Boy, it's quiet lately. Let's chat.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Anything and everything ... it's open season.  What are you up to?  Got anything exciting happening?  AWs?  Rants?  Product recommendations?  Total randomness?

I somehow managed to lose a packet of Via this morning.  I got two packets out of my container (verified because there were three and now there is one).  Made one packet worth.  And I can't find the other packet anywhere.  I checked the TRASH, even.  It's very strange.

Also, I spilled red wine on the carpet the other day and despite my best cleaning efforts, I think it's going to stain.  Anyone have any miracle solutions for this?  

[adhdfashion]

I'm watching Orange is the new black on Netflix. It's pretty good.

Reading the third Game of Thrones book. Pretty much in love with this series.

Threw a baby shower /tea party for my sister on Sunday. 25 women showed up. I felt faint and wanted to lots of liquor. It went well and it seemed like everyone had a good time.

My floors where finished on Friday before the shower. I haven't posted a pic yet. Mostly because the app sucks balls. I will need H to help me. I want to upload a panoramic view.

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[adhdfashion]

Mrs J, I use a diaper to suck up wine spills. Throw one down step on it. It soaks up all the liquid.
Sounds like now you need Resolve carpet cleaner now. The spot shot kind.

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[mrs.jacinthe]

Jul 23, 2013 10:54:12 GMT -5 adhdfashion said:

Mrs J, I use a diaper to suck up wine spills. Throw one down step on it. It soaks up all the liquid.
Sounds like now you need Resolve carpet cleaner now. The spot shot kind.

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This is what I tried, actually.  There's still a pink spot.  I've been recommended to apply white wine to it to help remoisten it, then use Wine Away on it.

I hope this helps, because R looks sad every time he walks through the living room.  LOL

[house]

I know I have said this before but I am tired of playing whack-a-mole on our deck everytime it rains. I curse the previous owner everytime I have to do this and wish he didn't DIY the deck himself. He literally put nails every 3 inches apart on every single board. First 10 nails, it's fun. Next 100 you are like Ugh I am going to kill him!

[simpsongal]

I feel bad that I've been MIA on the boards but I've barely been able to shower and drag my tail into work since morning sickness hit 2 months ago.

Thank God, it may be on the way out b/c I have soooooo much to do!

[mrs.jacinthe]

Jul 23, 2013 11:29:40 GMT -5 simpsongal said:

I feel bad that I've been MIA on the boards but I've barely been able to shower and drag my tail into work since morning sickness hit 2 months ago.

Thank God, it may be on the way out b/c I have soooooo much to do!

I'm glad for you.  I'm an emetophobic, so this is the part of being pregnant I'm LEAST excited about.  It sounds miserable.

(FWIW, still not KU ... just thinking ahead)

[mrs.jacinthe]

Jul 23, 2013 11:43:37 GMT -5 nursecramer said:

What color is the carpet? Is it light colored? If so, hydrogen peroxide is a really good oxidizer and breaks apart organic compounds (e.g. the stain causing things in wine*). Mix the hydrogen peroxide (start with 3%, increase to 10% if necessary) with original Dawn dish detergent and apply it to the stain. If you have an extractor, that will be helpful in getting up the hydrogen peroxide/soap mixture. Otherwise, use less soap and lots of water and dabbing to make sure you get the soap up.

*Dyes are also organic compounds which can be broken down with hydrogen peroxide, so a really strongly colored carpet is not a great candidate for this method.

Light/medium gray.

I was thinking about trying my Vasko oxygen "bleach" on it, but the idea of applying peroxide made R nervous.  Do you think it would work?

[sierramist03]

I really need to finish painting my daybed but its been so humid I'm kinda afraid to. Plus I bought the pro classic line and I'm worried I won't like it. DH is refusing to hang my stuff on the wall without the daybed done so I need to get going. It's sanded and primed and sanded again.

[minniebee]

Jul 23, 2013 11:51:09 GMT -5 @callmefia said:

What's up with the girl who didn't love her house and wanted to sell for a big loss? Do you think we scared her off, or she realized we wouldn't tell her what she wanted to hear?! I was kinda curious how it would all go but she never came back!

I wondered about this too.

