Other then that my week has been good.

But yeah, it was something alright. It was our friend's house who lives 2 houses down from ours. I could see the flames from the porch and at one point our yard was covered in smoke. Don't worry, no one got hurt. Only 2 out of 5 people were home when it happened, a 5 year old boy and his mother. They came running over to us freaking out and we called the police and I don't even know who, they probably called 10 people. (The mother started having an asthma attack and was calling people for an inhaler I believe.) I spent most of my time inside trying to keep the boy calm. I had to keep telling him that the firemen will put the fire out, the cats probably all ran out the door and are fine, they won't be homeless because they'll find another house, and his grandma (the owner of the house, one of the 3 out shopping) isn't going to kick his mom's butt' because she'll know it was just an accident. :c I felt so bad for him. Turning the TV on so he could watch cartoons helped. It's sad though that that happened.

What's even sadder is the stupid firemen that responded. First of all, it took them 20 minutes to get here. They're literally 5 minutes away, right in front of the development. But wait, they're not the ones who responded. Some other ones who are only supposed to cover the other half of the development did. (I think, I may be wrong). So after them getting here 20 minutes later, you'd think they'd start putting out the fire, no? Well, they set up that long hose thing, and proceeded to NOT run water through it for 40 MINUTES. FORTY. They were just letting it burn. My mom's boyfriend was doing more then they were, and at one point got fed up with them and started yelling at them to DO SOMETHING. Idiots. Oh wait, there's more! When they actually did start putting the fire out, know where they got the water from? FROM A POOL. WHILE WE'RE ACROSS FROM A LAKE. I don't even know where the hell they got a friggen pool from. Idiots! It turned out that there was actually another fire in here going on at the same time, but that wasn't nearly as bad! It just damaged part of the roof and the chimney or something.  This one, although only one corner of the outside is damaged, the entire inside of the house is apparently black. Almost everything got destroyed. One of the 6 cats died too, and 2 are missing.

If my fire-marshal dad was here he'd be kicking those firemen's asses. The whole situation was handled VERY badly. My mom apparently wrote to the news station to go have them investigate. I hope they do. They literally had 4 firetrucks, 1 near the house and 3 in front of ours, and they did NOTHING for 40 minutes. Anyway..

People in the community have been helping the family. I think the little boy has more clothes now then he had before the fire. Tomorrow we're going to go to a friends to go through clothing to see if there's anything that would work for the adults. I think someone's talking with the foodbank too to see if they'd donate food. Luckily they had great insurance on the house; they'll get a brand new house and in the meantime I think the insurance is also covering pay for where they'll live in the meantime.

So yeah, that's my interesting day. Easter yesterday was good. We had my grandma over and dinner was good. Nothing else really. We forgot to color eggs this year (due to above event making our week seem 'off'). Hm.. I'm expecting to pickup a British flag tomorrow or the next day. I like that flag. It's totally not weird for me to have one when I live in America. And have never gone to Britain. (Hey, I'm part British. Somewhat. A little.Though I'm mainly Scandinavian.) We're getting the American, Danish, and Finnish flags too. (There's the Scandinavian for you.) Though those are my moms.

....the whole reason I started writing a journal was so I could apologize for my lack of posting art due to me being stupid and not wanting to finish the 30+ drawings I have saved on my computer (I keep started something, then start something else before finishing the last thing.) And to ask what scenes from Harry Potter yous would be interested in having me draw in an attempt at having something to draw and having a reason to finish it.... I'll ask in a poll. Or maybe I'll ask in another journal and I'll let it go to the journal portal, so then random people who have nothing to due with me can answer too... hm.