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[♪♫choppinbroccoli♫♪]

Jun 18, 2015 11:09:08 GMT -5 summerdonna said:

I hung up after waiting on hold for 37 fucking minutes. I would have felt bad for the person who would have answered. Must.simmer.down.now.

SIMMAH DOWNAH!

That freaking sucks. Is it lunch break where you're calling? I can't think of a reason why that should have happened. EFFERS!

[shadesofgold]

My office is right next to the kitchen. Someone just microwaved leftover pizza. I was going to get a salad, but I don't think I have the will power now...

[summerdonna]

Jun 18, 2015 11:14:04 GMT -5 ♪♫choppinbroccoli♫♪ said:

Jun 18, 2015 11:09:08 GMT -5 summerdonna said:

I hung up after waiting on hold for 37 fucking minutes. I would have felt bad for the person who would have answered. Must.simmer.down.now.

SIMMAH DOWNAH!

That freaking sucks. Is it lunch break where you're calling? I can't think of a reason why that should have happened. EFFERS!

ILY. That made me laugh and I clearly need it! It's an 800 number so I have no idea where they are.

[TheEleventhHour]

House Hunters makes me irrationally angry sometimes. I feel like the buyers almost always have unrealistic expectations about what they can get for their budgets ...

[ohinvrtedworld]

Jun 18, 2015 11:09:08 GMT -5 summerdonna said:

I hung up after waiting on hold for 37 fucking minutes. I would have felt bad for the person who would have answered. Must.simmer.down.now.

Ugh, I know that feel. I feel so bad for customer service people. They had no direct hand in our problems but it's so hard not to unleash all the rage in the moment.

[ohinvrtedworld]

Jun 18, 2015 11:27:02 GMT -5 TheEleventhHour said:

House Hunters makes me irrationally angry sometimes. I feel like the buyers almost always have unrealistic expectations about what they can get for their budgets ...

YES. "Um, this house is in a great neighborhood and the layout is perfect, I love the backyard and deck, but I really wanted a 3 car garage and this wall that's painted pink is ugly."

[easilyunamused]

Jun 18, 2015 11:27:53 GMT -5 ohinvrtedworld said:

Jun 18, 2015 11:27:02 GMT -5 TheEleventhHour said:

House Hunters makes me irrationally angry sometimes. I feel like the buyers almost always have unrealistic expectations about what they can get for their budgets ...

YES. "Um, this house is in a great neighborhood and the layout is perfect, I love the backyard and deck, but I really wanted a 3 car garage and this wall that's painted pink is ugly."

I think they are told to up the dramatics. I also heard, maybe from here, that they already have the house they want picked out and then go through two other houses just for the show.

ETA: words are hard, yo. I need coffee.

[summerdonna]

Jun 18, 2015 11:27:10 GMT -5 ohinvrtedworld said:

Jun 18, 2015 11:09:08 GMT -5 summerdonna said:

I hung up after waiting on hold for 37 fucking minutes. I would have felt bad for the person who would have answered. Must.simmer.down.now.

Ugh, I know that feel. I feel so bad for customer service people. They had no direct hand in our problems but it's so hard not to unleash all the rage in the moment.

I have taken calls from angry customers so I always try to be extra nice when I have to call people but yeah I probably would have gotten loud if someone had answered.

[TheEleventhHour]

Jun 18, 2015 11:30:41 GMT -5 easilyunamused said:

Jun 18, 2015 11:27:53 GMT -5 ohinvrtedworld said:

YES. "Um, this house is in a great neighborhood and the layout is perfect, I love the backyard and deck, but I really wanted a 3 car garage and this wall that's painted pink is ugly."

I think they are told to up the dramatics. I also heard, maybe from here, that they already have the house they want picked out and then go through two other houses just for the show.

ETA: words are hard, yo. I need coffee.

Oh that is interesting! That would make more sense because they seriously nitpick the dumbest shit sometimes. In the one I just watched the woman literally said "Ugh, I hate that toilet so much" and I was all "Are you for real right now?!"

[TheEleventhHour]

Jun 18, 2015 11:27:48 GMT -5 starbuck27 said:

This needed sharing!

A dad took 11 photos of his daughter as history-making women.

I love this!

[piccyami]

Jun 18, 2015 11:30:41 GMT -5 easilyunamused said:

Jun 18, 2015 11:27:53 GMT -5 ohinvrtedworld said:

YES. "Um, this house is in a great neighborhood and the layout is perfect, I love the backyard and deck, but I really wanted a 3 car garage and this wall that's painted pink is ugly."

