I am outraged for you, estela.

my dog (RIP) used to do that w/ my mom’s stuff when she wasn’t home because he missed her and he wanted something that smelled like her

disgraceful.

my husband finding a bag of unidentifiable vegetables buried under a chair cushion

!

uhh

it was a small bag of snow peas or something. i know, disgusting

shocking.

i just found the stove left on many hours after f. cooked some oatmeal, the house could have caught fire and harry and i might have been burned to a crisp.

ytth is actually a total slob, i’m not exaggerating. but i knew this before i moved here, so i have only myself to blame.

If I am ever outraged domestically, I fear there will be no one to blame but myself.

did harry drag the snow peas to under the cushion, do you suppose?

i am vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv glad you did not burn to a crisp, dearestela.

+ more vvvv, actually. infinity symbol. where’s max when i need him?

max and i, we are constantly disappointing one another.

harry would never go to any trouble over a snow pea.

i’m forever glad you are forever glad about the nonburning, darlingxy.

<#

oopsie

i just bared my teeth at my screen.

Hey get a room you two

jk <3

our room would have a large dish of jaffas in it.

the dish would be as large as the room

maybe the dish could just BE the room?

in that case we should expect frequent visits from smoove and ytth.

i wish tza wasn’t jk and this room was real.

Well too bad I was def jk because I don’t even know what jaffas are and you guys already got your little jaffa party anyway.

jaffas are delicious orbs of smooth milk chocolate with a crispy orange candy coating, i am confident you would <3 them.

Oh god now I really am jealous bc orange and chocolate is one of my all time favorite combinations.

Also back on topic I am outraged because my faucet water filter will not stay attached and now I have to return it. But at least it is an outrage of a domestic nature that is not my fault!

dreadful.

you must be outraged

is it a domestic outrage if an indoor daisy has to live on a back stoop, i have a feeling it might be.

wait, who is supposed to be outraged in this scenario, the daisy or me?

any flowerphile can fill that role.

the daisy is probably just sad and confused and cold.

I, for one, am irate.

fortunately for the daisy a plant-lover has just swept into town.

ps. it’s quite warm, and has just rained, and i can’t hear the daisy crying to be let in, so.

what is her name?

i hope it’s daisy.

i think it is sweet pea

i’ve changed over to hoping it’s timid frieda.

i have a new outrage: i was at the grocery store (domestic activity) and sultans of swing started playing in the background.

X(

the plant-lover? her name is tehersa, of course. silly girls.

i still have an annoying ringo starr song stuck in my head from my market visit this morning. i won’t torture you by saying what it is.

i hate dire straits with a passion, estela, so i feel yr pain

my dad used to play that song so loud

childhood trauma

i can’t find a place to get my hair cut

cut it yourself then post pix on stuff you made

can’t cut my own hair. i wish i could but it’s really really thick and needs to be thinned out every time. also it is coarse. it’s the worst hair ever. it’s a true domestic outrage.

your hair is pretty, harbl. it has a nice wave, iirc.

aw thx but it is just impossible

why did you need me for the infinity symbol

i tend to cause more domestic outrage than feel it tbh

ari tends towards outrage, i tend toward outrageousness

xp max, because when i expressed a need for the therefore symbol, you provided it in a trice.

we have a general understanding in our household: ytth doesn’t like to clean and doesn’t really care all that much about being slobby, except for once in awhile, and i am getting more neurotic about these matters as i get older. so whoever is most annoyed by something being dirty is the one who’ll clean it. it works pretty well.

domestic outrage this morning: ytth couldn’t find his keys and i got snotty cuz he can NEVER find his keys so i sighed loudly and got up to help him look and then remembered that i put them in my handbag last night

∞

thank you, ma∞

grabbing paper grocery bags out of car, sharp edge of handle slipped under my nail (there was BLOOD) and it is hurting like a mo’fo’ today

kia kaha smoove.

