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...And that is the kind of stuff I'm afraid of! Being relegated to the guest bath for a month or having no useable kitchen!

 

We are wanting to convert our master bath enclosure to a walk-in shower. Our house was built in 1983 and the tile, in spots, is literally falling off the wall so something needs to be done. And we have CARPET in our bathroom. I guess that was a thing in the 80s, although I have no idea why. The master bath needs the most work, but Boyfriend wants to update the kitchen, too. Our kitchen could use a layout overhaul, badly, but that is going to be too expensive.

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We had some work done a few years back. The entire house needed residing and new windows; we chose to change from New England style clapboard to vinyl siding (which looks similar, but doesn't require the maintenance) and new vinyl windows that you can tilt in (or take out completely) for cleaning. At the same time, we added a full-length shed addition and one more room (by building one small section of the house upwards).

 

It cost a lot because it was a biggish project (the shed addition included an extra garage underneath, so we had digging & foundation work), but we were lucky that we didn't make any changes to the kitchen or bathrooms. Not that the kitchen & bathrooms couldn't use some work, but that wasn't a priority at all.

 

Anyway, we had very good luck with the contractor. We used someone my brother had used a number of times and recommended. They gave us a start date and then showed up every day unless there was some rare issue (like a hurricane coming, or we were waiting for something to be delivered). They got it done on time and we weren't disrupted that much or for very long. So...if you can get the recommendation of someone you really, really trust, that would help.

 

I know we would have been more disrupted if it had been kitchen & bath work, too, but I feel like any kitchen & bath work we do will have to be us, so mostly cosmetic, but my husband is very handy and can do things like changing a sink or a toilet out.

 

Indoor painting we do ourselves. Outdoor painting...we'll never have to do, now that we have the vinyl siding. We are not maintenance people, at all.


ETA: The entire shed roof got a layer of waterproof membrane and the main roof got 10 feet of it at the ends. I'm glad of that this New England winter!

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Shhhhhhhhh eat more potato with bacon n cheese. It makes everything better. It makes the lambs stop screaming clarice.

Oh,  I just want to announce that I am trying the Lay's Cheddar Bacon Mac& Cheese potato chips right now and I am in ecstasy.

I want to make nachos in the microwave tonight with these chips, picante sauce, and sour cream.

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Ok, whoever is headed to The Island please swing by and get me. It's been one too many subzero days here. I'll bring the scarves and the salsa.

Yes, but could you imagine the hilarity of watching walkers trying to move through 3 feet of snow? They'd be stuck, like those mud walkers that The Gov and family met. Maybe they'd be stuck long enough to rot away to nothing by the Spring.

And we can go poke 'em with sticks like Carl and the Dale-Killing Walker stuck in the muddy swamp!

Now I know I'm tired because I'm imagining snow blowing and drifting around walkers until they become living snowmen, and they just need coal for eyes...

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I'm going to some music festival thing with food trucks and beer and I feel icky. :( I want to eat weird foreign stuff and did I mention beer? But If I'm just gonna throw up in public what's the point? That IS the point when you're younger, not so much now. And if it's all standing up listening to music then I'm all weak sauce. 

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Poor nachomama! I don't know what I'd do in your situation. Then again, I wouldn't be in your situation, because I have to eat gluten-free, so I really can't eat at food trucks anymore, or drink beer unless it's specifically GF. :( And yeah, standing up listening to music wouldn't work for very long before I'd go old, arthritic, balance-challenged lady on everyone. Always fun.

 

Um...maybe listen to some nice music at home, and know that another opportunity will arise for food trucks and beer, at a time when you're feeling better. Or, maybe one of us is some kind of magical healer that can heal you over the internet!! I'm not, but if someone else here is, then nachomama's needing some help.

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It is supposed to be in the 50's here next week!!  I need to take a day off so that I can scoop poop while the snow melts.  130 lb. dog + snowing every day and covering it up = big doggy toilet backyard.

 

And even though he would make a big meal, the first person to shoot my baby in the ZA would wish they were a zombie :)

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I'm going to some music festival thing with food trucks and beer and I feel icky. :( I want to eat weird foreign stuff and did I mention beer? But If I'm just gonna throw up in public what's the point? That IS the point when you're younger, not so much now. And if it's all standing up listening to music then I'm all weak sauce. 

 

 

Poor nachomama! I don't know what I'd do in your situation. Then again, I wouldn't be in your situation, because I have to eat gluten-free, so I really can't eat at food trucks anymore, or drink beer unless it's specifically GF. :( And yeah, standing up listening to music wouldn't work for very long before I'd go old, arthritic, balance-challenged lady on everyone. Always fun.

 

Um...maybe listen to some nice music at home, and know that another opportunity will arise for food trucks and beer, at a time when you're feeling better. Or, maybe one of us is some kind of magical healer that can heal you over the internet!! I'm not, but if someone else here is, then nachomama's needing some help.

http://www.hotsauce101.com/unique-benefits.html

 

ward off food poisoning, kill salmonella and other bacteria, and aid digestion. that's the best I can do for you. (and alternate beer with N/A beer?)

