FUCK YOU GMAC THE CAR IS MINE!

[tealsac]

Sent off the last payment for the Cavalier, now the car is paid off and mine, finally!

Also, I love my Fiance, but wedding planning kinda sucks, but we are getting there slowly but surely.

Comments

[nixtress]

Are you leaving Charm City?

The last apartment I had was in a 45 year old building that was insulated less than a pair of long underwear. The complex was more than half empty, yet they kept moving people into the apartment under me, and I kept making noise complaints about the various people until they'd be moved out. The last time, I told them if it happened again they'd let me move my lease to another property. It happened again. When I went in to bitch and demand my move I was informed that the guy who owned my complex also owns a bunch of houses. Win. So I lived in a HUGE house in the middle of 20 acres of woods and swamp for disgustingly low rent for 5 years. I could rent a house again, but there's no way in HELL I'll ever live in another apartment. The only way I'll ever share walls is if they're soundproofed.

If you look at the albums on my FB profile, there are a TON of photos of the house. I've done a metric ass-tonne of work since we bought it last August. After 5 years' worth of work I ended up having to delegate to my heterolifemate (I passed my lease to him when we left because I didn't feel like repainting ALL of the rooms I'd painted there over the years. Plus he wanted the house. Can you blame him?), I was eager to start making this house my/our own too!

To jump back to apartments, not counting when I was homeless or the month before that, I lived in apartments from June 1997 until April 2003, so I do know what you mean. Then before that, from 1994 until 1997 (minus 6 months that I lived with my dad in Silver Spring) I lived with my mother in a townhouse. She was so adamant about not mowing a lawn that she actually bricked over the teeny back yard.

[tealsac]

I am moving to Philadelphia with my Fiance in July and I am scared witless, I have lived in or around the Baltmore metro area my entire life. I know we are going to be spending a year or two in apartements but the goal is to buy our own house depending on where she wants to end up. She needs to get her 10 years with the police force and assure her pension before we can move.

I have looked a bit at the FB pics of you (and If I can say so without sounding totally creepy, you are a rather fetching looking lady) but I will take a look at the house pictures, I will warn you, I have worked in construction related industries for the last 8 years so I can have some pretty strong opinions about things.

Except for the 6 months I rented a room when I was living/working in Dundalk, I have been lucky enough to have decent places to live but I know what you mean with the rocking place with the cheap rent, when you rent from your boss and have basically carte blanche with the place it is pretty awesome.

[nixtress]

LOL hey, pick away! My parents are licensed GCs and my step-father is a Master Electrician. It's in my blood. So far here I've refinished the kitchen cabinets (as well as remving three and relocating them to my bathroom), painted the basement stairwell, painted the yoga room, painted two accent walls in the bedroom, and put down new hardwood (engineered click-lock) all by myself.

In Richmond I'd built a cabinet into the space under the basement stairs, competely redid the inside of my closet (that was actually one of my first ADIML posts on the main community, I'll get that link in a moment. My phone only has one browser window at a time), put in permenant installations for the window ac units, replaced many light fixtures, ran two new circuits, ran a second phone line, etc etc etc. Hell, in the house we rented while waiting to close here I installed the satellite dish LOL. I'm a very handy girl. I also paint, sculpt, and sew.

And no stalking felt :) I'm photogenic at times.

[tealsac]

Flooring (everything but the fuzzy stuff) and Kitchens(I played at being a designer for a while) are my areas of expertise, but I am quickly learning with bathrooms, but your body of work sounds rather impressive, well at least to me.

I came from a very blue collar family, my Father was a truckdriver by trade and a do-it-yourselfer before the term came into fashion.

You are going to make some lucky guy a great (man)wife some day ;)

[nixtress]

Oh I'm a hell of a hausfrau. I cook, clean, do the laundry, AND all of the household repairs. The only things I don't do are mow the lawn or move the piles of leaves. I also do the gardening.

My real father was a desk jockey but always loved home improvements. He and my mother would fight over them. He usually won as he's a hell of a perfectionist. It was just random luck that she met my step-father, who actually did her apprenticeship (VA doesn't require unions so the licensing paths are different) and now they own a home improvement company.

Did you get to ride in your Dad's truck? I'd have loved that as a kid.

Btw don't be scared about leaving b'more. Home is where you're comfortable and with the one you love the mostest. You can always come back to visit.

[tealsac]

You closet work is impressive, more nods of approval from over here :)

I am scared to leave everything and almost everyone I know, but wherever my heart is will home enough for me.

I loved riding with my father during the summer, it was the only way to really spend time with him since he tended to work 6 days a week, but being taught how to read a map by age 7 or 8 and being trusted to act as a navigator on a new route for him at age 11 or 12 is amazing. He never drove all that far, but I still saw from Richmond Va to Springfield Ma with him before I learned to drive and I always think of him and how we would run together when I take a road trip.
I wish my children (when I eventually and hopefully have them) will be able to get the chance to meet the man I grew up with, he wasn't perfect by any means, but he was a good person in his heart.
(He is dying of cancer and I'm not sure how much time he has left, might be 6 months, might be 6 years, who knows)

[nixtress]

Oh heartbreaking, I'm so sorry! But I'm so glad that you are happy with your memories of him. Too many people just stay angry about stupid things until it's too late.

Thanks! Glad I got your approval!! : )

[nixtress]

http://community.livejournal.com/adayinmylife/342831.html

LOL cell internet is slow. There you go, me with very short hair and fewer tattoos redoing my closet.