Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


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.


Steph L. - Sep 02, 2013 9:04:54 am PDT #4121 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Havana.


§ ita § - Sep 02, 2013 9:06:05 am PDT #4122 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I had zero idea where she was going to or from, but as soon as I got the idea someone was distance swimming I thought Cuba to Miami was the best. I wonder if my subconscious fed that to me...

Does she have a message of some sort, or she just picked a nearby place?


-t - Sep 02, 2013 9:06:35 am PDT #4123 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I think I did the fabric softener thing and it was pretty easy and fast, but I only had two half-walls to do (paneling along the bottom half, the breakfast nook part of the kitchen). Trying one room and seeing how it goes sounds like a good approach, you really can't know what you are dealing with until you start in.


Amy - Sep 02, 2013 9:14:10 am PDT #4124 of 30000
Because books.

Yeah, we took down wallpaper from probably the '50s once, and it felt like actual paper. It was a mess, because it really needed to be scraped. But I've pulled down other paper that came down in long strips, as others have described -- usually newer, slightly more vinyl-y paper.


quester - Sep 02, 2013 9:16:13 am PDT #4125 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

So, Nyad made it!


Connie Neil - Sep 02, 2013 9:21:00 am PDT #4126 of 30000
brillig

She's tried this a couple of times, right?


msbelle - Sep 02, 2013 10:01:46 am PDT #4127 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Jesse, any reason not to inform your Dad's family?


lisah - Sep 02, 2013 10:15:00 am PDT #4128 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

This was her 5th attempt!


Scrappy - Sep 02, 2013 10:16:27 am PDT #4129 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

She's 6-fucking-4! Yay, Diana!


Zenkitty - Sep 02, 2013 10:19:56 am PDT #4130 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

(my mother is totally willing to hire someone, but I just feel like I can do unskilled labor myself!)

There's no such thing as unskilled labor... the pros know tricks. My experience with stripping wallpaper has been like everyone else's: sometimes it's totally easy, and sometimes half the wall comes down on your head.