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Randoms to start conversation
I have a couple of things but I am not sure either warrants a big new thread. Maybe I should since it's dead here so much anyway, but whatevs.
So, are you sick of hearing me talk about my house renovation yet? Anyway, we are starting Feb to demo and redo our master suite. It will take 2-3 weeks they say, but I know that could expand. We would have no washer and dryer, only one bathroom (with a tub only which I cannot use so I would have to like sit on the edge to bathe and then twist in a weird position to wash my hair or pour a bucket over it or something. And we would have to sleep on a trundle in our guest room (or one of us could sleep on the couch).
So, we should rent a short term place, right?
Also, related to the FB murder post I put up last week-
So my friend who is mutual friends with the murderer and victim. She owns a tattoo parlor in my home town and her H is the main artist. When Cassie was missing, she posted a picture of her getting tattood in the shop by her H to the girl's wall with a post of a memory of her. Now, most people did something to this affect. But then after her body was found, my friend ordered domestic violence bracelets I guess and psoted to Cassie's wall that they were in and available at the tattoo parlor.
Do you think this is a sweet gesture of a friend or trying to profit from a death and extra publicity/page views?
Re: Randoms to start conversation
I would rent a place if I were you.
It depends, are they going to a charity? If yes, then I think it is a nice gesture.
For less then ten cents a day, you can feed a hungry child.
I would move out for a 2-3 week renovation. We re-did our bathroom a few years ago, and Fran did 90% of the work himself so it took a lot longer than if we'd contracted it out. For the week that it was really a mess I moved to our beach house rather than deal with the mess.
I am irritated that only one of the five daycare people I bought Christmas gifts for has thanked me. It baffles me. Maybe I should check with Fran to see if they thanked him.
The bathing situation would probably have be renting someplace.
Are the bracelets really going to bring in a profit or are they just those dollar rubber LiveStrong type bracelets where the proceeds go to the cause?
We got thank youcards from two of ours and nothing from the third. I didn't think about asking Mr. Winged if he was told thank you. He does not communicate the daycare stuff well.
I could not imagine doing all the work.
Speaking of DIY, you know who I hate?
Bathroom Crashers. And the fact that they make you think you can redo an entire bathroom in 3 days.
The plus side to having Fran DIY most of our home stuff is that we save tons of money, the down side is it takes longer because he squeezes it in between his real job.
I was in awe of what he did in the bathroom. He moved plumbing, built a shower, and tiled the whole thing.
The thought of my husband attempting to move plumbing as me in stitches. He's handy with the small stuff, but that would be epic disaster. We outsource that stuff.
I have friends that turned their open concept dining room into their bedroom during a big rennovation. We're talking a few months of living like that, with three small kids. They saved a ton of money and ended up with a great place, but you could not pay me to do that.
I would totally book a month at an extended stay place and chalk it up to just another cost of the project. it's not worth being miserable, especially while pregnant.
Mucho likes purple nails and purple cupcakes
I laugh at the thought of Mr. Winged doing that too. There is just so much we are doing and I could not imagine him doing half of it.
I think I would survive it if it weren't for the bath and washer/dryer situation. But then I wonder how much dust there will be and how I would deal with that. We are having our textured walls and ceilings smoothed out and they will sand for painting anyway so that has to suck.
The dust will be bad anyway, but it's going to be awful with that. Not good for anyone to be around, but especially not you and dagger.
Mucho likes purple nails and purple cupcakes
We are considering some reno because the market is so depleted in our neighborhood we don't think we'll be able to sell our house for what we want. This means Kevin will be doing about 70% of it, with me doing all the finish work.
Normally this thought isn't terrible, but with Charlotte it kind of is.
For less then ten cents a day, you can feed a hungry child.
Yeah, I was worried about that. There is really no way to contain it. Now, what to do about the cat.
Winger, I would definitely get a room.
We're having our hardwoods refinished this week, so we're staying at a hotel. We didn't really have a choice of staying in the house though, since we can't walk on the floors. I'm really hoping that it's not going to take a full week, because staying in a hotel with our dogs is not going to be the most fun.
