It's Friday again and I'm thinking it's time to do a post. Once again, except for making some stylistic changes on my blog, I've found myself avoiding blogging. My life doesn't warrant very much excitement these days.
The biggest news I have to report is that our refrigerator is still not fixed. It will be until some time next week before it might get repaired. That's a month since a repairman came to look at it the first time. And 4 to 6 months since it started messing up. That annoys. Turns out it's a design flaw in the unit and not a broken part. Thanks for doing your part to screw stuff up at my house Whirlpool. Never again.
We had a highly successful trip to Corsicana, except for warm temps. Summer has not gotten the message yet. I'm ready to complain about it being too cold! It's currently October 26th and it's 77.5 degrees outside. There's a cold front coming though and the temps are supposed to plummet into the 30's by the weekend. That's an extreme change and maybe uncalled for. Look at me ending multiple sentences with prepositions! I love myself right now.
It's now Saturday and Caitlin's here for the weekend and it's currently 51.1 degrees outside. Our family won't be enjoying the warmth and glow of an inside fire though, due to my harvest decorations on the hearth. I just can't dismantle all my work for a day's fire. I can assure all people the weather is going to turn again and then my undoing of my decorations would be a pain in my side.
Today Caitlin, Olivia and I ran a few errands and the big city girl that is now Caitlin can get quite riled up at any driver that crosses our path. As we were behind a person turning right very slowly she yelled, "Why are you moving so slow? We don't want to see your stick family (you know that decal on the backs of some cars) keep it moving!!! Her fuse was short and that's the honest truth about that.
Right now we have chili cooking on the stove, jalapeño cornbread in the oven and some sort of pastry sitting on pans waiting for their turn to be baked. If Emma were here, all would be as good as it gets for me.
I'm still continuing my foray into cupcake photo shoots. Newsflash cupcakes never complain and never talk back. It's really quite nice.
As opposed to the person on the left side in this photo.
Cupcakes also don't have attitude.
Sunday has now come by for one day this week and I'm still working this thing to death to have a post ready by....at least one day soon.
Today we were late for church because Olivia and Owen are slow enough to annoy me and make me late for church. As God as my witness this will be the last time it happens. Since I'll be out of town next Sunday, this scenario will have to play out in two weeks. It's like a cliffhanger for church goers.
It's 5:31 now on Sunday afternoon and Caitlin has left again for the big city. It's 61.4 degrees out my back door and the big news of the afternoon is I just found one of my cinderella pumpkins in a total mush meltdown on the floor in front of my fireplace. Ew and gross and it was not fun cleaning it up. So gross. I've had the worst time this year keeping my gourds and pumpkins alive for this decorating season. It's never happened this way before and I'm losing my faith in the gourd/pumpkin family. If it weren't for fake gourds and pumps, I'd have none at all.
From Friday until 1:00 this afternoon seven trips were made to the grocery store by my family. I blame Whirlpool. My refrigerated items are spread out over two frigs. The pissy one was a balmy 61 degrees today. Milk products don't appreciate that.
I'm not sure if I've reported on Addy's injury here yet. A couple months ago she was found to have torn the equivalent to an ACL in a human. She knows not that she shouldn't run because she will reinjure herself. She limps a lot these days.
I'll close with this picture from 2007 and the first time I took a pic of this cypress that's been documented by me now almost every year since then.
Thanksgiving is so close and large family gatherings are about to happen for real.
We will soon be singing all the Thanksgiving songs.
Wait, are there Thanksgiving songs? Over the river? Through the woods?
I'll just be riding a few blocks when T giving happens.
We are in the season of holidays people!
Where did 2017 go already? We're churning out these years like pretentious butter.
I have to stop now...
Thursday, October 12
I've been avoiding my blog for weeks now. I feel like I have nothing to talk about and frankly, I'm bored with the snapchat photos. I'm not sure we're putting our best foot forward with looking silly enough to warrant me stealing your snaps. Or mine for that fact. Another snap of my fireplace just isn't worthy. Therefore I've been stymied because I've got very little other newsworthy things going on.
