#no more leaking roof

[labradorite-princess]

I bitched so much I got what I wanted!

[tiny-pteranodon]

KADDU JI KI CHALI BARAT

[cr4yolaas]

i’m slowly getting more ill and our roof is leaking horribly but mezzo forte i will come back for u soon

[brinnanza]

"boycotting doesn't work they're already making billions of dollars" yeah but you don't have to HELP

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

Omg?? I just took a bath?? It's so nice?? Why don't I ever do it*

*important disclaimer: I wash myself regularly, I just usually take showers.

[imwritesometimes]

roof leaking. ugly water spot on ceiling of bedroom. despair. agony. panic. millions of phone calls to different contractors. finally. a single kindly older man. very professional. fully licensed. his company can come this week. his company can accept half payment now and half later. no problem. can we actually come earlier? like today? I am 🥹🥹

[amtrak12]

Vague work email: Don't come into the building until we send an additional notification

Me: 🤔 Is this flooding or a bomb threat?

[cookinguptales]

I want to write... but alas... the cleaning...

[manchesterau]

if they have a leak in the roof then what the hell else is going on in that house 😭

[magistralucis]

I consider myself relatively good at day to day cleaning, although I am rarely in the 'cleaning mood'. But I guess it had to come around sometime, even if sometime was this Monday morning at 8:30am, and now every drawer in my room is gutted and the walls smell of white vinegar

[jedi-bird]

Moved a very big and very heavy professional display case back against the wall all by myself. Definitely going to be feeling it tomorrow but I don't care. This has been bugging me for a while and once I emptied it of the random stuff stored in it it wasn't too hard to wiggle it slowly into place. Started filling it with some of my grandma's and mine old Star Wars figures, though now I have to decide if it's better to keep them in their packages or open them to save space. I see a lot of ebay research coming in the future. Did find some interesting things though.

I love how dramatic the Revenge of the Sith packaging is. I can almost hear them yelling at me.

[diluc33rpm]

1/2 Do you believe in magic? Are you superstitious?

if magic isn't real how do you explain his holy presence

[breewitch]

I wouldn't say my social bubble is terribly small. My former manager thought comparing safaris a suitable small talk topic. I had colleagues who played golf and were landlords. (Thanks to their middle-class families, not our salaries. The women in any case because men didn't discuss theirs).

But it's only their complaints about the current crisis that make me realize what being middle-class was/is really like. The small things, that is. I knew about the home-owner, 2 cars per family and holidays abroad standard (none of that necessarily as big/new/expensive as in Western Europe). Sounds neat, I have no trouble imagining living like that.

But until this nightmare inflation they'd just buy any food they wanted, including the most expensive out-of-season fruits and vegetables? Not just what was on sale? They'd take baths any time they wanted and went to restaurants all the time? And it's so difficult for them to give that up?

I do have compassion for them and worry about the impact of middle class struggling on the rest of the society, but I didn't even realize in how different worlds we lived.

[neganium]

man I could really go for some eggdrop soup tonight. alas I cannot afford even this much, and anyways someone would have to go get it, bc the place doesn't deliver, and we cannot afford (and do not generally trust) any of those third-party delivery services. that's not a very good idea in this weather, no sir.

[icantalk710]

📱😪

[supremeuppityone]

Lessons in Roofing:

1) The guy who came out to "fix" the primary leak last week was in fact Dave, not Jimmy. Not-Dave informed me of that today.

2) Not-Dave said that Not-Jimmy said he gave us a quote last week. I explained that Not-Jimmy is a lying liar who lies.

3) Signed off on the quote that's been a week in the making. It contains 90-ish% of the repairs discussed and was written in pencil or possibly crayon, but I've learned the value of compromise as it is hurricane season and it's either that or get a rowboat for the kitchen. The husband has asked for a jet-ski.

4) Not-Dave did a temporary "fix" on the primary leak.

5) It is unknown if or when I'll ever see Not-Dave again as the office has yet to schedule all of our work.

6) It turns out that Chaucer will fit in the half-bath...but it will cost you multiple treats and a bloody toe.