ONCE UPON A TIME . . .

There lived a very unhappy girl.

She had just moved into a new house and upon moving in, discovered a few problems.

First, her bed was too large and the stairway was too small to fit her box spring. She was stuck sleeping on a mattress on the floor (Boo).

Then, while she was getting settled, strange things started to happen. All of a sudden she felt as if she were outside in the cold rather than in her cozy little room. She could feel the air blowing and blowing . . . but from where?

"It couldn't be the windows," the girl thought. There was already plastic covering them. The closer she got however, the more air she could feel and sure enough it was the windows. The girl then noticed that her windows looked as if they were breathing. . . THE HOUSE WAS COMING TO LIFE!!!

How could this happen? Upon looking at it closer, the girl realized that the air was coming from around the wood part of the windows. She did her best with what she had and Saran wrapped until she couldn't Saran wrap any longer.

Problem solved . . . or so she thought until a big gust of wind came through and almost turned her into a human Popsicle. The girl jumped up to do the one thing she knew would help the situation, call her mother and cry. When she went to grab the phone off of her dresser, she leaned in a little too closely and smacked her head on the vaulted ceiling.

The girl was confused . . . had she grown? No, that couldn't be it. In fact, she was barefoot and therefore as short as she could possibly be. What was she going to do come Sunday when she slipped her foot into her new high heels?

The girl thought she should try it out. She slid her foot into her beautiful shoes and . . . Nothing. She wasn't too tall, at least not where she was standing. As she made her way through the door frame however, she discovered that ducking would be necessary from now on.

The girl couldn't believe the situation that she found herself in. For a moment she thought about crying but then the strangest thing started to happen. She began laughing! She laughed and laughed and laughed until she couldn't laugh any more. "This is going to be great," she thought, "It'll be like living in my very own fort!" And who doesn't want to do that!?!