Lord, that's a hideous living room, Kathy.
I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
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.
§ ita § - Apr 29, 2009 12:42:06 pm PDT #17264 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kathy A - Apr 29, 2009 12:43:18 pm PDT #17265 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I don't have a down payment and my credit rating is definitely not up to the scrutiny of a standard 20% down mortgage, so I'm not going to be buying for a few years at the earliest. I figure by then, the market should be at a reasonable level--even at these lower prices, housing expenses would still more than 30% of my monthly pay, and I don't want to go too far above that level.
Kathy A - Apr 29, 2009 12:44:51 pm PDT #17266 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Isn't it, ita?! I admire tacky interior decorating at a certain level (not to live in, but it's fun to see), but if I stepped into that place, I think I'd go blind.
beth b - Apr 29, 2009 12:53:55 pm PDT #17267 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
My living room is an orange -- terra cotta or pumpkin - take you pick. But now that the matching carpet is gone -- and none of the furniture matches -- it is tolerable. And oddly other people love it.
So can someone explain this swine flu thing to me. I get the WHO and CDC -- their job is to stop disease from spreading everywhere. But why are schools closing with just one or two kids sick? I may have missed something , but I haven't seen anything that says it jumps quickly, it looks like it behaves like a normal flu. Am I under reacting?
Connie Neil - Apr 29, 2009 1:02:53 pm PDT #17268 of 30000
brillig
Kathy, is that Wheeling, West Virginia?
Kathy A - Apr 29, 2009 1:06:42 pm PDT #17269 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
No, Wheeling, Illinois. We're in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, near Northbrook and Deerfield, and not too far east of Schaumburg. It's a nice bedroom community that grew out of the corn fields after WWII, so a lot of the tinier tract houses date to the 1950s. There are also lots of more recent subdivisions if I were to increase my maximum to $300K, but that ain't gonna happen.
Cashmere - Apr 29, 2009 1:07:48 pm PDT #17270 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Yay for babytea! Welcome and congrats to his wonderful parents!
Kat, I am so with you! I swear, as the kids get older I feel like my already tenuous grip on the time/space continuum is starting to slip.
§ ita § - Apr 29, 2009 1:17:37 pm PDT #17271 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I had no idea sea dragons existed, and after that piece I'm not convinced. They'e so surreal...
eta: So are snow rollers.
megan walker - Apr 29, 2009 1:52:41 pm PDT #17272 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I've been at home the last two days with a bad cold and my boss just told me that, because people are panicking about swine flu, I should stay home until all my symptoms disappear. I guess she doesn't remember that my coughs often last for weeks. Um, yay?
Lee - Apr 29, 2009 1:58:42 pm PDT #17273 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.