real estate inspires and inflames passions and jealousy, it's true.
You turn on any of my crew, you turn on me.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
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.
Nora Deirdre - Mar 08, 2006 8:25:38 am PST #2697 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Theodosia - Mar 08, 2006 8:25:53 am PST #2698 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
'Home' was still my Mom's house for a long time, but since I got a grown-up career and started accumulating major appliances and major furniture items, it's been my apartment. And now I actually own a house that I like a great deal, despite quirks.
§ ita § - Mar 08, 2006 8:26:45 am PST #2699 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have a thing that's almost like a sofa. It must mean I kinda like this town.
Though it is easy to move, since you can wrap it in plastic and roll it.
I am nothing if not commitment-shy.
Stephanie - Mar 08, 2006 8:27:21 am PST #2700 of 10001
Trust my rage
Just before I was born, my parents bought a house on St. Marys St. When I was six, we moved into the house next door and my aunt/uncle bought our old house. So for the longest time, St. Marys St. was home. Then my parents sold the house and moved to New Mexico. I love it there, but NM is not my home.
When I say home, I guess I mean where ever Joe and I are living at the moment. I'd love to say home is where ever he is, but he's too often not there for it to be the case. Instead, I think home is where, Joe, Ellie, and the dogs are. Together, they all make it home.
eta: Just wanted to add, that I, also, say "I'm from MN, but I live in (where ever)." I think I'll always be a Minnesotan. I do wonder how moving around will affect Ellie. Will she have a strong identity with one place or another?
eta2: I have this thing on my wall that says "Home is where the Army sends you" and then it lists below all the palces we've lived together. I'm a bit behind as it only goes up to Colorado.
Scrappy - Mar 08, 2006 8:27:40 am PST #2701 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Like Nora, my home is wherever Jason and I are. I call the city we moved to when I was 10 and my mom still lives in my "hometown" (Shout out to Reston, VA, Yo) but I don't consider it my home.
Jesse - Mar 08, 2006 8:28:36 am PST #2702 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Assuming no bad tax news, save half of the net, spend half is sensible and adult right?
Assuming it's not a colossal amount, yeah.
TomW - Mar 08, 2006 8:28:47 am PST #2703 of 10001
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Aw, my wife made me tear up a little. She's my home, too.
I went a long time having nowhere that felt like home. Too much moving around. Too much change in the places left behind.
brenda m - Mar 08, 2006 8:29:07 am PST #2704 of 10001
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
Assuming no bad tax news, save half of the net, spend half is sensible and adult right?
Hmm, maybe I'll adopt that. I already have a list of things to acquire before I do too much pissing away.
juliana - Mar 08, 2006 8:29:57 am PST #2705 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
My identity as a New Mexican is really strong, which is funny since I haven't lived there in 13 years, and probably won't again.
This is how I feel about Alaska. For a while, Z was home, but, well. SF is the first place I can see claiming as mine.
Nora Deirdre - Mar 08, 2006 8:33:09 am PST #2706 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
ION: I am still reading "Things My Girlfriend and I Argue About." It is strange and troubling, and I can only read one or 2 perilously fraught items before my eyes hurt from the dark background/light text. But yet, I cannot stay away for long.
Those people are both total lunatics. But, I love them. Or love laughing at them. Something.