How quickly can I do a post? I'm going to crank one out today, hoping to break a record.
Last week something was smelling in the fridge. Since I knew I had company coming this week, I thought I would start a 10-hour salon day with a quick cleaning to try and locate the source of sourness. This little project turned into a much larger ordeal when one of the glass shelves exploded (literally) in my hands, shooting glass all over the kitchen. Thankfully, Bill was there to help clean up the mess. After a few cuts to our hands (and my feet) and a lot o' sweeping, wiping, and carefully picking up tiny little glass shards, we loaded everything back into the fridge. Bill offered to get a new shelf ordered that day, and we both headed off to work. Later that day I glanced at my phone and saw a text from Lolo. "The fridge is definitely not working..." (1:04pm)
My response at 3:29 - "Is it working now?"
"No. I moved all the food I could into the basement fridge. It's literally warm."
During a 1-hour break in appointments I ran home. Yep, the fridge was warm.
Warm enough to melt butter. Great.
A repairman came on Friday. He found the source of the issue... the small plastic piece that turns off the light when the door closes had broken off. Lucky for me, I had found a couple broken plastic pieces in the bottom of the fridge while cleaning it a few days prior. He told me he could order the part and fix it for around $175. No thank you. I called Bill, Bill ordered the part ($3), and my fingers are crossed that it will be a super simple fix. Right now we are doing just fine with the broken piece precariously set back into place.
I've been working on a boatload of projects. One of my good friends, Marci, came over to help me cut out covers for the trek journals we are in charge of, and I woke Lolo up to help too.
350 covers cut.
I had to snap this pic of my crazy multitasking day on Friday.
Our ping-pong table is the best project table ever.
Laundry, a birthday banner, and trek journal cutting all at the same time.
I'm so grateful for helping hands!
Mauri made this cute poster for her friend, then ran it over to her in a downpour.
It's been raining buckets here. You won't hear me complain - I love rain.
Bill told me on Friday evening that his cousin's son John would be coming to stay with us from Saturday until Monday. We quickly did some cleaning and laundry to prepare. He is a great kid and a good guest, but my time was squeezed as it was, so it added another dimension of frantic activity to our my weekend. I'm a bit behind today, hence the speedy post.
On Memorial Day, Lolo and I headed to the Outlets to catch a few sales on some missionary items. We were greatly blessed to have found what we were looking and more at only a couple of stores. We were in-and-out just as the quantity of shoppers swelled and lines became unbearably long. We ran into a pair of missionaries and chatted briefly with them. One was from Germany and the other from South America (unusual to have two foreigners as companions here in our neck of the woods), serving in the Spanish language. It was fun to talk to them for a few minutes and share Shi's excitement about her upcoming mission service.
That afternoon we went to a BBQ at the Leaks. I was so grateful to be invited to something festive, as I worried that the day would pass without proper holiday recognition due to the busy-ness of things here at home. We love getting together with their family, and as we left their house that evening Lolo commented, "That was fun. I'm so glad they invited us over so we could actually celebrate Memorial Day."
A simple invitation at such a time as this {crazy/busy/running-on-empty} is a tender mercy in my life.
Today I am still project-ing.
I have a lot to accomplish to get my junk together for this week.
(I'm also coming to terms with possibly NOT having all my junk together in time... and prioritizing)
So many good, fun things coming up that I am so excited for, but a dang lot o' work to get there.
Gotta run.
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