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cornerofmadness) wrote2016-11-12 11:16 pm
cornerofmadness) wrote2016-11-12 11:16 pm
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Bullet tenatively dodged
Apparently brother meant it when he said 'he was over it' since he obviously didn't say boo about him fighting with me because Mom and Dad and I talked for an hour on the phone. Mom IS over it because I knew she would be. Oh don't get me wrong. She'll harbor a grudge and throw it in my face down the road but whatever.
Everything is now out of my grandmother's house. My cousin who ostracized himself from the family turned up yesterday and took some stuff acting like he hadn't spent the last decade not speaking to us. Whatever. I do think he should have something of grandma's. He was her favorite after all even though he did jack for her. (She loved his mom and all her kids even though they only saw her about 4 times a year) She didn't care that much for my mom or me or my brother and we were there almost every day helping. Go figure.
The auction house came and took the rest and some other guy came and got the 1930s Maytag out of the basement. He retrofits them with gas engines and sells them to the Amish.
It's slowly sinking in I'll never see my grandmother's house again. It's been in the family for a century. Sigh.
Speaking of homes. I had to go jam rags in my doors to stop the leaks as it's now 27 degrees out there. I looked at houses to buy again and...this place makes me sob. All I can find in Albany are 20 year old double wides or big McMansions so far out of my price range (and WHY are they even there?) and it's making me wonder do I really want to live an hour from work just because half my friends are in Athens?
So I looked at Wellston and was once again reminded why I shouldn't live there. The place was something back at the turn of the last century but it hasn't been anything for damn near a century. Realtor.com had two pages of houses all under 80K and have been for sale for a year or more because no one can afford them.
So I looked at Pomeroy another queen city in the sternwheeler days but deader than a doornail now.
I could buy a house from less than I paid for my CAR. No seriously See here it is There are a handful of houses all under 40K.
Then this one is back on the market. I am tempted but a) 100 year old slate roof that will need replacing b) in a dead town in a dead end street surrounded by shit houses and the view of the river blocked by a commercial building (all of which make me want to burn the crap to the ground so this house can have its grandeur back) c) how the shit would I HEAT it??
Still I would love this place. I could be a proper hoarding cat woman in this place.
My writing is so stalled today. I need someone to war with. I do so much better with competition to the point I'd suggest a FB chat word sprinting match up once or twice a week. But here have a writing link Raising the stakes in your story
And my stomach is acting up again. I hate this organ.
So far behind
17725 / 50000 words. 35% done!
And yes this happened in my story today...goddess knows why. Nano Snippet:
Cam found it and brought them both to the counter. Tenaldi had him put some of the yolk cream into the chicken and retrieved a braid of onion and another of garlic out of the pantry. He set Cam to dicing an onion head and a couple cloves of garlic to add to the mixture while he got more herbs to flavor the chicken salad.
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Everything is now out of my grandmother's house. My cousin who ostracized himself from the family turned up yesterday and took some stuff acting like he hadn't spent the last decade not speaking to us. Whatever. I do think he should have something of grandma's. He was her favorite after all even though he did jack for her. (She loved his mom and all her kids even though they only saw her about 4 times a year) She didn't care that much for my mom or me or my brother and we were there almost every day helping. Go figure.
The auction house came and took the rest and some other guy came and got the 1930s Maytag out of the basement. He retrofits them with gas engines and sells them to the Amish.
It's slowly sinking in I'll never see my grandmother's house again. It's been in the family for a century. Sigh.
Speaking of homes. I had to go jam rags in my doors to stop the leaks as it's now 27 degrees out there. I looked at houses to buy again and...this place makes me sob. All I can find in Albany are 20 year old double wides or big McMansions so far out of my price range (and WHY are they even there?) and it's making me wonder do I really want to live an hour from work just because half my friends are in Athens?
So I looked at Wellston and was once again reminded why I shouldn't live there. The place was something back at the turn of the last century but it hasn't been anything for damn near a century. Realtor.com had two pages of houses all under 80K and have been for sale for a year or more because no one can afford them.
So I looked at Pomeroy another queen city in the sternwheeler days but deader than a doornail now.
I could buy a house from less than I paid for my CAR. No seriously See here it is There are a handful of houses all under 40K.
