my night.
