Spring! Spring!
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Walked out this morning to find a crocus had bloomed! YAY! The lilac has buds, the daffodils are coming up. Spring spring glorious spring!
We're in fund drive mode at the station this week....started with a "jump start" on Thursday. That was a 10 hour day. Friday....another 10. Yesterday...about 5. The rest of the week will be in the ten hour range. Being fundamentally lazy, I like things in the 8 hour range.
But I had today off, and that was cool. Slept in. Read the paper. We went to a nearby open house. Foreclosure that the bank just wants to be rid of, I think. A STEAL on that road. This house is also on that street. IF we were in SERIOUS "let's find a house" mode, we'd think seriously about this one, but it DOES need a lot of cosmetic work. The kitchen is MOSTLY redone. New appliances, new backsplash.
And a PAINTED floor. They PAINTED the wood floor. They did that in a bedroom as well. The picture of the entry way? They painted NATURAL STONE yellow. The wood floors need to be refinished, the bathroom needs to be redone, and pretty much all the bedrooms need to be repainted.....there was some faux finishing gone VERY wrong upstairs! But the bones are good, the mechanicals look good. There's a porch off the living room that's beautiful, and the back yard is fenced and lovely.
But we already HAVE a house that needs floors refinished and rooms repainted!
After the open house, it was on to Target. Which was experiencing a power failure at the time. But like good little Americans, we were shop shop shopping away! Spent about a hundred bucks and bought a lot of exciting stuff like soap refills and socks and a new grate for the grill. Wheeee.
Home with an artery clogging coney dog lunch. (what is WRONG with me of late? Lived my whole life here w/o eating at "famous coney island", and now I can't get enough of them.
After lunch I hit the bike. Didn't go far....path is flooded in places, and one boardwalk is still closed, so there's no good way for me to get north, and get a longer, more interesting ride. Cuz our roads scare me. Get my ass run over out there!
Home now. I finished a baby afghan yesterday, going to start another. Someone is always having a kid!
Interesting experience yesterday. We decided to go out to a local place for lunch. We're seated...and the table behind us is a couple with FIVE, yes FIVE small kids. They have to be all under 10. So I was immediately expecting we'd have a....loud lunch. Then I glanced again. The dad was a guy I went to high school with. Actually first grade...and after a saw a couple of the boys, I laughed, because they looked just like their dad at that age. The mom was GORGEOUS in that thin blonde manicured way. And I wanted to hate her. Then I heard her talking to the kids. Who were quiet...or, appropriately noisy...not screaming or whatever, just talking. And if they got a little...over the top, she chilled them out with a quiet remark. I was really amazed, because these were two people who were really PARENTING their brood, and it wasn't harried, or frantic or anything. Dad was making sure the little ones were eating their mac and cheese....it was just really amazing to me, because around here, it's screaming kid central, with parents who have no idea how to keep two kids from being a tornado, let alone five. We were all leaving around the same time, , so I went to the dad and introduced myself, you know, the whole "we went to school" thing. And then I just said what a pleasure it was to eat by their kids who were the best behaved kids I'd seen at a restaraunt in a long time. And Beautiful Mom looked at me and said "really?! I was grumbling under my breath at them!" They were a beautiful family...and not JUST in their looks. It was obvious there was a lot of love going on there.
Kind of warmed my little cynical raisin heart.
Comment and I will:
1 - Tell you why I friended you.
2 - Associate you with a song/film.
3 - Tell a random fact about you.
4 - Tell a first memory about you.
5 - Associate you with a character/pairing.
6 - Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7 - Tell you my favorite user pic of yours [if it pertains].
8 - In retort, you must spread this disease in your LJ
Walked out this morning to find a crocus had bloomed! YAY! The lilac has buds, the daffodils are coming up. Spring spring glorious spring!
We're in fund drive mode at the station this week....started with a "jump start" on Thursday. That was a 10 hour day. Friday....another 10. Yesterday...about 5. The rest of the week will be in the ten hour range. Being fundamentally lazy, I like things in the 8 hour range.
But I had today off, and that was cool. Slept in. Read the paper. We went to a nearby open house. Foreclosure that the bank just wants to be rid of, I think. A STEAL on that road. This house is also on that street. IF we were in SERIOUS "let's find a house" mode, we'd think seriously about this one, but it DOES need a lot of cosmetic work. The kitchen is MOSTLY redone. New appliances, new backsplash.
And a PAINTED floor. They PAINTED the wood floor. They did that in a bedroom as well. The picture of the entry way? They painted NATURAL STONE yellow. The wood floors need to be refinished, the bathroom needs to be redone, and pretty much all the bedrooms need to be repainted.....there was some faux finishing gone VERY wrong upstairs! But the bones are good, the mechanicals look good. There's a porch off the living room that's beautiful, and the back yard is fenced and lovely.
But we already HAVE a house that needs floors refinished and rooms repainted!
After the open house, it was on to Target. Which was experiencing a power failure at the time. But like good little Americans, we were shop shop shopping away! Spent about a hundred bucks and bought a lot of exciting stuff like soap refills and socks and a new grate for the grill. Wheeee.
Home with an artery clogging coney dog lunch. (what is WRONG with me of late? Lived my whole life here w/o eating at "famous coney island", and now I can't get enough of them.
After lunch I hit the bike. Didn't go far....path is flooded in places, and one boardwalk is still closed, so there's no good way for me to get north, and get a longer, more interesting ride. Cuz our roads scare me. Get my ass run over out there!
Home now. I finished a baby afghan yesterday, going to start another. Someone is always having a kid!
Interesting experience yesterday. We decided to go out to a local place for lunch. We're seated...and the table behind us is a couple with FIVE, yes FIVE small kids. They have to be all under 10. So I was immediately expecting we'd have a....loud lunch. Then I glanced again. The dad was a guy I went to high school with. Actually first grade...and after a saw a couple of the boys, I laughed, because they looked just like their dad at that age. The mom was GORGEOUS in that thin blonde manicured way. And I wanted to hate her. Then I heard her talking to the kids. Who were quiet...or, appropriately noisy...not screaming or whatever, just talking. And if they got a little...over the top, she chilled them out with a quiet remark. I was really amazed, because these were two people who were really PARENTING their brood, and it wasn't harried, or frantic or anything. Dad was making sure the little ones were eating their mac and cheese....it was just really amazing to me, because around here, it's screaming kid central, with parents who have no idea how to keep two kids from being a tornado, let alone five. We were all leaving around the same time, , so I went to the dad and introduced myself, you know, the whole "we went to school" thing. And then I just said what a pleasure it was to eat by their kids who were the best behaved kids I'd seen at a restaraunt in a long time. And Beautiful Mom looked at me and said "really?! I was grumbling under my breath at them!" They were a beautiful family...and not JUST in their looks. It was obvious there was a lot of love going on there.
Kind of warmed my little cynical raisin heart.