My morning started with back spasms at 4 am, so I gingerly went looking for my combination back massager/heating pad. Then I remembered it was out in the car, so I put some shoes on to venture out, and it was frickin' snowing.
I like money better than people. People can so rarely be exchanged for goods and/or services!
Willow ,'Showtime'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
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.
DXMachina - Apr 18, 2020 3:21:01 pm PDT #19986 of 30019
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Scrappy - Apr 18, 2020 6:41:17 pm PDT #19987 of 30019
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We had a busy day today. Our sump pump hose sprung a leak at some point this week and sprayed water all over the dirt floor side of our basement. We have what's called around here a "Michigan basement" — a space almost five feet high. You have to duck to walk around, but it fits a furnace and a hot water heater. Half of our basement is dirt and the other has been dug out to six feet tall and has a cement floor so only my husband has to duck. Our house is 100 years old and, frankly, the basement gives us both the creeps, so we don't go down there much.
The entire dirt floor had turned to incredibly sticky mud, but it's where the sump pump is located, so ii had to squelch through it to find a place to stand to help extract the pump so. it could be fixed. It was a messy proposition. We got it fixed and working, and I dug a trench so the water on the floor could drain. The DH went to walk the dogs. I then went to work on the cement side of the basement. The ceiling joists were covered I MEAN COVERED with cobwebs and the floor was filthy. I scrubbed and swept and bravely attacked the cobwebs with a broom. The broom is ruined, but the basement is now just grungy but not creepy. I am extremely proud of myself.
JZ - Apr 18, 2020 6:58:33 pm PDT #19988 of 30019
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Going down into creepy filthy grungy spaces and taming them is heroic work!
EpicTangent - Apr 18, 2020 7:48:07 pm PDT #19989 of 30019
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
We're proud of you too!
DavidS - Apr 18, 2020 8:17:05 pm PDT #19990 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Brave, Scrappy!
meara - Apr 18, 2020 8:29:08 pm PDT #19991 of 30019
Wow, Scrappy. That is braver than I.
Shir - Apr 19, 2020 12:27:11 am PDT #19992 of 30019
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I join the hella!brave choir.
Calli - Apr 19, 2020 2:11:53 am PDT #19993 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Ugh, Scrappy. I know those basements. Good on you for taking it on.
-t - Apr 19, 2020 7:35:57 am PDT #19994 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Very impressive, Scrappy!
Jesse - Apr 19, 2020 7:42:00 am PDT #19995 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh wow, Scrappy -- that's a lot!