How to Survive Life in the Suburbs

Heating It Up In The Bedroom

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We had just settled in to umm watch some re-runs on TV.

The lights were low, the electric fire place was warming up the bedroom on this cold fall night, the kids were sleeping and it was before 11pm.  (Yes this is  pre-requisite for lovin on a “school night”.) In the Suburbs, this is romance baby.

By the time we were half way through umm “Dexter” sparks were in the air. 

No really.  Sparks and smoke!  Our fireplace was burning, and not in a good way.  Hero Hubby yelled for me to  “unplug it”.  Huh? Seriously?  Electrical fire.  No touchy.  I yelled back at him to get a fire extinguisher.  He did the naked mad dash while I turned that sucker off with a bottle of prescription pain killers.  Don’t judge.  It was a long skinny bottle and seemed like a good idea at the time.  The room was beginning to fill with obnoxious smelling black smoke. Hero Hubby dashed back upstairs and with one swift move, gallantly unplugged the offending fireplace himself. Whew, except…..

The damn thing was still burning.  “Underwear up big boy. We are carrying this sucker down the stairs and outside.” 

Him in his jockeys and me in my T-shirt, we carried a burning fireplace down a set of circular stairs and out the front door into the cold night.

That is when the giggling started.  Good grief.  We date night it in style. 

After we stopped laughing, and Hubby assured me over and over and over again that the fire was out.  We went back to bed. 

This morning our front step looks like this.

FirePlaceGuess I get to go shopping for something to fit that big blank space that is in our room.  Not so sure it will be another fireplace.

Counting my blessings that it ended the way it did. 

Hoping it will be a long long time before Hubby and I heat up the bedroom like that again. 

 

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    • Comments

    4. That is hilarious! We live in Texas and our fireplace has a plant in it since we never need to use it, I didn’t even know they made a fireplace that plugged in.

    6. So funny! I would love it if you left it outside, so you could say, “Close the door, do you think we’re trying to heat the whole outside? That’s what the fireplace is for!” hahaha. Yes, I AM super funny.

    8. Okay I’m not sure whether to laugh or worry, since I have one in my living room! LOL Seriously though, I could picture it all in my head. You guys better keep it low key in the bedroom from now on, before you know it the TV will blow up!

    12. Honey, the poll was closed when I got to it, sorry.
      I believe in direction in all things, seriously. This is weird, but….
      Today I was looking at an electrical fireplace for my bedroom, which I could not afford until maybe next week. I’m not kidding.
      I think I’ll skip it.
      I’m glad that you & hubby were awake when that happened, and weren’t harmed. xo d