Good news, Bad news

[cornerofmadness]

Good news - my cornea is not ulcerated
Bad news - my eyeballs are badly swollen probably from long-term allergies. Steriod eye drops for me (actually I feel better after just one dose!)

Good news - speaking of allergies, I think I finally found what was bugging me in the bedroom

Bad news - one of the windows (the one I rarely open since it looks right into the neighbors) was so mildewy and algae ridden it looked like a swamp (I'm allergic to mildew). I had to clean that with gloves and a mask (conversation from last week, mom: are you wearing your mask to clean.You sound bad. Me: I have my mask Mom: Are you WEARING it? Me: um no but I have it. Mom:....)

Good news - I scrubbed the tub, CLR'ed the stuck plunger that goes from shower to tub and the shower head, draino'ed the drain

Bad news - plunger not much better, draino failed and I got the CLR on my hand. Flush for FIFTEEN minutes. WTF is this stuff? (needs to go look)

Good news - I went out to look at that house and the realtor called me back

Bad news - the house isn't quite as nice in person and the realtor is making this too real for me. God I wished I liked it here better.

So, that house:

Here it is face on. It's NOT that bad. It's in fairly good shape. Those pretty 'windows' turn out not to be windows but part of the porch. Huh. 0_mother_0 is right it's a tad close to the main high way.

The house to the left. not bad spacing.

the house to the right, still not bad space.

the house across the street. um...ew. this can't be good.

and directly out what would be my bedroom window. HEY the same fucking view I have out my bedroom window now. Oh right, I wasn't wrong about it not being good. A derlict house (I think...there were signs it might be inhabited)

Here's what wiki says about the town. and here's another site about the same thing but with pictures . Basically Hamden as of 2010 has 879 souls, 6 Hispanic, 1 Native American, 1 Asian, 4 African American and the rest is whiter than sour cream. Diversity your name is NOT South East OH.

I found an all brick house, old, about a mile closer to the high way. Sadly it's for sale by owner which I really do not want to deal with but it's a cool house. It's real close to Lackey's PDQ (about the only place to buy things) and the bait and tackle shop (the only other thing that seemed NOT to be a vacant storefront) and less than a mile from Lake Alma (hence the bait shop).

and apropos of my rage the pastor from NC, who wants to round up and kill homosexuals, shouldn't be allowed to speak for God or humanity ever again.

ETA - snagged from Masq. I'm not really surprised by this at all.

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Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

For sale by owner can work, I mean, look, that's how I got the Lodge.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it's not really what i want to deal with in this area to be honest

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Welll, yes, I can kind of understand that.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

for two reasons 1) my money/loan situation is complicated enough and more importantly 2) they act like there was no popped housing bubble here. There was a small house in a bad location (bad road wise as in miss the curve embed in my living room), no property and they still think it's worth over 100K

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's a scary thing, considering what area you live in.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah I've shown you places here that are such dumps my car is worth more and they think they can get 80K out of them

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Well, they can try....

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

they can. of course most of these places have been for sale since i moved here 6 years ago

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

That ought to tell them something or other....

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

you'd think

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

CLR is primarily white vinegar, which actually gets most of the same results (and is a lot cheaper).

I need to pull up my big girl panties and clean this pigsty I'm living in. Perhaps I could use you as inspiration.

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

Amen, sister, same thing here, everything you said in your second paragraph. Doubled. *sigh* (And my back is out right now, so at the moment, I'm only sitting here watching it all just get worse and worse around me...)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

ouch. hope your back feels better

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

thanks. Good thing I am not taking the out of town trip this weekend I originally had planned -- twelve hour drive each way, almost up to your neighborhood. I don't think I would have been in very good shape by the time I got there...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that's too bad.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

actually no it's not. It's several acids as it turns out, none of which are acetic (i went and looked since i wanted to know what the hell would require a 15 min flush). same idea, more fire power. Neither of which (I started with vinegar last week) did anything. And there would be no need of a 15 minute flush for lactic acid...

it's probably a sad day when I'm an inspiration for cleaning. good luck to you.

[virtualpapercut.livejournal.com]

So glad your eyes are treatable with drops. Hope your contacts are comfy soon.
I've been using the anti-histamine eye drops myself. Sadly, I can't wear contacts with my prescription.

I hate cleaning. Nuff said.

Ooh, I like the house... Though yeah, not great across the way. Use it to hammer down the price?
We want to move but just the thought of getting our place ready to sell wipes me out and then some.
Good luck to you!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks me too.

astigmatism? I'm not a candidate for lasix because of how bad my vision is.

i hate it too

thanks, yeah I had that thought too but this whole AREA is like this. I hear you. I don't really want to move but I don't want to stay here either. Mostly i just want to move frmo this whole place

[ishte.livejournal.com]

I like that house. I wouldnt be so worried about the derelict. It may be bounded up and abandoned, but It's an architectural treasure trove for deconstruction.  buy the house and encourage the city to have us deconstruct that old house in your view.

I don't know what's in CLR.  I would recommend using white vinegar instead.  It's more effective and not a freaking biohazard.  I don't even want to think what is going down our drains with some of these chemicals. vinegar will even eat lime plaque out of the toilet. Pour it in before you leave for work and just let it soak all day.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

vinegar did squat. I tried that first. Actually CLR is nothing more than lactic and gluconic acid which our bodies make so it's no more dangerous and as it turns out no more effective than vinegar which means not at all.

There is no money to tear down houses here. It comes up at every meeting and is on the news constantly. Derlict houses are a huge problem in this area. I'm like why can't we get the fire dept to use them in training exercises? How much would that cost? (I have no idea really but it seems like a good idea)

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess it's not a horrible place ... I guess the first thing I'd check for is mold.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that's easy. I'm highly allergic. It doesn't take me long to find the mold anywhere

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Emily's the same way -- no fun.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it isn't. i end up throwing out a lot of face towels too (they start smelling moldy if i have to wait too long to go to the laundromat)

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Better to throw them away and be safer ...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

exactly

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Me: I have my mask Mom: Are you WEARING it? Me: um no but I have it. Mom:....)

Mmmmm, kinda like a guy keeping the condom in his wallet? ;-)

I still like the looks of that house although, yeah, the derelict house in the back is not attractive. But it could be a conversation piece. And for myself, I don't care about the racial makeup of where I live just as long as everyone leaves me the hell alone. LOL

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

snort. pretty much.

The house is in the front but yeah it's not a bad place.

Me either though i'd actually like a little diversity. When I go to COlumbus I realize how much I miss it.

[ital-gal.livejournal.com]

hmmm, don`t want to side with mom here but mask wise..

hope your sparkly clean house makes you feel a bit better....

Hmm that house was not my favorite of the places you`ve looked at anyway...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah yeah i know

it'll probably make me paranoid or something knowing me.

it's not a bad house but it is in a town you can almost feel dying around you

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

You Aristotle, me Camus/Sartre.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh dear