Useless Conversation

[Engels]

It looks like Dr. Frankenstein's Pinkie. Now, jam your other pinkie, stitch it up, then wad some cotton onto it in the shape of a beehive hairdo, and you can have a matching Bride of Dr. Frankenstein's Pinkie. Invite the kids over for a puppet show.

[voodoolily]

Do you prefer the nickname "Lefty" or "Stubby"?

Yes. 

I just had my last Vicodin, color me sad. I'm drinking extra hard to make the most of it.

[Bunk]

I took off my fingertip on Saturday and had to go to the ER and have it sewn back on. I am on medical leave. It hurts.

A friend of mine lost the tip of his ring finger when he was a kid. The finger has always looked funny and crooked, so he takes great joy in showing it to little kids exclaiming "This could happen to you!!!" even if the topic at hand has nothing to do with how he lost the fingertip.

[Sky]

 

[Nebu]

With all of the lender issues and the aging population, the housing market is certain to soften over the next few years.  I'd say that now is a good time to start looking and should only get better with time.

[WayAbvPar]

I took off my fingertip on Saturday and had to go to the ER and have it sewn back on. I am on medical leave. It hurts.

A friend of mine lost the tip of his ring finger when he was a kid. The finger has always looked funny and crooked, so he takes great joy in showing it to little kids exclaiming "This could happen to you!!!" even if the topic at hand has nothing to do with how he lost the fingertip.

"And that's why you always leave a note!"

[MrHat]

I took off my fingertip on Saturday and had to go to the ER and have it sewn back on. I am on medical leave. It hurts.

A friend of mine lost the tip of his ring finger when he was a kid. The finger has always looked funny and crooked, so he takes great joy in showing it to little kids exclaiming "This could happen to you!!!" even if the topic at hand has nothing to do with how he lost the fingertip.

"And that's why you always leave a note!"

 

[Lantyssa]

Do you prefer the nickname "Lefty" or "Stubby"?

"Tipper"

The deputy I hung out with yesterday took his index finger off with a band saw when he was a kid.  Thankfully yours wasn't that bad.

[lamaros]

Did none of you have siblings?

I had my finger caught in a door as a kid (car door: fingers in open door, someone slams car door = ouch), and I think a couple of my siblings, friends, and random children I know have also had this accident happen to them. Not as severe as VDLs, but still, I thought it was common. I certainly learn a lesson from it.

[Selby]

I just got my big toe slammed underneath a door ripping off the entire nail causing it to grow back in crooked and give me in-grown toenail problems for years.  Never lost a digit or tip, although I did get my index caught in a bike chain when I was 6...  My dad was furious that I was so stupid.

[Engels]

When I was a kid I got a mild case of ingrown toe nail; my brutish pediatrician didn't think it was worth using local anaesthetic when he removed 1/3rd of my toe nail with just a ram of some sharp nail scissors up my toe. My mother held my hand as I screamed.

[stray]

Some fat kid fell on my foot in elementary school (as he was laughing, he tipped over in his schooldesk), and I had to get the blood clot dealt with. Got it torn off, with a little help from some laughing gas. The damn thing has looked a little mangled for 20 years now though.

[Sky]

 

[bhodi]

Congrats!

This is your first house, right? Be prepared to sign about 5x the paperwork you THINK it would take.

[MrHat]

Grats Sky!  You've been looking for ages right?  That's awesome, enjoy all the housework you never thought would ever occur.

[Signe]

Good luck, Sky! 

Err... people who rent houses and apartments don't do housework?  Gee, I'd hate to see the places you used to live in, Hat.

[bhodi]

Also, do something... start counting the number of trips you take to home depot or an equivalent store.

If you make less than 50 trips this year, I will be shocked. Yes, you will make at least one trip a week.

[Nebu]

Congrats Sky. 

[Merusk]

Good luck, Sky! 

Err... people who rent houses and apartments don't do housework?  Gee, I'd hate to see the places you used to live in, Hat.

I think he meant "work on the house" rather than cleaning, tidying up business.   It's a whole new ballgame when that stopped-up toilet, the leaves in the gutter, the moles digging around in the yard, the wasp nest at the upper gable and that damn bit of siding that won't stay in place are YOUR problem and not just a call to the landlord.

