# The Monday Morning Peeple - an April 1st MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [April 1, 2013, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504 "2013-04-01T05:26:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/321 "2013-04-06T19:53:28Z")
\*\*swampy \*\*- I’s cornfused - I thought JDD was one of your neighbors. 😕 \*\*FCD \*\*has gone in search of a haircut. Higgs is snoring on the back of the loveseat. The neighbors are having the b-day party and we don’t want the idiot dog barking at them thru the fence. I’m so impatient for my kiln to cool. I can’t take anything out till tomorrow anyway, but I wanna see it all NOW!!! :mad: It’s still over 500° - far to warm to open. I’ll prop the lid before we go to bed - it should be under 300° by then. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/322 "2013-04-06T20:13:23Z")
**MOOOOOOM** JDD and Partner live in town. I’s a country bear. 😃 Ok, a ‘burb bear. Oh it’s all of eight miles from da cave to their place, but still it’s a whole ‘nother county even. OYKW’s house is in town as well. However, bein’ as I am the center of the universe, da cave is the gatherin’ place. JDD and Partner are on their way over as I post. Soon it shall be martini with bleu cheese stuffed olives time. Martini… the drink that comes with its on snack. What’s not to love. ---
**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/323 "2013-04-06T20:42:13Z")
I have been to the grocery store and that’s about it. **Mr ems** is still going and is ow washing cars. Who am I to stand I his way 😃 Supper will be grilled chicken salad. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/324 "2013-04-06T20:45:52Z")
Well I am home from the house hunting. I don’t even remember how many houses we looked at. I really really liked the Victorian. The pictures were so pretty. So we get there and it’s next to the cemetery, it’ll be quiet on that side (or at least one hopes so). Beautiful stained glass door, beautiful stained glass windows. French doors between the living room and dining room. Off street parking and small fenced in yard. And probably needs $50,000 worth of work just to make it livable. I didn’t even go upstairs because I was scared of the steps. I still like it, but damn it was a mess. It has 2 bedrooms and one bath. Then I went and looked at another house, I think it’s still considered a Victorian. Big bay window in the front. Four bedrooms and two baths, one of the full baths is on the first floor. The fixtures are new, it’s livable, a little more house than I need but it needs a lot of work. The layout was nice. The kitchen has been mostly done and is decent. It’s a mess but I could live on the first floor and fix it up and get to the second floor later. It listing says it has 4 bedrooms and 2 baths. It has a living room, kitchen, bathroom, two small rooms and an enclosed addition on the on the first floor. Three bedrooms, a full bath and porch on the second floor. Then a finished room in the attic. Big house, more than I need. Fenced in yard and some kind of parking in the back along with a shed that looks like it’s falling down. I skipped the one I could pay cash for. It was kind of sad, the neighborhood had some beautiful houses but most of the houses were boarded up and it looked like the house had squatters living in it. Somebody had jammed something in the lock and trash was everywhere. Another one, I don’t know the style. Two story brick house, not the prettiest house but you could tell somebody had been working on it. All it looks like it really needs is paint, the floors finished and appliances installed. It had a new roof, new windows. The bathroom is new. Two bedrooms and one bath, almost no yard because that is where I would have to park. I really liked it except a GoodWill warehouse and JIffy Lube are across the street and it looks like a boarding house is 3 doors down. The laundrymat is conveniently located next door. Some mostly toothless man stopped us as we were coming out and asked us if could do some work for a few dollars. he showed us the work he had done and he had done a pretty good job of it. I asked him what it was like living there and he said except for the homeless people using the playground/park behind it as a bathroom it was pretty quiet. Kind of a shame because I liked the house. So we stopped at the next one, a three bedroom, three bath single family home. We couldn’t get into it but the house next door was for sale. Beautiful, just about ready to move in. Nice yard, still in my price range, end of unit with two bedrooms and one bath. The only thing wrong it that it is on a busy street and while it has new windows vinyl siding, they didn’t do the wood around the windows so all the trim needs to be scraped and painted. Another one was just horrible, right down from this one. It was half the price but it would probably take more than the difference to make it nice and it was smaller and the traffic was even worse on that part of the street. There was a hole from the the kitchen to the upstairs bedroom, it had some kind of flange thing around it so I’m sure the hole served some kind of purpose. Maybe back in the old days to get heat from the kitchen to the bedrooms? Anyway, it had some features that I liked but it needed way too much work and was small. So at least I have an idea of what is available for what price. I was hoping to stay at the lower end of my budget but I think I am going to have to come up. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/325 "2013-04-06T21:20:16Z")
