Well hugs to you FCM!
merrily, I wouldn’t say I was exactly full of self-pity, but there was a little in there. And a lot of self-deprecation. (I’m trying to learn humility, work with me here.)
Lissla i don’t know what to say.
Taters, is that chair-and-a-half the extra wide kind? or the extra long? The extra long ones are called chaise bateau, IIRC. Either one would be really cool. I love comfy chairs. Have fun with your furniture shopping. Flexsteel makes better furniture than most, INHO.
Bumba, the extra-wide is what I’m thinking of. I’ve been looking at all kinds of furniture on-line, but most of the “snuggler” or chair and halfs have been rather…ugly. So, I may not get one. Hubby wants some furniture that we can snuggle on, and most sofas just aren’t wide enough to accomodate this. We are most definitely getting a recliner, but in a club chair style. I hate the old…well…recliner look. I’ve also been looking at sofas that have a chaise on one end. The problem is that I don’t want some hurkin’ gigantic piece of furniture, but I don’t want it to be uncomfortable either. I’ve seen a couple that I think would fit the bill, but I’ll need to see them “in-person” and have a sit and lie-down on them.
Our 'puter has hit the Seattle sort facility, so I guess we can expect delivery on Monday. I was hoping to give the boss notice before I took off, but oh well. I’ve already warned him that I was expecting a delivery this week and would need to take time off for it. I told him it could be as early as Monday and he didn’t seem to have a problem with it.
Well, I need to fix myself up to leave the house now. It’s time to hit the dreaded “Spirit” store and look for a costume for my son. I’m sure it’ll be pretty well picked over.
vunderbob WOOHOO!!! Glad it all finally worked out. Now as for your fat hairy ass… wha?.. oh nevermind. I got ACBG for that.
Speaking of which, I had to go out and buy more bubble stuff because somebody, whom I shal not name coughACBGcough managed to use the whole bottle in two days.
FCM I think it’s gonna be a hoot! We’ll make everybody nuts! Can’t wait! We’ve been practicing “fatherly advice” for the past two days. “Life doesn’t always give you everything you want, son.” “We have to think very carefully before we make important decisions.” “If it needs to be done, then it’s worth doing well.” “We may get mad with you and beat the ever lovin’ crap outta ya from time to time, but your Mother and I always love you.” (I like that one especially) “You must learn to take responsibility for your actions.” And on and on ad naseum. Plus we’re going to call everyone Beaver, Wally, Bud, Kitten, Princess, June or Margaret all night.
Bet y’all are glad ya want have to hear that all night. 
I have nothing much to add except to say I think it’s really cool that some of us are around on the wekends occasionally. Speaking of which, i should go do something productive.
Wait! what am I saying!? :eek:
You mean ACBG will kiss my fat, hairy ass? Does he work for Bank One? :dubious:
I managed to pop in here on the weekend, to share the latest pics. We also went to the dump this morning, and the chimney cleaners came this afternoon. Apparently, the wood stove in our basement is crap and unsafe, and the insert in the family room is old old old. So maybe next year we’ll move the insert to the basement and buy a better one for upstairs.
That’s all I got. Happy Day Before Halloween! Don’t forget to fall back tonight!!
Hey! HEY! Looka me! Looka me! I’m here on the weekend. It’s because I felt, through our very special psychic bond, that Bumba was feeling neglected and could use someone to read every letter of his posts.
FairyChatMom, that’s quite a front door you’ve got there. Are you just saying adios to the glass or the whole door? Also, I think the foyer walls could use some walls.
Y’know what I did today? I sat around in bed all morning, then lazed about on the balcony, then took a nap. Sure, I planted a couple of plants, but I was sitting when I did it. After teaching a pre-halloween friday, I kiss the toes of the person who invented weekends. But I will not kiss vunderbob’s furry tushy, no matter what he invents (yay homelessbob!)
Went out dancing last night. The dj helpfully pointed out, to great club-wide approval, that it was fallback night, which meant another hour of drinking. So I was out until 3 but it was really only two. Very fun. Not too many costumes because their costume party is tonight. Saw a bellydancer I know from class, who said hi. She seems to be going out with a guy we were sure was gay. Oh, well. Maybe bi? So hard to tell with shirtless metrosexual guys in bondage straps.
Saw a girl in a skin-tight vinyl catsuit. That would make a great water loss method. :eek:
Kind of hard to tell when goths are dressed up, unless they’re wearing white.
Quasi-Daughter’s coming over for a bit before I go to work. Must see if my cloak is in wearable condition.
I want chocolate.
Very tired.
Eventually, the two doors will be replaced with a single door and a sidelight, but that’s probably a few years away. For now, we’ll just replace the glass. In fact, we’ve discussed making a less curvy opening for the glass, so who knows what may happen. And the foyer wall now has wallboard. And mud. It will soon have a floor, once we decide what kind of floor we want - wood or ceramic or the duraceramic like in the kitchen. Decisions, decisions…
Oh, and we also now have a header at the end of the hallway, so the living room is separated from the hall. It’s amazing what a difference 14" of wall made. I’ll post more pics later. I need to get back to work.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
Halloween is over for me. The vast majority came and went by 6:30–where I live, you are not allowed to trick-or-treat if you are over 12, so I mostly had gaggles of giggles. Very cute.
Bumbazine, you are on the verge of one of my favorite little jokes, where you get to say in an I’m-king-of-the-world voice, Now that I have humility, I have everything!
(It is in the same class of joke as one I stole from an old Ziggy cartoon: As inferiority complexes go, mine isn’t much!)
Hope you are feeling better, and **Vunderbob ** is still giddy, and FCM is taking a well-earned rest, and Swampy is finding other ways to get with the bubbly.
And here it is, almost Monday again!
I don’t know why, but the idea of a goth dressing up in all white for Halloween is very appealing to me. Same kind of clothes, of course, but all in white. Maybe wearing some blush and a mild shade of lipstick. But the hair would still have to be dead straight–I don’t know why, it just does. Could a forty-something woman turn goth for a year just so she could use this costume idea?
Do they make Doc Martins in white?
I think so. Silver, at least. I’ve seen 'em.
Yes, FairyChatMom, I do believe a new window would help your door immensely. Or immensly or immensley. Whichever is correct; my money’s on the last one. Can you buy little windows in their framing to pop into doors? This is something that might not cross your mind until you had a house with a funkalicious window. Funny how that works. Plus, thank you for your valiant fight against wallpaper borders.
When I think of white clad goths, I imagine one of those little girls who died of ennui or something, from the Gashly Crumb Tinies.
Halloween was sorta okay in my neck of the woods. Not too many kids, but they were really cute and excited. Only one toddler tried to get into my house to hug the candy cauldron (which has legs like a little witch and inspires many squeels), unlike last year when the poor thing was felt up by no less than three of the little munchkins. My candy held out just fine; only a handful or three left for me to eat myself. Someone dressed up their dog as spiderman and it even carried a bag for his candy. All done by seven, sigh.