I think they are told to up the dramatics. I also heard, maybe from here, that they already have the house they want picked out and then go through two other houses just for the show.

ETA: words are hard, yo. I need coffee.

Yes, they have to close on their house first.  And yes to the dramatics.  H's uncles did a show and were the perfect fit because they each wanted different style homes and wound up with something totally different from what either wanted.  They were so frustrated with not being able to move in for a good while after closing.

[pismoduo]

Jun 18, 2015 10:51:33 GMT -5 rablissful said:

I just lost a game of find the poop. I gave up.

Dog wouldn't even help me find it.

Assuming you mean the poop was outside... this is why I always pick up an extra pile of poop when we're on a walk or at the dog park. I consider it paying it forward for the few times that I might miss a hidden pile.

[rablissful]

Jun 18, 2015 11:40:55 GMT -5 pismoduo said:

Jun 18, 2015 10:51:33 GMT -5 rablissful said:

I just lost a game of find the poop. I gave up.

Dog wouldn't even help me find it.

Assuming you mean the poop was outside... this is why I always pick up an extra pile of poop when we're on a walk or at the dog park. I consider it paying it forward for the few times that I might miss a hidden pile.

It's in our backyard. If my dog didn't love to eat poop I wouldn't have searched for five+ minutes.

I used to do the same thing at dog parks!

[pismoduo]

OMG so tired. I spent way too long last night fighting over fund reallocations at the HOA finance meeting. I JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU'RE GOING TO SUSTAIN THIS LEVEL OF SERVICE BEFORE I GIVE YOU THE MONEY.

*sigh*

You know how you have those mornings where you HAVE to be somewhere exactly on time so you try to leave early to make sure you get there with more than enough time. And then somehow everything that could happen to delay you does? That was me. The dog decided she had to poop again (she already had once this morning) before I left. There was new road work on my route that wasn't there yesterday. Leaving my house 5 minutes earlier apparently puts me in some weird traffic black hole.

I made the conference call only 2 minutes late, but damn. I was raging at this idiot in front of me pulling into the parking lot who wanted to sit and wait for someone to get into their car and pull out of the parallel spot in front of the building.

[pismoduo]

Jun 18, 2015 11:44:33 GMT -5 rablissful said:

Jun 18, 2015 11:40:55 GMT -5 pismoduo said:

Assuming you mean the poop was outside... this is why I always pick up an extra pile of poop when we're on a walk or at the dog park. I consider it paying it forward for the few times that I might miss a hidden pile.

It's in our backyard. If my dog didn't love to eat poop I wouldn't have searched for five+ minutes.

I used to do the same thing at dog parks!

Our JRT has a specific poop spot she prefers, at the edge of the yard, in this weird little hollow that all the leaves and tree branches end up in. The shih tzu (who loves to eat poop) can't seem to find the poop in the pile of leaves, so it's not as urgent to clean it up.

What I end up being on the lookout for is deer turd piles. Our idiots love to eat the deer turds and then roll in whatever's left.

[TheEleventhHour]

Jun 18, 2015 11:40:30 GMT -5 @ismellbooks said:

Jun 18, 2015 11:37:40 GMT -5 TheEleventhHour said:

Oh that is interesting! That would make more sense because they seriously nitpick the dumbest shit sometimes. In the one I just watched the woman literally said "Ugh, I hate that toilet so much" and I was all "Are you for real right now?!"

A toilet is a fairly decent expense to replace. What really gets me is when they whine about the paint color. Seriously, go to Home Depot and buy a ducking gallon of paint. OH. Or on Property Brothers when they walk the people through the dream house, and then the people get SO bent out of shape when it's out of their price range. Have you seriously never seen the show?

Ha! Yes. I always laugh at the Property Brothers showing the dream house. Do they only pick people who have never watched the show? And can you really be walking through a house like that and think it is in budget?!

And I understand that a new toilet is a decent expense but I don't understand a toilet being a deal breaker. I mean, our master bathroom toilet and shower are mauve, 80s, and ugly but the house had so many other pros that I would never let an ugly toilet sway me. But like we've saying, it is for the dramatics (and I fall for it haha). 

[renbee]

Jun 18, 2015 8:03:39 GMT -5 mosdub said:

renbee I got Station Eleven on audiobook because I you mentioned it way back in a previous thread about audio books - loved it!

Omg yay! So glad you liked it! I just finished Outlander and am trying to decide on a new audiobook!

