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Can I get an "Amen!"??
Three+ weeks is too long for family to visit. Anyone's family. Full stop.
Can I get an "amen!"?
What do you need an "amen" for in your life?
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Permalink Reply by ks on -
Oh good god yes. I'll definitely Amen! that.
Mr. S's mom is coming this weekend to stay with us for who knows how long, but it will likely be at least a month and probably longer. She is a super nice person, but a week is about what I can deal with before the bitchiness sets in (and Mr. S doesn't deal well with it either, but he can't admit that because she is his mom and he "owes" her our home any time she wants it). Unfortunately, she *never* stays for less than 2-3 weeks at a time. The *only* good thing about her visits is the free babysitting, but even that isn't worth having her here for so damn long.
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Permalink Reply by Herasmus B. Dragon on
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Amen. We can only visit Hubby's family for 1 1/2 weeks at the most.
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Permalink Reply by Boring User Name on -
Holy cow. Yes.
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Permalink Reply by Boring User Name on
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Oh, and I needed an "amen" for "The woman who gave birth three days ago should not be the one making lunch for five people."
[For the record, it was my dad, not my husband, who needed to hear that "amen".] But, I gave myself the "amen" and have set much better boundaries for the remainder of my self-imposed maternity leave.
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Permalink Reply by mcglory13 on -
I am such an introvert I can't deal with anybody, know matter HOW much I love them, in my space for more than a week before I start to become a bitch. I fight and fight... but I needs my space. Amen, to you all.
And yes, the woman who gave birth should not be making lunch. Amen to that.
I don't have anything major to get an Amen on. How about, it is not clever, fun, or attractive to glue hay up to the kitchen walls? That's one of the first things I'm going to have to deal with in the new house.
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Permalink Reply by Boring User Name on
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OK, wait. I skimmed the hay thing at first and thought maybe it was a kid project gone awry. But, no..someone did that on purpose? Crazy! Have you taken or posted pictures? I want to see this.
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Permalink Reply by ks on
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Daria, it was a thing a while back (maybe 10 or so years?). When N was a baby, I stayed home for the first 18 months and I watched a lot of home improvement shows and I distinctly remember seeing that somewhere--glue hay on the walls and then paint over it for "a cool textured effect." I've never known anybody to ever actually do it, though.
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Permalink Reply by mcglory13 on
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Yes, they did it on purpose. Here's a shot: http://photo.wfrmls.com/mul640x480/1074198_4.jpg and here's another: http://photo.wfrmls.com/mul640x480/1074198_3.jpg. The house was "professionally decorated" so they paid some idiot to glue hay all over their kitchen walls. Why they have family room furniture in the breakfast nook of the house is another question we don't have an answer to.
It's a really nice kitchen. Once we de-hay it. In general it's an awesome house, in great shape, in a fantastic location but not our taste at all. There will be much repainting.
KS, they did it on Trading Spaces once. http://hookedonhouses.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Hildi-Trading-...
Luckily ours doesn't have that much, though it will involve scraping, sanding, patching, and repainting to make look ok.
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Permalink Reply by ks on
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Thank you. I knew I had seen it somewhere, and I used to watch that show all the damn time when N was a baby.
mcglory13 said:Yes, they did it on purpose. Here's a shot: http://photo.wfrmls.com/mul640x480/1074198_4.jpg and here's another: http://photo.wfrmls.com/mul640x480/1074198_3.jpg. The house was "professionally decorated" so they paid some idiot to glue hay all over their kitchen walls. Why they have family room furniture in the breakfast nook of the house is another question we don't have an answer to.
It's a really nice kitchen. Once we de-hay it. In general it's an awesome house, in great shape, in a fantastic location but not our taste at all. There will be much repainting.
KS, they did it on Trading Spaces once. http://hookedonhouses.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Hildi-Trading-...
Luckily ours doesn't have that much, though it will involve scraping, sanding, patching, and repainting to make look ok.
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Permalink Reply by TommysMommy on -
I would have freaked out to come home to discover hay on my walls. Hello allergies! Hildi would have paid to have that removed. I stopped watching that show when it became more of a "how can the designer do the craziest things" than a "let's do a nice makeover for a friend/neighbour" kind of a thing.
ks said:Thank you. I knew I had seen it somewhere, and I used to watch that show all the damn time when N was a baby.
mcglory13 said:Yes, they did it on purpose. Here's a shot: http://photo.wfrmls.com/mul640x480/1074198_4.jpg and here's another: http://photo.wfrmls.com/mul640x480/1074198_3.jpg. The house was "professionally decorated" so they paid some idiot to glue hay all over their kitchen walls. Why they have family room furniture in the breakfast nook of the house is another question we don't have an answer to.
It's a really nice kitchen. Once we de-hay it. In general it's an awesome house, in great shape, in a fantastic location but not our taste at all. There will be much repainting.
KS, they did it on Trading Spaces once. http://hookedonhouses.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Hildi-Trading-...
Luckily ours doesn't have that much, though it will involve scraping, sanding, patching, and repainting to make look ok.
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Permalink Reply by hermit crab on -
Wow. Seriously uncool. Why would someone do that to a perfectly inoffensive wall?
TommysMommy said:I would have freaked out to come home to discover hay on my walls. Hello allergies! Hildi would have paid to have that removed. I stopped watching that show when it became more of a "how can the designer do the craziest things" than a "let's do a nice makeover for a friend/neighbour" kind of a thing.
ks said:Thank you. I knew I had seen it somewhere, and I used to watch that show all the damn time when N was a baby.
mcglory13 said:Yes, they did it on purpose. Here's a shot:
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Permalink Reply by Mommy Monster on -
Oh good grief! A-freaking-men!
Daria said:Oh, and I needed an "amen" for "The woman who gave birth three days ago should not be the one making lunch for five people."
[For the record, it was my dad, not my husband, who needed to hear that "amen".] But, I gave myself the "amen" and have set much better boundaries for the remainder of my self-imposed maternity leave.
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