So, here's my latest housing situation (so this is at least a little H&G related):

H and I are getting divorced. His choice, not mine. It sucks royally, especially since I think there isn't a reason to get divorced, not without trying couples counseling or something first. He thinks that neither of us are totally happy (true, TBH), and he thinks it's not worth making an effort to save the marriage because it's probably not going to work out anyway. I think it's really sad to give up on a marriage without making an effort. But ... I can't force him into counseling, and can't force him to stay married to me, so this is where I'm at: facing divorce.

We moved to Ohio last fall for H's job. We didn't know anyone here, so I'm not staying here post-divorce.

I still own a condo in my home state, which I bought pre-marriage, so it's 100% mine. I started renting it after we got married & bought a single family house. Anyway, our most recent tenant just moved out a month ago - her choice, I didn't ask her to leave.

Initially, I didn't think I could move back into the condo because the HOA has a strict policy that doesn't allow dogs, and I am absolutely not willing to give up my dog (I hadn't adopted the dog yet when I lived in the condo previously). However, in the last couple of weeks, I learned that my dog has terminal cancer and doesn't have a lot of time left. I'm very sad about my dog (he's my baby!), but if there's anything positive in the situation, it makes my housing situation a bit easier since I will be able to move back into my condo. Granted, I would totally rather have my dog still alive and find another place to live with him, but the reality is that my dog has cancer and there's no treatment available that can save him. 

So, I'm going to be moving back into my condo, and I'm actually kind of excited about that. Yes, it sucks to be getting divorced and it sucks that my dog is dying, but I'm trying really hard to focus on the positives so I don't spiral into depression. I am excited to move into my condo, so that's one positive thing I'm holding on to. We've been renters since moving to Ohio, and it will be really nice to be back in a home I own where I can do whatever I want - change flooring, paint, window treatments, cabinets, etc. I liked living in my condo back in my single days, it was a good place for me, and I think it can be a very comfortable home for myself again. Plus, there's the huge bonus of not having the hassle of being a landlord anymore. Yay for that!

I'm planning at least a few H&G projects, so I'll probably post about them here. Paint for sure! I also need to replace flooring in the living/dining rooms. There's carpet there now, but it was pretty much trashed my my last tenant who had a toddler who spilled all over the carpet. Eventually, I want to do some bathroom & kitchen projects too. I've been searching pinterest for fun ideas for smaller kitchens & baths that don't require huge budgets. I am a cheapskate, after all :-) 

Sorry so long. 

[AmyRI]

We've gotten nothing HGR done in the past few weeks, and won't for at least another week. It's sort of disheartening, but it's the result of DH traveling for work, a wedding, being 95 degrees and 80% humidity or raining for weeks, and 2 kids that aren't sleeping well. I keep putting off little things in favor of sleep, but honestly I'm so sleep deprived that the difference between 5 and 5.5 hours of sleep is really negligible and I think I'll start doing one small thing a night before bed just so I feel accomplished and tired instead of lazy and tired.

[minniebee]

Thanks, @callmefia. That's very sweet of you. I'm in the Columbus area, so a couple of hours away from you. Probably too far to meet up, no?

[minniebee]

Jul 23, 2013 12:49:22 GMT -5 @callmefia said:

Jul 23, 2013 12:46:45 GMT -5 minniebee said:

Thanks, @callmefia. That's very sweet of you. I'm in the Columbus area, so a couple of hours away from you. Probably too far to meet up, no?

Maybe it's time to setup the Ohio GTG. I had been thinking about getting a group to meet in Lodi. I think it's central for Columbus/Cleveland people and Ive never been. When are you moving?

That depends on when I get a job in Minnesota (my home state where my condo is). Hopefully soon, I have lots of job applications out! 

It looks like Lodi is 92 miles from me. That's doable.

[stephm0188]

I am so ready for school to start. I want to work on getting the house organized and in decent shape. It's not even something I can attempt when the little person is here.

My neighborhood BFF moved a few weeks ago, and before she left she gave me a beautiful pink hydranga and said she was going to plant one identical to it at her new house. It's not doing so well and I'm scared it's going to die.

[emoflamingo]

I'm sorry minniebee, for the divorce and the pup. But focus on the positives is a good attitude to have.

The only exciting thing in my life is my boobs and soon-to-be-chopping. Um.. Baby W is cruising and he's still a chunk. Monkey is starting back up at school in 3 weeks and I cannot wait. I'll halve my daycare bill and I'll have some money to play with (i.e. pay off my dang credit card and my surgery).

