Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.

Willow ,'Storyteller'


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.


Scrappy - Jul 24, 2021 9:19:59 am PDT #8088 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I am feeling stressed the fuck out. The house we are trying to buy may fall though. The person buying our house is Muslim and can’t pay interest and thus can’t do a mortgage. He is paying it off in four cash payments, one a month. Well, this has the mortgage company completely flummoxed. We are technically still owners of this house until all the payments come in so we don’t qualify for a mortgage, even though we WILL be paying off the mortgage within eight weeks when the second payment comes in. We paid 10k earnest money and will lose that if we don’t close by Friday. We are trying to find out a type of purchase agreement which will satisfy the buyer, the underwriter and the various real estate types involved before Wednesday, so the checks will go though in time to close, so we don’t lose the money.

Not only that, my latest mammogram on Tuesday showed “something,” so I have to go in and have more tests. I got a call from the mammogram doctor and my doctor about this, both saying it’s probably nothing but I should go in for further tests RIGHT AWAY. I know it’s probably nothing, but since my mom had breast cancer, it’s still a worry.

So that’s where I’m at today.


Pix - Jul 24, 2021 9:35:28 am PDT #8089 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

That's a lot, Scrappy. Lots of love as you navigate it all.


JenP - Jul 24, 2021 9:37:02 am PDT #8090 of 30000

Shit, that's a lot to deal with. Good outcome -ma to you for all if it.


amyparker - Jul 24, 2021 10:37:56 am PDT #8091 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.

Scrappy, are you working with a realtor, and can you ask them to communicate with the buyer's realtor about working with an Islamic-compliant finance company? This article is from 2007, but might it give you some ideas?

Gah, the ever-unnerving "Hey, can you rush right over and get this thing that's probably nothing checked out yesterday?" call. I'm sorry. I'll hold my thumbs for you.


Laura - Jul 24, 2021 10:39:28 am PDT #8092 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Oh Scrappy, that is a whole lot. Sending much love and resolution~ma.


-t - Jul 24, 2021 10:45:20 am PDT #8093 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

{{{Scrappy}}}


shrift - Jul 24, 2021 10:50:02 am PDT #8094 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Damn, Scrappy. That's plenty to be anxious about.

I'm, uh, having fun dealing with different levels of risk tolerance while visiting my family. There's a bonfire tonight where a lot of people have said they are coming, and some of these people are anti-vaxxers. I'm not comfortable spending any time with grown ass adults who are anti-vaxxers, but if there are thunderstorms and we need to go inside, I definitely don't feel comfortable being indoors with these people. Not that it matters much if the rest of my family are indoors with them unmasked.

It's easier for me because I don't live here, but I'm way more comfortable than my family being the only one wearing a mask in indoor public places and being blunt about not wanting to have certain kinds of people in my life. I just scheduled a COVID-19 test for the Monday after I get back, because Jesus Christ.


-t - Jul 24, 2021 10:55:03 am PDT #8095 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Dang, that’s disturbing.


Sheryl - Jul 24, 2021 1:33:53 pm PDT #8096 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

{{{Scrappy}}}

Tonight Gary and I going to a concert by ourselves. We have a babysitter lined up.This is the first time in over a year for us to do this.


Scrappy - Jul 24, 2021 1:34:52 pm PDT #8097 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Oh, Shrift, that is not good. gonna pray for good weather.