Browncoat Bar and Grill- a home away from ..

POSTED BY: MsA
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MSA

Thursday, February 3, 2011 6:55 PM

Here's the old thread.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=2&t=46531#829589

As we have no home of our own at the moment( thanks so much sucky IRS people who can't get off their collective ass and clear us).. I'll be camping out here

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

PENGUIN

Thursday, February 3, 2011 7:01 PM

Firsties!

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

SISTER

Friday, February 4, 2011 1:52 PM

you can come live with me, MsA!

MSA

Friday, February 4, 2011 5:22 PM

Aww thanks guys

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

SISTER

Saturday, February 5, 2011 3:27 PM

Saturday morning...need coffee.

SISTER

Monday, February 7, 2011 1:40 PM

Monday morning...need Vodka

MSA

Monday, February 7, 2011 9:10 PM

I've quit better jobs than this

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

SISTER

Tuesday, February 8, 2011 2:16 PM

who needs killin', MsA??

MSA

Tuesday, February 8, 2011 8:04 PM

oh so many people

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

SISTER

Wednesday, February 9, 2011 1:47 PM

...stocking ammo...awaiting list.

MSA

Thursday, February 10, 2011 10:40 PM

HUGS Sister:)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

SISTER

Friday, February 11, 2011 2:19 PM

(blush...giggle...hugs MsA back...)

MSA

Friday, February 11, 2011 7:11 PM

Hey we need a party!!!

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

SISTER

Sunday, February 13, 2011 5:18 PM

PARTY!!

SISTER

Monday, February 14, 2011 2:47 PM

Valentine's Day or Big Suck?

STINKINGROSE

Monday, February 14, 2011 8:54 PM

I'm mentally girding my loins to discuss safe(r) sex, STDs, and birth control tonight. Less than two hours from now my class and I are officially stuck with each other on Valentine's Day until 9pm. (Hey, I could be out on a date too you know...)

Condoms. We will amuse ourselves with condoms. I have a new thermos which should prove useful for illustrating a point.

Somebody put a gigundus "Midnight Special" martini in stasis for me... I'm gonna need it.

MSA

Monday, February 14, 2011 10:38 PM

Ah Rosie the condom queen...still remembering you passing them out randomly at D*C

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

GEE

Monday, February 14, 2011 10:46 PM

*walks in*

*falls asleep in corner*

It'll all make sense in the morning.

GREENKA61

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 2:55 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Sister:
Valentine's Day or Big Suck?

Singles Awareness Day?

SISTER

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 2:38 PM

..*phew*...that's over! Now ON TO THE WEEKEND!!

MSA

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 6:58 PM

Just shoot me NOW

That rant was related to my classroom not Valentines

BTW Valentines is a disturbing and inappropriate holiday that ties the measure of love a person has to you to the cost and volume of gifts they purchase. I refuse to celebrate it. I'd prefer my husband love me 365 day a year and I don't need gifts to prove it. He proves it every day by being an awesome caring father and a loving supportive husband

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

GEE

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 8:24 PM

Hey all,

sorry to hear that you're having class room woes MsA but shoot you? My crappy days (and boy was today one) just leave me the urge to massacre colleagues.

I co-sign the Valentine's day comments MsA, I'd say more but you covered more eloquently so just need to point out that other half would be upset if I called her my husband.

Look on the bright side those outside the uk, at least your government is not cutting services and telling us we should be volunteering whilst the moneyed privilege that they are and represent sit pretty.

HELL'S KITTEN

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 11:09 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
BTW Valentines is a disturbing and inappropriate holiday that ties the measure of love a person has to you (blah blah blah) - summary by HK

If you loved me, you would have sent me delicious chocolates and brownies instead of posting that little diatribe, woman.

GREENKA61

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 2:13 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
Just shoot me NOW

That rant was related to my classroom not Valentines

Ever wish the staff lounge had a "Wack-a-Mole" in it?

