Thank you. I hope I do, too. I know we all want that mansion with beautiful fountains, but somedays I just want a nice house. I actually calculated how many rooms I want and for what. I think 4-5 could be perfect. Plenty of space for a library, TV room, and writing office. I realize I am dreaming big here, but 4-5 rooms in an American house isn't that much. It's like middle-income/family sized house. And you're right. They do and it's frustrating to me when people act like it's 'progressive' and 'liberating' and 'cool', when it's just an old stereotype rehashed. But if I had millions, I would go for that roman style house with fountains!
Yeah, that's a lot of money. I suppose I was talking more about actual space. In a European house it seems like 3 is a lot of rooms, but I would say a lot begins at 7 rooms in America.
My house is three bedrooms and 910 square feet. It's me-sized. I have plans for future projects, but they require money I have yet to find.
Maybe $325K here but somebody from Long Island would buy it sight unseen for $400K cash 20 mins after it hit the market.
I... my mortgage is significantly less than that. Might be different now, but I squeezed in riiiight before the market ate shit.
A wife and too many cats would be fine. Have you ever been faced with maintaining a picket fence? I was for ten years. Forego the pickets. Think barbed wire or maybe electric fence, if you live in a bad area with lots of stampeding cattle.
Well, I posted it in another thread, but here it is again -- too many cats: (All part of the service)
It would be a lovely life. I hear you. I will then go for one of those barbed wire fences used around government secret buildings. I'll add electricity too for good measure.
AhHHH!! So cute! Too cute! I have cats in my house who also curl up together and purr and it's always so sweet.
It has been two very rough weeks. My sister has been down with a horrendous chest infection and she needed a lot of care because of it. Not just that, but her overall state was really worrying and at times terrifying. We've been to the emergency room three times. Three times. I've not been sleeping well. But worse than that, I've had a serious hard time with keeping up with my studies. I also caught the same virus, but thankfully, it hasn't affected me anywhere near as badly. I'm very happy and thankful for that. It should be okay. Today was the third ER visit and things have been better since that. Fingers crossed, the infection has peaked and it'll be better by the end of the week.
Brain's being an absolute cuckwaffle to me, doing the same tired dance of 'no one likes you, you're unbearable Everyone in this forum secretly hates you'.
I don't hate you. I think you're a nice guy. But you did remined me of something I once read I hope it helps. You just be you. Spoiler: No-one is thinking
Thank ye. I'm also reminded of a tumblr post once where a zookeeper had to carry a large snake (in a bag) to another zoo and literally no one looked at them despite the snake writhing in, and I quote, "in a fit of seething fury" . Just need to remember that most are just thinking about themselves and their day -- they're not paying attention to what I'm doing so long as what I'm doing isn't directly impacting them. And even if they did, who cares? So long as I'm not hurting them (or myself) who cares?
No clue who you are talking about here. But I would say that it says more about the character of the person trying to tear someone down. As the old saying goes, their opinion is worth it's weight in gold.
My five cents worth (inflation, y'know) is that you are fine and dandy. Put your brain in time out and have a good evening.
Well, there was a fourth ER visit because things didn't get better. There was a reason for that. The hospital misdiagnosed my sister's chest infection as viral! It was bacterial. I'm truly not sure how they managed this. They even took samples and cultured them to check for bacteria. This time, it should be better though. She is on antibiotics now. Plus they did a whole bunch of different scans to make sure it's nothing terrible so it really should get better. Sadly, this isn't the first time this has happened. They had also misdiagnosed my condition years ago and I had to suffer for two months before I got the correct treatments. Here is hoping for a better weekend than the last one. Hopefully I can catch up with my studies. Once I do, I should be able to make some time every day for writing to finish my project. Life has been weird for the past 2 weeks.
