Conference waylay::singles_chat

I'll 2nd the "I hate living along when I'm sick" comment !!

and I'll raise :-) :-) with:

I hate living along when I have to move !! It's hard carrying both
ends of a table by yourself. I suspect this also applies to just
rearranging furniture as well, even if one is not moving.

    ..when there is no money, no funny. Or, during this time of the year
    when you have two options, heat or eat.
    
    

>ends of a table by yourself. I suspect this also applies to just
>rearranging furniture as well, even if one is not moving.

Or when you have to flip your new mattress!

    Barb, re.35  *yes* I attempted that a few weeks ago and ended up so 
    p*ssed off I just said *forget it*!
    
    joyce
            

    That wind last night just 'bout scared me to death!  8-O
    
    About 10:58 I was listening to it roar up through my backyard
    with such a noise that I was ready to run by the time it hit
    my house!  I'm thinking I feel like a tin can being tied down
    with paper clips!  (I live in a mobile home).
    
    By 11:00 I was out of bed and watching the weather channel because
    I was convinced there must be tornado warnings in southern NH that
    I'm just missing because the tv's off.  :-)
    
    And, believe me, if I had the guts to call anyone last night just
    to talk me through it - I would have called!   (Makes me wish my
    brother still lived on the west coast.  He was always there for me
    when I needed a late night "talk").  I certainly did run down through
    a list in my head!  
     							cj *->
    

    
    	Kept making my motion sensor light go off - finally at 11 (and
    believe me that's late for me during the week - I'm usually in
    dreamland by 9-9:30) I got up and turned the damn thing off.  Then
    there was the fireplace glass doors - but I wasn't in the mood to turn
    to soot while trying to close the damper (control is inside the
    firebox).  
    
    	I look like Rocky Racoon today - big dark circles from lack of
    sleep - actually I haven't slept well a night this week - is there
    something in the air?
    
    joyce

Gee, CJ, looks like we both were looking for someone to call!  ;-)  Ah well,
next time I guess (though I'm like Joyce and usually in bed by 9:30 or so, cept
when I have rehearsals).

>    	I look like Rocky Racoon today - big dark circles from lack of
>    sleep - actually I haven't slept well a night this week - is there
>    something in the air?
    
Joyce, there's a full moon on Saturday.  ;-)  Lack of sleep seems to be a common
thing in this group this week!  I couldn't get to sleep Monday night.

B

	Wind woke me a couple of times during the night.

	I'm seldom asleep before 11:00 and often up 'til midnight just in case
any of you want to call, ;-)  [I'm the one on Westwood Drive, the other Doug
Gordons in Nashua might not appreciate a late night call.]

	I haven't been sleeping well lately either...  must be something in
the air.

					--Doug

It was windy last night?

News to me. Then again, a couple weeks ago, my beeper went off at 
11pm. My brother is sunning all over the house trying to find it 
and I slept right through it. It was on the nightstand, 3 ft from 
my head....

daryll

    I had no phone all last night, and being alone with a 3yr old, and "on
    call", and with all that wind .... there were people I COULD have
    called if the damn thing worked.
    
    But hey, at least all my trash barrels were still SOMEPLACE in the
    yard this morning!!
    
    -Patty
    

    re .38
    
    I have actually been sleeping well lately. Which is pretty damn
    remarkable. Maybe I miss my mommy or something :-) but I almost NEVER
    sleep well alone. If I get 4, maybe 5 hours a night I am happy but the
    last few days I have slept like a rock. Maybe you are all having
    sympathy sleeplessness and knowing that helps me sleep better!
    
    Seriously though.... I hope it passes quickly, coming to work on 3
    hours sleep, or a bad sleep is a killer.
    
    re.37
    
    Because of the way our house is, it often gets quite windy so we got a
    little used to it. Sometimes if it keeps me up, I go upstairs to the
    rear deck and throw the big sliding doors open and sir there lost in
    thought until I simply can't stay awake anymore. We don't get wind like
    you do I guess (!) but sometimes it's nice. Other than that, our
    neighbourhood is *silent*... and it's the utter quiet that I find
    discomforting at times.
    
    Does anyone ever get those times where you are wading through a real
    bout of melancholy and you can't sleep because your mind won't stop
    churning over and over and it is just so bloody quiet you just sit
    there feeling rather small and alone?
    
    odd thoughts on an odd day...
    
    James
    (stuck here till midnight...sigh)
    
    

    
>    But hey, at least all my trash barrels were still SOMEPLACE in the
>    yard this morning!!
    
Ha!  My neighbors conveniently didn't weight down anything in their recycle bin
so I had plastic bottles all over my lawn this morning.  How nice!    

	You could take 'em to the store and collect the nickles. ;-)

They're milk, water and laundry detergent bottles!