SISTER

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 1:45 PM

Wow-zah....! It's a Wednesday...of chocolate desires...whack-a-mole dreams and mid-week wonders!

MSA

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 6:13 PM

aww HK I do love you... I will totally send you brownies. Send me your address and double chocolate mint brownies are all yours

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

SISTER

Thursday, February 17, 2011 1:48 PM

...Irish coffee; the breakfast of champions.....goes well with brownies.

STINKINGROSE

Friday, February 18, 2011 12:10 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by greenka61:
Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
Just shoot me NOW

That rant was related to my classroom not Valentines

Ever wish the staff lounge had a "Wack-a-Mole" in it?

Ever wish the classroom had a "Whack-a-Mole" in it?

(I can just see you handing out little mole noses and paws.. "Hold still...").

SISTER

Friday, February 18, 2011 3:02 PM

so I say we plan a party for Sunday, March 6th when the Science Channel (which has purchased FIREFLY!!)...will begin broadcasting the series IN THE ORDER IT WAS INTENDED TO BE SHOWN.

SISTER

Monday, February 21, 2011 3:42 PM

need coffee. Paying bills sucks.

MSA

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 11:11 PM

OK new equation sick baby+ long term exposure to sick baby= sick parents

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:20 AM

Alrighty.. anybody who's not currently sick raise your hand.

(Keeps hers down.)

Ick.

The latest FF Castle reference left me a little flat. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy it's there at all.. but it wasn't subtle in the slightest.

They kept the camera on Nathan just long enough that you were wondering if he was going be able to keep a straight face or lose it completely.

Plus: cliffhanger. Bleah.

MSA

Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:07 PM

but it was still fun...
Also I did love Alexis's silent pleading

Also I love his argh face when he was about to get serious with Beckett just as they cleared him.

Still sick..hate bronchitis. Am waiting and hoping it won't go wrong and go to pneumonia, but let's face it what are the odds of that?

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

GREENKA61

Friday, February 25, 2011 4:33 AM

I hope you get to feeling better soon, MSA. Bronchitis isn't any fun, and it lasts way too long.

I liked this week's Castle ep. I like the episodes that they play more seriously. There's more character development in them.

I was watching "The Invention of Lying" tonight. Becket's captain played the landlord in it, and Justin Bateman was in it too. It was sort of like having a bottle of "Nathan Lite" there for a moment.

Honestly, I don't understand the people who can't tell them apart. They look completely different to me.

MSA

Monday, February 28, 2011 5:46 PM

Invention of Lying was surprisingly sweet and wonderful...hope you liked it

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Thursday, March 3, 2011 1:21 AM

(Faceplant)

GREENKA61

Thursday, March 3, 2011 4:06 AM

(Shuffling in. Sliding a plate of warm chocolate chips cookies down the bar...)

It was a sweet movie. I liked it.

I visited a house in SV today that our PE teacher wants me to rent with her part time next year. She lives there full time and I would rent a room a couple of days a week so that I don't have to commute so much.

It's an old double-wide trailor set back in some trees on a hundred acres of nothing. Sweet! The views are spectacular, and it's on the California side of the valley, so there aren't many neighbors.

If our jobs aren't cut next year....

STINKINGROSE

Sunday, March 6, 2011 2:05 AM

(Blowing thin layer of dust off bar and clucking disapprovingly.)

"COME OUT COME OUT WHEREVER YOU ARE!!!"

I can't believe nobody's been in here since Wednesday!

Of course if y'all's week has gone like mine it's not really surprising.

(Whips up a Painkiller and wanders off to commune with the potted palm.)

SISTER

Sunday, March 6, 2011 2:45 PM

...walks in, grabs a HUGE cup of coffee and some slightly hardened chocolate chip cookies...checks to make sure Stinkingrose is okay. Settles in a big comfy chair.

MSA

Monday, March 7, 2011 4:22 PM

HUGS on the job front greenka61... the lot of a teacher. Loads of work, little respect, almost no pay... some days I really do think " for this, I went to college??"

oooh cookies

HUGS Sister

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 3:00 AM

Yet again, cookies save the day.