[TheEleventhHour]

Downside to moving to a more rural area - no internet available to us that is fast enough to support streaming. I will soon be saying goodbye to Netflix and Hulu *cries softly* DH just called Comcast and they said we could get high speed internet ... if we paid $5,000 for them to bring the lines off the nearest main road. HA. No.

[ohinvrtedworld]

Jun 18, 2015 12:03:21 GMT -5 TheEleventhHour said:

Downside to moving to a more rural area - no internet available to us that is fast enough to support streaming. I will soon be saying goodbye to Netflix and Hulu *cries softly* DH just called Comcast and they said we could get high speed internet ... if we paid $5,000 for them to bring the lines off the nearest main road. HA. No.

That is so, so sad. 

[♪♫choppinbroccoli♫♪]

Jun 18, 2015 12:04:36 GMT -5 starbuck27 said:

We have a metal banister in the new house that needs to be repainted. Has anyone ever done this before?

I'm reading that I can just use a wire brush to remove flaking paint, sand it just to scuff the surface, wipe down, use a metal primer, then use an oil based paint.

Don't know if I should spray or use a paint brush as I am seeing conflicting theories...

Any tips or advice from someone who has done this successfully before?

So, it wasn't exactly the same thing, but we cleaned up a little outdoor free-standing fireplace. We used sandpaper of various grits to take off the top layer. Then we wiped it all down so that there would be a clean surface for adhesion. And then we spray-painted. I wouldn't know what to recommend for your situation, though, because we bought outdoor spray paint.

Spray painting metal is much easier, IMO.

[onesweetworld]

Why is it that somedays I can eat lunch in 15 minutes and others I need the full 30. Sometimes I wish I had an hour paid lunch lol.

[rablissful]

My SO is awesome sometimes. He had to go out and get a thank you card for a member (of the credit union he works at) and he came home with a Tom Brady ornament, a Frozen Tervis tumbler for my niece's birthday next month, and the top book in the picture below for me... To go with my book of dog poems.



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[piccyami]

Jun 18, 2015 12:13:16 GMT -5 starbuck27 said:

Jun 18, 2015 12:11:25 GMT -5 ♪♫choppinbroccoli♫♪ said:

So, it wasn't exactly the same thing, but we cleaned up a little outdoor free-standing fireplace. We used sandpaper of various grits to take off the top layer. Then we wiped it all down so that there would be a clean surface for adhesion. And then we spray-painted. I wouldn't know what to recommend for your situation, though, because we bought outdoor spray paint.

Spray painting is much easier, IMO.

Thanks, Broccoli! I think we will try spray paint and see how it goes.

The only issue I see with spray painting inside is all the paint you'll end up with on all the other surfaces you don't cover.  Someone on my FB recently decided to spray paint something inside and laid down a large-ish tarp, but still wound up with spray pain around the edges and under the door.

[Rama]

Someone should suggest titles at me. I just found the fundraising thread this morning because I'm super observant.

[rablissful]

Jun 18, 2015 12:33:09 GMT -5 Rama said:

Someone should suggest titles at me. I just found the fundraising thread this morning because I'm super observant.

Queen of Gifs

Obviously.

ETA or Talks with Gifs

[pismoduo]

Jun 18, 2015 12:35:06 GMT -5 rablissful said:

Jun 18, 2015 12:33:09 GMT -5 Rama said:

Someone should suggest titles at me. I just found the fundraising thread this morning because I'm super observant.

Queen of Gifs

Obviously.

ETA or Talks with Gifs

That one. Or something along those lines.

ETA: starbuck27's is excellent as well.

[♪♫choppinbroccoli♫♪]

Jun 18, 2015 12:36:46 GMT -5 pismoduo said:

Jun 18, 2015 12:35:06 GMT -5 rablissful said:

Queen of Gifs

Obviously.

ETA or Talks with Gifs

That one. Or something along those lines.

ETA: starbuck27's is excellent as well.

Gif Communicator?

[notthedroids]

Someone issued a document without sending it to me to review when I distinctly recall requesting to be a reviewer. Now said procedure has something in it we don't want. Droids is angry. Droids may blow a circuit. Droids needs happy juice.

[♪♫choppinbroccoli♫♪]

Jun 18, 2015 12:49:22 GMT -5 notthedroids said:

Someone issued a document without sending it to me to review when I distinctly recall requesting to be a reviewer. Now said procedure has something in it we don't want. Droids is angry. Droids may blow a circuit. Droids needs happy juice.

Did not realize this was a real thing!


gethappyjuice.com/

[pismoduo]

I'm spending way more time on the phone today than I'd like. Damn conference calls.