Then this one is back on the market. I am tempted but a) 100 year old slate roof that will need replacing b) in a dead town in a dead end street surrounded by shit houses and the view of the river blocked by a commercial building (all of which make me want to burn the crap to the ground so this house can have its grandeur back) c) how the shit would I HEAT it??
Still I would love this place. I could be a proper hoarding cat woman in this place.
My writing is so stalled today. I need someone to war with. I do so much better with competition to the point I'd suggest a FB chat word sprinting match up once or twice a week. But here have a writing link Raising the stakes in your story
And my stomach is acting up again. I hate this organ.
So far behind
And yes this happened in my story today...goddess knows why. Nano Snippet:
Cam found it and brought them both to the counter. Tenaldi had him put some of the yolk cream into the chicken and retrieved a braid of onion and another of garlic out of the pantry. He set Cam to dicing an onion head and a couple cloves of garlic to add to the mixture while he got more herbs to flavor the chicken salad.
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On the other hand, the pocket mansion does have a beautiful garden. And Stairs of Death going up the hillside for you to kill yourself on. You need that gorgeous kitchen, though. Too bad about the roof.
It would almost be worth it to look up the deed histories of those McMansions and see who the heck built them. Maybe then you could figure out _why_ they built them in the ass-end of nowhere. (My guess is cheap land, so they could pour more money into obscene square footage that would never earn its price back on resale.)
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The pocket mansion is a glorious thing. Mom loves that kitchen too. Yes, you know I'd be dead in a month on those stairs and literally I'd be carrying everything up stairs every day. Dad did the Google Earth thing and that hill behind the house is well over 350 feet.
That's a thought. I'm betting they're from the doctors and lawyers in the area.
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I get you with the competition. I think that's part of why I was eleven days into the month before I drabbled something. XD It's partly being written out form October, but it's also there's no one to compete against. Yes, I was competing against myself, but I was also competing against those who were writing everyday to see if I could keep up with the pack.
LOVED the simple little paragraph about making chicken salad. People need to eat & it's nice to see those lil bits of day to day life amongst the "epic quest." :D
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We could compete a little against each other I suppose. Just to write a little something even if it's 100 words every day.
well thank you. I'm glad you liked it. It's about to go sideways now.
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We could. Would you like me to keep track of it in my journal? *nods* Yeah 100 words or more works. Just getting that 100 down on "paper" felt like an accomplishment. :D
You're welcoem. Yeah? XD
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Sure you can do that with the score.
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Okay. How about we start tomorrow? :D (*it's late & I'm falling asleep* XD)
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So as long as you get at least a 100 words or you edit something, you're good. :D Writing up class notes counts too.
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Sounds fair. So far I've done...NOTHING
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Okay. :D
*SNORTS* All I've done is open the doc of the fic I wanted to poke. XD
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I would not recommend buying a home in a dying/dead town.
These towns are a big reason why Trump won. The things is though, that manufacturing is not coming back, no matter what he claims.
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Yeah the problem with not buying a house in a dead town is they're ALL dead here. I live in the poorest part of Ohio. ANd you are so right. Everything here is coal coal coal and no matter what unless they outlaw alternative fuels they are still where we're slowly going
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Coal is also currently more expensive than other energy options. No one is going to pay more for coal when gas is so much cheaper.
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Exactly but that is ALL West Virigina can think about. My DISH satellite tv is all 100% WV as my 'local' and that's all they did was talk about how Obama (and Hillary) would kill coal jobs and then in some local position they did the same thing in spite of ads by the democratic opponent who showed how the republican incumbent has paved the way for the horrible amount of opiate abuse in that state (literally showed interviews of him trying to defend himself and his wife for all the kick backs they took from the opiate drug companies) and naturally they kept the republican incumbent because he'll save them from opiate abuse. I can't even fathom their thought processes.
But here in SE OH, I have students fighting parents who see education as unnecessary (one of my local candidates ran on that campaign saying he'll bring jobs here that won't need college and he won).
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I must have missed something with your brother but I'm making my way backward so I guess I will see it.
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Something your brother would pull.
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So I see.
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...but don't come home with it. Well. Maybe don't come home with it.
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