...I know that is probably rather obviously to ya'll. But oh! where did the weekend go?
Friday evening and Saturday morning, Andrew and I attended a marriage conference that four local churches held. What a blessing that was! At the risk of sounding rather smug, we didn't learn a whole lot we didn't already know (because #1 - we were raised by parents who not only taught/told us how hard marriage is, but showed us it takes a lot of effort. #2 -we're big readers. when we started dating I don't think there was a relationship book that we didn't read. #3 - we're just smart like that. ;) but it was encouraging to be reminded by others people that marriage is hard work, but so worth all of the effort it takes to have a good, healthy marriage. :)
Saturday afternoon was absoooolutey gorgeous here in the South so the hubster and I decided we didn't want to be cooped up in the smelly house {more on that later} so we went for a walk. To our local library. We've been here for almost 5 months, live less than a mile away from our library and had never been there. So, being the readers that we are {refer back to #2}...we took off on a journey through our old historic district towards our local library. We were there for over 2 hours ya'll. Not even kidding. We were so hungry for books {okay, Andrew may have sat and read airplane magazines...but I read books!} that we I grabbed a whole pile of 'em before anyone else could snatch up the ones I wanted...then plopped myself down into one of their recliners. They have recliners. Not upscale, expensive recliners, but recliners none the less. And comfortable ones. We both sat down with a ahhhh and just enjoyed the comfortability of those recliners. We ended up leaving some two and a half hours after we had first entered the library toting a handful of books. And my hubby, being the incredibly sweet gentleman that he is, carried my books all the way home for me.
Sunday we had church...then I forget what we did. :P But I do know that Sunday afternoon I spent hours reading. Ah, what bliss! Except for the smell of that stupid dead squirrel in our house. Andrew finally crawled up into the attic Sunday afternoon and began the search for that stupid dead thing. It didn't take him too long and he was back down to tell me it was indeed a squirrel. {sigh} After getting the proper gear he took the retched thing out of our attic and out the window {I wouldn't let him carry it through the house} and into the garbage can. Ugh! He's been gone about 36 hours and it still reeks in our house. I could not have stood it had we waited it out. The house smells that bad. I've been burning candles non stop and I've even bought those Air Wick Freshmatic air fresheners for the entire house. Yesterday my stomach didn't handle the smell so well so I opened up the windows in our bedroom to let it air out. This entire ordeal has been so disgusting. I just have one more thing to say about it: I am so glad I'm not a man. ha! ;)
So...we're still campin' out in the living room. I fully expect to be there until at the very least this weekend. Maybe into next week. I refuse to go back into that room until it spells better. I took all of clothes and everything out and if I need something in there...too bad. I hope we never have this problem again {please Lord!}.
I've been contemplating what I want to do lately. I'm feeling in the mood to expand my knowledge and learn some new things. I've been looking at making homemade candles, clocks, decorative items, etc... Our house could definitely use some more polishing touches, but decorating a house takes time. I'll let ya'll know what I come up with...if anything!
I'm off to edit more wedding pictures. {sigh} Can you say this is getting old? I paid good money for my photographer to edit my pictures. Which she did...just not to my satisfaction. I'm trying to get these done before Christmas so I can give them out as gifts. And finally order prints!
Okay, okay... that turned out to be a
long post. Happy Tuesday ya'll! ;)
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