Day Seventy-Nine

The Homecoming Disaster

Too many hours in the truck turned us into this. We've yet to unpack, unbox, or de-clutter the mess that's been made out of our trip. And you know what? For now, I'm ok with it. In fact, I've yet to be bothered by it at all. Although unusual character out of us, our exhaustion got the best of us today, with the motivation for cleaning lacking in comparison to the motivation to vegg. On most days, I'd be embarrassed to admit that I watched two episodes of Biggest Loser, two episodes of Sweet Home Alabama, and two episodes of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, but that's just not the case for this Monday. Nope. I'm alright with it. 

However, and this is no joke, Adam and I did do our fair share of cleaning today. Just not in the way of the mess in the photo...We left last Monday after scouring the entire apartment, careful to remove any garbage, fruit, vegetables, or dirty laundry that might spoil, rot, or mold. And we did an awesome job. At least we thought we had. But what we came home to was not the same as we'd left it. Here's the story: Adam and I are particularly healthy eaters. We make our own food and buy it fresh weekly. Leftovers are a daily meal when you're cooking for a man this size, so the portions are relatively large. Well, true story, Adam loves hamburger. Lots of hamburger. And with hamburger comes grease. Lots of grease. So, instead of gulping down the artery-clogging death-trap, we discard of the fat by spooning it into an aluminum can.  Then we place it under the sink until the next time we need it. 

Lesson #1: Never leave a can full of hamburger grease stagnant for 6 days anywhere.

  Lesson #2: Fruit flys love hamburger grease. 

Lesson #3: Maggots are fruit fly larvae.

  Lesson #4: Fruit flys reproduce. Rapidly.

Lesson #5: When your husband asks you how brown rice was spilled under the sink, kindly remind him that brown rice doesn't wiggle. 

PRAISE THE LORD THAT WE DECIDED TO COME HOME WHEN WE DID.

Any more days of that and who knows what more trouble we'd be in.

Oh, the joys of life!