Eek! The house next door -- the one that there's ten feet of alley separating us -- is having its roof redone today. So there's guys yelling and banging right outside my windows.
The cats are correspondingly freaked (Chumley) and blase (Muppet).
Oh, Pacey! You blind idiot. Can't you see she doesn't love you?
Spike ,'Help'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
Theodosia - Mar 12, 2009 5:12:39 am PDT #10355 of 30000
'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"
Jessica - Mar 12, 2009 5:16:40 am PDT #10356 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Theodosia - Mar 12, 2009 5:27:36 am PDT #10357 of 30000
'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"
Oh, that is so wonderful! Terribly terribly impractical, but a thing of beauty nonetheless.
Jessica - Mar 12, 2009 5:31:39 am PDT #10358 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
In the future when I am a bazillionaire, I will have a special room just for drinking wine and in that room there will be that corkscrew.
tommyrot - Mar 12, 2009 5:33:43 am PDT #10359 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I wonder if you could train chimps to operate that machine while wearing tuxedos. Sure, that machine would be fun to operate yourself, but after the 100th or 1000th time, you might get bored....
Nora Deirdre - Mar 12, 2009 5:40:53 am PDT #10360 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Sara, even though it sounds like it may be too late for this advice, you don't want to be emotionally invested in the house and you have to be prepared for the possibility of walking away from it if it's not a good deal. Honestly, it won't take a year to find another one, you've only been looking for a couple weeks, right?
Things can get tough if you are emotionally attached if the inspector report comes back with some nasty surprises, or if the owner tries to to play hardball in negotiating the final selling price.
I know we felt angry and burned after all was said and done in our negotiation, because I wouldn't walk away. And I think it led to a LOT of extreme anxiety experienced by Tom especially for at least the first year or so we lived there.
Theodosia - Mar 12, 2009 5:47:20 am PDT #10361 of 30000
'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"
My buyer-broker was worth every penny of her sliding-scale fee and then some, because I got great advice and hand-holding as needed, plus reality checks about getting too attached and all that.
Jessica - Mar 12, 2009 5:49:04 am PDT #10362 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Okay, now I want to buy the 1-br apartment that's for sale in my building and open a wine bar with that corkscrew and a staff of trained monkeys. I WILL MAKE MEEEEELIONS!
sarameg - Mar 12, 2009 6:03:03 am PDT #10363 of 30000
I think if something arises that I know I don't/can't cope with, I can walk away. Sure, I'll be disappointed. And it'll suck. That's life. I honestly don't think I could make this kind of committment without an emotional investment. I know that means sometimes, it'll either be getting disappointed if I don't get what I want, or getting what I want and later being blindsided by a tree falling on it or the plumbing exploding.
tommyrot - Mar 12, 2009 6:03:05 am PDT #10364 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Okay, now I want to buy the 1-br apartment that's for sale in my building and open a wine bar with that corkscrew and a staff of trained monkeys.
The only potential flaw with this plan is insuring the monkeys against any attack of customers might prove to be too expensive.
That's why I'm forming the Bernard Madoff Monkey Attack Insurance Ponzi Scheme Monkey Insurance Co. - "Where you will always be insured against your monkeys attacking your customers - as long as we can keep paying claims by enlarging the pool of insured monkeys."