The Smelly Thing

Marriage is God's greatest invention. We have now been married for 3 and a half months. They say that there is an adjusting period when you need to adjust to one another's little habits or ways of doing things. Like placing the roll of toilet paper so that it goes under or over, like remembering to leave the toilet seat down, like one may like things in one place and the other may like things in a another place, decorating, cleaning, there are all kinds of things two people who have been dating for 3 years don't truly know about each other until they are married and lived together. For the most part I can say (with the exception of the heat dilemma) we have adjusted pretty well. There was this one thing a couple of months ago. It was this scented aroma piece that we had that was just bad. It wasn't like barfy or poopy smelly, it was like, well really the only way I can explain it...is like...you know how some older women spray perfume that doesn't smell ...bad... per Se, just really really strong which can cause it to be quite offensive. I tried to tell her that this was the source of the smell in our apartment that we had been trying to track down, but she seemed to like the thing so we kept it out for a few more weeks. Finally I couldn't take it any longer. I did something I am not proud of. Something that a giving, caring, self-sacrificing husband should not do, I hid it. I just wanted to put it away a couple of days to see if our apartment would smell better. Anyway, I don't know how she found it so fast. But the next day she found it in an unused cupboard, wrapped in a plastic bag next to an open box of baking soda. The cupboard that I put it in actually smelled really bad too, only this smell was like something had died in there, so my plan was to get rid of the smell in our apartment, and kill the rotten dead smell in the cupboard. My plan worked better than I could have imagined. The thing is still in the cupboard along with the baking soda. Our apartment is smelling much better and the unused cupboard is smelling like strong perfume.

In other news. Carrie cooked an incredible meal tonight. Ham and scalloped potatoes. mmm. She is so good. While she working her butt off in the kitchen I went and got a movie for us to watch. We watched the movie 21 while we ate and decided to leave the dishes for tomorrow. She's in bed sleeping now and I think I'm going to go join her. Married life is so great.