Good Morning Oilycas!!!

WC seems to be flickering on and off, hope nothing is going haywire.

Carey, glad you enjoyed the link. :thumbsup: Culturally Japan seems to be a land of extreme constrasts. From very zen, like most of this series, to absolutely zany and nuts.

As for the house:

Yep, somethings going awry, this was a double post with a post in between!

Hi Jessicat!

Good luck on the Tightening Thingy. If you could find me some grout cleaner, too, that would be great.

Thanks for the ideas, Nancy!

I haven’t officially heard back on our offer, but it seems like the “conditions” are…they need to have some boxes unchecked on the form. :rolleyes:

Marcia, that’s a good way of putting it, it’s one reason that Japan tends to fascinate, I think.

Can’t hardly believe it’s March. I think the year hasn’t officially really started til around March. January and February just don’t count in a lot of ways.

I’m still not really comfortable in this temporary house…yes, it’s only temporary, but I’m still getting very irritated at the little annoyances that come when you treat a living place as temporary. So today I’m reorganizing my pantry space…again. Well, it was really only half done before. Hopefully after this I will just feel a little better in general about the space around me. Not counting this kitchen floor I have to clean…. It is tile and the grout is all entirely *black*. I can’t even effectively sweep. Like at all. All dirt gets instantly greasy and sticky. It. Is. Nasty.

My husband, bless his heart, thinks I’m putting way too much effort into getting it clean. I tried my best to ignore it, but it really is just unlivable this way. College kids are gross. They are way more gross than cats or dogs or even hamsters.

Carey: I feel your pain. Wash EVERYTHING with bleach. EVen the walls – you will feel better so it’s totally worth it.

Tightening thingies — ugh what a pain. I plein air painted today, rolled my wheeled easel back to the car, noticed it seemed to drag – one of the many thingies had loosened despite my careful de-construction (the thing is a puzzle to set up/take down) so it had one leg dropped down pushing merrily along in the sand and probably needs FIXIN’.
Fortunately hubby is a mechanical engineer who practically salivates over the thought of doing a repair. Otherwise this is one of many expensive items I wouldl’ve thrown against the wall already.
Stapeliad: He always knows some better name for things than TIGHTENING THINGIE. So annoying.

Hi everybody!

Went to the Huntington with friends today, just had the best time!

Good on ya, Jessicat, getting your replacement “tightening thingy”. It is so frustrating when you need to replace or find something that you know exists, but do not know the proper name for.

Carey, I have to nix the bleach. I hate that stuff. There are better alternatives, and I kinda like this one, even though it uses muriatic acid (available where pool cleaning supplies are sold), it seems to really do the trick.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7BnwKlUkr4A

Furball has a taste for art. What makes me laugh is the “what’s wrong with that?” expression on her face! Maybe she wants her own pastels?:lol:

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All human beings are dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. - Jack Kerouac

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I was getting tea in the office kitchen this morning and the other guy in there called me sweetie.

[B][COLOR=”DarkRed]I HATE THAT.[/COLOR][/B]

Normally i would have said Don’t Call Me Sweetie but my brain was pre-tea and I’m just not very functional so I didn’t and now I’m mad at myself for it.

Next time call him Dumbass.

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