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.
i love your clever little cat.
were the suicide flies on the inside windowsill or were they outside trying to barge their way in?
it is getting hotter here by the day:(
― estela, Saturday, 11 October 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
now that we're moving into fall I feel i should perhaps finish my spring cleaning 😳
― tehresa, Saturday, 11 October 2014 01:57 (nine years ago) link
i'd no idea that 'estie' was acceptable usage but am v. fond of it
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 October 2014 04:05 (nine years ago) link
too close to estie buttz for me clive
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Saturday, 11 October 2014 10:06 (nine years ago) link
they were on the inside windowsill. i guess estie was esteban buttez but i like it too.
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 11 October 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
tbh at usage of "estie" I started questioning my understanding of deems' identity.
― tehresa, Saturday, 11 October 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
this is what happens when we're not careful about things
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Sunday, 12 October 2014 01:24 (nine years ago) link
i liked being called estie.
― estela, Sunday, 12 October 2014 09:32 (nine years ago) link
oh I see harbl was calling estela estie! Assumed deems bc it was previous post. So confuse.
― tehresa, Sunday, 12 October 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
how's this one
i wanted to bring tea to work so i went back inside to get it this morning and saw also honey was on the counter so i got that too. honey was not totally closed. honey dumped itself into my change thing. a pool of honey in my car. fortunately not much on carpet. this is like the 5th condiment that has spilled in my car and by far the worst. i need to just blow my car up and be done with it.
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 31 October 2014 00:44 (nine years ago) link
a little bit got into iphone headphone jack and the silent switch thing!!!!!!!!
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 31 October 2014 00:46 (nine years ago) link
sticky residue outrages are the most aggravating kind.
my car was a complete disgrace and i had to drive someone in it for work, it was embarrassing, but luckily they turned out to be not car proud either. i cleaned it after that though because having surveyed it through a stranger's eyes i knew it was beyond the pale.
― estela, Friday, 31 October 2014 09:14 (nine years ago) link
last month I had to drive a professor in my car unexpectedly and it was in dire need of a wash but also full of dog hair so I played it off by asking if she was allergic. She wasn't, and told me she had two dogs so i turned the conversation to asking about her dogs to make her think my car was ok because hey, we both like dogs!
― tehresa, Saturday, 1 November 2014 01:06 (nine years ago) link
my car is always gross. i hate it.
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 1 November 2014 02:00 (nine years ago) link
my car is full of coffee spills and ashes. i've never had it washed, nor changed the oil. i am an irresponsible car owner and i hate driving people.
― lxy, Saturday, 1 November 2014 12:13 (nine years ago) link
work people, that is. i would drive you people all the livelong day.
― lxy, Saturday, 1 November 2014 12:27 (nine years ago) link
ok lxy you need to at least change the oil! something i'm working on at age 30 is being a little cleaner. i'm going to go clean the bathroom even though it's not dirty because it's my favorite thing to clean
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 1 November 2014 13:17 (nine years ago) link
I am so weird about cleaning. I always wash the dishes and clean the stove/counters but i hate sweeping the floor!
― tehresa, Saturday, 1 November 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
lol that's exactly what i do. dishes, stovetop, countertops, sink get done occasionally but floor is never done.
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 1 November 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
I have a hard time going to bed if there are dishes in the sink, but the floor? Pffft.
― tehresa, Saturday, 1 November 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
for a few weeks i had no legit hot water. then my kitchen sink leaked
now i have a whole kitchen sink and hot water, but no hot air/heat
lyle is cold and cuddly tho, so
― mookieproof, Monday, 3 November 2014 01:30 (nine years ago) link
this happened â•®(╯▽╰)â•http://i59.tinypic.com/2h4apsg.jpg
― tehresa, Monday, 3 November 2014 03:06 (nine years ago) link
Now my bathroom sink is dripping (unrelated).
― tehresa, Monday, 3 November 2014 03:07 (nine years ago) link
. . . a mexican dish exploded?
― mookieproof, Monday, 3 November 2014 03:15 (nine years ago) link
Pretty much :(
― tehresa, Monday, 3 November 2014 11:38 (nine years ago) link
oh no i am doing mexican on friday night, how to avoid this pls
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Thursday, 6 November 2014 00:02 (nine years ago) link
don't put any jumping beans in your chimichanga.
― estela, Thursday, 6 November 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
i am surprised you can even bring yourself to type the words "jumping" and "beans" in the same sentence
― lxy, Thursday, 6 November 2014 02:23 (nine years ago) link
i had an ugly grimace on my dial while i typed.
― estela, Thursday, 6 November 2014 08:38 (nine years ago) link
(a different one from the default.)
― estela, Thursday, 6 November 2014 08:40 (nine years ago) link
you were scowling and the wind chimichanged
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Thursday, 6 November 2014 10:24 (nine years ago) link
lollll.
it's pretty easy: double check that tupperware containers are really, truly closed tightly before shaking vigorously.
― tehresa, Friday, 7 November 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
all safe so far thk g-d
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 7 November 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
*blessed*
― tehresa, Saturday, 8 November 2014 04:54 (nine years ago) link
sandbox sna looks like the morning after a party.
― estela, Saturday, 22 November 2014 05:19 (nine years ago) link
like an innocent room a conga passed through by mistake
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Saturday, 22 November 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link
a cigarette stubbed out in a cold fried egg.
― estela, Sunday, 23 November 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
my parents' oven is far too advanced for my poor self and after baking my dressing for 20 min longer than the recipe indicated and playing with the temp we finally discovered it was at 280 not 350. Nervous it is going to be terrible.
― tehresa, Thursday, 27 November 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link