Oak&Toile

Good Weekend, well half of it. I had to work yesterday and took Thursday off to run around getting a bajillion errands done. We had to open up a storage shed so we got some of the last few things into it because we didn't have time otherwise. Ordered a pizza Friday night, just been kind of eating leftovers and cleaning up around the house.

Sooo apparently a tad boring then ;)

I did make Savannah red rice this week and added fresh shrimp...it was oh. so. good. YUM! Received a Lilly P Ebay find in the mail this week, it is cute! It's the patchwork print from about 2 or 3 years ago...and a leeetle snug, so joining the gym and pumping some iron is the goal for this week!

Oh! and I finished "Savannah Breeze" - what a great summer read, I was into it and couldn't put it down.


Work is good, I have some other things floating around for the fall (in addition to my job now), which I'll post about later but it's really exciting for me! I'm on my feet all day at my current job and after I struggled through the first week, I HAD to run to TJMaxx to see if I could find any comfortable shoes. I picked up a pair of "Born" sandals and oh my, like comfy little feet cushions, they are! I'm in the market for another pair now.



Soooo. the reason we had drama I mentioned earlier was because of a certain sibling, (not mine!) of ours who is closer to age 30 and a female. We'll say X for now. So, my husband's sister, X, calls up one day and says hey my boyfriend is in town, can he come by and get your washer/dryer?

**Background info, X has, on many occasions, "not spoken to us" because of us doing horrible things to her, like moving out of state or not calling her to ask her questions about her week. And still, cannot get over the fact that we are married. Honestly, just really jealous and it hurts hubby and me all the time b/c we are consistently nice and half the time we get a cold shoulder and/or "I'm too busy to visit". Just completely ridiculous behavior. The kind you wish you could just ignore, but it is family. AND, when we moved out of state (which offended her and hurt her feelings - which was really nice b/c it was a hard move for us and we could have used all the support we needed) Hubby's parents gave us some furniture they wanted to pass along (bed frame, recliner etc) and a washer/dryer. A perfectly nice w&d that was sitting in a storage shed. Mind you, we never asked for it, but they said go ahead and take it and we thought that was a great way to avoid having to buy a brand new set. Well, that upset X. She had "called it". Whatever, like many many many times before, we just apologized and rolled along. Now, our temporary abode (like for a few more months temp) has a washer/dryer upstairs, so we decided to store our w&d for when we buy a house. **

Back to the call, hubby says, "well umm, X, your bf is welcome to borrow the w&d for a few months, but we do want to keep it." And basically gets a rude response as to how that's unfair, she wanted it and she's going to call their parents. Very mature right? Then, he basically gets yelled at for telling her that yeah, they can borrow it but they w&d are OURS. And then gets a call from the parents, saying he should apologize to her. He calls and gets cold shoulder. Because she's mad at us. FOR 3 WEEKS won't answer the phone. I mean seriously!

This probably sounds like rambling thing that's NOT A BIG DEAL (because it's not) but X decided to make it her own drama. Re-mother-freaking-diculous. I can't tell you how many times people (including us) have bent over backwards because they made HER mad. I really just don't understand how immature and selfish people are! Really!

Whew, had to vent here because I just can't stand when people try to play little games. Dude, live your life! And I could tell many more instances but (as church reminded me this morning - sermon on family and forgiveness), I musn't stoop to that level. Forgiveness. Working. On. It.
:)

Ok, back to a low-key Sunday evening and thanking God for air conditioning because this heat? Is hardcore!!

Have a nice week!