Taking an enforced "hiatus" - circumstances and all that jazz

[red_satin_doll]

I'm having to take a short break from LJ and the computer in general - we had a rather major house fire Monday night.

Good news first - we're ok, my sweetie has burns on her hand and foot that are not serious enough for the local wound clinic to treat, but her left hand is so wrapped in gauze it looks like a Mummy Hand. (I guess that makes her right hand the Daddy hand? Hey someone had to say it.)  She's back to her old self otherwise.

Only my sweetie's bedroom was destroyed - the mattress went up like a freaking firebomb. the fire started there, but there's damage throughout the house from smoke and water. I remembered to close the bedroom door before we left and the inspector said that was the best thing I could have done so go me.

Our desktop was destroyed and obviously my computer access will be extremely limited for a while, so I won't be able to return the many overdue messages and comments in my inbox.

The other good news - I'm ok too, a little tired and sore; and I was able to salvage a printed draft of the Buffy & Dawn story I was working on, and most of my notebooks with btvs meta essay notes. Don't laugh. It's the silliest thing but I felt like I wanted to have them, like they're more "me" than a lot of my stuff. AND I now know the difference between fic and meta, at least for me. Meta ideas (in rough form) are mostly in my head, even if the details are fuzzy; but there is NO WAY I could have reproduced the fiction from memory. Even though I've reread my own drafts many times. With fic the precise word placement and rhythms are so absolutely essential.

My vegan chocolate cake recipe might take a little effort to reproduce though. Maybe recipes are like fiction. *lol*  Such is life.

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[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

It was an accident - candle, spark, a box caught fire then a corner of a sheet, then the less-than-a-year-old $1200 mattress went up like a firebomb. The fire inspector told me that stuffed furniture like mattresses is like the equivalent to several gallons of gasoline in the room.

And I've got my priorities straight, obviously! *lol* I just put up another post tonight - this morning I took some time to write and came up with an "outline" for my Tara & Buffy metas. Now, getting enough computer access to post it is the thing! *sniffle* We'll be very busy these next few days/weeks/months.

[kikimay]

The fire inspector told me that stuffed furniture like mattresses is like the equivalent to several gallons of gasoline in the room.

Really? I didn't know that. It's scary. ò__ò