GREENKA61

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 4:33 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
some days I really do think " for this, I went to college??"

Speaking of which, I got my diploma in the mail on Friday! Yea! It looks much better than the one that I thought was my diploma that they sent in January (it was an ugly bit of "meh" when I saw it - I couldn't believe that that was what I worked for - could have printed it out myself on my printer).

The real one is worth framing.

I am now an officially trained, professional librarian. I could probably even catalog all of the crap that Badger has in his office. Or weed a couple of Fox executives.

Quote:
oooh cookies

HUGS Sister

Cookies make all kinds of things shinier. Especially with a cold glass of milk.

MSA

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 8:02 PM

HUGS oooh library shiny... I do so love books

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

SISTER

Wednesday, March 9, 2011 6:00 PM

mmmmm...grape jelly and bacon sandwich on toast.

GREENKA61

Thursday, March 10, 2011 2:35 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Sister:
mmmmm...grape jelly and bacon sandwich on toast.

That sounds.....like one of those "mystery meals" the might serve in the galley after River pulls the lables off of the food stash.

Also, less gross than the peanut butter & mayo sandwiches a friend used to make.

MSA

Thursday, March 10, 2011 5:37 PM

Um I can hear arteries hardening

Ok this bites. The students are taking the high school proficiency exams. In the one I am proctoring for, the kid has finished. It's 9:33 am. I cannot release him or me until 11 am.....BORING

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Friday, March 11, 2011 1:27 AM

That. Sucks.

Just one more day containing a big quiz, a lab, and a big exam.. then it's Spring Break and I'll have plenty of time to study and finish my chem and math labs!

Last week's CVA quiz garnered 49/50 and a sticker. Best score yet in that class.
Boychild cheered and hugged me.

Doctroid hung it on the fridge.

I need a break. I really really need a break.

I will be doing all five weeks of field experience the first half of the summer. (You won't be hearing much from me during that time.)
I need to see about taking Calc 1 the second half of the summer.
When I get back from the Adirondacks I will be smartified, able to conduct independent field research, and know how to build a wigwam among other useful things. (Field Ethnobotany.. gotta love it! Dyes and sh..tuff from the wild!)

GREENKA61

Friday, March 11, 2011 3:02 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by stinkingrose:
That. Sucks.
I will be smartified, able to conduct independent field research, and know how to build a wigwam among other useful things. (Field Ethnobotany.. gotta love it! Dyes and sh..tuff from the wild!)

That sounds really interesting! I'd like to learn how to build a wigwam and those other things. Fun times, it sounds like.

STINKINGROSE

Saturday, March 12, 2011 4:00 AM

I hope so. We'll just have to wait and see. It's 8-12 hours of field work and analysis every day, sometimes more.

Last class finished. Spring break has begun.
I graded the quizzes and the essays. (Beer improves the writing of others.) Now I just have to plug in the grades and get cracking on all the other sh...tuff I have to do this week.

STINKINGROSE

Monday, March 14, 2011 6:50 PM

Okey dokey, that was not so much fun.

House hunting began yesterday. We hit three open houses, decided not to bother with a fourth, and then went to see two more places with our agent. The first one was not so bad. The second one's owners need to be smacked. Hard. Big old house, could be great with a LOT of work and money. They let the roof go and go until there was water leaking down interior walls and there's mold growing in the ceilings. THEN they had the balls to ask what they're asking for the place. The pool's about trashed, the deck's in need of repair, the garage roof's in about the same shape, and they did something stupid with wood in a damp basement. The lot's nice, the locations' not bad, and if they'd just taken care of the place we wouldn't be able to afford it it would be so nice. It's not just needing a new roof, there's no telling what's growing where. Stupid jerks. They didn't deserve to have such a nice big old place and now unless somebody saves it nobody else can use it either.
(grrrrrrr)

So yeah, tomorrow and Thursday are seven places each day,plus a few more Wed or Fri. They apparently couldn't get anything lined up for today. The nerve, having other clients and stuff!

