Close calls

I tell ya, this has been one of those weeks! My brother got her around 6 last night. We went out to dinner and then stopped off at a few places. We got back a bit after 9 and everyone wanted to play the Wii. I let them stay up until about 10 and then got them off to bed. Mike and my brother played for a while and I watched. I was pretty tired so I decided to call it a night around 11. I went in to our bedroom to get ready for bed but decided to check my email before I headed to bed. I noticed it started to smell like something was burning so I went back in to our room. It looked really really hazy to me so I called Mike down. He stood on his side of the bed trying to figure out where it was coming from and I was standing by my side. Suddenly we both saw a lot of smoke drifting in front of me. It was coming from an outlet about 3 feet from where I sleep. Mike and my brother quickly shut the power off in the house and I called the non-emergency number to the fire dept. I told them that I didn't see fire but that there was smoke coming from the outlet, the outlet cover was starting to turn black, and the wall was hot. She told me to get everyone out of the house because there was a possibility that there was a fire in the walls. I don't think I've ever hauled booty that fast. Cassie's room is directly over ours and her bed is right over where the outlet was. I took the kids to our car and the fire dept. got here really quickly. I think they must have been bored because thee ended up being 3 trucks. It was killing me watching them walk in to the house with axes. I thought for sure the walls were coming down. There ended up not being a big fire, it was just starting. The thing is, we weren't even using that outlet. It scares me every time I think about it. If that would've happened when we went to my parents last weekend, our house would've burned down. If I would've gone to sleep when I originally planned, I could've been shish-ka-bobbed :(. There's obviously a wiring problem. The power is shut off down there until an electrician comes. We're using our home warranty so it'll be Monday. The warranty company doesn't consider it urgent since we're not completly out of power. That makes me want to shut all of our power off before we leave the house because I'm afraid something might be wrong somewhere else.

On a another note, I got a new GPS today. I got a better one than what we had before and this time I bought a carrying case to go with it. Now it'll be put away so nobody can see it.