Thank you for the Carl Kasell videos!
Dana, that is way worse than my house woes today. Yuck.
You're talking to Serenity. And, Early... Serenity is very unhappy.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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.
flea - May 09, 2014 11:13:11 am PDT #27341 of 30000
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flea - May 09, 2014 11:13:12 am PDT #27342 of 30000
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Thank you for the Carl Kasell videos!
Dana, that is way worse than my house woes today. Yuck.
Dana - May 09, 2014 11:14:30 am PDT #27343 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Husband's not home yet, but it seems like the only options are to get another appraisal (which we'd have to pay for, and which would surely delay the closing, which is in a week), to walk away from the sale, or to eat the difference.
Kate P. - May 09, 2014 11:23:17 am PDT #27344 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Ugh, Dana. None of those are fun options.
At 7pm my darling son, whom I love and therefore did not kill, said to me, "Mom, it looks like you need to do some laundry. The basket is full."
Ha. Are Casper and Dillo old enough to learn how to do the laundry themselves? I am so looking forward to the day when I can foist some chores off on the kids.
-t - May 09, 2014 11:27:50 am PDT #27345 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm sorry, Dana.
Jesse - May 09, 2014 11:30:05 am PDT #27346 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Laundry was my job from the time I was 9 or 10, at least partly because my parents have low standards. I mean, I just sorted the darks and lights and washed everything in warm.
flea - May 09, 2014 11:30:30 am PDT #27347 of 30000
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Casper can do a load, with direction/reminders about settings. Dillo is too short still. The family I know with 8 kids set 10 as the Age of Doing Your Own Laundry (and as their youngest is now 11, presumably the mother now only does her own!)
Both kids can clean the cat litter box, do bathroom sink and toilet, and vacuum, although in all cases Dillo needs some encouragement. We've kind of fallen down on the dishes front. They can't make beds because apparently fitted sheets are mystifying.
Picking up socks from the living room floor remains a work in progress.
§ ita § - May 09, 2014 11:31:01 am PDT #27348 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Homeowning, the American dream. I don't envy you your travails, Dana.
LeN! Your freaky shoes have earnt you money!
I came into the office today to two monitors (normally it's laptop screen and monitor). That means they're not going to fire me (soon) right?
Hil R. - May 09, 2014 11:43:25 am PDT #27349 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Casper can do a load, with direction/reminders about settings.
Some advice I saw once about this: put little stickers (like the ones for chore charts) on the machines at the places where the knobs and buttons should be for a regular load of laundry.
Steph L. - May 09, 2014 11:53:01 am PDT #27350 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The family I know with 8 kids set 10 as the Age of Doing Your Own Laundry
That was my family's Laundry Age, too. For some reason I think 8 was Washing The Dishes Age. (My mom even gave me this whole spiel about how when you turn 8, you get your very own Dish-Washing Apron! I was not impressed.)
Although I honestly don't remember if my brother had to start doing his own laundry at 10 or washing the dishes at 8. I feel like he at least had to do his own laundry, because my mom would not put up with doing her kids' laundry when they were damn well able to.