Early to bed + early to rise = OLD

[judecorp]

Today I am driving down to Rhode Island to see how much junk I can put into a dumpster by myself. It will be an exercise in exhaustion, I'm sure. I have to break by 5:30, though, so I can bust into a surprise 30th birthday party for a girl from high school. At least I have a deadline on the exhaustion, and free dinner. I just hope I make it through the weekend without getting sick, since it's supposed to be dreary and rainy, and since Jen is sick.

I got tired of the after-effects of my last bad haircut about 4 weeks ago and I went back to The Dark Overlord for a fixer-upper. He did a great job but had to cut a lot more hair off than usual to salvage the shape, because the other lady totally butchered it with "extreme texturizing" which was neither extreme (since she just chopped off a bunch of hair on top of my head) nor texturizing (since now I have a ton of 1" hairs at my part-line). Aah well. Adventures in girly hair, I suppose. It was so much easier when I would just whip off my shirt and Sean or Jennifer would shave my head in a bathroom or kitchen or front porch.

There's all of this NKOTB stuff in the attic from my junior high years and I can't decide if I should keep it or toss it. Heh. Dilemmas.

Last night we had a Chill Night and watched What's Love Got To Do With It? while eating extremely oily pizza. I just /can't/ watch DV scenes in movies. It just stops my heart, even though I know it's fake, even though I know they're not really hurting each other, even though I know they're acting. Yuck. But it was a pretty good movie, though. I didn't know that much about Tina Turner.

I need to stop looking at the housing listings in Easthampton. We found a house last night that was a 3BR/2BA raised ranch with a one-car garage, fireplace, hardwood floors, and a freaking inground pool for under $250K. Now I want to go buy it IMMEDIATELY. *house lust*

Comments

[poopsmoothie.livejournal.com]

Stay away from Monster; it has both DV and rape elements. The big problem is that it's a good, well-acted movie, and is very realistic. I had to leave halfway through.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw it in the theatres. The rape stuff doesn't bother me as much (though it probably should), but it was quite a tough movie to watch.

[everyday-fire.livejournal.com]

Good luck. You're a really brave woman, you know. You really stepped up and took care of things even though it was hard... I'm happy that you have someone that you love so much to be with because sometimes that can just be enough in the world to make your life really good still

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Without Jennifer, I'm not sure what I would do. I used to hear other people say things like that and I would immediately worry about codependence or insecurity, but now I really see what they meant. I am a big kid who can take care of herself, but damn if life wouldn't be a bleak place without my Smooch.

I will be so glad when all of this stuff is done, though - when we can finally make have some time to grieve and then get back to our lives together and apart. This has been so taxing on our relationship.

[mayna.livejournal.com]

I wonder how much you could make by ebaying your nkotb stuff.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I bagged up the tshirts and left them in the attic. When I get a chance I will wash them all and eBay them. And the buttons. Oh yeah.

[livinginoctober.livejournal.com]

DV in movies scares me a lot more than any horror scene.

I almost couldn't watch that movie because of all the violence.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was definitely tough to stomach. I am much better about plain old violence, too.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Pools cost a lot to maintain, anyway.

I know what you mean. I briefly looked yesterday morning at two houses that were mailed to me from our realty service. Unfortunately, I misremembered the price on both. We drove by one last night (affordable) and it one of those that's about two feet from the house next to it, not unlike my current place, but a single fam. We drove by the other, which is EXACTLY where we both want to live. 3bd, 2ba, views of Boston, 3 blocks to elem. school, corner lot, and right next to a big freaking 6-city bock sized park with a huge-ass playground.

And i realized when I got home that I have misremembered the price by over $100K.

*cry*

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

It's exciting that you guys are looking at houses, though! Sometimes I want to look around here since we have already done so much to try to settle in here, but then I look at the prices and our salaries and it is just so daunting. How do we add a family into that mix? Honestly I don't know how people do it. Why do we make such little money? We're both well-educated and hard-working. Where are all the dollar bills?

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

I certainly can't tell you. We both make entirely reasonable salaries and can't afford the kind of house we want. It's so saddening. I don't know where we can look that gives us a happy urban neighborhood feel, and doesn't put us in a condo forever.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I just want a house sooo badly... and not a condo. I just can't imagine owning a condo. I guess part of it is that I lived my entire life in an apartment and I just want a /house/. Something with /stairs/.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

I want rosebushes.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I want a puppy!

[hoo.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry we couldn't be there to help. We just put in another 11 hours of work into tiling the bathroom. Ugh! So we certainly share your aches.

Here's two more versions of your house listing, each with additional information:

New England Moves

Realtor.com

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I looked at the Realtor site already and the other one requires registration, and I'm not sure I want to do that. I just want that house!

I hope your bathroom looks great! I wish I was doing days and days of work on my own stuff. I think I would feel happier about it.

[hoo.livejournal.com]

The registration is just an email address, and that site gives you the actual street address. In the case of your house that's 23 Phelps STREET
EASTHAMPTON , MA 01027

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Like Rev. Phelps! That's kind of scary!