my phone rang friday night around midnight as i was sleeping in a hotel in amarillo. it was our apartment complex in norman trying to calmly tell me that our apartment had flooded. hmmm... okay. feeling quite helpless 5 hours away, we decided to eat, drink, and be merry. we enjoyed the weekend's festivities, while trying not to let our minds wander to the busted pipe and the floating-in-2-inches-of-water carpet. we finally made the long drive home on sunday, and this is the scene we found:
oh and most importantly -- imagine the most rank mildew smell you can possibly imagine and multiply it by twelve -- that was our apartment. chris had to preach that night, so we just grabbed clothes and got out as fast as we could. sick.
thankful #1: the apartment complex put us up in the la quinta sunday night. so a) we didn't have to stay in that rancid apartment b) we didn't have to be in anyone's way, and c) we didn't have to pay for it.
so on monday, they completely redid all of our floors -- carpet and wood. we came home at lunch to check on their progress and found some of our furniture in the rain. my goodness gracious.
thankful #2: our original carpet was clearly old and worn, so our new carpet is much better! and our new wood floors are darker and nicer than our orignal ones! yeah!
thankful #3: the maintenance guys left at 6 that night -- all of the floors were finished, but there wasn't a stick of furniture in its original place. i figured we would just set up our bed and figure the rest out later, but when i came home from my small group, chris had rearranged ALL of our furniture! everything was back where it was supposed to be! AMAZING!
we were so excited to be able to stay at our home monday night after a weekend away and a night at the la quinta, but unfortunately, we began to notice a few not-so-small problems: the air conditioner was broken, the dryer and oven wouldn't turn on, the internet didn't work, we had zero hot water... minor details, right? wrong.
thankful #3: the apartment complex has been super gracious through this whole thing and very willing to help. they sent out maintenance people on tuesday while we were at work to fix our long list of problems. yeah AC and hot water!!
on wednesday, we finally started going through the mounds of wet things they had thrown in our guest bathroom and bedroom. gross. our overflowing laundry hamper got soaked, but thankfully after our dryer finally got fixed, we were able to wash everything and the smell went away! slowly but surely, we're knocking out the hints of mildew smell and getting our little apt back to norm.
thankful #4: let's be honest -- when we were driving home from amarillo, we had no idea what we were coming home too. even though it's been the MOST inconvenient week and we've been exhausted and on each other's nerves most of the week, it really has been the best case scenario -- none of our clothes or furniture seem to be ruined. a few things that were on the floor in our closet or under our bed have been drying out on our porch all week, but man, it could've been MUCH worse. we are so thankful.
i'll leave you with this. since the maintenance and floor guys had our doors and windows open so much, we've got way too many flies flying around our little place. i mean, WAY too many.
thankful #5: but have no fear... fly killer husband is here. he killed 4 flies in a matter of about 10 minutes and was SO proud of himself. unfortunately, i don't think he's had much luck since, but hey, at least we have this picture to enjoy.
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