So sorry for your loss, Sophia. Keeping your family in my thoughts
Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.
Riley ,'Help'
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.
lisah - Sep 28, 2017 5:53:18 pm PDT #17173 of 30002
Punishingly Intricate
Pix - Sep 28, 2017 6:07:58 pm PDT #17174 of 30002
The status is NOT quo.
Yeah, I get that it's meant well, but sometimes things just happen, and those things suck. We need to be okay with just letting them suck and letting ourselves go through that grieving process.
The reason this was a particularly difficult person to hear it from is that she a former high school classmate (and former roommate, actually) who is a real estate agent...in southeastern Connecticut. I've looked: I could get a huge house for $300K less than a mile from the ocean where she works. So when she talks about how her clients often fall in love with a house and then find something even better, she really isn't living in our reality where there has been exactly one house that fit our needs in our price range in a 30 mile radius since we started looking. One. And it got stolen from us by an unscrupulous agent (who has earned honorary Tino status). And no, it isn't likely we will find something else that good.
For those not on my FB feed, I think this sums up the market nicely: A house in the area we are looking for $600K: See what I found on #Zillow! [link]
I have to laugh at that one. Because you just have to.
ETA: None of this is about her, to be clear. She's a good person and is trying to be comforting. It's just hard to hear.
Pix - Sep 28, 2017 6:25:51 pm PDT #17175 of 30002
The status is NOT quo.
PS I love this place. Thank you for listening and being empathetic and smiting those who hurt One of Us. In that spirit, the Empress texted me a particularly wonderful smiting of Tino the Agent earlier, which I feel you would all enjoy:
May he always have that itchy, achy, unreachable feeling you get in the soles of your feet when you're really high up in the air and afraid of falling.
In his balls.
Forever.
beekaytee - Sep 28, 2017 6:46:13 pm PDT #17176 of 30002
Compassionately intolerant
Perfect smiting!
wish I had that skill.
Pix - Sep 28, 2017 6:48:05 pm PDT #17177 of 30002
The status is NOT quo.
I'm certain she will also provide a smiting for your landlord the next time she's around these parts! She is very, very good at smiting.
aurelia - Sep 28, 2017 7:58:19 pm PDT #17178 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Sophia, I'm sorry for your loss. ~ma to your family.
beekaytee, I hope your lawyer can help!
That is a perfect curse for Agent Tino.
beekaytee - Sep 28, 2017 10:46:07 pm PDT #17179 of 30002
Compassionately intolerant
I'm certain she will also provide a smiting for your landlord the next time she's around these parts! She is very, very good at smiting.
I may have to ask directly. This is a need now.
hippocampus - Sep 29, 2017 3:03:44 am PDT #17180 of 30002
not your mom's socks.
Sophia I'm so sorry for your loss
Laura - Sep 29, 2017 4:22:30 am PDT #17181 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
I'm sorry for your loss, Sophia. Wishes for peace and comfort for your family.
Most excellent and well deserved smite. And yeah, things don't always happen for a reason, other than the reason being that some people suck, or life isn't really fair. People say things like that and other favorites like what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Well, not so much with that one either!
Anyway, slept under 5 blankets and am bundled in sweats and thick socks because it was 36F this morning! The space heaters are doing their thing, but I don't run them while I sleep. My fingers are cold, but at least I have most excellent fiction to read. ;)
-t - Sep 29, 2017 4:39:51 am PDT #17182 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Don't get me started on "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger". I actually like the way Nietzsche (come on, predictive typing, if you aren't going to help me out on that what good are you?) originally meant it (or my understanding of how he originally meant it, anyway) but that's so not how people use it.