[thewop]

All DH's friends are "moving up" and buying these big new houses. They asked when we plan to move. DH said "right now, never". His friends seemed all sympathetic "Aw, man you'll get out of there some day!" I don't think they knew that we are staying put because we want to, not because we have to. Apparently they think our house and neighborhood are trashy. Nice. We seem to be the only ones who aren't "keeping up with the Jones' ".

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Minnie..I'm sorry. The good news at least is MN is pretty awesome!

I want to know what happened to the house chick too. I invested a good part of my Sunday morning in that. I'm sure she's just upset none of us really agreed with her.

We get a new exchange student in 2 weeks. I'm excited. He's a cousin of the Ukrainian kid we had 2 years ago, so I "know" him, actually met him once, and feel around safe with him around. Hopefully he VISA gets through. Eastern Europe is so weird about that stuff.

Brazalian also goes home then, and I'm glad. He's a great kid who learned a lot here, but he's the party hard rock star type. Like has no concept people get up at 5am and actually go to work. I'm tired of the "WAH. WAH. I work too hard speech." Umm....you get 7 hours of work in a 11 hour day, if you can't figure that out, I can't help you.

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Jul 23, 2013 13:31:28 GMT -5 thewop said:

All DH's friends are "moving up" and buying these big new houses. They asked when we plan to move. DH said "right now, never". His friends seemed all sympathetic "Aw, man you'll get out of there some day!" I don't think they knew that we are staying put because we want to, not because we have to. Apparently they think our house and neighborhood are trashy. Nice. We seem to be the only ones who aren't "keeping up with the Jones' ".

This is us too. All of my friends and most of Hs family is moving on up too...and we're just hanging out here forever..lol. I just can't care that much about houses anymore. I like mine. I'm not up for anymore time or work right now in the starting over department.

[darby]

minniebee I'm so sorry for everything you're going through!

DH called a little while ago. He had a stress test done today. This is his 3rd one in 4 years. I am so happy that he doesn't have to go into the cath lab! He's had to do that after his 1st two & the 1st time they put two stents in his heart, with none the 2nd time. It is such a relief, I feel like a huge weight has been lifted!

We have also been dealing with a big adjustment for MIL, who we recently moved into an assisted living apartment. It has been so much work & $$ for us, as his sister lives out of town & his brother is a total deadbeat & has been making the transition even more difficult (he & his wife had been living with her, acting as her caregiver-- & doing a craptastic job of it).

Now that things are seeming to calm down we can finally start focusing our energy again on our sadly neglected house. I feel like we've been so busy that we haven't really had time for dusting & scrubbing, let alone painting, flooring or the laundry room project we've really been looking forward to.

I've really been enjoying the warm weather we've been having in the PNW & have been enjoying cooking on the grill & lots of cold white wine. I've been trying to find a really good rose' to go with all the BBQ food, but am not having much luck. Anyone have a favorite I should try?

[thewop]

Jul 23, 2013 13:40:18 GMT -5 @justdairy said:

Jul 23, 2013 13:31:28 GMT -5 thewop said:

All DH's friends are "moving up" and buying these big new houses. They asked when we plan to move. DH said "right now, never". His friends seemed all sympathetic "Aw, man you'll get out of there some day!" I don't think they knew that we are staying put because we want to, not because we have to. Apparently they think our house and neighborhood are trashy. Nice. We seem to be the only ones who aren't "keeping up with the Jones' ".

This is us too. All of my friends and most of Hs family is moving on up too...and we're just hanging out here forever..lol. I just can't care that much about houses anymore. I like mine. I'm not up for anymore time or work right now in the starting over department.

Exactly!  

[thewop]

I'm sorry Minnie ((hugs))

[pitterwoo]

Speaking of wanting to move, that post over the weekend was the first time that I ever wanted to really get out my H&G pitchfork. I don't know what came over me. Part of me wants to hear what else she has to say about her situation, but another part of me just needs to look away. Not good for the ol' blood pressure.

H and I started watching Orange is the new Black this week and we really like it. It's more graphic than I was expecting and I keep finding myself being kind of surprised. And also afraid of going to prison.

[pitterwoo]

oh, and I meant to say I'm really sorry you have all that going on Minnie. Hugs.

[bunnymendelbaum]

So sorry Minnie!

