Happy Birthday, Laura!
I am choosing to think that the snow we had last night was heavy wet snow because it is really a spring snow not a winter snow.
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - Feb 22, 2010 3:54:26 am PST #9816 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
msbelle - Feb 22, 2010 4:17:54 am PST #9817 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I just faxed back my acceptance of the counter-offer. The seller accepted my price, but wants to maintain mineral rights and, I think I mentioned, wants to retrieve some things from the backyard (that I was going to get rid of anyway, so win win).
fingers crossed we can get an inspector in there quickly. grabby hands!
Tom Scola - Feb 22, 2010 4:18:57 am PST #9818 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
wants to maintain mineral rights
That's going to come back and bite you when oil is discovered on your property.
msbelle - Feb 22, 2010 4:24:42 am PST #9819 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Yes, well Natural gas is really the thing at the moment, but there is no drilling going on in that neighborhood and my plot is smallish. Also I retain surface rights, so they would not be able to drill on my property without my permission, they would have to come in via an adjacent lot.
Jessica - Feb 22, 2010 4:31:35 am PST #9820 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Meara, when DH and I were househunting we went with a mortgage broker who was able to get us pre-qualified at a few different banks and also got us a really good interest rate (saved us the trouble of checking the market every day to see when we should lock in a rate). Her fee was around $500 IIRC and I felt it was worth it to have someone else doing that work so we could look at apartments.
§ ita § - Feb 22, 2010 4:37:27 am PST #9821 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Happy birthday, Laura!
I call shenanigans on the blackface. I know Russia has a very different relationship to racial minorities than North America does, but they're on foreign territory. Do your homework. It's not like the aversion to blackface falls into "Oh, Mammy" territory--it's something different, but part and parcel in hand with the aversion to yellowface too.
It might be okay in Russia, but they must have noticed the stamps in their passports.
Lee - Feb 22, 2010 4:40:31 am PST #9822 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Happy Birthday Laura!
Jesse - Feb 22, 2010 4:40:59 am PST #9823 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sort of catching up...
In general, the Northeast Corridor trains are reasonably on time
My train to NYC on Thursday was perfectly on time. My train back last night was two hours late. That sucked. And by the time it occured to me to see if I could trade my ticket in for an Acela ticket, it was too late.
I think sex addiction has less tangible downsides than a gambling addiction, but they do exist
I can't believe none of you watched Dr. Drew's Sex Rehab! Half of those people were literally not getting out of bed for days. Some of them were dealing with more emotional problems.
The seller has accepted the offer! The only conditions they placed were that they want to keep possession of a few items from the backyard that we were going to remove anyway. WIN!
Woo hoo!
Laura - Feb 22, 2010 4:44:22 am PST #9824 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Thanks, all.
A good mortgage broker is very valuable. The localistas may know someone.
Amy - Feb 22, 2010 4:48:34 am PST #9825 of 30001
Because books.
Happy happy birthday, Laura, with cake and big hugs!