The Worst Week Ever!!!

WTF, I have had the worst week ever! Or I guess I can say the “crappiest” week ever (literally)!
I will start at the beginning…….Starting two weeks ago, there was a funky smell in my house. I cleaned the whole house from top to bottom, but still could smell the smell. The next step was blaming the smell on my two dogs (our boxer, and our 12 year old dog buddy who really does stink, so it was valid) so the dogs got bathed, the carpets got shampooed; we cleaned the dog beds and even the couches.
The smell was still there! But now it was getting worse! We continually cleaned the house for about a week searching for the source of the smell .Then last Sunday the 16th I was on a mission to track it down, the smell that had now turned into a poop smell!
Finally Sunday in the middle of the day I realized the smell was coming from our crawl space ( we do not have a basement, and there is basically a 4 foot space under our whole house that has dirt floors, and is where our water heater and furnace is, I know it sounds creepy, but hey we live for free!) . So once I decided that it was for sure coming from down in the creepy hole, I called Brandon and told him we must have a dead animal or something down there and that when he gets home from work he would need to check it out (because there was no way in hell that I was going to go down there).
So, he gets home at about 10:30pm and gets down in the crawl space. First let me just tell you when he opened the door to go down there, it was the worst smell that I have ever smelt, kind of like those nasty bathrooms up in the canyon when you go camping, but worse! As he was down in the hole looking around, and standing in what we thought was mud because it was all wet down there. We realized the smell was our crap, literally and Brandon was standing in it! We started freaking out and called our boss to tell him what was going on, and he assured us that this would get fixed and everything would be taken care of. The smell was so bad we had to have an emergency hazmat crew come clean it out!
Now, to update you one week and one day later, the smell is gone (well kind of) and we still cannot use our plumbing! Meaning no cooking, because we can’t wash the dishes (so take out is what we eat) If I want to shower I have to run next door or go over to my parents house (so I have gone without showers some days). And if I have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, too bad I hold it! My bladder is going to have major problems!
The plumber told me today that we should be able to have plumbing by tomorrow, but he is not sure where the problem is coming from yet. I am not a plumber so I just say “okay” but I am really thinking WTF, tomorrow, I have not had a nice shower or a relaxing bath for a week! But there is nothing I can do! I now personally despise plumbers! At least the company I am working with, they have just avoided us, lied and have really done nothing until today!
So that is the end of my crappy story (as of today) and I just wanted to vent for a bit and let everyone know that if they think there week has been shitty, I'm sure mine has been worse!
Sorry about the novel I just wrote, but there was really no other way to explain it without explaining it all!!

Oh my, October flew by!

Well I am so sad October is over! Our month was pretty packed and toward the end of it it got even more hectic! The day before Halloween Brandon had to get surgery, so needless to say we did not do much of anything on Halloween. So i made the best of it and got a bunch of scary movies, and bought a ton of candy to hand out to trick-or-treaters. Well we didn't watch one movie, Brand just wanted to sleep. And we did not get one trick-or-treater. I was so bumbed out! So i don't have any pictures of Halloween, and i am stuck with a crap load of candy! Here is a picture of Brandon right before his surgery, the doctor thought a was a little crazy ( but i think i was just capturing a memory). Oh and he would not smile, so that is why is making that face. I guess he agreed with the doctor (I'm a little crazy).

Here are the pumpkin's we carved, I carved the witch and Brandon Carved the Werewolf and the Dracula. He stayed up till 1am the night before his surgery to finish them. He was very proud of himself. I think they turned out pretty good considering he drew the pictures on the pumpkins by hand (i did not know the kid was artistic at all).