That Time Life Got in the Way - AKA: Adulting is Hard.

Me: "Hey, I'm going to blog more! It's going to be great!"

Life: "Oh yeah, watch this!"  *Drops a crapstorm of chaos right in the middle of the sunshiny Lishy Land* 

Me: Oh... maybe not. *sigh*

Yep. Just when I think I have everything going smoothly, Life blows up. Murphy, you can take your law and shove it. And this is how I feel about it. There are slightly more middle fingers happening on the inside. 

So what's been happening during my hiatus? 

Well, a "gustnado" (according to the meteorologists) dipped down and blew my well house and all the connections completely away. We were without water for a few days and I had to haul water to flush toilets and wash hands and faces. Good times! 

Hauling water like a modern Laura Ingalls.

Well house damage

But the nice thing about being married to a guy who's a badass carpenter is that he can build you a new well house that's amazeballs. We still need to finish the underside of the roof and insulate it, but BOOM! It's fantastic. And green. 

New well house!!

Then, the devil crawled in my van. I am not one to freak the heck out over a bug, but these are not bugs. These are demon bug-snakes. This one apparently had an agenda because it rode 20 miles to town with us to the grocery store, hung out silently while I took the kids for a treat at town, and then rode 20 miles BACK home with us where it made its presence known when we got out of the car. Seriously. Check the inside of your car doors because it's a nice place to hitch a ride. I may or may not have screamed, did a little stompy dance, and had to change my pants. The worst part? When we tried to dislodge him, he darted into that little triangular hole between the interior and exterior of the van and I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE HE WENT. *panicky sweats* I was totally not having him fall out under the steering wheel while I was driving. I had nightmares about it. 

But they were short-lived thankfully. Because a few days later, THIS happened. These things may or may not have been connected. J said, "We needed a new vehicle." I said, "Well, we do NOW for sure! That's Satan's ride!" 

BOOM! New truck! Centipede-free. For now.

The truck has been fantastic since we've had to haul lumber, shingles, and all other well house building paraphernalia. It's taken some time for me to get used to driving it, but really, I love it. It's the newest vehicle we've had. All the doors work (TOTAL PLUS!), it has hands-free calling (which is fantastic for taking work calls when I'm running around), and the radio works. Dude, I haven't had a working radio in at least 5 years. I kind of feel like I've crawled out of a bunker somewhere. From Lawrence Welk to Kanye all in one fell swoop. I don't even know what to do with myself! 

Picture from Google Search, Meme made by Yours Truly.

Sprinkled in amongst the afore-mentioned fun, we've had one kid have 2 horribly infected, ingrown toenails that had to be partially removed (Side note: Did you know podiatrists can double as torturers? Thank goodness for anesthetic!!), and just 2-3 weeks later, another kid decided to have his 2 lower wisdom teeth come in (WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!! He is not allowed to be this old!!) and one of them is giving him fits. Thankfully it's not going to be a major surgery, just antibiotics for a few days and then they'll cut the excess tissue off that's causing the trouble. I feel like we dodged a major bullet with that one. Psh. Why couldn't my kids inherit the "no wisdom teeth" gene from me? Nope. All 3 of them have them. 

So, after 2-3 months of back to back adulting, I am done adulting. I need some adult-free time. So, to help with the non-adulting, I decided to create some anti-adulting memes. That's what the non-adults do, right? These are for the rest of you non-adulters. Enjoy. Maybe while I'm busy not adulting, I can have the kids become adults and make me some food!!