I need more vacation in my vacation.

MSA

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 3:49 PM

Oh yeah.. I've been to that house's twin. The property was AMAZING and part of the house was lovely.. the rest of it looked like a demented child had been caretaking. Would have costs a fortune to fix and they were asking way too much in light of that.
Your best bet, in light of the market, is to ask your realtor to pull listings that have been on the market more than 9 months. Desperate owner=good price negotiation

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 7:24 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:

Your best bet, in light of the market, is to ask your realtor to pull listings that have been on the market more than 9 months. Desperate owner=good price negotiation

Or owner = too stubborn to lower price even after 9 mos b/c they were told by someone that someone else in the area got $X for their house even though it's not comparable. Or they've got a mortgage that's bigger than the resale value. Or..
Yeah.

We've got slim pickings right now. Not exactly a target-rich environment. Five today, meh at best for all of them. Bleah. Blah. Blarrgh!

Boychild's sprouting a 'stache. Noooooooooooo....!

It's still removable with milk and a cat, but damn.

STINKINGROSE

Friday, March 18, 2011 8:19 PM

Friday afternoon bump.

I am tired from all the not-liking-it house seeing.

Bleah.

Barkeep! Something to get the taste of "meh" out of my mouth!

STINKINGROSE

Monday, March 21, 2011 4:54 PM

Okay it's Monday and I'm the only one in here since Friday?!!

(Puts out samovar full of hot goodness, the giant French-press with a fresh batch, and tries to remember how to turn on the buffet table.)

SISTER

Monday, March 21, 2011 5:32 PM

hey Rose! I'm guessing good weather is keeping folk busy outdoors; I know that's where I've been.

STINKINGROSE

Monday, March 21, 2011 5:34 PM

What is this "good weather" of which you speak?

(Okay we've had some bare ground visible the last few days, but I've been busy house hunting.)

SISTER

Monday, March 21, 2011 7:06 PM

Oooo...come here to Tenn! Lots of houses...It's actually been unseasonably warm (70+) the past several days so I've been frantically working in my epic vegetable garden-to-be and in the chicken coop; in another month I can move my chicks in there and later this year...fresh eggs & veggies.
Good luck on the house hunt...you and yours are always welcome near me and mine!

STINKINGROSE

Monday, March 21, 2011 8:36 PM

Unless you've got a particle accelerator back in the shed that's not likely. Generous offer of neighborliness, mind!

My mom's pointing out all the lovely things they have in bloom and the fact that she hasn't owned a shovel in over 15 years. Brat.

Have fun with the chookies. I like Buff Orpingtons but they go broody, and Speckled Sussex lay pink eggs. Auraucana/Ameraucanas lay blue-green.

Ducks are fun, except for their mating habits. If you got rid of the drakes it would probably be all right. Again with the green egg thing.

MSA

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 8:31 PM

House hunting sucks.. it just sucks.
We have several good properties, but the IRS in it's infinite wisdom keeps sending us letters saying they are too busy to clear our issue, but they appreciate our patience and they might get to it soon
( been 6 months now)

Also, reasonably confident that Doctroid can build his own

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 9:13 PM

Particle accelerator, or house?

Head fulla brains, that one.

This house hunting thing is definitely of teh suckage this time around. I have yet to get that happy feeling about any of the places I've seen.

The last time we bought a house I was skipping. (Gorgeous Fall day and we were walking the trails through the woods.)

MSA

Wednesday, March 23, 2011 5:32 PM

I know what you mean... We're about to do the next round and my fear is , since we found ( and lost ...thank you IRS sucky people) dream house that made me skip and do cartwheels... will I be able to not compare other houses to dream house and be dissatisfied??

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Wednesday, March 23, 2011 5:52 PM

Letting go is hard.

