I'm still feeling sleazy for disclosing the mortgage payment.
Don't think I'm not judging you, you shameless woman.
Don't you have an elsewhere to be?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Feb 11, 2005 12:41:05 pm PST #6475 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse - Feb 11, 2005 12:42:42 pm PST #6476 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My brain is refusing the information, with lots of harsh whispering like, "Cindy, that is NOT your business."
Huh. None of it sticks in my brain because it's all so irrelevant to me. I mean, what do I care what someone in a different industry, in a different part of the country, with a different background, makes or pays? So I go "huh," and then free up the brainspace.
Allyson - Feb 11, 2005 12:44:24 pm PST #6477 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Don't think I'm not judging you, you shameless woman.
I get not being able to disclose, but is it shocking to read other folks disclosing?
Lilty Cash - Feb 11, 2005 12:44:30 pm PST #6478 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Oh, no, you'd lose the delightful contrast between the madcap lilt and the prosaic cash! Plus, it looks funny in Verdana.
Well, then, I stay.
§ ita § - Feb 11, 2005 12:45:21 pm PST #6479 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
is it shocking to read other folks disclosing?
No, it's actually very interesting, and it makes me wonder why I'm so damned bougie.
Relief from this binding sensation is found in needling Betsy.
brenda m - Feb 11, 2005 12:45:22 pm PST #6480 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Jesse is pretty much me on this. Though I did think it was curious how many of us (who I probably can't name now) seem to fall in the same general range.
brenda m - Feb 11, 2005 12:46:54 pm PST #6481 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Lilty, I was so pleased with myself when I caught up with Wonderfalls months after the broadcasts and caught where your name comes from.
beth b - Feb 11, 2005 12:46:57 pm PST #6482 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
yay I fixed my chair.
I only noticed that some saleries are about what I make part time - and people are living on them. and I noticed Betsy's morgage payment only because it is close to my two morgages on my house.
Betsy HP - Feb 11, 2005 12:47:02 pm PST #6483 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I'm always happy to offer ita relief.
Liese S. - Feb 11, 2005 12:47:08 pm PST #6484 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I'd be free labor.
Ooh! I'll take you up on that -- we are so going to have a bale-raising party. A year or so down the road, though. It is fascinating, isn't it? And it would be just perfect for us out here, it's so dry. Our leaky sieve of a cinder block house now is even passive solar quite nicely, I can't imagine what a truly insulated house would be like.
We've got a buddy (the couple that owns the kennel we use in AZ) who are thinking about doing a strawbale addition to their house, and we're going to help them with it to gain experience for ours. Thinking about doing a workshop, too.
How's that work?
I work for a nonprofit and one of the areas it benefits has provided housing for us. The church owns a large campus (used to be a school) and we live in one of their houses, rent-free, in exchange for doing some work around the church and for working with their kids. We pay communal utilities ($200), it's not split out to our individual usage, and we pay to have water hauled in to our tank ($85).
It's nice in that it's cheap and enables us to live out here on what we make, but it's also a problem in that there's no actual landlord, so when things happen like, oh for example, the back half of our house floods with sewage while we're away, there's not actually any recourse. It's fixed now, btw, the old former missionary came out and dug up some old clean-outs we didn't know were there, and well, cleaned out the lines.