It was kind of a shitty weekend at the Boxer house. We had to clear out the entire first floor of our house. And we both had some stomach ick, so we had to do it while puking. It sucked. And, possibly the worst part, it was a disastrous weekend for football. So sad
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That's what's happening at our house as well. We're finishing the basement and with two kids it's going to be a nightmare. i can keep them out of the way, but the noise (Lila freaks out about my hairdryer, let alone a saws-all), mess and curiosity of what's happening down there is going to be nuts.
Stay somewhere else, man. Not worth the headache. And in regards to the bracelets being given out at the shop, I would be more inclined to stop by a business to pick something like this up than say, go to the home of someone I never met. The business adds less of a sketch angle for me, even if it is a tattoo parlor. And being that it's a tattoo parlor, I don't think there's a significantly high chance of many people making impulse buys/decisions so I don't think she's pimping the business angle at all. Like you said, she was friends with both of them.
So many reno convos in this post, exciting! We're still in the process of trying to select a contracting company for the foffing basement. At this point, I almost feel like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman walking around Rodeo Drive with fistfuls of cash, "I have all this money and I just want to buy a basement and they won't sell me a basement!" This quoting process has been dragging on forever!!
I've lost 12 pounds since Lauren's birthday.
I'm still obsessed with Vincent Cassel.
I've been daydreaming out a NE Baby GTG since looking at the Miles and MC pics.
I think of random things all day long that I want to tell you guys and now I'm coming up short. Damn...
OMG ME TOO.
For less then ten cents a day, you can feed a hungry child.
I hate the bidding process.
We have only gone to one contractor. When we did our garage we went to several and it was a pain the arse.
But, this time, my coworker whose husband owns a commercial building company recommended her guy. He does everything on her and her mom's houses and they are super richie riches who are always renovating and they love this guy. And their houses are spectacular. So, that was all the reference I needed.
I'd stick it out, not being pregnant, because I hate hotels long term.
I can't really envision that many, if any, people are going to get tattoos as a result of a parlor handing out domestic violence bracelets.
My problem is I want what the richie richies have but I don't want to pay the money monies. And our quotes are ALL OVER the board. The basement was finished at one point so it has the existing framework and drywall and all that jazz. The people coming in all have differing opinions on what needs to take place. Some want to rip everything down and start completely from scratch and others say the existing stuff is fine the way it is which leads to cray-cray quotes that span a $30K difference.
I need Mike Holmes to come in here and tell me what's the what.
Mucho likes purple nails and purple cupcakes
Did you click on the post I made about it. I am pretty sure that this chicks friend are in the impulse buy tattoo group.
To refresh your memory, this was one of her friend's quotes about her
?She straight conned me into getting a tornado tattoo on my back.?
I don't doubt 20 year olds make stupid decisions and get dumb tattoos. I still highly doubt many are swinging by to pick up free domestic violence bracelets honoring their dead friend and thinking, "eh, while I'm here...."
I find your level of judgment against these tattooed freaks a little surprising given that you are a little alternative yourself.
I saw a picture of myself from the brunch on Saturday, and I wanted to cry at how huge my thighs are. I've lost all this weight, and I am still a giant cow.
I bought a new scale because my old one likes to eff with me and tell me a different weight everytime I stand on it. The new one does too, but to a lesser extent. This can only mean that the problem is not the scale but me. My weight fluxuates from second to second.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
If it were me, I would rent a place. I hated living in our house while we had our floors redone this summer.
My randoms are that I am very out of sorts today. My SIL and nephew stayed with us last night. I don't cope well with vomit, and nephew is a frequent puker and often does it with no warning. They arrived at 10pm last night, and within 20 minutes of arrival he'd barfed in James's playpen. Everything that was hit was washable, so no real harm done, but it makes me really tense to be around him because I feel like he could blow at any second. I heard him coughing at 4am and was unable to fall asleep afterward because I kept wondering if that was another vomit incident and if so, what got hit this time. They're staying with us again tonight, and I'm dreading going home from work.
Also, I went off the BCP in November in anticipation of TTC, and now my cycle is messed up. My period is 4 days late (I've taken a brazilian tests, all negative), and I feel like I've been stuck in "Week 3" of my BCP-induced cycle for about 12 days--bloated, constipated, and wanting to eat everything in sight. I wish things would move along.