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This has really not been my month
Plus side: House got refinanced - yay ( Read more... ) -
I'm completely exhausted
14 hours combined work-work and housework Friday, 12 hours yesterday, going on 16 hours today including 4-5 hours pushing around a 50-lb rug doctor. I can't wait for the trim paint in the bathroom to dry enough that I can waaaaaaaash.
This house darn well better assess high enough to refinance, dagnabbit...
and this was supposed to be my post- ( Read more... ) -
Why you should never leave a theater tech major in charge of house repairs
1. They don't know how to actually repair anything, and have all too many ideas for how to do something that looks like it's repairing something.
2. ...actually, 1 pretty much covers it.
( Some days I'm amazed I'm still alive, really... ) -
I'm either brilliant or extremely, extremely slow...
When I bought this house, none of the living room blinds had functioning twist rods. So I bought replacement rods (they only had the kind with loops on the end) and fastened them to the little plastic bar (expecting the kind with the hook on the end) with twist ties. And it worked for a while, and then the twist ties did what overtwisted twist ties ( Read more... ) -
GRAAAAARGH
So I just spent an hour and a half I didn't have to spare on the phone with Wells Fargo trying to just get some mortgage information straight (because they'd actually called me yesterday after a month and a half of blowing me off) and at this point I've lost 90 minutes on the phone through 9 transfers and I STILL HAVEN'T TALKED TO A HUMAN WHO CAN ( Read more... ) -
Rude (?) awakenings
...I just don't get my cat ( Read more... ) -
Whyyyyyy is Bunter 18x more fascinated by my new shoes's shoelaces?!
So I have a new pair of walking shoes for getting back and forth to work on foot without hobbling the last bit of the way ( Read more... ) -
Italian-Chinese-British roast pork crossover recipe thing
So Dave had lots of Scarborough Fair herbs left over from the Guinness Stew on St. Patrick's Day, and wanted a home for 'em. I am all over fresh herbs like white on rice. So here's what I came up with to do with 'em...
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all the good restaurants are going under...
First it was Papa George, then it was the Green St. Coffeehouse, then it was Basil Thai (which has been in that building so long their name is built into the awning), then it was Crazy Buffet, and now Moonstruck ( Read more... ) -
Cats...
So I get home from work, dinner/housework/weights/blah blah blah, put on the kettle, brew a pot of good black tea, pour a little bit of milk into a creamer jug, and set up to keep working on the laptop. Fine, dandy, cat curled up on other end of sofa, life is good ( Read more... )