I have an irrational dislike of having to ask anyone for help. (Yes, I have driven myself to the emergency room.) Maybe you can look for a good deal on a used car over the summer, Cindy.
Simon: Captain... why did you come back for us? Mal: You're on my crew. Simon: Yeah, but you don't even like me. Why'd you come back? Mal: You're on my crew. Why we still talking about this?
'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 30: Going on Thirteen
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Ginger - Apr 25, 2006 4:26:16 am PDT #1112 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Nora Deirdre - Apr 25, 2006 4:27:17 am PDT #1113 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
For some reason, I find wiping off the counters to be the most annoying of all tasks,
In the new kitchen it is more annoying, because of the damn tiles. Man, I hate tiles as countertop.
t dreams of granite countertops.
Shiiiiiiiiiinyyyyyyyyy.
Cindy, I think it's almost unpossible to function in a place without comprehensive public transportation, with kids, with one car.
Maybe you can pick up a decent used car?
Ginger - Apr 25, 2006 4:29:13 am PDT #1114 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I had tile countertops once. They are beyond dreadful. I also broke more things on them than I ever have before or since.
vw bug - Apr 25, 2006 4:30:22 am PDT #1115 of 10002
Mostly lurking...
I had tile countertops once.
We have these. They're really awful. I hates them, I do!
Nora Deirdre - Apr 25, 2006 4:30:31 am PDT #1116 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
They are beyond dreadful.
FOR REALS THOUGH.
HATE.
Sorry for the asscaps. They're on the bathroom countertops too, which also sucks, but for some reason, sucks less than the kitchen.
vw bug - Apr 25, 2006 4:32:45 am PDT #1117 of 10002
Mostly lurking...
Oh, ugh. I just remembered I have to deal with my wonderful new prescription health plan today. I got a notice yesterday, letting me know that I'm halfway to my limit for the year.
No offense, Mr. Bush, but your Medicare prescription plan SUCKS ASS!
§ ita § - Apr 25, 2006 4:34:15 am PDT #1118 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have no idea how tile could have sounded like a good idea to anyone putting a kitchen together. Ugh.
I have granite in the kitchen and bathroom. It is delovely. I probably overclean them, because they are fun.
brenda m - Apr 25, 2006 4:36:26 am PDT #1119 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
I have an irrational dislike of having to ask anyone for help. (Yes, I have driven myself to the emergency room.)
Moved a one-bedroom apartment by myself, with my VW golf. Oh yeah, I get you.
Volans - Apr 25, 2006 4:37:17 am PDT #1120 of 10002
move out and draw fire
My kitchen floor is tile, which is almost as yucky and hard to clean as the carpeted kitchen floor I grew up with. Honestly, people.
Cindy, that sucks. I can't imagine being a one-car family with 3 kids in the States.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 25, 2006 4:37:40 am PDT #1121 of 10002
What is even happening?
I have an irrational dislike of having to ask anyone for help. (Yes, I have driven myself to the emergency room.)Sister. It's stupid too, because I know if I heard any of their teammates was in our situation, I'd just offer to take their kid. I'd say it's a pride thing, but I'm not embarrassed about it money-wise, so that's not quite it. I think it's an I-don't-want-to-impose thing.
Maybe you can look for a good deal on a used car over the summer, Cindy.
I think that's what we'll do, it's just that buying the new car sort of ate up all the dough. We're sort of waiting on everything (even giving final word to the mechanic to pull the plug), because there are rumors that some people in Scott's office have gotten a temporary stipend for relocation/transportation assistance.
His immediate bosses are "looking into it." His firm subsidized his T Pass (the public transit system) when he worked in Boston, so hopefully they'll look at all the people they've just relocated out of town, and understand that when you take people out of the city where they can use public transit, it changes things.
If this happened a year from now, it wouldn't be an issue. My mother was going to buy a new car, after she got her condo, but she ended up spending about a car's worth more on the condo than she'd anticipated, so she's waiting another year. We would have gotten her old car (bought or gift, the discussions never went that far, but either way, we know the car's history, and know it's reliable, hasn't been mistreated, and she wouldn't screw us. She'd take what she needed for it, and no more).
Cindy, I think it's almost unpossible to function in a place without comprehensive public transportation, with kids, with one car.If Scott's job were still in Boston, we'd hardly even feel it. The commuter rail is about a half mile away, and the T busline runs down Main St (but no place else really, which is why it's harder for us where the kids' stuff is concerned).