Salting and peppering my words in #1 from the last post, so I can joyfully eat them. That's right. My mother in law was in rare form and actually (chew chew swallow) pleasant. She actually was friendly (munch, crunch swallow) and eager to make me comfortable. Wanna know why?
It's top secret. I can't tell you. Let me give you a clue. I am about to be the only daughter in law. So I guess that promotes me to favorite now. No I am not the least bit happy about this. Remember my #2 from the last post. Well, it's sad beyond words and also confounding. (Confounding--yeah that's the word I went with). But since it's top secret, I'm not going into details. If you are a praying person, send an extra prayer that this family can work it out because truly the two young children will suffer from this. There is no way around that.
In other news, guess what else happened while we were there. A smell. An unknown smell. That's right. {On a side note Twilight fans, I've decided that if I became a vampire my power would be super smell.} So let me tell you about this smell...so you can laugh. Or roll your eyes.
When we are at my inlaws, we stay in our travel trailer. It's something we bought before kids, because we thought it would be great to travel around with our own bathroom. (hehehehe--remember me with the IBS people!) Anyway. Enter our daughter who is ridiculously carsick and well...there it sits at my inlaws. So we stay in it at night. Her house is really not set up for alot of guests and up until recently D's brother and wife and kids got her two extra bedrooms. Which believe me is fine by me! And this weekend, she went and cleaned the trailer and made beds up-the whole nine yards. She was so excited we were coming to stay.
Truly the trailer was immaculate when we arrived. We settled the kids in and slept like the dead. Then the next morning I woke up and thought I smelled a sewer type smell. Yuck! After a full day of running in and out of the trailer and trying air fresheners, air purifiers, industrial cleaners, it was getting worse not better. D emptied the sewer tank. And still the smell. We eventually came to the conclusion that when D's dad hooked stuff up on Wednesday and started the AC something must have been killed, electrocuted, something...and by Saturday morning was smelling up the joint. We never found it, but we slept with the windows open and the vent fan on and well...spent little time in the actual trailer. Jeez Louise. This smelly stuff is getting old.
Then THEN! when we came home last night...our house reeked from the stupid garbage disposal. I think I should just stuff Vicks up my nose and call it a day. (Eww want to know something gross? When I was a cop I would carry Vicks in my bag for scenes with really dead bodies if you know what I mean. Fortunately I only had to use it once. Decaying dead bodies is a smell you never ever forget.)
Okay. Anyone out there still reading?? I am so excited that there were all these new challenges to greet me from my favorite sites when I logged on the computer. I hope to play along soon!
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Mere, I thought about you while you were away visiting. Something I read on a blog brought your weekend to mind. Glad to hear your visit was not what you expected. Am so sorry to hear about your brother-in-law and his difficulties. Take it from someone who has been married for 34 years - it's no picnic, but has to be better than the alternatives. \I know what you mean about THAT smell. I worked for a dentist who performed Cryo-Cautery surgery and the smell of burning flesh is awful. I wish I had thought about Vicks.
Glad you survived the in-laws.
As a surgical nurse using vicks or pepermint oil was the ONLY way you could walk into an OR that had a 'bad' belly surgery going on!!!!
I SO feel your smelly pain LOL
I am glad your weekend wasn't as bad as you thought it would be. I LOVE reading your posts!
sorry about the smell yuck!
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