It's Official!

I'm neurotic!!

First let me tell you plans for a relaxing week with hubby and kiddos is shattered. He has been called on to work all week. This is good because they are practically begging him to be technical advisor while the actual TA is on a job in Russia which means (say it with me now) JOB SECURITY! And it means overtime! This is sad because well, he's going to be working.

In light of this he has been doing his Great Garage Cleanout of '09 this weekend. Well yesterday anyway. So on to why I am neurotic...

Shortly after he came in yesterday from the garage someone started pounding on our door. Now, you all know how I feel about unannounced visitors. Anyway. I put on hold finding something to eat and went to answer the door. It's the next door neighbor and he is telling me that the field behind our house is on fire.

{Let me pause to tell you that we live in the city limits, but our back fence is the city limit line. So right behind our back fence in unimproved pastureland. Recently the land has been sold and there were plans to make a subdivision out of it. The brush has been cleared about 10-20 feet behind our fence.}

Okay so you know what my first thought was? No, not let's get the kids out of the house. It was, 'crap my house is a mess, and if it catches on fire it will be a disaster'. Then my second thought (as I'm going to the back door to check the status of the fire) is 'and the laundry isn't done, I don't even know if we have enough clean clothes to flee the house in.' To be fair, we leave the back door window open all day and I hadn't seen anything back there that would warrant me panicking and D had just come in from outside and he didn't notice anything amiss. So no there was not a fire knocking at our back door, and no the smoke was not even that heavy, I think our neighbor was just a little panicked. But still, I do seem a little neurotic for thinking about the cleanliness of our house before thinking "Oh my gosh a fire! Let's get out of the house!"

So today I have been doing laundry and cleaning most of the day. You know, in case of a fire!