There's one I saw online that I would LOVE, but it's about 70K more than we can afford.
It will be long gone by the time I'm earning money again, and Boychild will be off to college then anyway so the school district (icing on the cake) will be irrelevant. (Did I mention the inground pool and studio space over the four car garage/workshop/barn?) Letting go now, really..

So we move on to the rest of "whatever's left" and get on with the process. I'll survive so long as it's habitable and we're not climbing over each other and handing the neighbors toilet paper across the setbacks.

Could be worse, we could be renting a crappy apartment.

STINKINGROSE

Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:10 AM

(Sets out a large pitcher of mimosas to start off Thursday right.)

(Notices empty bar.)

(Wanders off muttering about sn*w and quadratic functions.)

INVADERCHAT

Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:35 AM

*Peeks up from behind bar*
Yup, it's just me, why I've been here all along!

SISTER

Thursday, March 24, 2011 2:04 PM

...ooo! Mimosas! I have found a 'plan' for my dream house; now awaiting tornado to scrub current one away.

MSA

Thursday, March 24, 2011 7:19 PM

oooh good luck on that
The house we missed out on ( again curse you IRS and your slow plodding ways)
was 3 bedroom, 3 bath had two stories and was adorable. Also had large jetted tub in master bath, fireplace downstairs and in master bedroom, had laundry room complete with double sinks and shelves, a huge great room, well landscaped yard( fenced) and was within walking distance ( seriously could have watched Johnny walk to school) to the best elementary we have to offer...and all for the ridiculously low price of $127,900... ARGH and damn and curses to the IRS

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

GREENKA61

Friday, March 25, 2011 1:44 AM

Any house with a large jetted tub would be my dream house......

Oooh - mimosas!

MSA

Monday, March 28, 2011 7:50 PM

yeah...sadly not available any more
Here's hoping we will find something else

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Monday, March 28, 2011 9:39 PM

Offer accepted.
Inspection tomorrow.

Please let the roof not need replacing immediately. This is an estate sale.

Beer. Beer good. Beer now gooder.

MSA

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 4:38 PM

Fingers crossed!!!

For me as well. Taking the last 2 tests I have to take to be a fully licensed teacher in NV( annoying really as NV has reciprocal agreement with UT and I already was a fully licensed teacher in UT) Must pass with 70%

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:23 PM

Okay, house (mostly) passed inspection.

The roof over the addition will need replacing almost immediately. The Radon testing should be finished by tomorrow. The septic dye test needs to happen. After that it should be (fairly) smooth sailing to closing. I hope. (Prolly shouldn'ta said that aloud, eh?)

There is a truly staggering amount of parking space at this place. Whole lotta basement too.
I'm mostly focused on horizontal space in the kitchen and having a bathtub for the first time in almost five years.

And getting the orange carpet out and the walls painted. (You don't understand. You couldn't possibly understand until you see it for yourself. Which will not be happening until we've closed. Then I might make the pictures happen.)

MSA

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 4:37 PM

YAY on passed inspection and fingers crossed all goes well:)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

MSA

Friday, April 1, 2011 4:12 PM

OK we need to liven this up a bit

* puts out a buffet of quiches, hot crab dip, spring rolls, bao, yakisoba, makings for sammiches, and a variety of pasteries.."

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Saturday, April 2, 2011 12:29 AM

NOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOOMMMMOMOMONOMNOMNOMNOM......

STINKINGROSE

Saturday, April 2, 2011 10:41 PM

Successfully stared down the sellers.

The roof's getting fixed tomorrow and we'll pay them back at closing.

Now it just has to pass the septic dye test and then it's off to the lawyers for the final throes.

(Puts out a vat of Chubby Hubby and dons a snorkel)

"Anyone care to join me?"

Sgloop!

MSA

Monday, April 4, 2011 5:13 PM

WHOOOOO!!!!! YAY

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Monday, April 4, 2011 5:54 PM

Yay is good.

MSA

Monday, April 4, 2011 6:10 PM

So is having a house

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Monday, April 4, 2011 6:11 PM

You can has house?!

