Normal is good. Congratulations (throws confetti)! I feel the need to celebrate normal.
Don't you have an elsewhere to be?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
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.
Beverly - Aug 09, 2017 12:29:40 pm PDT #15131 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Steph L. - Aug 09, 2017 12:31:10 pm PDT #15132 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Normal is a relief, although my stomach is still being a jerk. It needs to get the message that everything is A-OK.
Nora Deirdre - Aug 09, 2017 1:01:29 pm PDT #15133 of 30002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
It's a friends-at-work thing
"Workplace proximity associate."
Steph, sorry your stomach is being a jerk. I mean, normal is good, but not know WTF is happening, STILL, is not.
So, Tom and I have rededicated ourselves to staying in this rental apartment (we've been here for 7+ years) and are investing in making it a better place for us to live. Is that like the absolute stupidest thing in the world to do, since we don't own the place? I'm trying to make sure that the stuff we purchase to do this can be moved with us eventually, but we also want to paint, put in some closet organization, put in new curtains and fixtures in the bathroom, and get organizers for one or two kitchen cabinets.
My landlord is all about us doing what we want to do to feel comfortable but we'll be paying for most (if not all) of this stuff (which is fine.)
amych - Aug 09, 2017 1:03:55 pm PDT #15134 of 30002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Those all seem like reasonable investments in your happiness, and a hell of a lot less pain/expense than moving.
Maybe get the landlord to at least share cost on the bathroom fixtures, as that part seems less moveable.
Laura - Aug 09, 2017 1:12:18 pm PDT #15135 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Before I owned my house we always did way more than we maybe should have to rental properties. But we wanted stuff a certain way!
-t - Aug 09, 2017 1:17:47 pm PDT #15136 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Not stupid. Making your environment comfortable and pleasant seems worthwhile to me. If it turns out to be more of an expense than an investment, that is okay. You do not have a fiduciary responsibility to turn a profit on your life.
Connie Neil - Aug 09, 2017 1:19:14 pm PDT #15137 of 30002
brillig
You do not have a fiduciary responsibility to turn a profit on your life.
Oh, I like that.
-t - Aug 09, 2017 1:19:39 pm PDT #15138 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
And if paying for things like new bathroom fixtures means you will have a nicer place to live without paying more rent, that pretty much evens out, right?
Amy - Aug 09, 2017 1:23:25 pm PDT #15139 of 30002
Because books.
-t is wise. And I agree. Making your home into the environment you want isn't stupid at all.
Continued stomach~ma, Steph, but yay for a behaving gallbladder. In terms of your parents, I just want to say ... bless you, my child.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 09, 2017 1:23:55 pm PDT #15140 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yeah, two apartments ago I got the manager's permission and painted both bedrooms a sea foam green, then moved out about 2 years later. It was still worth the effort to have walls that made me feel calm and happy.