Our dryer is broken. Or should I say we broke our dryer. As I type this I hear the clanking of metal, and screws, and parts. We are trying very unsuccessfully to fix it. At this point in Dryer vs. Team Prater it is Dryer 5 and Team Prater 2. This is an improvement seeing as it was a shut out for a while.
What started out as a loose belt has escalated into ---I don’t really know what. My advice is before you start taking screws out willy-nilly Google it. It might prevent a days worth of a hard and frustrating labor. I honestly think I am going to have nightmares tonight about being trapped in my dryer with nothing but the sound of scraping metal ringing in my ears.
As frustrating as it is to fix, every time we think we have gotten it right there is an unparalleled feeling of accomplishment. That is, until we hear that metal to metal sound that makes us what to cut our ears off.
In other, more positive news, I am in my final hours of the food month of Seven. I was beginning to wonder if this day would come. What have I missed most? That would be SWEETS! I have some treats ready to go after midnight tonight! A cupcake from girls bible study last night, jelly beans, Canterbury eggs, and strawberries from Publix. It took much restraint and self control not to buy out the whole store today.
I have all my meals planed for tomorrow and looking forward with great anticipation to them all. Yes, I have probably put too much thought into this.
Did anything good come out of this month? Absolutely! I have never eaten healthier. I really think I can continue this as long as I can throw in a few sweet treats here and there : )P Before this month I didn’t know I liked sweet potatoes or avocadoes. They will definitely remain a healthy stable of my diet. Especially now that I can dip some tasty Tostitos into my avocadoes. Most importantly I learned how spoiled I am. I have any food I could ever imagine at my finger tips,while my brothers and sisters around the world scrap by with some rice and bread. I learned that I CAN simplify and can choose to not get distracted by all the choices. I learned that I find Jesus in the simplicity.
Basically this month felt like a detox. A detox of all junk we fill our bodies with. It has left me feeling healthier, more energetic, and lighter. Like I have cleared out a room in my house. There is now room for the spirit to move about. I will splurge tomorrow and probably the day after that. But my hope is that I don’t fill my empty space back up with more junk. I pray that I will keep it cleaned out so that the spirit can continue to work.
I have a couple days break before I start the next month in April. I still haven’t decided what I am doing next. We will see!
***UPDATE***
Dryer 5 Team Prater 6
Team Prater made a come back at the bottom of the 4th. Who’s laughing now dryer, who is laughing now?
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