Do you like fire? I’ve always loved it. Not exactly sure why. It’s just cool to burn/melt things. I remember when I was a little tike and my friends and I would burn stuff with a fisher price magnifying glass in his backyard in Phoenix. Then there were those time Levi and I would play with fire back in those junior high days. Once we found a bunch of half empty/full paint cans in the woods we shook them all up and them put them all in this dead tree. Levi kept trying to light them. In the end I shot them and we sorta blew the tree up. Well, I’ve done many smart and not so smart things with fire since then. Tonight I sorta had an incident with a candle.
Candles are so much fun. I bought this huge one at Wal-Mart that was like 6″ across or so. Well, the wicks kinda burned out but there was a lot of candle left. Frugal me wanted to try and burn the rest of that candle. So I lit some matches and just kinda set them in the burned out hull and started melting some of the sides to create a pool in the middle. Then I stuck more matches in the middle in that wax and later lit them and they would act like wicks soaking up the wax. This works great until you light about 10 of these homemade wicks then walk away for 15 min. Well my spidy-sense luckily kicked in. It said, “Chalupa! Go look at your candle!”. So I did and found one side had melted all the way through and there was wax all over in my bathroom. Luckily it was on tile and it hadn’t cemented yet so I could peel most of it up. Maybe I should just stick to candles self-contained in jars….but where’s the fun in that? Luckily I didn’t burn anything down or get wax all over the carpet.
Oh, and happy birthday to Liz.
Once my mom had a giant red candle on top of a bureau in the living room. She burned it often, but we never realized that as it burned, a hole had melted in the back. For several hours, wax poured out of that hole and down the wall behind the bureau. When we finally noticed, there was a giant mess of red wax on the wall and on the carpet. In the pictures we took, it looked like we had murdered someone.
I love candles.