#nmfire

Cheers for this!!

2. Favorite piece overall?It would have to be Potential - only because I think my writing is better now, than what it was back when I was writing Glee fics, otherwise it would be Fifty Words for Forgiveness. 

An attempt to update you all on what's happened with Joe and me... I was writing up a giant blog post (full sentences and everything) and then the fire came. 

Moving to Los Alamos:

Stressful

Joe was awesome and carried everything heavy for us

Drove up with two vehicles; my sister's van (carrying most of our stuff) got a flat tire and added three hours onto our drive up

Hung out for the first time at the Coffee House- AMAZING, YUM.

Work at a new Starbucks:

Having to convince people I know my stuff is annoying

I come from a store with a 97% QASA (cleanliness/safety) score... this one's gonna take some work to get there

A bad day gets worse:

Worried about work relations with a certain shift manager, I leave only to see a massive plume of smoke over my new town

Went to do laundry and took photos of the smoke in the meantime

Started refreshing websites about fire obsessively

We go to dinner at one of Joe's friends' place and I'm a total bore because all I can do is stare out the window and be distracted by the smoke cloud

"Voluntary" evacuation is called for, so Joe and I pack and wait for a mandatory evacuation order.

Today:

I stayed up late last night worrying about the fire and had to take Tylenol PM in order to get to sleep.  I constantly hoped I'd get a call from work saying I could take part in the voluntary evac.  No dice.

Got up this morning and went to work.

We gave out free brewed coffee to anyone who asked, and all first responders got any drink they wanted for free.

The whole thing was driven home for me when I gave away a free coffee to a woman and she was so touched and worried that she broke down and started crying.

Mandatory evac call came at 1:45.  We had several (an excessive amount of) people at work so we closed quickly and threw out all expiring items.

Joe and I were gone by 2:15, already packed from the night before.  He gathered up the cat as we closed down the store.  It was not difficult getting out of Los Alamos.  Everyone knew what to do and was responding calmly.