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Good Morning y’all! It is going to be a whapping 90 degrees today, and I’m getting stuff around for my ‘day off’. Ordinarily, I would take the next two days off from work to get the apartment cleaned up, do some baking, and enjoy spending time with my fiancé. However, a friend of mine is selling pork rinds at the local county fair. So today I am going over to his house, with a team of helpers, to help him try to pop around 500 bags of pork rinds over the next few days!

Sounds like a fun thing to do when it’s 90 degrees out, right?

With pork rinds to bag this afternoon, I started my day off with my morning ritual of washing the dishes from yesterday and watching homesteading videos. I see this as my quiet time, and I look forward to it every morning. My fiancé is normally still in bed at this hour (6am), so I quietly go through the house grabbing dishes here and there, grab my laptop, and get to work on dishes. I normally have homesteading videos playing softly in the background as I do the dishes. It’s a little reminder of what I want my life to be like, and it’s nice to have something positive to start the day with.

This morning, I am feeling particularly in the Autumn mood, so I put some banana pumpkin bread wax in the burner this morning, which made the house smell amazing! I have been going through the holiday boxes in search of Autumn decor, but I have a feeling that most of it is still at my parents house, which I will be picking up today.

While I went around cleaning the apartment for the morning, my fiancé decided to make beer bread! This was something he had been planning on doing for over a week now, so I’m thrilled that he picked today to finally make it! Now the apartment smells good on both ends! With the bread in the oven and the smell of bread coming from the wax burner, the house smells and feels like Autumn!

Another thing we had to do this morning was fix a smoke detector in the hallway of our apartment building. We kept hearing an occasional beeping sound all day yesterday, and we finally discovered that it was a random smoke alarm in the hallway that needed new batteries. I went to the store this morning, to grab what we thought was the right batteries, only to get home and discover it took AA batteries and not the 9V we thought. Good thing we had AA batteries already! We through the right batteries in the smoke detector and the beeping finally stopped! Although, it boggles our mind that the other seven families in the building didn’t seem bothered by the beeping and probably expected someone else to fix the problem.

So that’s an update on my day! But what about an update on my life..?

Well! Wedding planning is going great! I’ve got less than a year until I marry the love of my life, and I couldn’t be happier! Things are getting done fast for the wedding, and everyone has truly been amazing in helping us out with wedding preparations. There will be plenty of blog posts to come about wedding planning though, so I will keep this short for now.

Work is getting easier. Not to say that the heat doesn’t bother me anymore in the greenhouse, but I’ve been allowing myself to go inside a lot more. Yes, the flowers need taken care of, but not at the expense of my health. And when I’m getting heat sickness every other day, I’m going to make sure I take care of myself in this heat.

My anxiety has become manageable again. My anxiety has been getting a little out of hand with constantly getting sick in the greenhouse. I’ve gone to great lengths to keep my anxiety from taking over, and although I’m not always successful at that, it seems to have worked this time. Although I am still not eating properly like I should be, I am also not constantly sick anymore! So I’ll take the wins where I can get them. For now, though, I seem to be back to my old self again, with the occasional worry of anxiety looming next to me..

My fiancé and I are starting to look at houses again! Of course, looking is all we are doing right now. We have had a LOT of sit-down discussions recently about where we want to live, how much land we want, and when to start seriously looking for places. We don’t quite have the money saved up that we used to, and we are trying to slowly get back there. Until then, we are keeping our eye out for what is coming on the market and keeping the conversations rolling about what we want on our property. We’ll get there again someday soon, and when the perfect property comes along, we want to be ready to pounce!

That’s all for today’s update! As always, smile, have an amazing day, and thank you all for checking up on me today! You guys are truly the best readers a blogger could ask for and I am so grateful for this blog and everyone who reads it. It helps so much to have a way to write down what I’m thinking and feeling, and it’s not only a type of therapy for me, but it’s a way to sort out my thoughts when they seem scrambled in my head. I hope you all have an amazing day!