My random is I'm soo excited to have a new easier schedule starting next month. Both girls will be at preschool 3 half days and the nanny is doing the rest of the time except Friday afternoons. It is a little bittersweet because I love days like today where I have the girls and can work/mess around online while they nap, but I need to get more work done and I'm excited about it. Did I tell ya'll I'm designing a new chicken & waffles restaurant? I actually think that combo is gross, but the project is cool.

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Jul 23, 2013 13:59:13 GMT -5 pitterwoo said:

Speaking of wanting to move, that post over the weekend was the first time that I ever wanted to really get out my H&G pitchfork. I don't know what came over me. Part of me wants to hear what else she has to say about her situation, but another part of me just needs to look away. Not good for the ol' blood pressure.

H and I started watching Orange is the new Black this week and we really like it. It's more graphic than I was expecting and I keep finding myself being kind of surprised. And also afraid of going to prison.

I think most of us did. The girl seemed really really sweet, just like she was in a bad place at the moment, so I played nice. However, TBH, I was annoyed. The whole thing was FWP to the T.

I'm also annoyed she never came back. I wanted the rest of the story.

[emoflamingo]

What the heck happened this weekend? @justdairy and pitterwoo?

[ktzmoh]

Minnie, I'm so sorry.

I'm bummed that woman didn't come back. As a person who is not a trained psychologist, and is a complete stranger, my *super-valid* interweb opinion was that it must have been all the emotional stuff related to the infertility - which is enough to make anyone depressed - redirected toward the house. I can't imagine anyone taking that kind of loss just because they weren't happy with everything about the house - even if it wouldn't kill them financially. Who beams with joy over a house? I beam with joy coming home because my kiddos run to the door squealing Mommy!! when i get there, and I'm guessing that's the source of her house-hatred. Again, super valid interweb opinion...

Anyway, we were busy this weekend having a birthday party for Jackson. We had a bunch of 6 year olds at the putt putt course - amped them all up on cake and sugar and then handed them each a metal club and said "go play". Fun times!!

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Jul 23, 2013 14:33:16 GMT -5 emoflamingo said:

What the heck happened this weekend? @justdairy and pitterwoo?

Scroll back a bit. You should be able to find.
Super nice girl writes this post about how her and her H bought this house, she hates it, doesn't feel like home, wants to move. Can't put a finger on what really though is wrong. Turns out it' super nice. Big yard, pool, high end kitchen.

She wanted to move out like yesterday, sell, take the loss and look for something new.
We all just asked to think this through, make sure it's not an underlying issue, no one really "beams" about their house/we all have problems, if the roof isn't caving in, it's not worth the less etc.

She comes back with, "The neighbors are never out." "The street is too wide." A bunch of what we thought was petty stuff. We chat nicely with her some more, tell her to keep thinking, does she have a case of the grass is greener, will she ever be a happy in a house, etc.?

She never came back to respond so now we're all wondering.

It wasn't that exciting...just kind of odd for lack of a better term.

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Jul 23, 2013 15:09:52 GMT -5 ktzmoh said:

Minnie, I'm so sorry.

I'm bummed that woman didn't come back. As a person who is not a trained psychologist, and is a complete stranger, my *super-valid* interweb opinion was that it must have been all the emotional stuff related to the infertility - which is enough to make anyone depressed - redirected toward the house. I can't imagine anyone taking that kind of loss just because they weren't happy with everything about the house - even if it wouldn't kill them financially. Who beams with joy over a house? I beam with joy coming home because my kiddos run to the door squealing Mommy!! when i get there, and I'm guessing that's the source of her house-hatred. Again, super valid interweb opinion...

Anyway, we were busy this weekend having a birthday party for Jackson. We had a bunch of 6 year olds at the putt putt course - amped them all up on cake and sugar and then handed them each a metal club and said "go play". Fun times!!

Sounds like my kind of b-day party!

I also agree with you. I see where she's totally doing that. I took my IF frustrations out on cows and H. Neither could do anything right. I wanted them both on a truck to the stockyard for about 9 months. JK. Sort of. To this day, I don't know why. I need somewhere to direct my stress and apparently, getting stressed out about cows was easier?!.

[munkii]

Minnie, I'm sorry.

The house lady...I agree with ktzmoh that something else is going on there.

My random: The reason I'm moving down to part-time is so I can start school full-time in the fall. I just need to finish, and taking one or two classes a semester isn't cutting it. For the past year, we've been paying off everything, saving, and planning. I cannot freaking wait.