Postprandial Adventures

Last week on Tuesday, both Tyler and I got calls for job interviews. Mine was with the school housekeeping department, and Tyler's with Kmart. Thursday I went in for my interview and they hired me, and I started working on Friday. On Friday Tyler had his interview, was hired, had orientation today and will start on the 25th. We are both so grateful to have jobs and be meeting people.

We've been keeping busy the last couple of days getting ready to move out. In order for the crew to come and do the remodel, all of our stuff has to be out of our bathroom and spare room. Also, we've been working at making sure everything in the house is put away so that we dont have to worry about the crews messing it up.

We get the keys to our temporary home tomorrow, and they will start working on our house at 6:00am Monday. I'm working my hardest to think ahead to all of the stuff we will need, including food and cooking supplies. Also, we need to be sure that I have everything I need for school. We will take some before and after pictures of the bathroom, but for now we have no idea what all they will do.

Our Own Chichi

Well, in case you were wondering about the title, I go to dictionary.com and check out the word of the day, and then I use it as a title. So, the definition of chichi is 'affectedly trendy'. Substrate was a much easier word to use.

Our house has been pretty normal recently. We've both been applying for jobs, I've done homework, and Tyler played games. In there was the official end of unpacking, and my random cooking adventures. I've found that most things I cook on a whim are fine, but every now and again I create things. Icky, nasty, things.

Boiled Bagels...BLEH

We haven't grocery shopped a lot because we weren't sure where we would end up financially, so we ran out of things to munch on. I decided that I REALLY wanted bagels. I looked up a recipe and got to work. The dumb things took 3 hours to finish, and were awful. They are the most tasteless things I have ever eaten, but I kept eating them trying to figure out what they tasted like.

On the other hand, some things turn out really well. I made pizza the other night and it was delicious. The crust recipe was different, but good. We didn't have sauce so I pureed diced tomatoes that had garlic and oregano in them. And then I topped the pizza with cheese, pepperoni, onions, venison sausage, and homemade bacon bits. SO yummy.

The other big news is that Tyler and I both have jobs. On Tuesday we both got calls to come in for interviews. So yesterday I went to the school housekeeping HQ, interviewed and was hired. The work limit for student workers is 20 hours a week, normally freshman can't do this much, but they have made an exception for me. Tyler interviewed at Kmart tonight and was hired, he will be working anywhere from 15-25 hours a week. Both are minimum wage jobs so we will keep searching, but the minimum wage here is a dollar more than in Wayne County.

Thank you so much for all of your prayers and encouragement, we really appreciate it.

Substrate of Mold

Isn't it pretty?? This is what greeted us from behind the toilet when we moved into our house. Mom and I were quick to discuss what we should do about it. After about a week, I had time to clean up a bit. I got my bleach water and sprayed the guts out of the little mold critters. I was so happy that the black mold came right off, unfortunately, what you see above did not. I also found standing water behind the toilet. =( I knew that our next step was to contact the maintenance department at the school so they could come fix the leak. (insert music of impending dooooom)

After I had gotten home from a crazy day of switching classes and transferring credits, I came home to find random guys walking all through my house and Tyler sitting in the office. (This never happens because the office is HOT) I soon found out that when Charlie went to check out the leak, the hose sprang off and started shooting water everywhere. It took them a long time to get it shut off because our shutoff valve is in a teeny tiny trapdoor outside (stupid).

 So the bathroom, hall, and part of the bedroom flooded. The maintenance guys worked for awhile, but sadly Charlie's son was in a car accident and he had to leave. Tyler and I hung around the house for awhile and tried to relax. The guys had set up a large blower and we had the air in our bedroom running. We got curious and did some investigating and discovered that the water had seeped under a wall and into our spare room too. Thankfully, nothing in there has any water damage. SO, we took a little stroll over to the physical plant and got ourselves a dehumidifier. They told us to keep the house closed up and it should dry.

In the meantime, our spare freezer started leaking, or something, but there was water under it. So we investigated that and just let it go to see if it still happened. Thankfully, nothing is wrong with it other than getting too warm between the hot water heater and dryer.

At this point we thought that we could finally just wait out the carpet, and it would dry. No biggie right??? Craziness done right??? Wrong.

We were Skyping Mom around 9 when we blew a breaker. This was something that was very common in our old house so we went to reset it, but it didn't work. Mom got Dad to come and Skype with us and after about 10 minutes we decided there was no hope. We were going to have to spend the night with power in only half of the house.

It has been too hot to even think about
sitting on our couches, we have been
"chillin" in the loungers

Now because we had the house closed, and it has been in the 90's the last two days, and we had no air conditioning, it was HOT. We spent the very warm night on separate couches in the living room. In the morning I got ready in the dark and headed off to class. When I got back later Charlie was back along with another man we had not met yet. We told them about the power and they called the electrician for us, Praise the Lord he got our power back on and helped us separate the circuits. We had air again.

As the guys were looking around and situating our fans (including the air, we are up to 4) I was doing homework and Tyler was with the electrician. Pretty soon the man in charge called us over, he wanted to have a conference with everyone. Oh no, what now?

This is what he said, "We've checked the walls, and they are pretty bad. Do you have another place you could possibly stay for a few days?"

 ..... seriously.....

It looks like they will have to replace the wall behind the toilet and vanity. We still aren't sure what is going to happen with us, whether we can stay here, or if the school has a place to put us up, or there was talk of a hotel. But I find it all a little humorous, and crazy. So much has gone wrong in the last two days, I'm just waiting to see what happens next.

I've decided I needed to take a few pictures to show you what else we've been doing.


They placed the blower so that is faces the toilet. We didn't think much of it until we walked in the bathroom and our toilet paper was flying around and unrolling. We've learned to tuck it behind the toilet seat to keep it safe. I say we need a Cottonelle roll cover.

In all of this, I was craving some kind of chocolate so I made no-bakes. They are wonderful straight from the fridge, we have been trying to find anything we can to cool us down. Pretty much, we've spent the day in bathing suits because its the coolest thing we have. Also, thank you Joe and Jen for the popsicles, I don't know what I would have done without them.

Tyler has used the time to clean up a bit, he cleaned up our porch and found a great way to hang the swings we got for Christmas last year.

Sorry this is a long post, it has been an eventful day.