on tuesday i missed the garbage truck because i thought it would always come at 11 pm and it came at 7:30. so i had to keep my garbage inside until today and i had a lid on it so the flies were manageable but when i went to tie it up it was the WORST garbage i have ever smelled, it smelled like a baby’s diaper x10000, i thought i would pass out, i was gagging, it was unbelievable. i did get it outside but now the smell is still lingering even though i sprayed the garbage can with lysol. UGH what an outrage

in other words, you took a very short trip to shanghai

i am never going there

gah sorry harbs.

when i lived in japan i always knew when summer was at hand bcz our building’s garbage would get the WORST fish stench. oh it’d get in my nose for hours, so awful

Oh god the worst was living next to the live poultry store in bushwick my first summer in nyc. It was a hot one, with many 100 degree days, and with no a/c our options were a) stagnant 100 degree chicken air, or b)turn on fan & blow hot chicken breeze all over the room. On top of it, when the garbage truck came, the act of picking up the bags that had been cooking on the street all day and throwing them into the truck where they were mixed up with all the other hot trash would release this pugnant stench into the air that once woke me up and almost made me vomit it was so bad. What an outrage!

Lol pugnant? I don’t know if I meant pungent or repugnant there but lol.

EW hot chicken breeze!

wait how is that different than the delicious aroma of chicken coming from your oven?

^vegetarian

why don’t you let a TOFURKEY rot in the fridge for a month then put it in the garbage and leave it out in the hot sun for a week

wait, scratch that, you’ve done that before

guffaw

Oh snap

It still wouldn’t smell as bad as poultry I imagine. Something about animal flesh is just so prone to rancid stenchiness. Also remember that it was a live poultry store, so you got the smell of animal waste, too.

uh, ok, got it let’s move on now, k?

Yeah, ok.

Btw not so much an outrage but a word to the wise: if you buy fat free brownie mix do not expect brownies but rather spongey chocolate rubber.

lol @ fat-free brownies!

I know, what a silly idea!

the locus of outrage is in the initial plan, not in the unsurprising result.

Last night I found a slug on my lettuce! It was a little outrageous but I calmed down and took him outside to roam free.

http://twitpic.com/8fqqh

uh, that’s a really great pic

wow. welcome to seAttle

slugs are a good source of protein

slugs are a dismal source of protein.

seAttle

that represents the spAce needle

iphone likes cap A

(hi sandbox!)

Even after a good talking to and clear instructions on how a roomba would do it, the vacuum cleaner is still sitting forlornly out in the main room, just can’t manage to put itself away in the closet.

it is outraged

(hi jaq, welcome back, we missed you!)

i discovered my ‘last peeler you’ll ever buy’ in the trash can under a mound of vegetable peelings, and to add an extra layer of outrage it was my second last peeler you’ll ever buy, my first last peeler you’ll ever buy got thrown out the first week i owned it and i didn’t realise in time.

(hi jaq!)

Hi Jaq!

Estela, I think you have a peeler problem. I will attempt to dream up a solution to this outrage.

Also reminds me: need to buy vacuum cleaner.

maybe jaq’s roomba can be programmed to roam over to your place occasionally. for that matter, maybe jaq’s roomba can be programmed to roam over to MY place occasionally.

stela, maybe it would be more economical and less outrageous if you just bought the disposable peelers from now on.

oh i thought it was just a normal vacuum and jaq was trying to shame it into roomba-like behavior by telling it all about how a roomba would go about cleaning the floors and then stowing itself neatly away.

domestic outrage resolved: working internets!

^^ this

I felt bad for my outrage though and apologized as well as for yelling when it sucked up the belt from my robe.

hooray for working internets!

(I am actually afraid of roombas tbh)

i guess i was having a domestic fantasy. also, i’m a careless reader. oopsie.

i do like the idea of a roomba trundling about the city and letting itself into our homes to work while while we sit with our feet up, cocktails in hand.

