Calling in Backup

It's been awhile.  Lots has happened.  But first, lets get the most important thing out of the way.  Backup has been called in concerning the downstairs situation.  The rats have summoned their little mousey friends to help them destroy us.

We caught a mouse.  In the kitchen.  Uck.  And last week I finally put our pantry food in a giant Rubbermaid container.  Yeah, the rats are eating their way through my Rubbermaid.  Awesome.  There is a giant pile of chewed plastic next to the container.  I think they'll probably break through tonight.  I'm considering letting them have the food that's in there.  Hoping they'll get stuck in the box.  Or maybe Steve can put a rat trap inside the box.  Surprise!

Uck again.

I think...

....I need to actually read The Five Love Languages because just taking the quiz online only served to make me mad.  Ugh.  I either wanted to pick both or neither.  The first time I took it I got 8s and 3s all around.  How can I have three Love Languages?  So then I took it again and it was all different.  Don't put it past me to take it a third time right before group tomorrow....  Wowzers...poor Steve.  He's gotta put up with me and my crazy.

So I'm working on a big HP Midnight Movie post.  But in the meantime....I'm boring.

Steve and I are going to find out our Love Languages...

That should help.  Right?

So long as apologizing isn't necessary I should be golden.

That's pretty much not my area at all.

:-)

My house is clean.  Even my vacuum.

That's right - I cleaned my Dyson.

Well, most of it.

I'm still not entirely (Read: at all) sure how to get the butter out of it...

Yes, butter.

There were a few pie-making mishaps.

That's what happens when you make six pies.

And drop one.

And make another.

And almost drop that one too.

Suggestions?

We might be doing black Friday.

Whhhaaaaaatttt???

Sears has a front loading washer and dryer for $600.

Both.

Hmmm....

We're seriously considering it.

Maybe I'll go to a midnight movie and then straight to Sears.

That timing should be about right.

T Minus Six Hours!

I might be panicked about getting the seats we like....

Success!    We did it!  Six HP movies, one day.  Lots of scrapbooking, talking, eating, and wrapping up handmade soap.  An amazing day with amazing ladies.  I had an unbelievable amount of fun yesterday, and am exceedingly grateful that 1) Mere let me sit with her for 15 hours and 2) she didn't get sick of me.  :-)    I officially cannot wait until Thursday!

Also, check out Mere's blog Our Journey Home for her first giveaway!  Who doesn't want beautiful bracelets that help Ugandan women gain sustainability?

Wish Us Luck

In exactly one hour and ten minutes the marathon will commence.  I'm having doubts.  Also, I didn't realize that even though we're starting at 8:30 I'd have to leave my house at 7:30 to be there on time.  Which also meant I had to get up around 6:30.  And when we're done, I have to drive an hour to get home.  And then get up early for church.  Oh geeze.  I definitely did not plan for travel time and early waking.  We'll see how it goes....

Apparently.....

...it's rats.  My basement is infested with rats.  Que the swearing and vomiting.  I'm disgusted beyond belief.  The exterminator came out today, talked to Steve and left.  He said we'd basically be paying him the big bucks to do exactly the same things we already did.  His solution, keep doing what we're doing and make sure we plug up every (more cursing here) hole in our basement.  

I really need to catch a break somehow. 

He Lives

Fishy Bonk is a survivor!  Turns out I didn't need that extra fish.  But now I have two fish in my room.  That look almost exactly the same.  Awesome. 

Carp

Crap.  I might have just killed our class fish.  Only time will tell.  Apparently the water I put him in after cleaning his tank was too hot.  Now he's just kind of sitting around.  One of my other teachers is devastated and will definitely cry if he dies.  Crap.  They called me fish murderer.  I feel bad and am having a full on panic attack about the demise of Fishy Bonk.  I love him, but come on - it's not that serious.  I didn't run over anyone's dog.  In any case, I'll be praying fishy prayers tonight.

What Are You Doing?

Today is Orphan Sunday.  Not all of us are called to adopt.  Not everyone has a heart for adoption.  But what I've learned recently (through the journey's of some of my best friends) is that everyone should have a heart for the orphans of the world.

Maybe you're not called to adopt, but there are so many other things you can do to lend your support to some of the 147 million orphans in the world.  147 million.  I can't even fathom.  

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." James 1:27 

 

 "Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow." Isaiah 1:17 

I am realizing that I need to do something.  Something to defend the fatherless.  Something to help children lost in the world.  To help families raise the ransom for their children.  To help children find their forever families.  I don't know what, not yet.  But it's stirring in my heart.  A call to look after orphans, in one way or another.

What about you?  What are you doing?