The Not Happy Thread

All 3, apparently

 

Song stuck in my head for three days and counting (T'Pau's Heart and Soul).

 

I'm dealing with "These Dreams" by Heart. Could be a lot worse.

 

Absolutely nothing wrong with it, but it would never have occurred to me that "Amish Romance" was a genre.

Of course, I didn't see "Gay Billionaire Dinosaur" beforehand either, so maybe I'm just not the romantic type

 

lol theres a book that the ladies i work with and i were cackling about called My The Amish Millionaire.
havent read it yet, but yeah, "Amish Romance" is a genre that i had never heard of either until i moved to the midwest

 

I have to go back to the tire shop tomorrow. One of my nice new tires has a nice new leak to go with it. It’s a little nostalgic, though, having to air up a tire before I leave for work. Just like the good old days.

 

No idea when will they open cinema halls here. No idea when will they release Tenet in this country.

 

Am sorry to hear the Centerville Iowagian has closed operations.

Rural Iowa newspapers are struggling at a time when they're badly needed.

http://www.dmcityview.com/political-mercury/2020/09/02/centerville-iowegian-goes-down-to-coronavirus-in-2020/

 

For me it was adding a bit of oil and power steering fluid every week

 

I think I must be cursed or something.

 

Got stuck into the garden yesterday, weeding, digging, trimmed the hedge and mowed the lawn.

Woke up this morning with a sore back

 

Sunday.

 

The china set my grandmother got my husband and i for our wedding is till in the box. Ive been looking for a reasonable priced china hutch since February. Ive been looking into second hand because brand new is super expensive.

Anyway, i stalked this one item on Facebook market place. It was beautiful, gently used, amazingly affordable. 10 minute s away from my house. After a few days and no price change, i contact the seller. An hour later, the seller has not responded.... instead, they double the price.

 

Message them with 'Pity you increased the price on this, I was just about to buy it'. It won't help you but at least it'll let them know they missed a sale.

 

My response after the price doubling was "so, is that a yes?" (I asked previously if the item was still available for purchase).

They left me on read...


(Im actually really starting to think they just dont want to sell to me, to be honest)

 

That is common. Usually someone is told to list an item, but they actually don't want to sell.

 

Just chilling and enjoying a beverage and a TV show last night when life was interrupted by a cockroach the size of a Buick. Twenty minutes of spraying dangerous levels of neurotoxin around the apartment and tipping over furniture trying to find out where he'd gotten to and we finally nailed...one that seemed suspiciously smaller than my initial impression. Still, chalked up a win until this morning when I saw Big Boy out there on the balcony. Gassed him, he got onto the balcony rail and started doing the dance before the wind caught him.



So now there are four bug-bombs going in the apartment. This southern climate, keeping things clean isn't enough, especially in multi-family housing where your neighbors are doing god-knows what.

S'all right, the chemmicklas in th ebugboms arent haswaredous to jumansandy way.

 

Time to deploy some Hoihoi houses?

 

I hope not, those are last ditch holding actions. We generally get one or two kawaii teka-teka goki-chans a year. This is three, with any luck the chemical warfare will work.

 

After a while you get used to them and they don't "bug" you anymore. Yes, the stupid pun was intended.
The most efficient weapons of choice I use lately and I highly suggest them, are not toxic at all and they sharpen your ninja flip flop assassin skills are none other than (yes, I couldn't help myself and gave it away) -> flip flops.

I get in my room. I see a cockroach on the floor. I take off my flip flop. I attain target from afar. I launch flip flop. Target annihilated.
I sit at my desk. I see a centipede crawling on the wall. I take off flip flop. I attain target. I launch flip flop. Target annihilated.
I lie in bed. I see a mosquito on the ceiling. I don't take off flip flop. I don't wear them in bed. I grab it from the floor at the side of my bed. I attain target. I launch flip flop. Target annihilated. Flip flop lands on face. Oh well. Target annihilated anyways.

 

It's a good thing you're not Australian. Otherwise you'd be telling us to take off our thongs to deal with bugs.

That could work too.

 

Nope. Maximum annihilation. Costs $30 to gas the apartment, worth every penny. Mrs A would leave me if I did anything less.

 

I had to google that just to make sure... New knowledge attained. Thongs in Australia are flip flops. Not that thong thong thong thong thong Sisqo was singing about.

I sometimes wish someone would witness me in a flip flopping frenzy. I think they'd think I'd look cool, but yeah, gasing the place makes sense if you got plenty of invaders.

 

I can't wear flip flops. I have only one complete foot, so I can flip, or I can flop, but not both at the same time.