Has anyone here hired someone to do stuff in a small yard? (By which I guess I mean landscaping....) My mother is killing me with lack of dealing with our front yard, so I might just do it.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Apr 11, 2015 10:35:42 am PDT #24239 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Pix - Apr 11, 2015 10:38:28 am PDT #24240 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.
I'm always having to convince myself that it's okay to do nothing.
Seriously! I have nothing pressing I need to do today and no reason to feel so ashamed of sloth, yet I feel like a total slacker.
meara - Apr 11, 2015 10:57:12 am PDT #24241 of 30000
Jesse, does it count that I hired a guy to rip out everything in my "yard" (which is like, 8'x8') and replace it with an adorable patio and raised bed/seating area?
-t - Apr 11, 2015 10:58:25 am PDT #24242 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 everyone permission to do nothing. It's totally okay! Even necessary!
Way to go, Lee, that is a lot of mulch.
Strix - Apr 11, 2015 11:16:58 am PDT #24243 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
OH HAI DID THE OLD TENANT JUST ROLL UP?!
Let us watch this action and see what progresses. Will I have to take my glasses off? I can totally fight in this sundress...
ETA: Nope, just THREE 3:15 showings showing up at the same time, and we got to meet our back neighbors. So nice!
Strix - Apr 11, 2015 11:38:58 am PDT #24244 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
(I SO need to get to yoga tomorrow, if I am actually looking FORWARD to scrapping with an old tenant.)
shrift - Apr 11, 2015 11:43:27 am PDT #24245 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I have nothing pressing I need to do today and no reason to feel so ashamed of sloth, yet I feel like a total slacker.
Yep. I unloaded the dishwasher and put laundry away, and now I intentionally will do nothing but watch TV and read and occasionally eat things.
Jesse - Apr 11, 2015 11:50:02 am PDT #24246 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse, does it count that I hired a guy to rip out everything in my "yard" (which is like, 8'x8') and replace it with an adorable patio and raised bed/seating area?
Ooh, yeah -- what did that cost? You know, broadly. And I realize things are more expensive here.
meara - Apr 11, 2015 11:57:35 am PDT #24247 of 30000
Well, let's just say I tried not to add it up. :) (And he's a bit weird, and isn't good about actually billing me on time, or coming on a regular schedule, though he does good work and is very nice) Probably high four figures, total. Though some of that also includes the strip along the side where he ripped out all the weeds and put down gravel instead. But I will say it was totally worth it, it's adorable and useful. And that includes ripping out all the plants, leveling the ground, building the patio, and adding trees and plants. (This is a picture of the after, I don't think I took any "before" pictures--it was all bushes and weeds:
Not sure it would be all that more expensive in Boston? But probably less flaky about billing, there!
meara - Apr 11, 2015 12:12:30 pm PDT #24248 of 30000
Looking at what's playing, there are no movies I'm dying to see (or even standing out against other movies) but I'm in the mood to go see a movie. Options include sappy bull-riding love story "The Longest Ride" (potential because yay, romance, and probably country music, negatives for sappy and probably awful), Vietnamese "How to Fight in 6 Inch Heels" (unusual, something about a cheating husband and a wife trying to be a model? Plusses include potential fun makeover scenes, but possibly annoying to read/potentially bad subtitles), Chinese "Let's Get Married" (unclear what it's actually about, though there seems to be lots of romance? see minuses for Vietnamese movie above, also why is the downtown movie theater showing so many foreign films this weekend, it usually doesn't!), "Danny Collins" (aging rockstar tries to reinvent himself? Does have Jennifer Garner, Annette Benning), Jupiter Ascending (bad, but so bad it's good? Maybe?), "McFarland USA" (disgraced football coach teaches migrant worker high schoolers how to be a cross country team? Could be inspiring, could be full of shitty white-savior-ness?)