We decided mid-afternoon on the hottest day of the year was a good time to clean out the garage. It's 86 in the house, I'd say the garage is flirting with triple digits. I have sweat in places I didn't know could sweat.
Hahaha! Were you drunk? Everyone knows you clean your garage on rainy days. Or in the fall.
We should have been. We're getting to a crunch point between vacation and J's birthday and we need to get cleared enough to get to the saws to finish projects.
@lassagnaasshole at least it's returned to normal humidity here. I can only imagine.
DH is on a diet, which means I can't eat in front of him or cook when he is in the house. Which didn't use to bother me that much until I started my IBS diet. I want to support him, but he has no problem eating delicious foods I can't have in front if me and gloating about it, so I feel like I should be able to cook a damn chicken breast in my house without him acting like I am the devil.
FALSE.
He can deal. There is a difference between plopping on the sofa with a pint of Ben and Jerrys and making yummy noises while eating it and making yourself dinner.
"Not gonna lie; I kind of keep expecting you to post one day that you threw down on someone who clearly had no idea that today was NOT THEIR DAY." ~dontcallmeshirley
Post by meshaliuknits on Jul 26, 2014 23:11:09 GMT -5
Has anyone else played Portal 2? I got H the game for his birthday. The evil robot is such a bitch. Digs about the character's intelligence, weight, worth. It told her she was a terrible person and that they've scientifically shown why her parents abandoned her at birth. H is sitting making "did she just say that?" faces at the game. Apparently she killed the computer in the last game, so I guess it's deserved.
The other robot has such a charming British accent. He's darling.
I drank a lot tonight. I cried and I laughed a lot today. I'm on emotional overload right now. Adults competing at "chubby bunny" will always and forever be funny.
One of my good friends proposed to his girlfriend this evening. H and I and a couple of our other friends got to be part of the proposal. It was so awesome and sweet. We all loved it.
I followed that up with coming home and doing work until 1am on Saturday night. #loser.
LoveTrains, your farmer's market is doing it wrong. We get a flat of eggs - so 30 - for $2.79 at our farmer's market. Or $2.89. Whatever it is, we pay under $3 for 30 eggs.
It reached 90 in my house today (warmer than outside), plus 75% humidity. I know people in other places have it worse as far as heat, but they get a/c. I now think 84 is cool or at least comfortable, so I'm screwed when I move in winter to a place with snow. It took me 3 years to adjust, so I pretty much assume it will take another 3 to adjust to seasonal weather.
I miss my condo with crazy breeze. That mitigated the heat even if sometimes I had to use all my strength to close the door.
not my image, but I finally have three balls of this lovely in my clutches!
What is tosh lace and Mia?
Tosh lace is a lace weight yarn that's being discontinued & I must have some before it disappears. Autocorrect UN-capitalized MIA. I just mean it's missing from my order.
Tosh lace is a lace weight yarn that's being discontinued & I must have some before it disappears. Autocorrect UN-capitalized MIA. I just mean it's missing from my order.
Post by Velar Fricative on Jul 27, 2014 11:55:33 GMT -5
Which house would you buy? Same amount of bedrooms and bathrooms. Similar asking prices. Same flooring. Commutes would be almost the same.
House A - More square footage, better and more flexible layout, bigger bedrooms, bigger backyard, in our current neighborhood that we like very much. Unfinished basement, no appliances in the house at all, needs lots of updates/replacements, busier street, backyard abuts train tracks.
House B - Finished basement, only thing that needs updating is the kitchen, quieter neighborhood a few miles away. Firm asking price that may be higher than what we could likely get House A for. Layout doesn't offer any options in terms of opening up or redoing space, etc. Everything in this house is smaller than in House A, but not too small for our needs.
Post by orangeblossom on Jul 27, 2014 12:05:14 GMT -5
B.
If you get house A with no appliances, you'd have to put money into to. Also, the train could be really loud. We live about two miles from some tracks and we still hear the trains go past when the honk their horns sometime.
Which house would you buy? Same amount of bedrooms and bathrooms. Similar asking prices. Same flooring. Commutes would be almost the same.
House A - More square footage, better and more flexible layout, bigger bedrooms, bigger backyard, in our current neighborhood that we like very much. Unfinished basement, no appliances in the house at all, needs lots of updates/replacements, busier street, backyard abuts train tracks.
House B - Finished basement, only thing that needs updating is the kitchen, quieter neighborhood a few miles away. Firm asking price that may be higher than what we could likely get House A for. Layout doesn't offer any options in terms of opening up or redoing space, etc. Everything in this house is smaller than in House A, but not too small for our needs.
HELP
The train tracks alone would make me lean towards B. DH's grandparents' house was like that, and it was so, so annoying. I'm sure you get used to it, but it was super frustrating.