I bought my hovel in ... 1988.  Roof has been fixed & redone by more roofers & contractors than I've blown.  Gave up on the men that couldn't fix shit a long time ago.  I now awaken to occasional drips whenever it rains in sunny SoCal - I use vintage bowls to capture the leakage ....  and I am still in love with the f'ing place to this very day.   HUUUGE moon last night, raccoons beggin' hot doggies, skunk & possum nightly visits, and the eternal sunshininess of my peri-pathetic old life - it's all good, except for my lack of an "heir" to feed the critters when I'm Gone, Baby, Gone.  :(

I bought my hovel in ... 1988.  Roof has been fixed & redone by more roofers & contractors than I've blown.  Gave up on the men that couldn't fix shit a long time ago.  I now awaken to occasional drips whenever it rains in sunny SoCal - I use vintage bowls to capture the leakage ....  and I am still in love with the f'ing place to this very day.   HUUUGE moon last night, raccoons beggin' hot doggies, skunk & possum nightly visits, and the eternal sunshininess of my peri-pathetic old life - it's all good, except for my lack of an "heir" to feed the critters when I'm Gone, Baby, Gone.  :(

The moon was great last night, wasn't it? I'm living just in the middle of woods with a farm across the dirt road and it was as bright as day but so much nicer.

I've had a frog, not a toad, a nice big green frog that came in a hole where the chimney goes through the roof. He goes out sometimes, to eat I guess, and he comes in to sleep in a bowl in the kitchen cupboard that catches water leaking through. If I fill the sink before bed, I can turn off the lights and about 15 minutes later I hear Plop! SPLASH! SPLASH!

At least someone's having fun at night.

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I love you.  In an asexual way.

 

On to froggies, another lurve of my life My former mentress had a fucking river running through it - an actual round house built over a creek, !  digress.  So, duckies.  Many, many ,ducks.  Toadie fuckng bullfroggies eating little baby duckies.  walnutqueen deadeye dick with the gun had a crisis. and could not pull the trigger.  (:

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This reminds me of Baby Judith:  http://api.ning.com/files/KjzU17zlGibfiXOx1cXej2tEdsVdlMwt7ytlrfmusjXYJqUUB2nE9hkvWBupPiBNEz-MQOl5Z5EiMOrbZ6yjWaOXig-900G1/EdwardbyBetsyYoungquist.jpg

Is it wrong for me to admit that?

This one is kinda sorta normal (as these things go):http://byart.com/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/dancing%20boyweb.jpg

 

 

You're right; all of those are disturbing! Except the baby head/bejeweled spaceship/crystal fountain one, which is weird but I kinda like.

Did you like all the little hands coming out of the portholes? :-)

The caterpillar one has human eyes all the way down it's abdomen.

 

 

I think I'm weird then I see someone's putting time into a bizarre duck baby bedazzled doll and think I'm ok.

What's really funny is that people pay hundreds of dollars for each of these so she probably has more money than we do.

That's beautiful! I want it! Well, I would want it if I hadn't vowed to clear my home of any and all clutter a few years ago. But I still want it.

In 2006 I was laid off for like 8 weeks.  I've had to work since I was 12, so that was just mind blowing.  Anyway, I decided that I was going to go through my clean but bordering on hording (yea I have a problem) and either sell or donate everything I hadn't touched in 2 years that didn't have epic sentimental value.

 

It was amazing the stuff I had and the things I cleared out.  It lasted about a month and I now have things from the second half of 2006 that I probably haven't touched since then...lol

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I always say I'm gonna do that too. I don't have tchotchkes and knick knacks so much but I have all kinds of papers stacked on the dining room table. You don't know when you might need the electric bill from 1997. Or I have the old front porch lights that I changed out. They're perfectly good just not my taste. I could sell them in a yard sale or just donate to re-store. I also have an odd box of tiles to replace cracked tiles except I never do. And my sister sends me really stupid gifts. They seem very much like flea market things. But I can't just throw them away. She got me a decanter thing that's kinda pretty its lid is it's glass. She got it because I said I wake up thirsty. She thinks I put this next to my bed and just pour myself a glass of water. I don't use it because it Woyld be warm water plus the neck of this thing is so skinny I couldn't wash it and lord only kniws what was ever in it Before.

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The man across the street from my mom made me a shelf. A beautiful shelf, he spent who knows how much time hand-carving it and polishing it and staining it etc etc.

 

It is 8 feet long. It weighs over 40 lbs no joke.

I have no place to put it and nothing that could hold it up. It weighs too much and the bottom has (of course) fancy hand-carved decorative embellishments that make brackets out of the question.

I don't know what to do because he is a family friend and if I get rid of it his feelings would rightfully be hurt (he made this for me for Christmas).

I could however kill a burglar with it with one swing.

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The man across the street from my mom made me a shelf. A beautiful shelf, he spent who knows how much time hand-carving it and polishing it and staining it etc etc.

 

It is 8 feet long. It weighs over 40 lbs no joke.

I have no place to put it and nothing that could hold it up. It weighs too much and the bottom has (of course) fancy hand-carved decorative embellishments that make brackets out of the question.

I don't know what to do because he is a family friend and if I get rid of it his feelings would rightfully be hurt (he made this for me for Christmas).

I could however kill a burglar with it with one swing.

Bring it to our treehouse community and we can use it to drop on people/zombies...lol

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