I just wanna say -- the random comments thread

[NewEnglandLady]

Just wanted to pop in to say "Woohoo!!!" for SDL's hubby. That's awesome!!

I'm still wishing you luck, Kama! $60K under isn't unreasonable at all in that price range. We also live in an expensive area and made an offer over $60K under asking that was accepted. We ended up walking away after uncovering some issues we didn't want to deal with in addition to the fact that the sellers were not reasonable. The next time we made an offer we had very reasonble sellers and it was like night and day!

Packrat--do the pups have parvo or does the mom have parvo? Either way, my fingers are crossed. My sister's dog, who was vaccinated for parvo, ended up contracting it when he was 9 months old. Very scary. I've known two pups who had it--one made it and one did not. My heart always sinks when I hear the word.

 

[kama_s]

I'm still wishing you luck, Kama! $60K under isn't unreasonable at all in that price range. We also live in an expensive area and made an offer over $60K under asking that was accepted. We ended up walking away after uncovering some issues we didn't want to deal with in addition to the fact that the sellers were not reasonable. The next time we made an offer we had very reasonble sellers and it was like night and day!

Thanks for the cheering up, NEL. I was in dire need of that, I've been moping in my office all day long today.

The sellers are very unreasonable, and this house has been on the market for over a year and half now because they're hoping to strike rich with it. Other houses not just on this street, but in the area, have been on the market for an average of 4 days. Days! You think they would take a hint when it's staring at their face! They've also been through 5 realtors. Soooo, looks like we'd be banging our head on the wall with them.

So glad you found the right house for you! It's such a tedious and frustrating process, but the pleasure at the end of the ordeal must be so satisfying!

 

[dragonfly411]

NEL - she doesn't know that it was parvo, but the dog who she might be interested in just had a litter and all but one were lost. That's what made me think of Parvo.

 

[Autumnovember]

Random : Every time I see photos of pigs, I start wanting another one. I have no where to keep one, but I want a new piggy sooooo bad.

I've wanted a teacup pig for THE longest time <3

 

[Gypsy]

I'm in a major funk. I don't do anything anymore. Things I once enjoyed... meh. I know it's just the depression, but knowing doesn't help.

 

[zoebartlett]

I'm sorry Gypsy. Have you thought of going to talk to someone? I'm not usually one for recommending medicine, but maybe a little could help lift you out of the fog and see things clearly. It could possibly give you get you over this hurdle and help you enjoy things again. Again, I wouldn't usually recommend it but I know exactly where you've been and it's not easy. I wish I lived closer -- I'd offer to take you out and be in the company of others.

 

[Strawdermangrl]

I just got to the office, have checked my emails and am now enjoying a Venti coffee of the day. Hooray.

 

[that_someone_special]

I'm in a major funk. I don't do anything anymore. Things I once enjoyed... meh. I know it's just the depression, but knowing doesn't help.

I am really tired this morning and read "I once enjoyed... meth."


But seriously now, I hope you feel better soon. Depression is no good.

 

[Strawdermangrl]

I'm in a major funk. I don't do anything anymore. Things I once enjoyed... meh. I know it's just the depression, but knowing doesn't help.

I am really tired this morning and read "I once enjoyed... meth."


But seriously now, I hope you feel better soon. Depression is no good.

Gypsy- Sorry to hear you are feeling blue. Hugs- hope it all looks up soon!

Bean- I literally spit coffee out when I read that. LOL, thanks for the laugh.

 

[dragonfly411]

Gypsy - I'm on your boat. I'm pretty blah about everything.

 

[dragonfly411]

SDL - That is absolutely devastating. My heart goes out to you, your husband and all of those affected. Are you allowed to share details about this suspect? Was he already a killer? I think its important to appreciate the things we take for granted every day. They can be gone in an instant. This weekend (I didn't share this as it was so disturbing for me) we passed by an accident. A semi was either stopped at a stop light, or had just barely begun to move forward. A car drove up under him. There is absolutely no possibility that anyone in the car could have survived. It crumpled under the truck. It didn't raise the truck's trailer at all. All I could think over and over is what it would be like to realize that it was happening, and possibly know that death was about to arrive. It is even worse in the case of people who risk their lives every day to protect us. Every day they must face the possibility that they could get hurt, or die. Every day they experience seeing others die. I have an uncle who is a firefighter and he has seen things no person should ever have to see. It could all be gone so fast, and I try to remember that, and make sure I tell my loved ones every chance I get that I do love them, and remind them that I care, and to give thanks for the things I do have.

((hugs))

 

[packrat]

Oh SDL how heartbreaking! Thoughts and prayers to the officers family.

 

[zoebartlett]

Guilty 6 times over.

 

[MichelleCarmen]

Okay, my two dramas of the day:

A) Dyed my hair and my staple lip stick doesn't go with my hair shade. I have an event I'm going to and no dang lip stick to go with. AHHHH!

B) My son's betta appears to be sick. One of them just died last week and we replaced him. Now another is sick. Never used the same fish tools on both so it's co-oincidence. Now my older son is going to flip out b/c he's still traumatized about our cat having died during the summer and cried the other day when the last-week betta died.

 

[princesss]

Guilty 6 times over.

 

[Kaleigh]

I'm in a major funk. I don't do anything anymore. Things I once enjoyed... meh. I know it's just the depression, but knowing doesn't help.

So sorry to hear this Gypsy. Maybe talkng to a professional would help?? I know you have been through a lot...

Sending you a big hug and some love!!!!

xx

Lisa

 

[calibali]

Yay, our first snow! I've been waiting and waiting for it to snow because that's why I moved here, and it's finally happening. Feels like home.