Happy Sattiday all, I destroyed nothing last night but I have to got to irk now, so we shall see Howdy all, sorry for the short post \*\*Jim the Destroyer \*\* ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/326 "2013-04-06T21:22:33Z")
**Sari** ah the joys of house huntin’. I’d say I envy you but it’s too close to Sunday to tell a lie of that magnitude. 😃 You’ll find the house. When you do, the heavens will open, angels will sing and unicorns will dance upon the lawn. Or, you’ll look at it and say, “Yeah, this’ll work.” Either way is good. Why, yes, I have had a martini. Why do you ask? I hear martini number two beckonin’ to me as I post. Or is that JDD yellin’ “Get yer butt in here I got yer martini ready!”? They both sound quite a lot alike. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/327 "2013-04-06T21:30:30Z")
For some reason, I like it when a news article on an official news website talks about a musician or a song - and they provide a link to an illegally-uploaded Youtube video of that song. I’m weird.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/328 "2013-04-06T21:34:37Z")
**sari** - I know that feels! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/329 "2013-04-06T21:51:28Z")
Stuffed ‘shrooms bakin’ in the oven. Poke loin about to go on the grill. I am allowin’ _other people_ to use my oven and grill. :eek: Then again, I’d rather be drinkin’ a martini or five so it’s all good. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/330 "2013-04-06T22:11:31Z")
I am so glad I am rid of my house. It’s way more hassle than it’s worth, being a homeowner. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/331 "2013-04-06T22:18:51Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > **sari** - I know that feels! :rolleyes: I know you’ve been hunting too. I’m really sad about the first one I looked at. You can tell that at one time it was probably a really nice home. I would love to have it and fix it up but it’s more than cosmetic. All that beautiful stained glass, it just hurts to see it in that condition. The one with 4 bedrooms and 2 baths keeps coming down in price. Maybe it will get low enough I can offer cash and work on it slowly. Then again these houses were all in town and I’d like to have a little bit of a yard. Until the mortgage company gets back to me I don’t know how much I qualify for or if I can get a small mortgage. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/332 "2013-04-06T22:21:02Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > I am so glad I am rid of my house. It’s way more hassle than it’s worth, being a homeowner. I know but when rent is going to be $900+ an I can get a mortgage for $500, that is a big savings, as well as the tax breaks. It’s worth it I think. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/333 "2013-04-06T22:31:16Z")
I bought my first house in 1980, and I’ve never been a tenant since. For all the hassles of ownership, I still think it beats the restrictions of being on a lease. One day, I may change my mind, but for now, I’ll cling to my mortgage. We went to Red Robin for an early supper. Now we’re home to veg the night away. I expect I’ll go to bed early - I’s tahred!! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/334 "2013-04-06T22:44:17Z")
Stuffed 'shrooms are da bomb! Stuffed 'shrooms and a martini are da double bomb! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/335 "2013-04-06T22:47:18Z")
We stopped at Roy Rogers for lunch on the way back. Who knew they were still around? There’s lots out there for people saying it’s a small town and there’s nothing to do. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/336 "2013-04-06T22:48:29Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Stuffed 'shrooms are da bomb! Stuffed 'shrooms and a martini are da double bomb! 😃 I think **Swampy** is getting bombed 😉 I wish I was, but I can’t. I have to irk sometime today. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/337 "2013-04-07T00:21:37Z")
So, guess what I didn’t do today. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/338 "2013-04-07T00:39:24Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > So, guess what I didn’t do today. 😃 Ummmm… swing nekkid from the dinin’ room chandelier because that’s what you do on Firday? 😃 **sari** don’t be silly. I’ve only had frou meetriners. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/339 "2013-04-07T00:55:47Z")
Welp, while **swampy** ’s making durnkne psots, I’m going to take over watching old educational films for tonight since \*Thor \*managed to offend me on several levels, most of them nerdy and one of them heritage-y. I am now going to find out how [Joan Avoids a Cold](http://archive.org/details/JoanAvoi1947). Later I may find out how [Kitty Cleans Up.](http://archive.org/details/kitty_cleans_up) ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504/340 "2013-04-07T01:38:11Z")
When I pull together the motivation, enchilada casserole is on the menu tonight (take enchilada-ish ingredients, assemble in layers like lasagna). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monday-morning-peeple-an-april-1st-mmp/654504.md?page=18)