Ode to the Hills

As some of you know, and some of you who don't know yet, I've been talking about these bumps that are appearing in our apartment. we first noticed the one right in front of our door because we can only open our door about a foot. then soon enough we noticed one in the kitchen, then the half bath, and now there is even one in the living room. needless to say, we have mini hills growing in the carpet. none of these hills really bothered me until i had to kick the door open one day because I couldn't get through with the groceries.
well after about a week of these mysterious hills showing up , and us in wonder if our apartment was going to burst from below us, we got a phone call.
Our landlord who moved to south Carolina right about the time we were flying home from the honeymoon, called us and said he was making the drive back to ILLINOIS, he then explained the story
Our apartment is really a town house, therefore we have no one under or above us, only people to next to us. four all together, the guy who is at the end, just a side note, his door mat says "go away". his water heater broke, and according to Larry (our landlord) he didn't know his water heater broke for a week, maybe longer. which in turn Larry loudly expressed I think in frustration, "How can you not know your water heater broke? You wouldn't have any hot water!" so needless to say, all this water filled into the bottom of our apartments and because of so much moisture, hence the hills.
So there is the problem, now the solution.
Larry has been around the past couple days, he hired some professionals to look at all of our apartments. in the meantime, these other guys who have a green van, almost like scooby doo, are going underneath the apartments, and installing these loud fans, which i haven't heard yet, but Larry stated they will probably be very loud. These fans will be on for a week, maybe longer. Then the guy who has to come into our apartment and look at the floors will determine what needs to be replaced. which the worst are the front door and the kitchen.
Our Landlord has been really nice to us throughout this whole ordeal, although we secretly believe he is very mad at the guy on the end. Larry has offered to put us in a hotel on him, if the noise is too loud.
in conclusion to everything, our apartment will probably be undergoing a lot of construction over the next month. we may be getting new carpet totally throughout the down stairs, which means we have to move everything out and so on, which will be hard for us because of school everyday and work. its an interesting story, with maybe a good ending, New Carpet!!!!

A few stories.....

Well Married life has been going great, school is way underway, and work is well, selling the pizza's mostly Fiesta's all in all God has been good. His love and Providence is really showing through while we balance our schedule of work, school, and just spending time together. learning to cook has become my new passion. i love trying new things, and well as far as i know mike is rather excited about it as well. being in my small and sometimes very warm kitchen has been a joy to be in, a time for me to think and watch as i put together a few small ingredients to make a rather delicious something.
a few rather, funny, and interesting stories to begin, well mike works at a country club with a lot of rich old men, and one guy left behind to mike a rather good cigar after mike looked it up online and found out some information about it. so then mike bought me a cigar so that we could enjoy them together, after i got off work that night i popped some popcorn and mike and i headed to our small back porch to smoke our cigars. because we live on a street with a lot of apartment buildings, we do not have much of a back yard, maybe 10 feet before you are next to the lady who lives behind us with about a million cats. one, i might add that does not have a tail, who mostly sleeps on our front porch or under our cars. well, this lady leaves food out 24/7 for her "cats" but really to any animal who is hungry enough to eat cat food. so while we are smoking our cigars enjoying some popcorn and talking about anything going on in life, we see a raccoon approaching, he was moving rather slow, and sort of limping, he was defiantly heading for the cat food. well i said to mike "Hey look ! that raccoon is limping really bad" and mike said ya it is, "but i think that its missing a leg" me - "NO way its limping" as we see it in the light- Sure enough he didn't have a front right leg, it was just a nub! a raccoon with three legs, eating cat food, that made my night-
ahhh yes, and another odd thing going on in the Heinold household, we find that our apartment is coming up with random bumps in the floor, the first bump we noticed is right in front of our front door, because one day is noticed that i could only open the door enough to barley squeeze through, which is all we can do right now, the other day i had to kick the door open and in doing so to open it all the way i scraped the bottom of the floor,,, oopppss. and also i noticed a bump in the kitchen as well. rather strange I'm not sure what is going on but i think mike is calling our apt fixer guy Fred this week. i don't understand what could cause a bump in the floor, its like a mini hill grew or something.
All in all, life is busy right now with so much going on, but we still have time to enjoy the simple joys in life, and see the blessings that God has been giving to us. We've been able to have friends over for dinner many times, and even Mom came over, (Momma chally) "With God all things are possible"

First day of school

Well, The first day of school ! Mike and I finally got settled into our apartment, Mom said that we had to take a picture on the first day of school so here it is, Day 1 of the next 180 days or so of a lot of reading studying and stressing over getting a good grade. It seems like only a few years ago, school was all about meeting new friends, having the coolest clothes or the latest school supplies, and of course being apart of everything going on at school, science club, math club, football team, Volleyball all that good stuff. Now that your old, married and have to pay off all your school loans in a couple years, all you really care about is getting your college degree and getting a really good job, so that you can pay off loans, buy a house, and probably a dog. or well at least that's what i want to do. a picture can say a lot of words, so here's to the first day of school! what a hot one!















another thing that makes olivet so fun! is that the first week of school they don't want anyone new to be left out, and so they invented Ollies Follies!!!! A week of fun class competitions, where you bond with the people in your class, and find the most talented to of course win every event. This year, I took part with the Juniors in some good old Sand Volleyball! which we did beat the Seniors! one event that i will never understand is the egg and fish game, two people, are a pair, which each class has about 10 pairs or so, so four classes of 10 pairs, do the math this would make for a about 80 people in a confined space, a boy on bottom with an egg taped to his face, a girl on top, with a real dead fish in hand, running around trying to crack other people's eggs, This I will never understand. Well during the day we do crazy things like this! while at night we enjoy a large outside screen movie, pirates of the Caribbean 3. afterwords, 11 of us, went to stake n shake, not really to enjoy the food or service, but really to enjoy the company of friends, which i think is what i enjoy about school the most. All in all , starting a new year at school may seem like a lot of stress and hard work, but with great godly friends, and father who loves us, makes the school year almost more enjoyable than summer break!