so the fire department was here...

jeremy was on call sunday night so i was here with the kiddos. after much deliberation i decided NOT to order pizza delivery for dinner and instead to cook a frozen pizza here. how good of me. - should have just called domino's... grrrr. - about half way through the cook time for the pie, our oven started making this really loud obnoxious buzzing noise and all the lights and buttons on the control panel started going crazy. i couldn't get it to stop and i couldn't even unplug the oven because the outlet is behind it and the whole stove needs to pulled out from the wall to access it. the only way i could get it to stop was to cut the power to the whole house, because even though our circuit breakers are labeled, the ones marked kitchen were not making it stop. - since it's a gas stove, i was worried that this was some sort of alarm telling me of a gas leak. i opened a couple of windows so the kids and i wouldn't die and called the fire department's non-emergency line to see if they had any idea what i should do / warn them that my house might be about to blow up. - they said they'd send someone over and a few minutes later, an engine (with the lights on!) is parked in our front yard. they said they'd never seen an oven do anything like this, but they were able to pull it away from the wall and unplug it which stopped the awful buzzing. they used their magic gas detector and there wasn't any leak (phew!) but they disconnected the gas line just in case. - throughout all of this, quentin was in the other room, eating the half-cooked pizza for dinner. he came into the kitchen because he wanted to show me something. he grabbed my hand and brought me to the living room window and pointed, "truck!" somehow he didn't notice the two actual firefighters in his kitchen, but the firetruck in his yard was the highlight of his day. - i think we may be getting a nice new oven. it was flashing an error code when it was going bonkers. i looked it up on the interweb and it means that the whole electrical control panel needs to be replaced. people this had happened to were saying that this cost them $150-200 bucks. yeah. - morale of the story: just order domino's