Oh, wait.. sorry. I got really excited for you for a minute there, then realized you meant me..

To top it off, before he left for the winter my father told his tenant (a friend of mine who I set up with his place) that she needed to be out at the end of April. She's got four cats and an elderly dog and is having trouble finding a house to rent.
We have a tenant lined up if the sale goes through, but they're on a month to month basis.
I asked her if she'd be interested, and she said maybe. She does, luckily, have another prospect on the line.. so I won't feel bad if she turns me down or the deal falls through, and I won't feel too badly if she decides it's a good offer.
I'm not poaching his tenant, since he's already essentially kicked her out. I feel responsible for her having to put up with him for this long, and for her having to find another place at all somehow.
OTOH, not technically my problem and there's a bird in the hand.

MSA

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:13 PM

It's always nice to replace yourself tenant wise. We will try to do that when we move.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:33 PM

Oh no, we are not replacing ourselves.

I got a friend of mine into my father's other property (upstairs from him) about two years ago. She's had to put up with him as a landlord,and no written agreement, and no repairs, and...
And now this winter out of the blue he decided to tell her she needed to be out sometime around April.
So I feel badly about all this.

And I thought that if she was interested it would be nicer to have a tenant we know (and know to be reliable) vs. a complete stranger. Especially since it's across the street from an elementary school. And since he's already told her she has to leave it's not like I'm trying to lure her away.

The tenant there now just moved in recently and is on a month-to-month lease. (Although the sellers are dragging their heels about producing said lease so we can see what our upcoming obligations are. Makes me wonder.)

Anyway, I haz teh craplung and needs a many toddies plz.

MSA

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 5:12 PM

HUGS Rosie... I think I need Jamesons//lots and lots of it( theoretically...still nto drinking as baby is still not reliably sleeping through nights)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 6:05 PM

Baby needs Jameson's.

(JK)

So far today we've almost lost the house to "we never said that, didn't you get our last email?",
(Glare)
then got a "nevermind".

One more thing, just one more thing, and I'm going to personally drop-kick the seller's agent into next Thursday.

Now they have to jump the next hurdle: OUR lawyer. And she's good, so they're not going to get away with any more bullshite.

I will be so glad when this is all over. In some ways being back to square one as of 8am was almost a relief. Doctroid, however, is happier this way I think.. so we'll run with it.

Jameson's. In coffee. With creme fraiche. And shaved dark chocolate.

MSA

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 8:16 PM

Oh don't you just love negotiating...

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 8:24 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
Oh don't you just love negotiating...

Not really, no.

Now the imminent shutdown means there might not be a mortgage agreement when we need it, and there's no telling how long the temper tantrum will hold things up.

Plus: no.. no, this is heading into a troll territory rant and I will not do that.

So:
Laissez les Bons Temps Roulez, mes amis!!

MSA

Thursday, April 7, 2011 4:26 PM

Hey..invite all parties to a , well , party. Get everyone liquored up and get signatures all round...obviously you must include the county clerk who will record the sale etc.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Thursday, April 7, 2011 4:45 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
Hey..invite all parties to a , well , party. Get everyone liquored up and get signatures all round...obviously you must include the county clerk who will record the sale etc.

I am NOT inviting half of DC over just to get a house sold. Unless it's theirs. And I get to keep the proceeds from all of them. (ahem)

At least the snow's mostly melted from my yard again! Progress!

MSA

Friday, April 8, 2011 4:43 PM

We could go with my plan ( poison the lot of them and start over )
Sorry feeling somewhat disgruntled... if this shutdown happens the IRS will take even more time to clear us and even more wonderful houses will pass us buy as we languish in our cramped , old, dishwasher-less, drafty rental. ARGH!!!!!!!!

EDIT- NEW THREAD

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Friday, April 8, 2011 8:13 PM

Never challenge "worse". It could always be worse.

We'll probably end up scheduling our housewarming parties on the same weekend.

Laphroaig.

Large quantities.

For everyone.