“oh hi, thanks for coming over. i’ll just be out here on the porch if you need anything. say, next time you pass through the kitchen would you mind bringing me that pack of smokes on the counter? i’d hate to get in your way.”

i’ve had this step ladder for a long time but i only just noticed the lolabel:

looks perfect for http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/

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

it’s ant season at my house. my counters are clean. they’re marching to god knows where and carrying shit back still. this morning i was trying to dump some leftovers from the fridge and accidentally dropped them on the ground. i cleaned up as well as i could but when i came home the floor was like this

i had this a couple years ago and it was outrageous but also really impressive (and horrifying) — there was a single line of them coming in the window at the other end of the apartment, traversing the length of it in straight lines, and climbing up a wall to a bottle of honey in the cupboard

we’re contracted for quarterly (supposedly eco) spraying because of the outrageousness of the sugar ants. the guy said they come in looking for water (but apparently they stay for the crumbs). he also said they’re called sugar ants because they smell sweet if you squash them, which he then demonstrated by squashing one and smelling it, then holding it out for me to smell, to which i was like HELL NO I AM NOT SMELLING YOUR FRESHLY DEAD ANT JESUS CHRIST DUDE MOVE YOUR HAND AWAY FROM MY FACE.

anyway, they still come in occasionally but not like they used to.

i can’t tell you the story of the pizza in zanzibar because it is so horrifying that neither jërgins nor i have ever once mentioned it since it happened.

now is the time of year i cross my fingers and hope no bats appear in my house. ts: ants vs bats

the pizza in zanzibar is good code for unspeakable things

things are much improved after i found a bait they would actually eat. 99% gone.

my furnace stopped working on a friday night.

almost march, no worries

upper midwest outrages chronicle: we’re not safe til may

a disgraceful reminder we can’t spell furnace without an fu

i am outraged that, while in-person classes at my university have been suspended through the end of the month, offices will remain open. so, those of us who are in higher-risk age brackets will continue to throw ourselves out into the great world of disease every day, while the people in the less-at-risk age brackets can stay home and away from potential contact at every turn.

the announcement of the above arrived first thing this morning, followed shortly by an announcement that a staff person working in a building up the street has tested presumptive-positive, their building has been closed, and all people who’ve been in contact with them should self-isolate for 14 days. but yay, let’s all the rest of us keep going to germ land all the time.

i feel strongly that there’s a domestic connection to my outrage, but i’m too outraged to quite get at it.

this is exactly the kind of thing my employer does. typically it is weather-related and classes are canceled for students, 95% of whom live on campus. meanwhile offices remain open and staff, who have to drive in, are told to report. indeed an outrage. (of the domestic capitalism sort?)

i am in a more fortunate place now, but i am reminded that k-12 i had exactly two school days cancelled for weather. one was because the boilers had failed; the other was because the buses couldn’t climb the hill due to ice

despite the latter, we still had basketball practice

my hr department now says that we can’t work remotely, despite the fact that all students have been told they have to leave campus by sunday at 3 pm. outraged is too mild a term for how i feel right now.

we are supposed to work from home when possible and have new technology to do so but i don’t believe i will be able to do it, mentally. still have to go to the jail and i have bail reviews all week.

in the domestic outrages vein i had one packet of yogurt culture left in the fridge and went to all the trouble of heating the milk, etc. last night. incubated in the instant pot and woke up at 5 when it went off to move it to the fridge. i tasted it this morning and the culture must have been dead because it just tasted like cooked milk.

my new thermostat (see previous furnace outrage) does not seem to work properly, but only malfunctions like 1/5 of the time, which doesn’t seem dire enough to risk inviting a technician into my home.

speaking on both mrs mac and laundry in the other thread, she left what appears to have been several thousand euro worth of loo roll in her jeans when putting them in the basket the last day and was outrageously obvious about not thinking it was *that* big a deal when it destroyed the 40 degree dark wash

she says it served me right for throwing the teabags in the bin from across the kitchen and always splashing the wall (the walls are her job) but it’s clearly not comparable imco

the main light fixture in my kitchen isn’t working. whether this is due to dumb wiring on the part of the previous owners, or bad wiring choices on the part of the current owner who is currently isolated in the house is yet to be determined

probably the latter

E

came home this evening

E

feel for my amp

E

oh you know bout that man

E

wait my amps not there

A

came home this evenin

A

oh just feelin for my amp

E

E

B

my amps in the closet now

A

until this is all over

E

oh you know this is not open for discussion

E (quietly, because you have no amp)

part of my closet system fell off the wall.

the mosquitos have arrived in minnesota.

mosquito season in minnesota, pretty much the yearly apocalypse

unicorn shower curtain girl has taken over a redecoration of the garden shed for teenage hosting purposes she will not iirc be lisa franking that shit to the maxxx tho

a missed opportunity imo

the hot water heater died today so now i get to have that replaced.

jesus, rains/pours. sorry for all of this, tehersa.

