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[English Muffin 59]

Guys - only 117 shopping days until christmas!

Oh #######!

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Afternoon, UK peeps. Aly -- fret ye not. As Pointy says, we're all still in the moving in phase. I feel fancy because we now have a coffee table! We don't have any dining room furniture yet -- the room is filled with guitars and the back seats to a '72 Jaguar. We can bring whatever you like, sweetie. And even though I'm way soft when it comes to air con, I am not so high-maintenance that I can't deal with the heat. We're coming to have fun, not judge you on decor!

[bakofoil 27]

ohhh noooo, my mum's birthday is next week in Ireland. I need to send here something stat!!

Moonpig.com for a card and Thornton's Continental for a pressie!!! Easy peasy.

[Jeraly 4]

AWww sorry to hear you had a ####### evening. I can totally relate. When I want to get something done I just get so impatient and need it to be done NOW! C never wants to go out and do errands, so before I could drive in Miami it used to drive me crazy. (I'm so bad, I sometimes buy things in the shop just so I can have it, rather than wait a few days and get things much cheaper online)

But I will say, and it's probably not what you want to hear, but maybe you should give Jeremy a break. It sounds like he's doing a LOT of hours at work, and doing the best he can, and probably was just trying to put off dealing with the tire (though it sounds like it needed dealing with). And please don't go to any trouble on our account. I currently have 4 pieces of furniture in my whole apartment. A mattress, 2 patio chairs and a desk from Big Lots. While Maven is ahead of me in the furniture dept, she's still putting the house together too. Trust me, we're easy to please! And we can bring you stuff if you need it too.

Yeah - I do try to not give him *too* much of a hard time, but I know with him he is quite happy to go blow a load of money on something we don't need, yet we have something dire wrong with the van and he doesn't want to spend any money on it! I can understand because we want to sell it asap, but until we get the new title (which still hasn't shown up because he forgot to include payment with the form )

Also I know the last tire he had on there had holes in it before it got changed and even then he complained, told me it had been like it for ages and was "fine" I never thought I would miss MOTs...

Bring stuff I need?!?!?! Curtains?! Patio furniture, a dining table (eating in the baking hot living room or on the bed is getting *really* old)

I think at this point I will just be happy if the place is clean - we picked up another $10 folding table for some food space but we are going to have to utilise the kitchen counters as well and with the current numbers (Jeremy is still yet to invite anyone ) we have plenty of seating We also have beer and some red wine - need to buy some vodka and soda for mixers and I think we have some key limes in the fridge - I keep buying them cause they are cute then we never use them

Cleaned the windows today Thing is, there is some kind of crusted on stuff that looks awful that I can't get off - looks like thinned down paint... might need to take a scalpel to it... maybe for Halloween

[Jeraly 4]

Afternoon, UK peeps. Aly -- fret ye not. As Pointy says, we're all still in the moving in phase. I feel fancy because we now have a coffee table! We don't have any dining room furniture yet -- the room is filled with guitars and the back seats to a '72 Jaguar. We can bring whatever you like, sweetie. And even though I'm way soft when it comes to air con, I am not so high-maintenance that I can't deal with the heat. We're coming to have fun, not judge you on decor!

Just as well because unless you like olive green, terracotta and beige, we're not going to be winning any style awards I just keep telling myself... when we can buy...

As for the heat - well we're working on it - it wouldn't be so bad if we wouldn't be cooking all day but the oven really heats things up which is nice(!) If we get the misters hooked up then it might offer a bit of respite if it is too hot inside You just have to dodge the sprinklers that water our patio flagstones ( ) when they come on It was really cloudy this morning though, but it was 100f at 10pm last night so it's a mixed bag. Currently I am sat under a blanket but I am getting a bit of a cough so I hope that it is just dust or something

Fun we shall have! Numbers are small so there are seats for (almost) everyone!! YAY!!!! :dance: :dance:

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Aly -- I'm going to call you soon to organise, then I can get back to Pointy for our plans. Should I bring my blender for making mixed drinks?

[weedebz 0]

still on a mission for a good dunking biscuit here in US. (see my post in movinghere - strange things) Anyone here found a good tea dunker?

[Gemmie 142]

I'm almost jealous But the house is slowly coming together now - we have glasses made of glass now instead of plastic!!! And I finally found some wine glasses I liked!

Awful night last night - Jeremy was meant to get home early so we could go out and get things for the party ( he STILL hasn't invited anyone ) SO we dash around the store in like 45 minutes (a record for me!) and head to Home Depot to pick up a plant (as you do). I kindly point out (for the third time in as many days) that his tire is getting flat and needs air. He tells me it is fine (again).

