I can’t get it together to write much coherent today after yesterday’s deep post so lots of random things today.
1 – Our dryer has been acting funky the last several weeks. I was at my wit’s end when it took THREE rounds to dry the girls’ clothes and then they still weren’t dry last week. We finally had a repairman come today and it turns out that we had a lint ball stuck in our vent system at a weird angle. Scott had cleaned the whole thing out but missed one odd spot. All is well now and we can return the dryer we bought and left at the store. Hallelujah!
2 – My next Stitch Fix got shipped today and should arrive Friday. Yeehaw! Thanks to some of you that used my referral link I have some credit and should have a little wiggle room (pun intended) on my budget.
3 – We have a mole in our back yard. I don’t know why this is newsworthy other than it was kind of cool too see his tunnel across the back yard.
4 – We had some type of rodent in our house. While Scott was working on the dryer, he found pieces of dog food behind the dryer. He cleaned it out and then the next day? He found more food behind the dryer. We had a small hole in the bottom of one our walls so Scott fixed it and then the next day? No food behind the dryer. I shiver at the thought of a mouse running around with our dog food in the house.
5 – I made Cauliflower Soup tonight and even my pickiest eater Lexi gobbled it down. So. good.
6 – I used carrots from my garden in the soup. They were wimpy and not really ready to come out but I planted the seeds in September and I was anxious to eat them. I have a few more growing back there but I’ll have to clean them out before I plant our summer garden in a few weeks (!!!).
7 – I’ve been the same weight for six weeks now. SIX WEEKS. Do you know how hard it is to count calories, exercise 6 times a week for an hour or more and not lose ANY weight? I talked to a trainer and he said based on all I was doing, I wasn’t eating enough calories. Hence, Cauliflower Soup (see #5) AND a dinner roll tonight.
Alright, I hope your Tuesday is going well for you. See you tomorrow for What I Wore Wednesday.
Ok, I am seriously not trying to be alarmist here but in the interest of being helpful ( really)…if you suspect there was a rodent, put out a couple of mouse traps near the dryer. Hopefully they will come up clean but in my experience if you have one mouse, you have a couple. I know, I know, it sounds awful and you will want to freak out at the thought, but it’s not that hard to take care of. Get the cheap snap traps, set them with peanut butter for a couple of days and see what happens. If they come up empty ( no peanut butter taken and no mice), then you’re in the clear and can rest easy. Trust me…I’m not thrilled to be an expert on this subject. But you’ve plugged the hole, now you’ve got to make sure there aren’t any running around. (Honestly, I’m not trying to worry you. I just know from experience that you do not want to be hanging out in that laundry room and have a mouse run under your foot. You never fully recover from an event like that. For real.)
*shiver* ok I’ll get Scott to get some traps.
I will keep my fingers crossed for you!
Those are the cutest carrots!
RE: #7 – that is SO frustrating. Same thing happened to me back in the fall. I worked out for almost three months and did. not. lose. one. pound. And I was working out at least 4 days a week and watching what I ate. So I took a break when the holidays came up and now I can’t get back into the routine. I know I was eating enough calories. I think it’s my aging metabolism and my thyroid but I keep forgetting to go back to the doctor (one symptom of low thyroid is memory loss) to have my bloodwork done. It’s always something!
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