<3

because this year has not been special enough, my sewer line is now backed up. (luckily caught before my basement totally flooded). 🥴

sorry t, the whole world is like a backed up sewer line but that doesn’t make a domestic outrage not outrageous.

ugh, so sorry about that. I have had one small backup and one that was... less small. I should be clearing tree roots out of my sewer line every year or two, this was (I think?) year three and was going to have it done in the spring except it wasn’t a good time

crossing my fingers the toilet water doesn’t swell from the floor

our new neighbour, who has a shaved head and bold tattoos and rides a harley, used his leaf blower six times yesterday and then again this morning. wtf. what a fusspot. it’s the worst sound in the world. also he just started it up again right now while i was mid-complaint.

i will totally kick his ass

yay, i’ll chew gum and rizzo cheer you on

we have had murraya growing in our yard for years but never learned how to spell it.

Mar dhea ye have id say

furnace broken. part unavailable until ????

this happened to me last month. i got a new furnace a year ago. the control board died and you could not buy another compatible board anywhere. under normal circumstances it would be available and cost like $100. i had to buy another furnace.

!!!! harbl, i am so sorry!

my furnace is like 30 years old so i got a home warranty. they just called and think they will be able to come with the part tomorrow afternoon. that will be such a relief as my thermostat read 39° this morning.

thankful for my sunny porch, as is the dog.

sorry to hear about the furnace woes. I hope things are up and running now!

toasty once more ^_^

yay!

never in my life have i gone to a neighbour’s house for a nice afternoon visit and then when they weren’t looking sneaked upstairs and peed on their hallway carpet, but that’s exactly what the little dog from next door just did and then she had the cheek to seem glum and bored during the cleanup

she loves you deeply, sort of a “you break it, you buy it” mentality

cheekiness is on a spectrum with godliness

you are speaking estela’s language

i love cheeky rotten little animals, all of them

need to make an office jarbl! add your pro tips here.

i have given up on jarbls and now use a sticky window thing to keep the fruit flies at bay. it is kind of gross and leaves glue on the window but it works for any type of fly.

also, after years of having an annual unannounced House Fly Week where tens of house flies appear out of nowhere, this year i had like 5 house flies total? not sure why; it is a mystery

5 all summer, i mean. house fly week was canceled.

there have been so damn many flies this year! and multiple varieties that i’ve never had invade my house before

i can’t turn the gas stove on in this apartment. i know how to, it is functioning, jergins can do it, i have turned gas stoves on in other places, but i just can’t make it stay lit. i even watched a fucking youtube video on how to turn on a gas stove. so if i want to cook anything, i have to get jergins to turn on the stove. if he isn’t home, i am not cooking.

i am outraged to the point of resignation.

this is dreadful behaviour from your gas stove, i am outraged too

hope jergins is not lording his gas power over you

so to speak

happy jarbl season to all who celebrate

i have switched to those disgusting clear window stickers because i want to have 0 houseflies. they are gross but they do catch a lot of fruit flies.

i have switched to those disgusting clear window stickers

pls explain?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001QBPP66

STRONG VISCOSITY

gotta have the best viscosity

nothing but the strongest, best viscosity for my friend harbl

a pigeon came into our house. all three of us were a bit shaken.

a rat came into our house. it was scared and injured itself, resulting in a high degree of trauma for all involved.

i hope we are nearing the end of our indoor wildlife phase.

i was awarded the abandoned garden plot next to mine. a rat lives there and has been making new holes and tunnels every day. he doesn’t even need to, he can just go over the ground because there’s no one around. maybe he doesn’t know that, or perhaps making tunnels is fun.