Oh, askye, how wonderful!
No, no, no, sir. No more chick pit for you. Come on.
Riley ,'Lessons'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
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.
-t - May 11, 2021 8:12:04 pm PDT #6317 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Matt the Bruins fan - May 11, 2021 9:13:41 pm PDT #6318 of 30000
"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
Oh good! Yeah, I can't imagine stroking someone's face *not* being a purposeful movement.
Steph L. - May 12, 2021 9:42:17 am PDT #6319 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
The Cincinnati Hoarding folks' estimate for cleaning out the office and treating the mold is really reasonable! So we may have them clean out the basement, too, which would be fucking fantastic.
Our occasional lawn guy also gave us a really good estimate to get all the overgrowth (ivy and honeysuckle are invasive as hell and I hate them with a burning fury) and yard debris out of the backyard so we can actually use and enjoy it (well, *after* the cicadas are gone; we have SO MANY cicada chimneys in the backyard, it is not gonna be pretty).
So I'm feeling pretty hopeful today about actually having some nice things moving forward. Totally buying a hammock for the backyard. AFTER the cicadas are gone.
Jesse - May 12, 2021 9:56:35 am PDT #6320 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yay Steph! Use that money to make your life nicer.
JenP - May 12, 2021 9:58:29 am PDT #6321 of 30000
Woo-hoo, that is awesome!
I want a hammock, but... while we have a great backyard view with neighbors' surrounding, gorgeous trees, we don't have any big trees in our yard, so, alas, not tree hammock for Jen. DP thinks stand hammocks are weird. Maybe, but I'm working on him. I love a hammock.
Steph L. - May 12, 2021 10:00:19 am PDT #6322 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
we don't have any big trees in our yard, so, alas, not tree hammock for Jen. DP thinks stand hammocks are weird.
I'm getting a stand hammock because then I can put the hammock wherever I want to in the yard. I'll be drunk on hammock power!
DavidS - May 12, 2021 10:05:48 am PDT #6323 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think a stand hammock with a nice, angled Beach umbrella could be deluxe.
Put a little bluetooth speaker out there to listen to baseball games, podcasts or music. A little table for a glass of iced tea, a fat book. Life's good.
-t - May 12, 2021 10:06:38 am PDT #6324 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Did get my second dose of vaccine AND got it recorded on my card (that was questionable for a while) but did not get a free donut. I went to Krispy Kreme and sat in the parking lot and thought "I do not actually want a donut" and left. Some other time, I suppose.
Starbucks lured me into trying a Strawberry Funnel Cake Whatever on the way to get my shot and it was way too much sugar, which is why a donut did not appeal. Sothere's that.
Go Tep with having people do stuff to make your home nicer for you to be in!
Toddson - May 12, 2021 10:12:54 am PDT #6325 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
yay for vaccination, yay for hammocks and yay for reasonably priced hoarder people (I don't think it counts as hoarding unless you have a stack fall over on you and/or something rotting underneath the stuff) ... so, it could be worse!
Steph L. - May 12, 2021 10:18:47 am PDT #6326 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Put a little bluetooth speaker out there to listen to baseball games, podcasts or music.
I have a bluetooth speaker in my Amazon cart right now, which is the exact same as the bluetooth speaker we already own, because Tim has stolen that one and taken it to work ("It's not stealing something if we jointly own it," he wants to clarify, so I will amend the record to say: Tim has misappropriated it). For a $23 speaker, it's really really good: [link] .