I can smell fish cooking. It smells good. I must be strong, reminding myself of the escoveitch fish I will eat in Jamaica, as well as plain fry fish and festival, ackee and saltfish, and maybe even rundown mackerel with boiled green bananas if I'm good.
That so didn't help.
I need to get up and plug my phone in before it starts plaintively beeping. Don't wanna.
Um, short? No shaved nape, combed forward with spikey bangs. It's pretty close to a classic pixie cut, which makes me laugh and laugh given how much I hated this cut when I was ten.
::goes to a very special happy place::
Matt made me a hot toddy - this is soothing my soul. Hate being cranky due to mild physical discomfort.
Buffistas in more Northerly climes are all snickering at our wussy California temperature-related whining right now.
Yes, yes we are. Where we=me and my cat.
Well, you know, if the houses were actually
warm
people wouldn't be whining so. I don't care about the outside weather. Just the inside temperature.
if the houses were actually warm people wouldn't be whining so
Do you have heat? Or is it not working? (Not mocking questions. Lots of people around here don't have A/C because it's not needed very often.)
It's more of an insulation thing, ChiKat. Just like architecture here gets away with pretending it won't rain, somehow the box that heats up like an oven on a sunny summer afternoon seems to now leak heat like a sieve.
It's really hard to get my apartment evenly warm.
Question about the housing bust. I look at it as the only way I might ever afford a house in LA. So I'm behind it, in general. I know that some of the collateral effects are job losses in arenas dependent on mortgaging, etc, but overall, the bust is bad for America? And the boom was good?
No place I lived in SoCal was really prepared for any kind of chill in the air.
Now? It's really damn cold outside here but really quite easy to keep comfy inside. I am all about well-built and actually insulated housing that gives me actual climate control.
Of course summer proved that plans for the winter don't translate to dealing with heat outside as it was hotter than Satan's nape when we went all heatwave.
It's more of an insulation thing, ChiKat. Just like architecture here gets away with pretending it won't rain, somehow the box that heats up like an oven on a sunny summer afternoon seems to leak heat like a sieve.
Or what ita said in our insulation crosspost.
msbelle, those mac things are so normal, it's reassuring! As a mom with a very non-verbal toddler, I feel your pain in the lack of communication skills. It's trying and frustrating but just this morning I had Owen asking for cookies for breakfast and the exchange went like this:
Owen: TOOOOOKIE!
Me: No. Cookies aren't for breakfast. Want some yogurt or a banana?
Owen: TOOOOOKIE!
Me: No. Yogurt or banana.
Owen: TOOOOOOKIE!
Me: Yogurt or banana.
Owen: Tookie?
Me: Yogurt or banana.
Owen: tookie?
Me: Yogurt or banana.
Owen: BANANA!
He's getting into the Christmas spirit. He can say "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Holidays"-but don't tell Bill O'Reilly.
So I'm behind it, in general. I know that some of the collateral effects are job losses in arenas dependent on mortgaging, etc, but overall, the bust is bad for America? And the boom was good?
I'd venture to say that this latest boom wasn't so good for America. It led to the proliferation of "exoctic" mortgages that put a lot of people into homes they couldn't really afford, leading to even more overblown home values. When the chips fall (and with them, home values) the result is going to be a higher than ever rate of mortgage defaults and foreclosures. Lots of overvalued homes and families already stretched beyond their means tapped into equity that may very well disappear, leaving them more strapped than before. More foreclosures are going to mean empty homes sitting there lowering the land values of the homes around them, hurting their neighbor's, too. It's an ugly cycle.
In general the booms are good because of the new home building--the construction business hires a lot of people in low, middle and high pay scales which gets more money where it needs to be in the economy, rather than just mortgage brokers and realtors. It also means more people are borrowing money, which means banks are making money, municipalities are making money on property taxes on land that was empty before, etc.