it's been a while...

hello again. sorry i've been so MIA! it's been crazy...i FINALLY finished jury duty (thank goodness!), and then john's step-sister got married this past weekend in Nashville, so we went up early for that. we got to take a long MLK weekend and head up to Winchester, TN (don't worry, i'd never heard of it either) to stay in John's friends' lakehouse for a few days. it was beautiful!! it's in the middle of nowhere, literally, and it was amazing to be there together. we just drove from small town to small town and walked through different antique stores. we went on a hike one day in the state park, and we saw about a million deer...i tried my hardest to convince him they were too beautiful to kill, but he still wants to hunt them. good thing he couldn't shoot in the park! it rained and rained our last day, but there is a tin roof on the house, and it made such a comforting sound! we'll definitely have to make a trip back once the weather is warmer and we can use the lake.
we arrived home yesterday around 2:00, and our landlord has yet to fix our garage door openers...they don't work. john pulled in the driveway, i took the keys, and i went through the front door to open the garage door for him. i walked through the living room, and something felt a little off, but i just kept going. after opening the door for john, i went back into the living room and almost had a heart attack. our TV was stolen! it's pretty much the one thing we've actually spent good money on - a flat screen HDTV that we bought before we got married. gone. vanished. the cords were hanging that connected to the DVD player, but the TV and the remote? both gone. i yelled for john, and we immediately looked for anything else that might be missing...nope! that's all they took. well and the three Pyrex bowls full of change by John's side of the bed. it's just plain heartbreaking that we live in such a place. good thing we already wanted to move! now i just pray every day that we get out of here tomorrow...i'll let you know how it turns out for us!
i'll be posting some pictures from the weekend soon...