I'm mostly just feeling sorry for myself because I don't know how to make non-internet friends.

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Oh, for fucks sake. Malki has GOT to be lurking here.

Oh, for fucks sake. Malki has GOT to be lurking here.

Ha! Love it.

For me it doesn't help that all the parents I meet are at least a decade younger than me.

Having the kids when I was 38/40 I was often the age of the grandparents. Most of my friends are at least a decade younger than me. With the kids most parents I met after they were in school at open houses and school functions. I volunteered at school too which resulted in meeting more of them. DH coached and met many parents at practices and games.

Learn from my school volunteer experience! Don't do cafeteria! It is depressing to see the waste. I found literacy tutoring much more rewarding. Watching kids when they 'get it' and start to figure out reading is a joy that never gets old.

Oh, for fucks sake. Malki has GOT to be lurking here.

So I...actually do have cards like that. I got them from Moo and they are adorable.

(The text is just my name and contact info on one side and "Hello new friend!" on the back. But, um.)

Fuck. My landlord just stopped by and told me that the mess in my apartment is "unacceptable" and that it will attract rodents. It's cluttered, but there's no food left out or anything like that.

I let him know a while ago that I'm going to be out of town for most of the summer, and he wants me to let him know a week before I go, so that he can do a walk-through and make sure that everything's up to his standards.

Wow, Hil! That is really crazy. I hope that you have time this summer for apartment hunting.

Not really, but I'll probably look for a new place for next year. And I am spending this afternoon cleaning, because that was my plan anyway. I've got stuff like some stacks of books on the floor next to a full bookshelf, and the clothes on the floor in my bedroom are getting out of hand (I'll even admit that one), but books don't attract any more rodents on the floor than they would on a shelf.

Ugh. And now my laundry was delivered from the laundry service, and it was definitely washed in scented detergent and scented fabric softener, even though my account says to use unscented everything. And I still haven't heard back from my doctor about the other blood test that she said she was waiting on.

I'm sorry, Hil. That is officially Too Much, and your landlord is being an asshole.

Thanks. I've got one big box of books to donate (mostly math books that are either out of date or that I haven't actually referenced in years), plus an old printer and a big bag of clothes. And I'm putting them out in the foyer for now, even though he's told me not to put stuff there before, but they're getting in the way of cleaning other stuff, and I put a note on them saying that they'll be picked up by VVA next week. And what I really want to do is get all the books off of one of my bookshelves in the living room and move the whole shelf into the bedroom and then put everything back, but that will take a little while. It will make the living room look a lot less cluttered, though (and it's something that I've been planning to do for a while), so I should probably do it.