Had a rather interesting night. I regularly hear sirens as there is a fire hall just a couple blocks away. Around 2:00am last night, I heard the sirens passing my apartment building then stopping. I looked out the window to see this sight:
I stood out on the balcony for over 20 minutes to watch. I was really cold. At one point, I looked behind me and noticed my apartment, which had a window. This is when I clued into the fact that I could simply stand INSIDE the warm apartment and watch the action from the window.
This used to be an antiques shop, but was recently turned into an art gallery. The grand opening was five days ago. I was shocked to hear it was the owner who was caught running from the area with a gas can in her hand. It sure will be interesting to hear the whole story. I phoned up the St. Catharines Standard and asked if they wanted some pics from last night’s blaze. I passed them on and they are going to post them on their Facebook page.
The first thing I thought of when I saw the fire was that there is an arsonist in the neighbourhood. Just last week, this house which is about a block away from me was set on fire:
I haven’t heard the whole story yet but the Niagara Falls Police blotter did state that it was a suspicious fire. There was a cop car in front of the house for the entire day following the incident. A few days after that, I noticed fire trucks outside of this house:
I don’t think they were there too long so hopefully it was just a false alarm.
The thing that is so disturbing about last night’s fire is that there was a woman and her cat living in the back of the unit.Pretty sad that the arsonist she could have killed someone. I noticed a few police officers walking around the buildings behind my apartment, obviously looking for someone. So glad they found her! Here is the building today:
On a much less disturbing note, Boo is really weird. For the last couple of nights, she has been trying to lick my eyes. She pushes her enornmous schnoz into the corner of my eye then licks the lid. Do you have any idea how painful it is to have a cat lick your eye? Feels like she’s going to rip my eyelid right off!
I have the day off tomorrow but am going in during the morning to do some overtime. Jan is going to come by around 9:45 to pick me up to go to Burlington. Yes, it’s that time of the month already – time for my Tysabri infusion. I’m hoping I feel well enough afterwards to go back to work and get a few more hours in. We’ll see. It seems I have been pushing myself a bit too much lately and I’ve been really tired again. I’m thinking it has something to do with the dehydration issue too, because it’s not the typical bone-crushing, heaviness fatigue of MS. I made an appointment to see my doctor next week so that she can possibly refer me to a urologist to try and figure out why I can’t retain fluids.
Today’s symptoms: Felt quite a bit better today than I did yesterday. My friend had to drive me home around 2:30 yesterday as I was so unbelievably weak and tired. I’m thinking I really need to get this dehydration issue resolved pronto! No major MS symptoms today – yea!
Posted by Lizzy McFly at 2/15/2012 6:24 PM
Lizzy McFly 