Polite Paradise

I arrived at the restaurant where I worked "on time" - nobody else was there and the back door was **** open, so I assumed that someone had gotten a ride to work, unlocked the door, and was in the bathroom...

Then I walked by the office and saw that that door had been broken into and the office was a wreck. 

It had been robbed and I was walking all over the crime scene, setting tables (at least they weren't in the bar, where the office was, but in the dining room on the other side of the restaurant)), and setting up the coffee machine.  Ooops...oblivious?  Or just not used to being around "that sort of event"?  I walked into my own house some four years later to find that it had been burgled - I did react a bit more quickly.  To be fair, the front door had a tendency to "bounce" back if you tried slamming it behind you, so it would look closed but the  latch/lock wouldn't have caught.  That time, someone came in the kitchen window and left through the door - instead of a family member exiting in a hurry & slamming the door behind them (without looking to see if it caught). 

So - similar thing happened at work and at home.

The last few times I came over here, there was nothing "new" showing up when I clicked on the two "Show" options.

Having caught up on Brimstone & Bad Manners after having company* for a bit over a week and being "on vacation", I came over here to see if there was anything going on.

Both "Show" buttons are now working and there were three pages of "Unread Posts Since Last Visit" - so much to catch up on!

*Mom flew in for a visit because the brother that she lives with is going to be visiting the other side of the family this Thanksgiving, as there is some concern that one parent may not make it to the New Year...since that happened in 2016 with our dad, I understand completely.  And Mom is spending Thanksgiving with my younger sister, whose husband is out of the country for work until mid-December.  So we're seeing DD & her family and Mom has gotten to go visit other brother in San Antonio, too.  A nice series of visits for her.

Rectangular Longaberger basket - sized about what you might see on a kitchen counter with wooden spoons & such in it - now on my bathroom counter with the hair clippers, blow dryer, and curling iron (when I find it) in it to keep them together and NOT buried under other stuff.

Price?  It said 99 cents on the tag - but I got a senior discount - so for three things under a dollar, I spent about $2.50 by the time the sales tax at Goodwill was added back in.  The other items - a cute clear plastic mug with water (or something) between the two layers of plastic that is now in the freezer and a replacement lidded large double layer drinking glass with its own straw.  I keep getting more of these as they don't survive being knocked on the stone floor tiles in the kitchen very well.

And I hate to use one that is **** or messed up enough that anything can get between the inner liner and the outer shell and start to grow something urky.  So - I find a new one - I clean it well and toss the **** one or the one missing a small chunk of the outer shell.  If the inner liner cracks - it's gone before I can be asked if I washed it yet - it's easy enough to replace - if none are in the thrift store this week, wait until next week.

We had our house up for sale in 2005.  We'd built it in 1998.  One lady touring the house was determined to pull up the carpet "to see the hard wood flooring underneath" no matter how many times I told her that we had built the house and there was only cement with carpet padding under the carpet.  She just wanted to pull up the carpet in a corner or in one of the closets "to be sure" after about the third time I told her and the real estate agent with her that there was no hardwood flooring in the house. 


My own list?

At 61, if I ever go shopping for a new home:  no stairs, no swimming pool in my yard, no HOA (if at all possible - some places, it isn't possible), a relatively new roof & central heat & air systems, in fact - no major appliances or that were installed when the house was built unless the house is under five years old.  Too many issues with replacing a thirty year old hot water heater, dishwasher, stove/cooktop, wall oven & microwave combination, and the central heating & air systems for a two story house.  At least the roof replacement (after a hurricane) was completely done and mostly paid for by insurance...but it was not a fun few months while we waited in line behind the people who had no roofs on their houses or holes large enough that they had to have a new roof & not just repairs.  Space for my sewing & crafts room and supplies is also high on the list - but I might be willing to compromise on how much space I need sersus how much I would like to have...

But my husband might have a different list, I haven't asked him.  His list is so long that he doesn't plan to go house hunting again...he likes our current location & house too much to move.

I just checked my "Content & Devices" on Amazon - and discovered that I have not one, but two Anne collections - even at the 99 cent price point, I don't need a third one.

But looking at some of the covers, you get the idea that working with a naked model is fine with the photographers and artists - but working with someone who is not wearing any makeup is....inconceivable.

(Had to sneak that in, sorry, but it was the word that best conveyed what I wanted to say - and it might be considered funny, too.)

For those who have never read it or seen the movie - it's from The Princess Bride.

VorGuy tells me when he expects to spend a while in the "reading room" or wants a crossword puzzle or two printed off to while away his time in the "reading room".  I don't have to spend nearly as much time in there...although as a teenager I found that it was almost the only place in the house to get any privacy...but that was with my parents & younger siblings in a two bathroom house.  With my bridegroom in a one bathroom house - that was not the room to choose for privacy.

I did announce when I was going in there - but mainly to keep down the amount of time with a small child pounding on the door & asking if I was coming out now...I was so glad once everyone was over six or seven years old.  Only the cat would try to open the door & come in to keep an eye on me after that and for some reason having the cat watch me wasn't nearly as unnerving.

Quote from: Penguinzrock on July 17, 2018, 07:56:50 pm

In our house, when there is going to be an extended stay, we preface this with "I'm going to retire to the library".

Maybe I'm just an old prude, but why on earth does this need to be "announced" to anyone?

So that if there is a phone call for them on the house phone, you can say that you'll have them call back "at their earliest opportunity"?  Instead of having to go hunting while carrying the wireless phone around the house and then finding that they are STILL "not accepting calls"?