Gah.. I don't know what compelled my mother to clean all the stovetops and benches with industrial cleaner at 8pm, peww, it has a really strong lemon smell in an attempt to mask the chemical smell, but fails rather spectacularly. It's permeated all the way through the house I'm worried about my own health here as well! Horrible smell is all up my nose. I can't open the windows in the rest of the house because it's so freezing outside.

I had to run downstairs, save my budgies and put them up here in my room. They've been in here with the door shut and window open or the past hour but the rest of the house is still horrible, the room where they normally sleep is definitely out of bounds. They are staying in my room tonight.

Parents are now asleep in their bedroom. I'm sitting here trying to breathe. I don't understand it.

awe, you know my in-laws are like that too, I was so worried when Merlin spent 2 weeks there and he did come home with a respiratory irritation (he had brown up by his nostrils) it is now gone thank goodness.