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