;-)

    
  >> Ha!  My neighbors conveniently didn't weight down anything in their
  >> recycle bin so I had plastic bottles all over my lawn this morning.
  >>  How nice!    

I'm with you Barb. My neighbor will continuosly put out his trash without 
tieing the bags closed, and not bother to secure the recyclables. The city 
requests the trash be put out on the morning of pickup, but he puts it out the 
night before. I'm sure it's because he doesn't want to get up early. He 
doesn't need to, since he "works" out of the house (sure).

I've already had some words with him about this, but it doesn't seem to sink 
in. Then Monday morning, when I left the house, my back yard was strewn with 
newspapers and water cartons. So I just gathered everything up, went next door 
and stuffed the whole lot in his front door. The few more pieces I picked up I 
stuffed on his vehicle. He rents the house, and obviously doesn't give a hoot 
about it's overall appearance, so I figured if I crammed some newspapers in 
his vehicle, that might hit home. The next time, I might cram them in spots 
that will take him at least as long as it took me to run around and pick 
everything up, to remove them.

Bob

    
    Hmmmm... passive aggressive trash behavior!!!!

    	 .48
    
    Dolores my friend - you know how to make me chuckle!
    
    hugs
    
    joyce

    Gee, thanks, joyce.  
    
    One may also say "...passive aggressive trashy behavior!!"
    depending on "one's" level of anger.
    
    hahahaaa
    
    I like it too!
    
    Dolores

    When your Mr. Mom, and my daughter is gone for the weekend. House can
    be very empty when she isn't around.;(
    
    

    
    Well, I really hated living alone last night when I got home after a
    hellish drive through the snow and discovered my furnace had decided
    not to work.  No heat, no hot water.  Plenty of oil - in fact, I had just
    had more delivered that day.  I pressed the reset button and ran, just
    in case it exploded.  (Hey, you never know.)  It attempted to run for 
    about 40 seconds and shut off.  Read all the literature, no help there.  
    Called the oil company.  Got the answering service - they'd call me back.
    
    Argh.  Then I remembered I'd bought a book about a year or two ago, one
    of those huge "How To Fix Everything" books, so I got it out and turned
    to the "oil burner" pages.  Went through all the "troubleshooting"
    bits, and decided perhaps there was air in the oil line and I needed to 
    bleed it, or something like that.
    
    I followed the instructions as closely as I could (I really could use a
    nice tool box, but hey) and apart from having foamy oil spurt out at me
    at 100 miles an hour, which caused me to scream and hop up and down
    while I attempted to catch it in a jar, I did manage to fix it and was
    rewarded with heat and a hot shower this morning. 
    
    That book is a lifesaver, really.  
    

         re:52 Way to go Mz Debra... Kudos on your resourcefullness...
    
    bob

    	Has cj been near you? :-)   Good job woman - I can just see you
    dancing away from that foamy oil!
    
    joyce

Yeah Deb!!!

    Somehow I knew my name was going to come up!  ;->
    
    Good for you getting it fixed yourself!  Wish mine could have
    been fixed without all the service calls.  (Actually, I wish
    they could have fixed mine right the first time, or second,
    or third, or....  )
    						cj *->

You folks shoooooo do have alot heating problems.

Have you considered a coal stove? :-)

daryll

    I'm thinking a warm body beside me as a lot cheaper replacement! ;->
    (Besides, I don't think I can burn myself on one of those.  Guess it
    depend on how "hot" he is ;-> ).
    							cj *->

    re:58 works for me ;-)
    
    bb

    
    Get three cats.  You'll never be cold again.
    
    8^)
    

RE: .61

	And you'll wake up in the morning well groomed...

							mike

    If I spent a night in a house with three cats, I would not
    wake up in the a.m.  Would most likely kill me!  :-)
    
    						cj *->

    
    They don't sleep on my face...much.
    
    8^)
    

    	Two dogs work well too :-)  I'm allergic to cats too cj...
    
    joyce

I vote for the warm (human) bod!  One cat doesn't help much for the warmth
factor.

        My two cats only keep my butt and shoulder warm. Certainly not very
    even on the warmth level.A bod will definitely allow you to warm up one
    side then the other :-) My former claimed that one of the reasons for
    marrying me was I was so warm blooded ;-) cept in the summertime when 
    she couldn't get far enough away from me.. I swear she used to put her
    feet in buckets of ice before coming to bed.. Then she'd plant them in
    the small of my back to warm them up BRRRRRRRRRRR...
    
    
    bb

    I'm a 'snuggler', which my cat didn't appreciate one bit!  Give me a
    real body any time!
    
