brenda, that's AWESOME. Congrats!
I am not feeling like doing much of anything. Can I do nothing for a bit?
The count of three isn't a plan. It's Sesame Street.
Buffy ,'First Date'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Kat - Mar 16, 2014 5:42:54 pm PDT #22526 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Amy - Mar 16, 2014 5:44:24 pm PDT #22527 of 30000
Because books.
Yay, brenda! That's awesome!
brenda m - Mar 16, 2014 5:45:07 pm PDT #22528 of 30000
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
It's actually a little bigger than it looks inside. It's a corner lot, and none of the windows look out to neighbors, so I don't know why they had all the curtains pulled. Ceiling fans in all the rooms. And the deck out at the water is awesome, and there's just woods across the river. This'll be a lot of fun.
-t - Mar 16, 2014 5:47:23 pm PDT #22529 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I give you permission, Kat. Do nothing.
It looks fantastic, brenda. How far away is it from you timewise?
DavidS - Mar 16, 2014 5:50:47 pm PDT #22530 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And, we have achieved cottage.
Now you need a boat! Or maybe a kayak. Or a rubber raft.
billytea - Mar 16, 2014 5:54:24 pm PDT #22531 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Congrats on the cottage industry!
The online course on Chinese history that I've been doing has just finished up on the Tang Dynasty. We just spent a week going through a romance from the period, "Yingying's Story". It's been quite fascinating. It doesn't have a happy ending, the guy (after seducing the woman, who is sixteenin the story) winds up abandoning her, and their last communications are after they've both married and she at least is presumably sadder but wiser. (He seems pretty happy with how it all turned out.)
In a later dynasty, this story was turned into a famous play (The Romance of the Western Pavilion), but in so doing they imposed a happy ending and got rid of most of the, shall we say, less morally questionable aspects of the main characters. I find this interesting not so much because of what it says about future generations, but that in the Tang period, great literature was better able to explore difficult subjects with unsettling conclusions.
Anyway, I've been watching some of the in-class discussion, and we just had this informative quote: "I think this story is somewhere in between Romeo and Juliet, and Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball".
brenda m - Mar 16, 2014 5:55:30 pm PDT #22532 of 30000
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
Only 80-90 minutes! And my dad has a canoe to donate to the cause.
I had the couches and beds written in to the contract so I don't have to entirely refurnished before we can spend time there.
-t - Mar 16, 2014 5:58:37 pm PDT #22533 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Wow, even better than I thought! Yay!
"I think this story is somewhere in between Romeo and Juliet, and Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball".
I am willing to believe that. There's a lot of space there for a variety of stories.
Steph L. - Mar 16, 2014 6:02:10 pm PDT #22534 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Brenda, that is fantastic! How did the issue with the roof shake out? Did they come down on the price or agree to replace the roof?
Lee - Mar 16, 2014 6:02:16 pm PDT #22535 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Awesome, Brenda!