spoken for

A few days ago when I was in the basement, I noticed a somewhat pleasant smell. It wasn’t particularly to my liking but it didn’t stink, either. I wasn’t really thinking about it and just assumed that Steve must have put in a scented air conditioner filter, or something. To tell you the truth, I don’t even know why that thought occurred to me, I don’t even know if they make such a thing. Not my job around here!

So the next night, we were upstairs in the living room and I noticed it again. I asked him about it but not only could he not smell it, he denied changing anything anywhere. Back to the basement to investigate. When I got downstairs, it was really strong… and not so pleasant anymore.

When storing candle scents, it’s no secret that you’re supposed to put them in a cool, dark place. However, they don’t tell you that if your bottles are plastic and have seams… Well, the bottles start sucking in like they’re trying to fit in last year’s prom dress and it just keeps going, going going… until the seam breaks open.

Then, your whole house smells like Berries & Herbs!

I have to tell you, I have customers that really love this scent, but I do not like it, at all. It was fine when it had apparently first started and wasn’t that strong, but now it is really strong. You get used to it for a while but then if you leave the house for even just a few minutes and come back in… oy!

I’m told there are worse things my house could smell like, and that’s true, but yuck! Thankfully, however, it doesn’t seem to be bothering K and once I get used to it again, it doesn’t bother me either. Nothing I can do about it though. When I finally found the problem, the big box that a lot of scents are stored in was soaked as well as part of another box and the whole area of wooden shelving that the boxes sit on. Even if I manage to get the box out, the shelves will be in this house until the end of time. So I didn’t even bother with it, it will eventually evaporate out. I did, however, go around to all the bottles, letting air into the ones that looked like they could break, too. I’m not really sure if that’s a long-term solution.

I’m torn, though, between being glad it wasn’t one of my absolutely best sellers and wishing it was a scent I liked better.

The other evening I finally finished up and mailed out my sister-in-law’s wedding invitations. It was all a lot of work but it was also fun to see it all come together. I started with some of those print-your-own invitations but altered them a bit to add the ribbons. Putting those ribbons in was the biggest pain in the butt, with the punching of the holes coming in at a close second. I also did the shower invitations, of course, and now all of that is thankfully sent off. I didn’t really like mailing the invites and the shower invites at the same time but we don’t have a lot of time, either. I’ve also designed and ordered the mini Moo cards that will be given out to guests to tell them when and where to view the wedding photos as I’m also heading up photography. Going to be a bit interesting, I think. There are a few things I am iffy about but Steve is out at the moment getting me some PVC pipe to build something to offset these possible hurdles. :)

It all started Saturday. When I got K out of bed, I noticed she was quite warm. She had a temperature of 100.9 at the time. Gave her some ibuprofen (did you know that it’s very hard to find acetaminophen right now?) and I took E to church. Poor fever girl had to stay home with Daddy. While I was gone, he took her temperature and it was 99.6. Ended up giving her more ibuprofen once more.

This morning, it was even higher at 101.4. So we called the doctor. Of course, our pediatrician is on vacation! Nothing against her (oh my, I love her like I’ve never loved a doctor), everyone needs a vacation! However, it just figures! The last time E and I were sick, our doctor was out, too!

However, they made an appointment for us to come in at 11:45. That only gave us an hour and forty minutes to get ready and get there, and we ended up being 17 minutes late. So we got to wait, some more.

Oh, yes, this is where parents everywhere are gasping that we bothered to take her to the doctor at this point. Let me explain. She had no other symptoms that we could see, so with someone with her kidney and bladder issues? She needs to be checked right away for infections in those areas. I honestly can’t remember the temperature limit we were told for bringing her in for this but when talking to the on-call nurse she said we should take K in. I think the limit is somewhere around 100 or 101. Oh, and this is K’s FIRST fever. I don’t even remember her having any in the NICU and she has, in her 15 months, not been sick.
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