White Orchid Melody

It’s been a crazy sort of week.  Last friday night we babysat a friend’s 2 year old.  Sounds scarier than it was.  She is actually really smart and communicates well.  The whole frustration with small children, I think, is their inability to communicate what they do and do not want.  So, we had a good time.  Then Saturday morning, we met Brian’s aunt and uncle for breakfast.  They were driving their RV through town on the way back to Minnesota.  We had breakfast at the historic Bevo Mill.  We’d never eaten there before.  It was really nice.  They had a great brunch buffet and were smart enough to seat the pregnant lady right in front of it!  I didn’t have to eat for about 8 hours after that!  (which is a big deal for me, I’m on a 2 hour feeding schedule!)  After breakfast we visited with them for awhile and then had to go to an appointment to show one of our apartments.  It seemed to go well.  We had another showing Tuesday, so hopefully one of the two will want it!  It will be a relief to have everything fully occupied!  Sunday we just worked around the house.  We are reorganizing our closets, which we thought would be a weekend deal, but it has taken about a month already.   Brian also started staining the furniture for the nursery.  Everything is coming along slowly but nicely.

The one-car simple living experiment is still going well.  Although, I think we’ll be making some adjustments to our schedule.  I’ve been running errands on Monday afternoons after I finish teaching.  This is such a headache for me.  First, I am not used to fighting afternoon traffic.  Second, the area where I get my groceries is under construction.  The combination is horrible!  It takes so long to get to the store and back home.  I would just shop elsewhere, but Trader Joe’s is so much cheaper than the other groceries.  So, I had a bit of a meltdown Monday when I was tired from teaching and running errands and then knew I had to go home and make dinner.  I came home crying (its the hormones!) and told Brian that someone else needed to make dinner.  So we ordered pizza.  But that is only a temporary solution.  We can’t eat out or order out every day I’m tired, because that would be every day.  We need to get a deep freezer so I can start cooking things up one day a week to have quick meals on hand.  That is going to be more important as I become more physically limited in the next few months.  Then after the baby, well, let’s just say Brian doesn’t really cook.   So, the plan of action is to have the vehicle every other friday to run errands and then cook like crazy one weekend a month to freeze for those “I’m exhausted” emergencies.

So then Tuesday, I go out to the garage to get my bike out to go to the gym and discover that our garage door is all smashed in!  Thank goodness we’d already sold the car!  Our garage opens up to an alley.  The neighbors across the alley don’t actually use their garages, so I knew it wouldn’t have been them.  However one of them is having some work done in the back, a wall built and the yard levelled.   So, I thought it might have been his workers.  I went and talked to him about it and he said, no, his workers weren’t there on Monday.  However, the contractor had advertised for free dirt and someone had come by to get the dirt.  That was the most likely suspect.  No one else would have been trying to back up or turn around in a 10 foot wide alley.  But seeing as how they weren’t noble enough to leave a note, we’re out the money for a new garage door.  We filed a police report, but the officer said unless someone saw him do it, or the guy admits it, we can’t really do anything.  Grrrr!  The joys of city living.  These are the sort of things that make me wish I lived out in the country somewhere! 

Relative to the start of the week, the rest has gone smoothly.  Yesterday was my last day of riding my bike to the gym.  I have a week more to work there, but I’ll have the vehicle all next week as Brian will be in training at his job.  It hasn’t been too bad, really.  In fact, I’m pretty sure it was good for me :)  But I need a nap after biking 40 minutes and working out between my classes.  It leaves me pretty worthless in the afternoons.  Maybe I’ll continue riding my bike for exercise while the weather is nice.  We’ll see.