Todays Shin Dig

The fire inspection was CRAZY!
The Fire Marshal was the most coolest woman I could have gotten to do our inspection though. Her name was Shannon. She drove to the house this morning at 7:30 am and was just kind of sitting in our driveway, mind you a 400 ft driveway for awhile, like 10 mintues. I was on the porch pacing back and forth waiting for her. I was thinking she was getting some paperwork together. Then she drove up a little bit and turned the car around and got out and was looking in the yard I then thought, "okay should I just walk up behind her so I can get shot? Maybe she is doing some sort of investigation of the yard." But she is standing there, going back and forth between my yard and Adell's. So I finally decided to go ahead and go out there. She sees me walking towards her and you can see the sigh of relief on her face. She said, "okay I was confused and didn't know which house was yours and was thinking you would come out and greet me but you didnt." I thought surely she could see me on the porch but I guess she couldn't. She said her cell phone didn't have any signal and I immediantly felt bad about living out in the woods with no sign of life. lol
I apologized a million times and she was laughing and saying that our address wasn't labeled good enough on our mail box, since that is one of the requirements on the fire inspection check list I knew it was scratch one for our inspection. I tried to reason with her that you can easily see 212 in big silver numbers on our mailbox post but she just denied it. She must have been a little nervous, ' being in the middle of nowhere', as she called it several times during her visit. And what can I say to argue, its true. City people can't handle the woods. So then she gets her papers and walks into the house and said its going to be painless and easy and she will go thru the list fairly quickly. First she makes sure the pugs aren't vicious attach dogs but I quietly let them escape outside the back door into the yard. She checks out the fire plan and LOVES it. Says it's enough fire plan for all her inspections. So that made me feel good. I spent like a whole day at work doing that fire plan. She checks the a/c inspection. She takes a look at my fire evac routes on the walls in the rooms. In each plan there is a stick person that says (you are here) depending on what room its in. She was laughing at me so hard and taking pics but said she is going to use it because she teaches a class and actually they were perfect examples of what they should look like and she is always telling people to put a (you are here) on the fire routes and they look at her like she is crazy. I figure she will go back to the Fire office and make fun of me, but oh well. But yay point for me! Then she checks out the flash lights and cords. She doesn't like our cords where our fish tank is and says we need to get a diff power cord with a short circuit thing and so I'm thinking, okay scratch two against us,. She then wanted to see the hot water heater. This proved to be a time wasting task because I had to drill off the panel it was behind. I didn't expect her to want to actually look at the darn thing and we had not even seen it since the house was put there. Well some cords weren't properly covered in there either, so scratch THREE for us! OMG I was stressing. And then off to the breaker box. Inside labels were good but breaker box on the outiside wasn't labeled. Damn Buck and Jeff. Scratch number FOUR. Then to top it all off our freaking fire extinguisher was EMPTY! I was thinking OMG this lady is about to fail us. I could not believe after all the talk about our fire extinguisher being moved from its original spot we placed it to the weight being heavy enough for harris county we had with the home study lady that the thing would be freaking empty by the time our fire inspection was here. But it said it bigger than day, "EMPTY". UGH!!! STUPID ME! Her exact words were, " This would be fine, (shaking it) If it wasn't empty."

But to my suprize and disbelief she said "I know how much you want your baby so I am not going to fail you. But what all do you need to fix?" I then splurted out all the things we went over like it was a quiz to get my approval for Depelchin and she said "OK lets go and try to print your approval. My computer hasn't been working but lets see if it does for us now."
OMG I was sooooooooooo nervous, happy and just releaved.
It took her like 15 more mintues to print out my certificate but I think she was determined not to do any follow up work. I was just praying it printed before she left and changed her mind. I just thanked her a million times before she left. I am so happy. It was like the worse inspection ever. Plus did I mention the ghoulie clan got out of the back yard and attached her nice Fire Marshal uniform with Pug paws. Yes that happened. While she was approving me out of the kindness of her heart Mocky and Willie decide to maul her with fresh dirt and mud. I had to give her a wet rag before she left to clean up the prints. Needless to say I still have a headache.

I called Jeff right after and told him the news. He is in Missouri and won't be back until Friday on some robot mission. He was pleased.

I then came to work and faxed it to Depelchin. We should be getting our matching specialist any day now.