Vacuum Disaster

Never! I repeat, NEVER decide to vacuum corners of your home without making sure that the filter is in place and you have emptied your shop vac out.

This is what happened last night: We were in the mood for deep cleaning late yesterday afternoon and Cody, my eldest son, has a great idea..to bring the shop vac in to vacuum up all the termite droppings (wonderful!) in our workshop. Then he had another great idea, being that our regular house vacuum went out on us several months ago, to use it in our living room. Well, I thought it was pretty cool, that we could finally vacuum our area rug (we've been sweeping it and shaking it out all this time). So, I'm having a grand old time vacuuming away seeing all the lint disappear before my eyes only to get up and find behind me a big cloud of orange'ish' dust in the air and caked on the rug. Uggh!!! I got up to proclaim to Cody and Ash just laughing away at the thought that I was 'cleaning' my rug that whole time.....Well, apparently I was making my somewhat clean rug into a not at all clean rug. And what was even worse than that, I started feeling really tight in my chest, like an asthma feeling, like I could hardly breathe, itchy throat, runny nose itchy, watery eyes and not only me, but the rest of my innocent family.

What was meant for a night of late cleaning turned into a night on the town. We quickly left the house. We couldn't find Seth's asthma pump, so we opted for the Pulmo Aide and brought it along with us with our portable power unit taking turns puffing away on the meds. Oh boy, oh boy...what a night!

It actually turned out to be a' lovely' night of McDonald's food(we had $15 in Mickey D's gift cards that the kids got recently) instead of the enchiladas that I was working on. As a family we parked in the Hilo Ben Franklin parking lot eating our dinner and laughing and having fun, to end our night on the town with lovely candy bars from our local Sack N Save. Aahh! The joys of 'real' family life :o) Oh yeah, we can breathe now.