Meet my Rug

Remember when I travelled the end of October?

Well, I can't remember if I told you, but I bought a rug. I found this little shop that had really cute rugs, and the man designed them himself. Not only were they some of the best I had seen, but they were also WAY cheaper than most other places.

So I fell in love with one design, but he only had 3X5 feet, and I really wanted to use it as a runner for our hall (the wood floor boards have seen better days and we're trying to minimize actually stepping right thru them). Long story short, the man said he could make me a custom rug, any size I wanted and would mail it to me.

Let's just say i was on board!!! I told him the exact dimensions and gave him my address. I was a little worried about if I would actually get my rug, but I had a friend who lived there so I knew if things went south she could harass him for me :)

Anyways....the rug was supposed to be here Nov 21st. That day came and went. I emailed homeboy a few times and he basically said due to some holiday there would be a delay. This is when I started to pray about the rug. It wasn't insanely expensive, but I'm not one to just throw away money either. Daniel and I both started wondering if we would ever see this rug.

And then yesterday happened.

Oh the pure joy!!!!

Please meet my rug.....

ohhh I just love it!!!!

Seriously take a good look. This rug has ALL of my favorite colors...browns, reds, blues and greens. Oh the joy.

We left the hall light on last night just so we could stare at it. It's so pretty! Also......it's washable people! Which makes my life that much easier.......

And while we're at it......I also bought this in October too.

Right now our bed sheets don't match each other, and one day I want to get matching sheets. I'm always torn between blues and greens, so I love that no matter I go with, this wall hanging should match them.

And just for the sake of continuing the randomness, here's a picture of our candy bowl. This is after a week of eating from it.

Plans for tonight? We're going to a friends house to eat and play games. I think most years I'm always a little sad to leave the year behind. But something about this year makes me ready to jump right on into it!

love

laura

drained

This is my taper week. Which means i get to take it easy as i rest and enjoy extra time from not running.

ha...... hardly!!

this week has been so intensely draining both emotionally and physically. hard. week.

Within a few short days we were hit with a couple of decisions that we're trying to still figure out.

Work has been insane. Each day i leave i know i have a couple more hours of things that need to be done. Easy overtime. but i don't have time to spare. not this week anyways. i hate that i have friends that deserve phone calls, and i go to bed each night thinking that maybe the next day i'll get a spare moment. i hate feeling like a bad friend....

it all came to a head when i came home last night and cried on Daniel's shoulder that all of it was just "too much" and i was spent. We talked everything out, felt tons better and ate dinner. Life was going so well.....

Then it started raining.

For the third time, our apartment flooded. Water gushes in thru the front door (used to be windows, but those have been fixed). Our night turned into disaster. I stood in the middle of the living room watching the water come in and i felt so utterly helpless and angry. I cried twice more last night. if you know me, this is a lot...because i'm pretty unemotional/don't like to cry. i'l cry at church or at a commercial, but dealing with emotions and letting them out is not my area.

I won't go into the DRAMA and battle it has been with our apartment complex (which btw is brand new) to get this fixed...or just to even get help when the water is standing in our living room.

(p.s. the 2 big times water came in was RIGHT after i had just vaccumed and mopped the floors....really?!?!?)

Just wanted to let ya'll know why i have been absent this week....but enough about my drama.....

Straight after work tonight we're heading to DFW!!!!

Sarah and the boys are coming tomorrow. I haven't seen my nephews in over 5 months....which is a crime in my book.

I'm getting a hair cut.

It's my dad's birthday, oh and.........

I'M RUNNING A 15K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sarah, dad and me are running in the Ft. Worth something something 15k on Monday. Dad turns 55 and all 3 of us will be running the furthest we've ever run in our lives.....

i wish i had time to go into all the excitement!!!!!  Sarah and I have been encouraging and training together long distance this whole time, because we live 7 hours away from each other. I wanted to write a long post about my journey and what this feels like, but that will have to wait till later, because i have to go get all our towels out of the dryer that we used for the flood.......

stay tuned!!!

love

laura