I also don't care anymore about ending a sentence with a preposition. I'm going to look up the rules about that because I think it's dumb. Looked it up. It's a rule from Latin grammar. A dead language. Yep it validates me and I'm so over it and wish this very sentence ended in a prep. But it did not.
Moving on...
Our bathroom reno is coming along. We're in the, putting tile in the shower, stage and I've been using a saw and I'm awesome. I still have all of my fingers and therefore I consider myself amazing at sawing tile. But we've had a couple of set backs this week that have caused me to have to have style meetings with my husband. I HATE the many decisions that go along with renos. It makes me realize I don't have the stamina for building a whole house. Can you imagine how many decisions have to be made when doing that!? I could not function. Anyway I'll have to do a post about the process of the b room when we have it completed. I've been taking pics of the process since before we started the demo. The transformation will be jaw dropping. At least for me. Here's hoping all my decisions were good ones!
Owen's taking John's class this semester and so far, John's winning. Owen took the second test in John's class today and he feels good about it. But he's beat due to a heavy schedule and I'm not sure he cares as much as he used to. I'm really OK with that. He's always needed to lighten up a bit when it comes to schooling.
This week Olivia has had me take pictures of delicious looking cupcakes and the number of them in my house has been astounding. Up to five dozen at times. And I've only eaten one. That may be the most news worthy story of my year. Now I'm going to show you some cupcake pics that I've taken and we can all drool together. Well actually, since they're in my house, I can do more than drool...
And that's all I have to say about that.
Owen and I just each ate a grape and at the same time both winced and he said, "My mouth instantly rejected that." It bit us both back. And we walked away from the grapes. He is currently making a sandwich I hope to get a bite of. Prep ending sentence!! Huzzah!!
Friday, October 13
I've let this blog post work bleed over into the next day because I got sidetracked by something yesterday. I have no idea what it was, but it happens a lot.
In other news...
My one year old refrigerator is on the fritz and it's really annoying me. After research and many trips and gathering as much info as I could, I decided to buy Whirlpool products in the form of a washer, dryer and refrigerator. After my one year old Whirlpool washing machine died, and now my frig is not cooling properly and the outside ice machine won't dispense ice, my faith in Whirlpool as a company currently sucks. If you're in the market for any appliances, walk away from Whirlpool. You've been warned. I currently hate Whirlpool. It's affected my DP drinking due to the cooling issues and that crap matters.
John called me earlier to tell me something as well as report Owen made an A on his second exam in his class. I told him, "Good for you," to which he replied, "Good for me?!" Yes that is correct. I've told him not to fail my son. Also, Owen and I have some amount of integrity, since we both know where the tests are and haven't attempted any thieving.
Saturday, October 14
It's been one week and not one more tile has been put up in the back bathroom. Ugh is all I can say. The plan is to finish it tomorrow. We shall see.
Some of us will be going to Corsicana later this week for Fall break. I'm hoping for a glorious time with wonderful weather. It's time for summer to go away and leave us be. I can't wait to look outside and see the lovely colors of fall and feel a chill in the air that signifies summer in Louisiana is over for a little while. I want to see the blue sky of October and remember it as only an October blue sky to be. I want to smell the wood smoke in the air from the first fires of the season. I want to look out my back door and see Addy enjoying the chilly breezes of her favorite time of year.
I want to look down the street and see the fallen leaves creating a golden carpet along the sidewalks. I want to feel Fall and know without a doubt the season has changed, even in Louisiana.
It will change. The season will change. It always does, but summer's last gasp of heat has had a choke hold on the temperature for far too long now.
Here's looking forward to tomorrow and that cool snap and feeling fine.
In the meantime, I took these pictures so many years ago I can't remember, and I'm as happy with them as any I've ever taken. It was a beautiful golden tree right here in town. I still know exactly where it lives.
Pumpkins and cotton and harvest and the feeling that something's about to change.
Fall in all it's glory will be here soon.
