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Welcome back Margret! I hope you had a wonderfully, relaxing trip. We left for the weekend and came home to an offer on our house. We accepted the offer and now comes the stress of finding a new place to live.
Gretchen wrote: "Welcome back Margret! I hope you had a wonderfully, relaxing trip. We left for the weekend and came home to an offer on our house. We accepted the offer and now comes the stress of finding a new ..."
Congrats, and good hunting Gretchen.
how was the weekend?
Mark wrote: "Gretchen wrote: "Welcome back Margret! I hope you had a wonderfully, relaxing trip. We left for the weekend and came home to an offer on our house. We accepted the offer and now comes the stress ..."
We had a good weekend. We didn't get to see any of the highland games. It was too windy on Sunday and they had to cancel the games. I guess you shouldn't be throwing heaving things when it's windy. We did get to see the joust which was fund. I drank some mead and spent way too much money on new pottery pieces.
Simona wrote: "why? it seems to work"It does now.... i had problems all day, tried other browsers too... strange things updates :)
After having read A Burnable Book and The Invention of Fire I decided to take the on line course offered from U of VA that this author offers and have been absolutely enthralled by it. Ithad really offered me an insight into how people go about writing a good HF novel and what elements go into the creation of this kind of story. As I never had the chance in college to really explore the literary arts and have always been impressed with well written HF this is a course that fascinates and enlightens me. And after all that is probably the best compliment of all to a teacher. So thank you Bruce!
Carol wrote: "After having read A Burnable Book and The Invention of Fire I decided to take the on line course offered from U of VA that this author offers and have been absolutel..."I am glad to hear you enjoyed it. Since it's a self-paced course, I've been thinking about trying it. Time, however, just doesn't seem to be something I have a lot of right now.
Gretchen wrote: "Welcome back Margret! I hope you had a wonderfully, relaxing trip. We left for the weekend and came home to an offer on our house. We accepted the offer and now comes the stress of finding a new ..."
Relaxing isn't the word I would use. Too busy to relax as such. It was certainly exciting and fun. :)
Gretchen wrote: "Carol wrote: "After having read A Burnable Book and The Invention of Fire I decided to take the on line course offered from U of VA that this author offers and have ..."It is not hard to do altho it does have a lot of suggestions for reading but the author interviews are wonderful. Just finished listening to Geraldine Brooks discuss her writing, and found it a great interview. I wish the course would also include some of the thoughts of Mr Holsinger himself about how he wrote his books.
I'm already over packing. We're trying to figure out what we can live without for the next six weeks. Mr. Gretchen's first suggestion, "Why don't you just start with all the books?"
Gretchen wrote: "I'm already over packing. We're trying to figure out what we can live without for the next six weeks. Mr. Gretchen's first suggestion, "Why don't you just start with all the books?""Ha! Hahahaha! Yeah...right. ;)
That is exactly what my husband would have said! First books to go would be Encyclopedia Britannica. Men have male pattern baldness. I think there are other male pattern idiosyncrasies that remain nameless. My sister says men are all alike. Put them in a paper sack, give the sack a good shake, and pull one out.
I'm out of totes and I don't have all my books packed yet. We're going to need a bigger moving truck.
House hunting bites! We walked six houses on Saturday. I didn't like any of them. I only have until this coming Saturday to find a house if we are going to meet our closing deadline. If we don't find anything, we are going to have to live in the falling apart farmhouse that has been abandoned since earlier this year when my grandpa died. Yes, it's better than nothing but I would just rather have a house to call home. I am fortunate to have such first world problems.
What about your famous Tudor house?
The outside screamed Tudor cottage. The inside screamed water damage and 1970-something. The work we would have to do is too much when considering the asking price. We are seeing four more houses tonight so maybe something will strike my fancy.
Agh..too bad. Good luck for your hunt.
But...what about renovating the farmhouse? In a very imaginative way?
I talked to my mom about the farmhouse. The problem is since they haven't officially released the contents of my grandpa's will, the ownership of the house is in limbo. Apparently it can't be legally lived in.
I know it sucks but definitely take your time. Better off crowded into a two bedroom apartment for a few months than stuck in a house you hate for 20 years. I watch WAY too much HGTV and frankly it scares the crudola out of me seeing what these homeowners go through even after having a house inspected or buying brand new.
Most of that stuff on HGTV is hyped up and not as big a deal as it seems though. No doubt there are some horror stories but not as many as they create for TV. It would be my guess that at least half those twats make more problems than they fix. I do agree that those private home inspections aren't worth much though, insurance companies like them but they infer or miss a whole lot of stuff in general.
and Gretchen seems to be a woman that won't refrain from bold action. Onward!!! :)
We're making an offer on a house as I type!
good luck - I hope you get it :)I haven't moved in 28 yrs - I dread even thinking about it :D
Yeah, I moved 13 years ago and swore I'd never do it again. So far so good!