[Sky]

 

[Sky]

the moles digging around in the yard

No worries, I've had training!

[Signe]

Good luck, Sky! 

Err... people who rent houses and apartments don't do housework?  Gee, I'd hate to see the places you used to live in, Hat.

I think he meant "work on the house" rather than cleaning, tidying up business.   It's a whole new ballgame when that stopped-up toilet, the leaves in the gutter, the moles digging around in the yard, the wasp nest at the upper gable and that damn bit of siding that won't stay in place are YOUR problem and not just a call to the landlord.

I like it being someone else's problem which is why we'll probably buy something easier when we move back.  I'd quite go for a townhouse or, even more so, a conversion in an interesting bit of Glasgow.  If we actually move to Holland, we won't buy there.  It's nearly unpossible anyway.  Living in Port Solent, Portsmouth, calls out to me from time to time.  I loved it there and we had awesome neighbours.  In any case, I have to have at least 2.5 bathrooms.  The kitties have to have their own.  HAVE TO!  And I need a room all to myself where I can escape everyone from time to time.  HAVE TO!  Other than that, I'm not too fussy.

[Merusk]

One thing, Sky.  People will want to buy you all kinds of stupid housewarming presents.  Linens, Towels, other such thing that make you think "what the hell, do they think I slept on a bare matress, air-dried after a shower and wiped my hands on my shirts?"

 Before this happens start dropping hints about the one thing all homeowners need.  A Ladder.  One big enough to reach your tallest eave easily.  If it's one of those multi-fold locking deals even better, because you can use it inside and out.   It's one of the last things people think of, after even hammers wrenches and other tools but it's damned necessary when owning a place.

[Sky]

I'm asking for money. Maybe gift cards to Home Depot or Lowe's. I already had the coolest offer thus far, some strawberry and raspberry plants.

Don't try to guess what I need. Luckily, most people I know and/or work with are already used to that. I'm...particular.

[voodoolily]

You're getting married, too, rite? You'll get plenty of crap from that (but it's  not okay to ask for $$ for wedding gifts). Me? I always find booze to be a perfectly welcome housewarming gift. 

[Signe]

The reason I post pics of gifts I would get people here is because I really do think about what I would get them.  If I post a pic of a wrapped gift, it's because I can't come up with anything.  Sometimes I shop for AGES before I find a pic of something suitable.  Here is a picture of the house warming gift I would buy you:



It's a lamp!

[Prospero]

Before this happens start dropping hints about the one thing all homeowners need.  A Ladder.  One big enough to reach your tallest eave easily.  If it's one of those multi-fold locking deals even better, because you can use it inside and out.   It's one of the last things people think of, after even hammers wrenches and other tools but it's damned necessary when owning a place.

Never have truer words been said. Multi-fold locking ladders are civilization.

[Sky]

You're getting married, too, rite?

Tell her that :) I'm not the one with commitment issues in this relationship!

Vader lamp = awesome. Bah, I used the word awesome. So I'll make up by giving you my two newest words: fantabulous and stupdiculous.

Ladders: yeah, I've done roofing work. Ladders = essential. Also, winter in NY means shoveling roof, even if the current owner doesn't seem to grasp that concept.

[Prospero]

You have to shovel your roof? What the fuck. Slipping and breaking your ass is bad enough on terra firma. I'd be hiring me a small, easy to repair child for that job.

[Merusk]

You live where you have to shovel but the current owner doesn't shovel?  Might want to check for cracked trusses/ rafters.  Ewww.

Is it a fairly shallow pitch or something?

[Yegolev]

Tomorrow I'm loading up the car and driving down to catch a cruise ship at Port Canaveral.  I'll be floating around until the 16th.  Don't play too many Korean grindfests while I'm gone.

[schild]

Fantabulous isn't a new word. It was pretty common place back in the 80s.

[Signe]

He's pretty elderly.  Maybe he did invent them.

[Sky]

 

[Nebu]

Have pictures of the new place, Sky?  I promise not to stalk you... anymore.