Angelus ,'Smile Time'
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.
gardening 101. It said to start with testing your soil and then digging it all up
Yeah, no. Sure, test your soil to make sure it wasn't a dumping ground for a 19th century paint manufacturer. But if it isn't half cadmium and half lead, put in some two-foot high walls on it, fill 'em with good soil, and plant there. Less tilling, less bending, and if you stay on top of mulching and water right (at the roots with a drip hose, not a sprinkler), less weeding.
I have a wonderful old leather sofa (12 years old) that needs repairing DESPERATELY. The middle seat has several small tears and one great big one (like 4") right in the middle. I bought one of those home-repair kits and it was a disaster so I know I either need to suck it up and pay a professional, or else just replace it.
Uhg, I don't think the weather is going to be conducive to starting on building a wall around my postage stamp. It's nice enough now, a little cold, but no bets on how long that lasts. And I don't even have the blocks yet.
Ah well, I can scope out Home Despots options and get varnish anyway.
I do want to grow stuff to eat, and I actually know the soil is totally full of lead, so I think raised beds are actually the way to go, but I am thinking about containers as a starting point. But I'll need to do something to the rest of the floor. I mean, ground. Outside! What even is that?
ION, I'm watching more Friday Night Lights, and hey! It's Mike Ross from Suits!
More like...stick something in the ground. Does it die or not??
Totally how I garden too.
Counter offer. What to do, what to do???
$4500 above my offer. Do I try to knock that down $1500? Or just go with it? I don't want to upend things.
Sitting here, I feel like I would counter-counter, but in real life, I dunno. Is the $4500 more still doable for you?
Yes, it's fair. I think I will talk to my realtor and go down $1500 or $2000 and hopefully lock it down. I am unreasonably worried about making someone say fuck that and walk away. As a general thing, not here specifically. So I just have to keep reminding myself it's not unexpected. (It's not, right??)
Countering when I got my current job offer was bar none the scariest thing I've ever done, and I had to keep focusing on how pissed I was at myself for not doing that on other occasions.)
That sounds reasonable, brenda! Deep breaths!