You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.

Buffy ,'Lessons'


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.


msbelle - Apr 23, 2019 4:24:41 pm PDT #7199 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I moved into my house 10 years ago Thursday. Tomorrow is 10 yrs since closing.

but how? I helped and stuff. 10 YEARS!

oh korma sounds great. damn not living in Jackson Heights anymore!!!

maybe avocado. yeah that is pretty much just ready to eat. could do.


msbelle - Apr 23, 2019 4:25:07 pm PDT #7200 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

-t, it's awful. so sorry.


NoiseDesign - Apr 23, 2019 4:26:29 pm PDT #7201 of 30019
Our wings are not tired

We've been in our new place coming up on a year and half soon. We were in Pasadena for about 12 years before that, and that was a lot of stuff to move. Much of the odds and ends are still in the garage in the new place. It's the downside to a 1200 SF garage, even a bunch of junk in there doesn't look like much.


Dana - Apr 23, 2019 4:29:59 pm PDT #7202 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Wow, here's the backstory on the house:

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Short version: Pimp with no taste.


msbelle - Apr 23, 2019 4:43:02 pm PDT #7203 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I see your awful house and raise you geodesic domes.

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Jesse - Apr 23, 2019 4:44:17 pm PDT #7204 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Amazing. Edit: I actually meant the pimp, but that goes for the geodesic domes as well. But differently.


Beverly - Apr 23, 2019 4:44:40 pm PDT #7205 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I'm all for a Buffista compound. But rather than sharing a huge building, I'd go for cluster homes around a communal kitchen-living area. I'd like a place to go breathe every now and then. A lotta now and then. I'll just be in the stairwell.

I culled and culled books before we left. Some went to the hospital book carts, some (carefully selected) to the adult and children's church libraries, and some to a local private school. The rest went to the local public library.

And when I unpacked and went through what we'd brought with us, I culled another eleven boxes, the 'small' U-Haul moving boxes, of books to the local public library, except one that went to the neighborhood library.

Every place was glad to get them. I might have been tempted to try and sell the newer popular fiction on ebay, but by then I wanted them available to be read more than I wanted the money, especially with the monitoring, packing, and mailing, etc. I know the public library put some of them in their semi-annual Friends of the Library sale, but some went straight on the shelves. That was easy, and made us feel really good.

We've done a lot of Restore and Veterans donations--the Veterans pick up--they're getting the loveseat and treadmill. Actually very little has gone to Goodwill, but even that means somebody may get some use out of what we don't need or use.

I shouldn't wait till once or twice a year, though. I should adopt msbelle's habit of ongoing purging, and keep up with the slow, unnoticed accrual.


-t - Apr 23, 2019 4:44:55 pm PDT #7206 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Sigh. Sometimes I forget that I have terrible taste.

Ooh, geodesic domes, though!


msbelle - Apr 23, 2019 4:46:30 pm PDT #7207 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I agree that a cluster of homes and/or apartments is the way to go.


Jesse - Apr 23, 2019 4:58:48 pm PDT #7208 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

If a building, make sure it has an elevator -- my friends who bought an apartment building together ~40 years ago are now realizing the stairs are kind of a problem! And there's no way to add an elevator, apparently. Or no reasonable way to do it.