ugh I know, it's the worst!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 23:04 (ten years ago) link
my cat clears up a little if i give her wet food. she loves to eat coconut oil so i keep meaning to put that on her dry food.
― spite n ease (harbl), Thursday, 6 February 2014 11:42 (ten years ago) link
i caught her dipping her little paw into my mason jar full of water which was on the floor by my bed. what a rotter.
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 00:50 (ten years ago) link
disgraceful®
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 02:41 (ten years ago) link
my thermostat isn't working! I changed the batteries but I think the touch screen died because it won't let me adjust temp and is stuck on some random program so I only get heat at random times and I have to drag my giant space heater from room to room (or just stay in bed). I could get a new one but I don't want to dig out my car.
― tehresa, Sunday, 16 February 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
I don't even know if there's a shovel in the basement! I will probably end up attacking the snow with my ice scraper (pathetic).
― tehresa, Sunday, 16 February 2014 14:22 (ten years ago) link
A/C broken. Dudes couldn't fix it after three hours but did manage to leave black fingerprints all over my ceiling.
― tehresa, Thursday, 19 June 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
we had an outrageous storm last night :(
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/1000s-Without-Power-After-Storms-in-Md-Va-DC--263789541.html
― tehresa, Friday, 20 June 2014 01:53 (nine years ago) link
aw terez, are you okay? is your domicile okay?
― lxy, Friday, 20 June 2014 13:36 (nine years ago) link
Aside from the fact that my air conditioning still doesn't work, I am fine! The neighborhood is a hot mess and at least one building and a few cars were hit by trees but I think overall we were all extremely lucky. The weirdest thing is that no one beyond my neighborhood experienced anything remotely like we did! Everyone says, "yeah I think I saw a little lightning in the distance" but I swear it felt like a hurricane outside my window! Lightning hit a tree that came down a few feet from my window so for a while i considered hiding in the closet (so not hardcore!).
― tehresa, Saturday, 21 June 2014 00:40 (nine years ago) link
dag <3
― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 June 2014 01:57 (nine years ago) link
glad! how's our harbl?
― lxy, Saturday, 21 June 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
my a/c still doesn't work :(
― tehresa, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
that's outrageous!
― lxy, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
Oh awesome the power is out again so now we don't even get fan cooling O_o
― tehresa, Thursday, 26 June 2014 02:15 (nine years ago) link
pepco amirite
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 June 2014 02:24 (nine years ago) link
dominion. stupid lightning :(
― tehresa, Thursday, 26 June 2014 02:41 (nine years ago) link
My a/c works!
I'm cold.
― tehresa, Thursday, 26 June 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
tsk<3
― estela, Friday, 27 June 2014 05:45 (nine years ago) link
;)
― tehresa, Saturday, 28 June 2014 02:48 (nine years ago) link
tbh i only really feel alive when i can see my breath
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 June 2014 03:37 (nine years ago) link
i put 2 shelves in my bathroom. i wanted to do a perfect job but it was imperfect. i made a hole in the wall trying to put drywall anchors into what turned out not to be drywall (i used studfinder but there was apparently some piece of wood going across!) then i concealed it with the shelf bracket. so that shelf has 4 anchors instead of 2 and two phantom screws pretending to help hold it up. i also suck at drilling two pieces of wood together. it's an outrage!
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 29 June 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
i mean 2 anchors instead of 4 duh
I feel for you, harbl! Don't get me started on the lengths we went to to bracket a bookshelf to the wall. Plaster is awful. And my floor is slanted! Hah.
― tehresa, Sunday, 29 June 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
<3 phantom screws
― lxy, Sunday, 29 June 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
I did woodwork for three years in that time I screwed three separate projects to the desk, sent a chisel and two chuck keys into the roof and was barred in two different schools from using sharpened tools
got a b in the junior cert on strength of my design and theory (the sycamore leaf came up and iirc I remembered it from an Enid blyton book or sthing) and since 1996 ive not done anything more taxing than assembly of units as and when required.
ms macs dad is a master carpenter.
can u imagine what yr master carpenter dad would make of you bringing home an ilxor, I believe I was myself the cause of the domestic outrage that time.
