So I was all excited to come home from work and continue the
planning I started at work for my current unit when I found the power was out
AGAIN! I calmly called Jeff (the guy to
call when in trouble) and relayed my predicament. He sighed and said he would check to see if
it was a bill not paid problem. A few
moments later he called again to say the bill had been paid and that he would
send a maintenance person out to check into it.
Meanwhile I began the oh-so enjoyable task of cleaning out a rotten
refrigerator for the second time this holiday season (the first was my parents’
fridge in the garage that went out while they were in Kenya for two months). The pungent odor was enough to make me gag
and almost vomit several times, and now my entire apartment smells like rotten
meat. The fridge is cleaned out, but
still reeks. The maintenance guy came
shortly after I finished washing all of the parts I could pry out of the fridge
and proceeded to check the breakers, take off the power amp reader to look at
the wires, take off the neighbor’s reader to look at the wires, and then he
came back up to my apartment and told me he had to return to school to get a
ladder. I kept myself busy with changing
the sheets on my bed and unpacking my suitcase.
While I was packing up my dirty sheets and clothes to take to the
lavanderia, I discovered a dead mouse amongst the clothes. Dropping the pillow case, I jumped back in
horror—I did not squeal however! My
suspicions of something nibbling my little Ziploc of marshmallows are
confirmed, and I’m glad I changed my sheets!
Yuck!!! The mouse is not in my
trash, waiting to be hauled to the dumpster, and I think I’ve swept up most of
the mouse poop. The little creature
seems to have been mostly confined to the two bedrooms because I haven’t found
any evidence of poop anywhere else in my apartment…yet. I am a bit disgusted that it died in my dirty
laundry, but perhaps I could market the idea as the latest in mouse bait. Now I have added to my grocery list D-con, or
whatever mouse killer they have here. In
the meantime, I’m leaving my dirty laundry where it is to ward off any friends,
and dining on chocolate until I can get to the grocery store and have somewhere
cold to put my food. I’m not sure when
the power will be back on, but I’m praying soon.
You all should be grateful that I’m dealing with so many
adversities—what else would I have to blog about so you can be thoroughly
entertained from a safe distance?
Oh, and here’s what I read yesterday in Psalm 42: “ Why am I
discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise
him again—my Savior and my God! Now I am
deeply discouraged, but I will remember you—even from the distand Mount Hermon,
the source of the Jordan, from the land of Mount Mizar. I hear the tumult of
the raging seas as your waves and surging tides sweep over me. But each day the
Lord pours his unfailing love upon me, and through each night I sing his songs,
praying to God who gives me life.”
I’m still pretty discouraged since things are starting to bleed over into
my work—I can’t plan, I can’t grade the essays online, I’m not getting much
help from people at school because everyone is busy with something more
important, and I can’t focus at school because of being preoccupied by my
problems. I would like to have one area
of my life here in Mexico that is not so difficult, but that doesn’t seem to be
God’s plan for me right now. I can only
trust God’s unfailing love for me and His plan for my life.
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