LoveTrains, your farmer's market is doing it wrong. We get a flat of eggs - so 30 - for $2.79 at our farmer's market. Or $2.89. Whatever it is, we pay under $3 for 30 eggs.
But how is it so cheap? Where do the eggs come from?
I don't think my farmer's market is doing it wrong if the eggs are all coming from local farms and the eggs are free range, organic, etc.
I'm happy to pay more when it means I'm buying local.
Which house would you buy? Same amount of bedrooms and bathrooms. Similar asking prices. Same flooring. Commutes would be almost the same.
House A - More square footage, better and more flexible layout, bigger bedrooms, bigger backyard, in our current neighborhood that we like very much. Unfinished basement, no appliances in the house at all, needs lots of updates/replacements, busier street, backyard abuts train tracks.
House B - Finished basement, only thing that needs updating is the kitchen, quieter neighborhood a few miles away. Firm asking price that may be higher than what we could likely get House A for. Layout doesn't offer any options in terms of opening up or redoing space, etc. Everything in this house is smaller than in House A, but not too small for our needs.
HELP
Need to know more information about the train tracks. What trains go on it - freight or passenger? Do the trains have any kind of layover period where they might be parked in your park yard spewing diesel? Who is responsible for the maintainence of the ROW? Will dangerous materials be transported on those trains?
I LOVE TRAINS (of course) but I would probably go for house b. Diesel fumes are particularly bad for children (its why living near a highway is bad) so I would be concerned about that with trains as well.
Post by Velar Fricative on Jul 27, 2014 14:46:35 GMT -5
Thanks all. I just really love the space and all the potential of House A - we plan to be in either of these houses for many years and I feel like I am more likely to get annoyed with the rigid layout and smaller square footage of House B at some point. The train is a big factor though - it doesn't sound bad inside the house but when we have guests over in the backyard, that train would be annoying. It runs 24/7 and during off-peak hours and weekends, a train still goes by for a few seconds about 2-3 times an hour.
We are going to see more houses this week but we're just not seeing much of what we want in our price point. There won't be anything turnkey for what we want in our price point so we know we'll have some work done before we move in, but there still isn't much that we like out there. So it's very likely to come down to either of these two houses since we'll be living with the ILs in between our closings and I don't want to live there for a long time.
Which house would you buy? Same amount of bedrooms and bathrooms. Similar asking prices. Same flooring. Commutes would be almost the same.
House A - More square footage, better and more flexible layout, bigger bedrooms, bigger backyard, in our current neighborhood that we like very much. Unfinished basement, no appliances in the house at all, needs lots of updates/replacements, busier street, backyard abuts train tracks.
House B - Finished basement, only thing that needs updating is the kitchen, quieter neighborhood a few miles away. Firm asking price that may be higher than what we could likely get House A for. Layout doesn't offer any options in terms of opening up or redoing space, etc. Everything in this house is smaller than in House A, but not too small for our needs.
HELP
Need to know more information about the train tracks. What trains go on it - freight or passenger? Do the trains have any kind of layover period where they might be parked in your park yard spewing diesel? Who is responsible for the maintainence of the ROW? Will dangerous materials be transported on those trains?
I LOVE TRAINS (of course) but I would probably go for house b. Diesel fumes are particularly bad for children (its why living near a highway is bad) so I would be concerned about that with trains as well.
Passenger train. There's no park yard or layover where the house is (it's right smack in the middle of two stations). No freight or hazardous material trains use these tracks, they are solely for commuters.
You're a good person to help me think about this stuff, thanks!
Passenger train. There's no park yard or layover where the house is (it's right smack in the middle of two stations). No freight or hazardous material trains use these tracks, they are solely for commuters.
You're a good person to help me think about this stuff, thanks!
Passenger train is good! You should find out the frequency of the trains, and because I'm not familiar enough with where exactly you are looking (NJT, LIRR, metro north, etc) find out if there are grade crossings and how close you are to the station. Obviously in addition to the noise of the train just passing through on the tracks, the distance to the grade crossing and the station will govern if you can hear the train whistle. Trains must sound the whistle when leaving the station or going over a grade crossing EXCEPT in a quiet zone. A quiet zone is generally a residential neighborhood with four way crossing posts, lights, bucks, etc (so a well protected crossing) that the neighborhood has petitioned to have less train horns.
Also figure out if the train is electrified or diesel.
At the end of the day, you can't change the location of the house. There are lots of things to consider when abutting railroad property, so as long as you go into it fully educated and decide it works for your family, then that is great. But you do hear stories of people who don't do their research and then get annoyed when the train blows the whistle all night long behind their house.
Also I don't know, but if the ROW is owned by a government agency, is there a potential that if they want to expand the ROW can they seize part of your yard via eminent domain? Just another thing to research.