Macey

One of my Notes on Facebook (Sunday---Talking about Saturday below--not yesterday...)

"I'm so stuck on my book. Not because of being blocked, but because of having too many random ideas.I just can't seem to get motivated to pull it all together into a feasible plot that draws people in quickly, keeps them there, etc etc. I will just have to keep brainstorming. Today was such a strange day, I'm bound to get random ideas.

We saw a house fire. This may sound strange and it is. We were driving to Morristown Bible Bookstore to Gaylen's book signing so I could pick up my books. On the way from there afterwards, we saw a huge cloud of smoke. HUGE. It was dark gray. I don't know why, but I wanted to see it up close. Maybe partially because of that house fire that was in that abandoned house next door to us a couple months back. Ever since then, I have been creeped out and intrigued by house fires.

I made Derek follow the roads to the smoke today (yesterday). As we got closer, I started to wonder if it was Betty's house (a lady we work with who has been off work because of a major shoulder surgery. We helped her out a couple days, so we knew where she lived.) I was worried about her at that point. We drove closer to the source of the smoke. Then we passed her house. It wasn't hers, thank goodness. We continued down the road and we could tell the fire was close. In fact, it was in the same neighborhood kind of as Betty's house. Just maybe 3 or 4 blocks/ roads over. Then we started to see a line of cars. Most people were coming out of there houses if they weren't already, to see what was going on. I mean, the smoke was billowing UP way UP! 2 or 3 roads away was where the house was, but there were HUGE ashes falling on us! It was so eerie for me for some reason. Derek wanted to go back because of all the traffic, but I told him to get us to that other road (it was a bigger road I believed the house to be on). It was also less congested. The cars were driving at a normal pace on that street, I could tell. So I knew I had to get to that road.

Derek went right (opposite direction of fire) so we could go a different way to that road. It's sort of like Newport right there, you can't really get lost -- I told Derek this because he was worried. lol Traveling in Newport sort of gave me experience in the small-town type of roads and how they always inevitably will lead to the main road if you go in the right direction. lol

Anyway so when we made it to the road right past the house, it was so sad. The house was completely GONE. Only a pathetic amount of burnt walls remained with only a hint of white siding and a square hole where a window used to be. It was terrifying even though I was perfectly safe. The firefighters all looked like they were from some kind of hollywood movie, so epic, so...heroic. The water was pouring out over the burnt up lot, surrounded almost completely by burnt up trees. Then I spotted him -- Jon (spelling of his last name I don't know). He was taking a photo of the scene. He works at the Citizen Tribune we work at. Even him taking a photo of the scene was eerie and epic all at the same time, I can't explain it. And at the same time, seeing an ambulance, I wondered and hoped that the people were okay.

Today had so many weird coincidences and epicness to it that I wondered if I was dreaming.

Other smaller events that happened:

1) bad sandwiches at -----s, so bad I had to be THAT person that complains and gets remade ones. I mean they were barely edible. I was afraid I would chip a tooth on that chicken patty!! Man! I was as tactful as I could be to the workers, though, I wasn't angry, just didn't want food poisoning or a chipped tooth haha! It looked like it was bad chicken too, actually.

2) A man outside ------s, I noticed while sitting inside, was talking to a woman and touching her face, like they were friends or even in love maybe. (Not abnormal, but listen to this...) Then later on I look back out there, and he seems to be romancing another woman, at the readlight! Definitely not the same woman bc she was in a different colored car. I knew it was him standing in the road though. He had a bright ORANGE hoodie and with a dark one on underneath so that his dark navy hood was over his head, he had a cap on underneath too I think. He was dressed like he lived outside. I just thought it was strange...then he came into ------'s used the restroom and went back outside. Later on, however, Derek and I were leaving and found out he was advertising outside with a sign in his hand for a furniture store. His outfit made more sense at that point.

3) 2 people that worked at ------'s were kind of strange. A girl that worked there walked so straight and upright, like she was a robot and another guy looked so creepy and strange, sounds mean, but you just had to see how he looked at me.

4) A little old lady came into --------'s, went to the bathroom, came out and looked like she was going to order something only to leave instead. She then picked up too very shiny coins off the sidewalk outside, got into her really nicely kept old car, and left. Strange. the coins didn't look normal. I can't explain it. I thought they might be dimes but they looked too silvery, I'm not making sense am I? lol

5) A lady stared at Derek while we were in the parking lot, before we left our cars for the mall entrance. The person driving her/their truck turned into the same parking lot row again to look at our car for some reason as we were walking into the mall. Derek brought this to my attention when we were in the mall only a few yards, so I decided we should go look at the car, just in case. Weird again.

6) Did I mention a photographer from the Tribune left the Morristown Bible Bookstore right when we arrived. Evidently, he was in there to take a pic of Gaylen. I had just missed my chance to get a pic of me and her in the paper. So weird day, but a good day anyway. I've never had such a weird day that was also such a good one. Can't explain it.

End of story. lol"

Hope you enjoyed that note. Hahaha, made for a quick and easy blog post. LOL

-Macey Lou Brown