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 30 June 2014 00:49 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah, i used my iphone level. that thing needs to be recalibrated constantly. i need a real level. everything came out to 0º but the whole house is a little crooked so i swear it looks a tiny bit off. could be just me.
my dad is pretty close to being a master carpenter. he can build anything. i'm too embarrassed to tell him about my exploits. everything he builds has to be so perfect and best quality. he had so many criticisms of my house. it does need work though so that's ok.
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 00:46 (nine years ago) link
oh also i bought a dresser at the salvage store. i'll post a picture in a bit. it needs to be sanded, putty into some scratches, and painted. can't decide whether to replace the hardware or if it is replaceable.
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
the anchors are 30 lbs each so there should be no collapsing of my shelves even with just the two ; )
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 00:49 (nine years ago) link
If your dad is so good at everything maybe he should do all the work for you so that you'll both be happy ;) I try to be handy but then I break things :(
― tehresa, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 00:49 (nine years ago) link
Also I love envisioning a crooked house with everything perfectly straight but I picture a comical version of it.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 00:50 (nine years ago) link
http://https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t31.0-8/1399635_10151806965506589_1067377548_o.jpg
― tehresa, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/QRUTiqf.jpg
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 01:03 (nine years ago) link
lolhueg
My picture link died :(
http://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t31.0-8/1399635_10151806965506589_1067377548_o.jpg
― tehresa, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
and the rough places plain
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 05:56 (nine years ago) link
that looks like my house, yes
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
I am so fascinated by that house. I want to know the story!!!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 00:49 (nine years ago) link
I have so many domestic things to do today but I have been procrastinating for an outrageously long time :(
― tehresa, Sunday, 27 July 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
We have had an ant invasion. These wily bastards are tough and too smart to fall for the jarbl trap.
― jaq, Monday, 28 July 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
ugh, ants. we ended up hiring an exterminator to deal with them. he comes quarterly. so glad.
― lxy, Monday, 28 July 2014 03:13 (nine years ago) link
it's a georgetown thing. jergins said he saw them on the yard waste bin yesterday, and the front steps. none inside though, knock on wood.
― lxy, Monday, 28 July 2014 03:15 (nine years ago) link
Yikes! Hate them. My old office (which wasn't even really that old a building) has ant issues. I'd occasionally find one crawling across my monitor.
― tehresa, Monday, 28 July 2014 12:09 (nine years ago) link
I did 5 loads of laundry (ugh!) but none of my other chores...
― tehresa, Monday, 28 July 2014 12:10 (nine years ago) link
this is anticipatory but we forgot to put our trash bin out for collection this morning and in the past couple of days the temperature and humidity levels have shot past spring into early summer figures so by next week things out there will be gruesome.
― estela, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 09:07 (nine years ago) link
I took today off for much-needed study and herself has spotted an ideal opportunity to decide to be sick and is issuing frequent and gleeful demands from the bedroom (entertainment contents: one TV, one kindle, one iPad, today's newspaper) via the last of the listed entertainment items rolled into a loudspeaker, causing much outrage among the domestic staff.
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 10:17 (nine years ago) link
if i were there i would get her a bell or a gong so she could up the ante.
― estela, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 13:57 (nine years ago) link
see why I kept ye apart?
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
oh, estie, did you want to hear the one about how i went to georgia for two weeks in the summer and left a small amount of trash in the bottom of my trashcan (small, but still against my better judgment) and came back to an outrageous amount of flies who had suicided themselves against the front window. i was almost too lazy to run outside this morning when i heard the garbage truck at 6:30 but i remembered those flies.
― spite n ease (harbl), Thursday, 9 October 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
btw my cat just killed a fly. she works so hard at it.