We go to Home Depot.

By the time we come out of Home Depot, I inform him that his tire is now beyond flat, it looks a lot like the flats you see in cartoons, where the rubber is all saggy. He looks again and concedes. But we have no pump (we took it out of the van apparently when we were clearing it out to sell, before we realised he had lost the title ) and he cleverly left his cellphone at home (as he informs me when I suggest calling AAA).

We go back into Home Depot.

Luckily the lady who served us on the checkout got someone to help us and they were able to pump the tire but you could hear the air hissing out of it. Jeremy then tells me that he drove over something on the freeway on the way home Exactly why he didn't sort it out earlier is beyond me - maybe something to do with the fact that he was an hour and a half late home from work

We get to Arco and he picks up some weird sealant spray that supposedly fixes flats and we rolled into the house at about 10pm... Great(!) 45 minutes later he is asleep as he wants to be in work at the crack of dawn...

Don't men realise that when us women nag, it is for a very good reason?! And that reason is because we know we are right?!?!?!?!?! Maybe one day he will listen...

This isn't the first time I've read one of your rants and thought 'Jeremy IS Bill!"

Seriously, we fight more about this than most things. If something needs to be done (like errands, booking things, contacting someone, applying to a job etc), I'm the one that tells him the "plan" and when he doesn't do it after I've given him plenty of time to get it done, I'll get irritated calmly ask if he's gotten it done yet. He proceeds to tell me that he hasn't gotten a chance yet and that not everything runs on MY schedule. I'll ask *why* he hasn't done it yet, he'll ask why I'm nagging him and there it kicks off.

Perhaps for my psych dissertation, I should be looking at the male brain in more detail in relation to procrastination.

Edited August 29, 2008 by Gemmie

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

ditto ditto ditto.

When I was younger I really thought that I didn't fit in to the stereotypical 'girlie' pattern. You know all those girls that go to the loo in pairs, and love shopping and all that stuff. But the more I read about other people's relationships and see myself in them, I wonder, are we all doomed to behave as our gender tells us???

Sorry if that's a bit deep and meaningful for a friday afternoon. But god! ditto to Aly and ditto to Gemmie!!!

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Didn't anyone tell you?

There is a school for husbands. That's where they learn all the cr@p that drives us insane, and that's why they all seem to behave badly in the same ways, and yet stay their eminently loveable selves. Bastards.

[Jeraly 4]

Aly -- I'm going to call you soon to organise, then I can get back to Pointy for our plans. Should I bring my blender for making mixed drinks?

Blender sounds fab - Not sure if you want me to pick up anything at the store later - I have lots of key limes But that is about it for anything vaguely cocktail-like

Didn't anyone tell you?

There is a school for husbands. That's where they learn all the cr@p that drives us insane, and that's why they all seem to behave badly in the same ways, and yet stay their eminently loveable selves. Bastards.

- Totally - I mean, don't get me wrong - I do all the things I need to get done that I can get done and granted, I have a lot more time on my hands than Jeremy right now. But even when I was in the UK and working full time - if there was something that needed doing, I would do it asap so it was out of the way and I wouldn't have to worry about it!! Jeremy likes to think everything through, how he is going to do it, when he is going to do it, where he is going to do it, why he is going to do it... you get the idea... and then he will think of *every* alternative way of doing it to make sure he gets the best one. So after a month he *might* be ready to make a phone call about the $160 verizon bill we got (after not getting any service from them). Of course... pigs might fly...

[English Muffin 59]

- Totally - I mean, don't get me wrong - I do all the things I need to get done that I can get done and granted, I have a lot more time on my hands than Jeremy right now. But even when I was in the UK and working full time - if there was something that needed doing, I would do it asap so it was out of the way and I wouldn't have to worry about it!! Jeremy likes to think everything through, how he is going to do it, when he is going to do it, where he is going to do it, why he is going to do it... you get the idea... and then he will think of *every* alternative way of doing it to make sure he gets the best one. So after a month he *might* be ready to make a phone call about the $160 verizon bill we got (after not getting any service from them). Of course... pigs might fly...

Now I'm beginning to think that Jeremy and Scott were separated at birth. That sounds spookily like the way Scott deals with everything. And I'm like you... if it needs doing, do it soon!

[Gemmie 142]

Then Jeremy, Scott and Bill are triplets seperated at birth!

[Jeraly 4]

Maybe it really is just a man thing... and there is me trying to not gender-stereotype... I just have no other explanation!!!

[Gemmie 142]

Well they accuse "women" of nagging so I think it's fair.

If there were no women in their lives, they would still be waiting for the right time to start on a never-ending list of errands!