domestic outrages chronicle

well, shoot

the mailman kicked my mint plant and broke my terra cotta pot

terracotta?

basil should have bit him on the shin.

when i went to college i bought an ivy plant and hung it through the struts in the drop ceiling of my dorm

two years later when i returned from spring break i figured i'd give it a good watering by leaving it in the sink, in a different dorm, for 10 minutes and letting it soak up what it wanted

came back 10 minutes later and it was gone

still bitter about this 20 years later tbqpf

Ivy drip
Ivy league

Couple others that didnt even reach that standard tbh

ivy good mind to smack you for those

i like this spelled-out units-of-time ago

it is midnight here, 89°F, humidity 70%, dew point 78°F, 'feels like' 101°F

i have arranged for my meagre estate to support beta dot ilxor dot com slash sandbox, with the caveat that it be hull city branded

was outside around 10 last night, it was 88 heat index 97, felt so bad and oppressive. moving to canada.

our yard and food waste pick-up has been missed at least 10 times since spring. it is outrageous.

it's outrageous that we don't even have that

we are not allowed to put yard waste in regular bins but they don't provide pickup. you have to drive it to a contracted compost site. outrageous!

it is sad you all don't have curbside food and yard waste service.

it is mandatory here. however, it wasn't picked up again this week. outrageous, again.

it's an outrage. really, who wants to collect and bag the thorny prunings a of a rose bush? this is why my roses are so unkempt (to which lxy can attest!)

but pretty!

the sound in my wall came back so i called an electrician but then it wouldn't make the sound so now i'm afraid my house is going to burn down

or my house is possessed.

that was weird. did the electricians come and not hear it so they just left?

it actually happened again in the wall by the stove and the only way i could get it to stop was to turn the breaker off. when the electrician came we turned it back on and no noise! he said he can't diagnose without hearing it or tearing the wall open so call him when/if it happens again.

it is my policy to be gentle with ghosts in my house, and aggressive with electrical problems.

at least the 6th week in a row our food and yard waste wasn't collected. i got into it a little bit with jermaine on the phone just now. while listening the world's most depressing hold music, i considered the possibility of asking him if it he was okay with me getting sweary for a minute.

our outflow goes under our sitting room and water pressure isnt always enough and.... stuff.... gets stuck under our floor and it smells like..... stuff.... for a while

oh dear.

i renewed my home warranty today because i have now been domesticated one year!

the free, biweekly local newspaper has stopped coming to me. did i offend the paper boy?

mayb it was an introductory offer?

nope. small town paper is free for everyone all the time! (you get what you pay for, including gumshoe reporter who likes to look for scandal in fine arts commission meetings, lol)

a bad little bush turkey has moved into our street and keeps digging up people's plants with it's long toes and about once a day it crosses our yard and comes right up to the sliding door and peers into our living room and does an expressionless little throat gobble and then wanders off again. it's quite skinny and short so you can't easily see it when it's behind a plant. i hope it stays, i love it, but the fusspots with the dead plants want it to clear off.

how wonderfully disgraceful

i hope it doesn't dig up your ficus

my ficus is in heaven, it was here for a good time not for a long time

quality over quantity

r.i.p. ficus, we never knew you

male ficus

alas that mrs mac is no longer available

to proffer me citizenship in the wake of this domestic outrage

just remembered i can get irish citizenship hi

all talk imo

which tbf is part of the test applied

how are we all doing?

this hurts.

i feel ok because i was feeling so bad to begin with. tired of reading ppl's thinkpieces though. more tired of the democratic party than i ever thought possible. feeling very blamey and partially self-satisfied but also scared for everyone. glad i never got a job in the federal govt. that is all.

had an encounter with someone who was being trolly and said can't wait to defund planned parenthood so i will be making a donation in their name after payday

I donated yesterday :)

trying to figure out whether i can continue being friends with someone i've known half my life and has been very generous with me but supports fascism run by 'an idiot' because HRC is 'the greatest criminal in world history'

dude is a very wealthy white man living in san francisco. and i don't think i can do it. not simply because i disagree, but because i've lost all respect for him

yeah.

i'm really concerned about having to ever see a few relatives again, but i am also worried because they will suffer more than me if these promises are fulfilled. what do you do with that?

imo the political is always personal and your political beliefs are most certainly a reflection of who you are as a person. not to say that being a lefty automatically makes you a good person, but all right-wing policies seem to spring from hatred of some sort, from negativity and oppression of one or more groups.

trump is so clearly and transparently awful, insincere and corrupt, that if someone is claiming hillary is worse, then i know they're really just bigoted and emails/benghazi/clinton foundation stuff is just a convenient cover for that.

no one needs to be around toxic people, and people on the right are straight-up poison.

ACLU, SPLC, Gay City Health Project, Campaign Zero, Planned Parenthood

now for the hard part: actually DO something, aside from sending twitter threads to my sisters

yes.

outraged by ilx outage

something small but vigorous is doing some loud scuttling in the roof directly above our bed, and it’s an unnerving outrage. i will not be investigating at all due to the awfulness of the possible local candidates.

Oh I can sympathize but thankfully from past and not present experience