By the time I was 16 I'd lived in 28 different homes. It settled down a little after that ( Dad retired from the Army). When I got married I told my wife, pick a house you like, because I ain't moving unless I absolutely have to - I haven't had to :)
We've lived in this one for nearly 40 years and I too DO NOT want to move. My husband makes noises about moving to FL but I'm perfectly happy here.
happy wrote: "By the time I was 16 I'd lived in 28 different homes. It settled down a little after that ( Dad retired from the Army). When I got married I told my wife, pick a house you like, because I ain't m..."Same situ wrt forces Brat :) although not quite as many as you, I reckon i'd had about the same number of years as houses by the time I left polytechnic at 22 & then like only 4 since, the last being nearly 20yrs now!
Best to get all that moving around done early on i say before you start to Accumulate "stuff" esp the Hoarders among thee...
I've been disposing of stuff for years. I think the bloody things breed. The more stuff I get rid of, the more stuff I seem to have. :p
It reproduces itself.Who was that SF author who wrote a novel about clothes hangers being larvae of an alien form which developed in bycycles before reaching its mature form and disappearing?
Now I have to remember this...
(I swear, it's true, I didn't eat spoiled food or something!)
I am making a concerted effort, as I get older, of jettisoning stuff that I no longer need or use. But there is so freaking much of it! I look at it and think about how much money I wasted on DVDs that I've watched once, if at all. Those buggers are out the door.There are some dvds that I have watched and watched and watched. Those aren't a waste of money. Those are treasures. Interestingly I have no CDs that I've played only once. Guess it shows that I respond best to aural not visual stimulus. :p
My sister and I spend a lot of time getting rid of stuff and I swear we don't buy that much. And it's a small house....
My Mom once said the one nice thing about moving so often is that you have a chance to cull your stuff on a regular basis. A few years ago we were reminicing(SP) about all the homes she lived in the first 18 yrs of her marriage and her comment was basically I don't even want to think about moving now - too much STUFF!Once Dad retired from the Army they stayed in the same place 'till she passed, 37 yrs. Dad is making noises about moving, but I don't see it happening until he can't handle the stairs anymore.
Exactly Dawn! It spawns itself over and over again!
Simona wrote: "It reproduces itself.Who was that SF author who wrote a novel about clothes hangers being larvae of an alien form which developed in bycycles before reaching its mature form and disappearing?
No..."
The writer was Avram Davidson.
Margaret wrote: "I've been disposing of stuff for years. I think the bloody things breed. The more stuff I get rid of, the more stuff I seem to have. :p"My life story... except I don't get rid of anything ;)
Ha Ha So many HOARDERS! Raises hand too :)
I think my wife's favorite genre is decluttering books. I had no idea there were so many of them out there :)
I try NOT to hoard, I've shifted too many times for that to be anything but a disaster. But, I've been in my flat now for nearly 10 years... crap accumulates and it's got to go!Had a hard rubbish collection last weekend. Out went the dying freezer, dead heater, dead vacuum cleaner, and one dead suitcase. :p
Am in the process of filling up a bag for one of the local opportunity shops.
Between my mother and my mother-in-law, I don't have room to hoard. My mother use to run an antique shop so a lot of her stuff is remnants of the store but my stepdad will pick up random things off the side of the road and throw them in the garage. My mother-in-law simply doesn't throw anything away. Last time the in-laws went downstairs I started emptying their pantry. I threw away food that has expired in the early 90s. She has a legit problem. She refuses to throw away wrapping paper even after it's been torn to shreds.
My family moved a lot during my younger days but now i've settled down. And stuff does accumulate. My parents also save things. When they were on their last trip overseas my husband and i went over to the house and cleaned out the pantry and fridge; we threw out a ton of expired stuff, some of it i'm sure would have made them sick had they eaten it. so i'm now checking their fridge every so often just to make sure none of the food in there is too old or will make them sick.
That's my biggest fear with the expired food. Someone is going to get sick. More than likely one of my children. My mother-in-law got upset once when I wouldn't let her give the girls juice boxes that were five years past their expiration date.
Eek. I'm nothing like any of that. I just have a lot of stuff. I hoard shoes, dresses, books... fabulous stuff like that ;)If my mother had owned an antique store... sigh.
I'm a tchotchke addict. Tchotchkes, knick-knacks, collectibles...whatever you choose to call them. I don't have a ton of furniture but every shelf is covered. I collect books (of course), mythological creatures (fae, dragons, mermaids and gargoyles), cigar boxes, book ends and globes. I've been at my current place for over ten years and I have no idea how I'm going to get all this stuff to Canada when I move permanently. sigh.
Margaret wrote: "The writer was Avram Davidson. "Tks Margaret! I owe you, I was going to scroll all the books in my SF shelves....time I can spend rweading instead. :P
Kimber wrote: "I'm a tchotchke addict. Tchotchkes, knick-knacks, collectibles...whatever you choose to call them. I don't have a ton of furniture but every shelf is covered. I collect books (of course), mythologi..."I collect bookmarks (easy to store and useful) and also such Sherlock Holmes memorabilia as takes my fancy. I bought a Sherlock Holmes rubber duck for my collection when in London. :)
^^Well of course you did! Its probably so cute!! :)
Margaret wrote: "Kimber wrote: "I'm a tchotchke addict. Tchotchkes, knick-knacks, collectibles...whatever you choose to call them. I don't have a ton of furniture but every shelf is covered. I collect books (of cou..."I can't comment on the ducks. I have a Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn pair of ducks. They sit on my book shelf next to Wonder Woman and Batman.
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