 

[princesss]

Yay, our first snow! I've been waiting and waiting for it to snow because that's why I moved here, and it's finally happening. Feels like home.

Where are you that it snows this early?

 

[vintagelover229]

I'm in a major funk. I don't do anything anymore. Things I once enjoyed... meh. I know it's just the depression, but knowing doesn't help.

So sorry to hear this Gypsy. Maybe talkng to a professional would help?? I know you have been through a lot...

Sending you a big hug and some love!!!!

xx

Lisa

HUGS Gypsy! I'm sorry your going though a rough spot. I've dealt with depression on and off my whole life, it's no fun at all. I'm recently getting over my last bout of cabin fever, which isn't any fun either. If you need someone to hose you down and cheer ya up let me know! I'm bored over here in never never land and could use a friend to annoy though out the day

 

[calibali]

Yay, our first snow! I've been waiting and waiting for it to snow because that's why I moved here, and it's finally happening. Feels like home.

Where are you that it snows this early?

Denver. I was told that it always snows before Halloween, but of course it didn't happen when I move here.

I have friends that have already gone skiing, so it's nice that the weather here is starting to sync up with the mountains. We had been at record highs this past weekend (upper 70s) and it seemed just plain wrong for November.

 

[zoebartlett]

Guilty 6 times over.

So...I take it you know what I'm referring too...

sorry about the content of my last msg. to you. Not too pleasant...Hopefully you know me well enough to know that I'm usually much more chipper.

 

[kama_s]

So we didnt get the house. The sellers were being absolutely unreasonable with their demands, it was getting quite ridiculous.

Even so, I can't help but mope

 

[MichelleCarmen]

So we didnt get the house. The sellers were being absolutely unreasonable with their demands, it was getting quite ridiculous.

Even so, I can't help but mope

Sorry you didn't get the house, Kama. Hugs!

 

[Kaleigh]

So we didnt get the house. The sellers were being absolutely unreasonable with their demands, it was getting quite ridiculous.

Even so, I can't help but mope

So sorry Kama, I know you are dissapointed. Hopefully the right house is just around the corner and will be the perfect fit for you..

 

[yssie]

So we didnt get the house. The sellers were being absolutely unreasonable with their demands, it was getting quite ridiculous.

Even so, I can't help but mope

Oh, phooey sorry Kama.

comfort food?

 

[decodelighted]

I cannot stop internet shopping. Not buying. But shopping. In the last five days I've racked up over a thousand dollars worth of "near misses". Always finding something I just can't live w/o ... searching for coupon codes ... figuring postage ... and then talking myself out of the madness at the very last minute.

Probably because DH has been away for a few days, my freelance gig is wrapping up and I have too much time on my hands. But also because it is a ROCKIN season for clothes & accessories. Geez. I keep finding things in my hard-to-find sizes too. Though I don't NEED anything & don't have spare cash after our vacation, especially with Xmas on the way. I've also already gotten many new things to freshen up my work/travel wardrobe this season already. MORE MORE MORE MORE.

Mini list of things I'm obsessed w/:

Chie Mihara shoes
Leather jackets
Neutral, slouchy sweaters
Drapey sequin t-shirts
Red lipstick & nail polish
Bootcut stretchy vintagey cords
Sweater dresses
Mirror crinkle leather mary janes
A puppy

Must stop reading blogs & buying magazines. Too tempting. Eh, just a mini-rant. Anyone else relate?

 

[iLander]

Random: I hate my oven timer.

It makes the most annoying, incessant, piercing, shrill, REPEATING beep ever devised. It totally takes the fun out of cooking. It's a Frigidaire.

My last oven was also bad, it just beeped once and then never again. If you missed it, too dang bad, your food's burned. It was Amana.

The one before that was a GE, it was pleasant, but not too soft or shrill. I am sad that GE doesn't make appliances anymore (they sold that business unit last year, FYI. Now GE will be just a name, made by multiple manufacturers, I think).

They can send a person to the moon, but they can't make a stinking oven timer . . .

 

[yssie]

I hate hate HATE those late-night humane society animal welfare ads.

I turn around - or close my eyes - every time I hear that music -- I don't want to see it, I don't want to think about it, my tearducts contemplate activating every. single. time.

 

[zoebartlett]

I stayed home from work today, so it's rare that I actually hear my husband's alarm clock go off (I leave for work before he gets up). He wakes to a rooster! For some reason that makes me laugh.

 

[NewEnglandLady]

SDL, I am so, so sorry to hear about your husband's coworker. My heart sank when I read your post. What an awful thing to happen to such an amazing man.

Kama, I'm sorry to hear about the house falling through. I know it doesn't feel this way now, but I know you'll find a house you love and hopefully the sellers will be nice. Dealing with awful sellers (and these people sound really bad--especially since they keep firing realtors) sucks all of the excitement out of something that should be exciting.

Deco, I shop online all the time. I've been working from home a lot lately and my workload has been lighter (yay!), so I will find pieces I think would work in our house, then obsess over it. I'll measure it all off, envision it in my head over and over, which usually involves walking into various rooms multiple times a day. I've been obsessing over this loveseat I'd like to put in our bedroom for about a month. I've even put it in my shopping cart 5 times, but can't seem to buy it. I'm also obsessing over a new TV and even nursery furniture even though I'm not pregnant. Yet I buy nothing. I feel like we've spent so much on vet bills recently that I can't justify an unecessary expense. I wish that were enough to make me stop obsessing.

iLander, I hate my oven timer, too (Frididaire). About 2 weeks after we moved in I bought a magnet timer for to put on our fridge and often use that one instead. Our oven timer has the same grating feeling on my ears as my alarm clock.