harbl, you are a grand one and you have my best wishes and highest hopes and ongoing infinite encouragement. and i love the sound of your fingers crossed dear little house, i love little houses the best.
― estela, Sunday, 14 July 2013 08:00 (ten years ago) link
how now, girlie?
― lxy, Friday, 19 July 2013 02:30 (ten years ago) link
i am talking to my realtor this morning. stressed.
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 19 July 2013 11:05 (ten years ago) link
thinking good thoughts for you and your little house
― lxy, Friday, 19 July 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
the guy says he will do a new roof but won't fix any other thing. i'm not going to walk away over less than $1,000 in mainly non-urgent repairs and he knows it. so i'll take my new roof and just quietly stew.
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 20 July 2013 02:08 (ten years ago) link
you'll be stewing under a new roof yes? that's wonderfullll!!!!
― lxy, Saturday, 20 July 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
injustice is injust, but roofs are good. and now it won't rain on your head!
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 July 2013 03:40 (ten years ago) link
I am so excited for you, harbl!
― tehresa, Sunday, 21 July 2013 14:07 (ten years ago) link
i'm excited now too. the stuff he won't fix is not a big deal, the house is super old. i need to think about movers. also i need advice what to plant in the box in front. it's about 4 square feet and has an awkward rose bush in it and that's it. i want kind of a rain garden type thing that doesn't require much weeding.
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 21 July 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
i am v much in love with the idea of awkward roses come springtime tbh
― estèlauder (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 22 July 2013 01:31 (ten years ago) link
i stopped by to take a picture of it to show my mom because i asked for gardening advice. there are a couple other awkward plants there that i hadn't even noticed.
http://i.imgur.com/OsZEbV3.jpg
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 22 July 2013 02:05 (ten years ago) link
the green in the foreground is just a weed
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 22 July 2013 02:06 (ten years ago) link
just rode the elevator with a cute harbl lookalike<3
― lxy, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
fauxbl
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link
aw!
― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 00:21 (ten years ago) link
don't um me
lol
― mookieproof, Saturday, 3 August 2013 01:18 (ten years ago) link
um, i know what i'm talking about and you don't
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 3 August 2013 02:33 (ten years ago) link
my closing got moved from tomorrow to next wednesday but i don't care too much. also the lender just remembered to tell me i can get more free money for being a state employee so i'm going to be able to buy a little furniture. i drove by it last night. so cute. ughhhhhhh i wanna move!
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 9 August 2013 01:20 (ten years ago) link
when are you gonna
― mookieproof, Friday, 9 August 2013 03:50 (ten years ago) link
i'm not sure i didn't really get movers yet or tell my landlord i'm moving. i guess i need to do that now.
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 9 August 2013 11:05 (ten years ago) link
good luck!
― estela, Sunday, 11 August 2013 00:35 (ten years ago) link
i hope your little cat settles in quickly and isn't too indignant about the upheaval.
― estela, Sunday, 11 August 2013 00:40 (ten years ago) link
closed. haven't even begun to think of moving. oops.
― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
hurray harbl!!!!!!
― lxy, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
So excited for you!!!
― jaq, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
Yay!!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
whoop whoop!!!
― smoove operator, Thursday, 15 August 2013 03:38 (ten years ago) link
harbl are you moving yet?
― lxy, Sunday, 18 August 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
i think i'll move monday august 26th. i moved some stuff in this weekend. i met my neighbors, some old lesbians. and also someone who lives down the street. she appeared to be a mennonite.
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 19 August 2013 02:20 (ten years ago) link
i have to tell you this funny cute story
i like to get mail from the jail and read other people's mail. it's like a compulsion i have to read other people's mail they get. i don't know what it is. i like the different kinds of handwriting and bizarre ideas and funny grammar. anyway today i got three letters in one envelope. they were all clearly written by the same person but they were signed with spanish names. each one was asking for the same thing in slightly different words, like please help me i want to plead guilty but i have written letters to your office and no one responds. so having gotten no response from the district court office somehow they got my name and had someone write letters to me for them. or it's possible it's one of my clients at the jail helping some people who can't speak english.
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 19 August 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/Go_you_packers.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 August 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
i'm here. i can't assemble my ikea bed it's too hard.
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 30 August 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link
congrats/good luck
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 August 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
i just did one i wish i were there to help you.
― lxy, Friday, 30 August 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
i could provide the brains, you will have to be the brawn. if your problem is not with the brain part but with the brawn part, jergins will have to take my place.
― lxy, Friday, 30 August 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
Yay harbl!
― tehresa, Friday, 30 August 2013 23:21 (ten years ago) link
i gave up on the bed. i just put the mattress on the ground in the middle of the frame. my cat is so skeptical of this house. she hid behind my coffee maker on the counter. i said "oh buddy! it's ok!"
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 31 August 2013 01:34 (ten years ago) link
ah shit, do i need to come there?
― lxy, Saturday, 31 August 2013 03:04 (ten years ago) link
i think you do.
― tehresa, Saturday, 31 August 2013 03:56 (ten years ago) link
i think i ruined the bed. this diagram is so wrong and it made me make a really big mistake. i got some pliers so i'm going to try to pull these pegs out.
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 31 August 2013 18:30 (ten years ago) link
which bed is it?
― lxy, Saturday, 31 August 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
malm. i had rented a van and they didn't have the bed i wanted at the store so i got this boring one. pliers didn't work. i think there are other tools i can use to get them out and i can order new ones. it was just on the headboard so i moved on to other, very difficult and ridiculous steps.
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 31 August 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
are you sure you messed up? there are youtubes and stuff to help. you probably know that, though. i wish i were there to help you.
― lxy, Sunday, 1 September 2013 02:14 (ten years ago) link
not like i'm an ikea savant or anything, i just think i could help.
― lxy, Sunday, 1 September 2013 02:15 (ten years ago) link
ps tehersa <3 we will, eventually.
i recently got sought out by a friend from high school who lives in the suburbs (ellicot city?) who apparently remembers me fondly after all this time, even though as i remember it i was such an anonymous nerd who was only there for 2 years. although i guess what he renembers expressly are the letters i wrote from college, which were allegedly so amusing and entertaining that he would read them multiple times and they always brightened his days. which is obviously some rose-colored memory because i've read letters i wrote when i was 18 and oh my god what a dippy, dumb person i was.
anyway, yes, we have multiple people to visit in the area. it will be so fun!
(except that high school guy says he can assemble at a moments notice a group of high school people for a get-together when i'm there, and i'm pretty sure i'm not up for that.)
― lxy, Sunday, 1 September 2013 02:34 (ten years ago) link
the letters i wrote from college, which were allegedly so amusing and entertaining that he would read them multiple times and they always brightened his days
<3
i helped move/rebuild a malm once but i don't remember if it worked? they got married and had kids tho so i guess it couldn't have been too wrong
― mookieproof, Sunday, 1 September 2013 04:27 (ten years ago) link
ugh it ate my post?
i was saying i fixed it! i googled and googled and this lady was saying she did the same thing and since wood contracts when heated you just blow a hair dryer at it for a little bit. i had to yank at it hard but they came out and the dowels were still usable. i have a headboard!
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 1 September 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
Grebt job, harbl! I knew you could do it ;)
― tehresa, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 05:07 (ten years ago) link
happy birthday harbly
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 01:46 (ten years ago) link
oh! hbh!!!
― lxy, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 04:36 (ten years ago) link