ugh I know, it’s the worst!

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.

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.

disgraceful®

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.

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).

A/C broken. Dudes couldn’t fix it after three hours but did manage to leave black fingerprints all over my ceiling.

we had an outrageous storm last night :(

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/1000s-Without-Power-After-Storms-in-Md-Va-DC--263789541.html

aw terez, are you okay? is your domicile okay?

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!).

dag <3

glad! how’s our harbl?

my a/c still doesn’t work :(

that’s outrageous!

Oh awesome the power is out again so now we don’t even get fan cooling O_o

pepco amirite

dominion. stupid lightning :(

My a/c works!

I’m cold.

tsk<3

;)

tbh i only really feel alive when i can see my breath

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!

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.

<3 phantom screws

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.

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.

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.

the anchors are 30 lbs each so there should be no collapsing of my shelves even with just the two ; )

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 :(

Also I love envisioning a crooked house with everything perfectly straight but I picture a comical version of it.

lolhueg

My picture link died :(

and the rough places plain

that looks like my house, yes

I am so fascinated by that house. I want to know the story!!!

I have so many domestic things to do today but I have been procrastinating for an outrageously long time :(

We have had an ant invasion. These wily bastards are tough and too smart to fall for the jarbl trap.

ugh, ants. we ended up hiring an exterminator to deal with them. he comes quarterly. so glad.

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.

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.

I did 5 loads of laundry (ugh!) but none of my other chores...

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.

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.

if i were there i would get her a bell or a gong so she could up the ante.

see why I kept ye apart?

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.

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:(

now that we’re moving into fall I feel i should perhaps finish my spring cleaning 😳

i’d no idea that ‘estie’ was acceptable usage but am v. fond of it

too close to estie buttz for me clive

they were on the inside windowsill. i guess estie was esteban buttez but i like it too.

tbh at usage of “estie” I started questioning my understanding of deems’ identity.

this is what happens when we’re not careful about things

i liked being called estie.

oh I see harbl was calling estela estie! Assumed deems bc it was previous post. So confuse.

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.

a little bit got into iphone headphone jack and the silent switch thing!!!!!!!!

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.

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!

my car is always gross. i hate it.

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.

work people, that is. i would drive you people all the livelong day.

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

I am so weird about cleaning. I always wash the dishes and clean the stove/counters but i hate sweeping the floor!

lol that’s exactly what i do. dishes, stovetop, countertops, sink get done occasionally but floor is never done.

I have a hard time going to bed if there are dishes in the sink, but the floor? Pffft.

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

this happened ╮(╯▽╰)╭

Now my bathroom sink is dripping (unrelated).

. . . a mexican dish exploded?

Pretty much :(

oh no i am doing mexican on friday night, how to avoid this pls

don’t put any jumping beans in your chimichanga.

i am surprised you can even bring yourself to type the words “jumping” and “beans” in the same sentence

i had an ugly grimace on my dial while i typed.

(a different one from the default.)

you were scowling and the wind chimichanged

lollll.

it’s pretty easy: double check that tupperware containers are really, truly closed tightly before shaking vigorously.

all safe so far thk g-d

*blessed*

sandbox sna looks like the morning after a party.

like an innocent room a conga passed through by mistake

a cigarette stubbed out in a cold fried egg.

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.

i bet it was perfectly fine, great even. happy thanksgiving!

it was kinda crispy :(

(Not in a good way)

what does this Douglas Fir tree think it’s doing, shedding this much

pine needles everywhere

I have to vacuum the whole house, sweep the porch, and sweep the sidewalk

outrage

I bought decorations from the stall a friend has set up and I hung up a holly bough with prolonged difficulty and got covered in fake snow and glitter and I have not been allowed to wash it off all evening because it is too delicious in the eyes of herself

finished painting my room. finished in that i am just tired of painting but i will continue to find light spots and sloppy cutting in for the rest of my life but oh well! also patched hole in wall caused by burglar almost a year ago but didn’t measure it before buying the patch and it’s a patch for a large hole. i could have done it with just mesh but i got a steel plate which i can see.

in non-outrage news i painted my room! also hung heavy mirror from wall. fun drilling.

Yay painting! I’ve been meaning to do that for at least a year...

it’s putting up the christmas tree day at my house and these tiny delicate glowing lights are being a pack of cunts.

<3

oh my god those fucking lights!

One will note there are no (holiday) lights in my home...

working on some (one) home projects this week. which mostly means looking at people’s dumb blogs about how to hang shelves and make furniture. i need to totally redo my kitchen but don’t have money, which has led to me procrastinating with even the small project of putting up shelves in this useless corner of my kitchen so i can get things out of the way. because why put up shelves when i’m going to redo it...in 5 years. i got some plywood and track shelving and just did it yesterday. it doesn’t look too pretty but there’s finally nothing on the floor! the outrageous part of this is how bad i am at drilling screws into wood. i’m gonna need some new drill bits as i am ruining mine by drilling incorrectly. i finished the screws with a screwdriver.

also i’m going to make my own coffee table. let’s see how stupid this looks!