    Pat

          Pat I'll send my Dusty out to give your cat lessons.. He's so
    snuggley at times it's almost annoying ;-) His favorite thing to do
    of late is to nod off on my chest while I watch TV. He tucks his head
    under my chin and he's off to dreamland. Makes for interesting claw
    marks when the phone rings and startles him..
    
    bb

>    she couldn't get far enough away from me.. I swear she used to put her
>    feet in buckets of ice before coming to bed.. Then she'd plant them in

I usually sleep with socks on in the winter cause my feet are always cold.  ;-)

          Sigh she didn't like socks on her feet in bed.. So my back was
    the best parking spot.. I'm a real quick one to go to sleep so it
    wasn't uncommon for her to miss my back and ............. :-O
    
    BRRRRRRRRRRRR!!
    
    
    bb
    

         Been in a philosophical mood of late.. I hate living alone when
    I'm in an incredibly good mood and there's noone to share it with.
    
    IHLA
         With spring knocking on our door and the earth about to spring
    forth with an abundance of life.
         Most of us are working so hard we often no longer see the simpler
    things in life all around us.
         Like laying on your back looking at the clouds and watching them
    drift by.
         Or walking for miles in the woods.. Either looking for scat and
    trying to id the animal or finding a bubbling brook and becoming
    captivated by it's soothing sound.
         Or being on the seacoast and watching the sunrise... Al of these
    things one can certainly do alone but it's oh so much better when
    there's someone there with you..
    
    
         there I feel better now ;-) 
    
    bob

    re .69
    
    And um.... how do you explain those marks Bob? It's kinda reminiscent
    of the guys who would pinch their necks before school to make it seem
    like they had a hot date the night before. But this is the nineties...
    I guess we need claw marks ;-/
    
    Jim

    re .70
    
    Oh the joys of revenge. All my life I've had to deal with women who
    would use me as their personal in-bed heater for cold feet.
    
    HA!
    
    In my house the floors are quite cold... and since I am the last one to
    come to bed after turnig off the lights, locking the doors, threatening
    the kitty cats with death if they don't stop fighting <grin>... my feet
    are ICE CUBES when I get into bed.
    
    heheheh... the first time I actually put *MY* cold feet on someone's
    back I realized from her reaction that this was how the WWF got
    started.
    
    You don't know how embarassing it is to be suplexed by a woman half
    your size and half asleep. :-) And to make it worse... she's spitting
    out words in a language I don't understand yet!!!
    
    grrrr (grin)
    
    Life just ain't fair... nope... it ain't
    
    James
    (aka: mat-boy)

    re .72 
    
    I'm free this weekend Bob...
    
    oops.. wrong conference ;-)

    I'm moving and it would be sooooo nice to come home and have everything
    packed.. (-;  
    
      

	You could use my method - I still have a ton of stuff in boxes from
7 years ago. ;-)

    Hi,
    
    I would except, I'mm going from an apartment down to renting a room..
    no room to store anything... (-;
    
    I'd thought about just leaving the stuff in the apartment.. and not
    packing it at all.. (-;
    
    I don't think that would go over to well... 
    
    

    Everytime I move, I take less-- it's wonderfully freeing to carry
    so little with you. Give to charity, give to friends, or give to 
    the dump-- just take what will make you happy-- that'd be the
    boots and the dog-- right?
    
    
    missing Kathleen...

    I, too, feel sentiment lessen with every move.  
    
    Figuring the move to my present home is going to be my last move,
    it made it even easier to throw out the things that I figured I
    would someday decorate some place with.  Much of that stuff just
    didn't "go" with mud brown panelling, crap colored rugs, and the
    darkness my home has.  But I expect I won't be anywhere else, so
    everything got sold or discarded.
    
    Hopefully I'll be able to get over on Saturday to help you Kathleen!
    We'll just have to deal with Angeline "helping" too.  Maybe Jan's free
    and can play with Angeline and you and I can do the packing thing????
    
    						cj *->
    
    

    Yup.. the dog and the boots.. (-;  and my black leather biker's jacket.. 
    (-;
    
    I'm done!  (-;
    
    
    

    re .81
    
    Where are you moving to Kathleen?
    
    TRO is not that far away :-)
    
    Jimbo

    ahhh.. don't tempt me.. (-;  
    
    

          Kathleen .. I have a nifty 2 wheel hand truck if you'd like to
    borrow it give a scream and I can have it at pko tomorrow.. 
    
    bob

    Hi,
    
    I may take you up on that when I have to move the washer and dryer and
    refrigerator... I'm **hopefully** going to be selling these items to
    the next tenant... 
    
    thanks...

    Ohhh, you people are making me soooo DEPRESSED!  Maybe we'd all feel
    better if we turned this into a string of horse puns.
    
    Or...maybe Kathleen could move from her apartment into an LKG cubicle
    (they do have showers in LKG, don't they?) taking over Jan's job, Jan
    could take over Kathleen's job so she wouldn't have to commute so far,
    and someone could ship cj's crap colored rug up to TRO, solving another
    two problems.
    
    I wanna go home NOW!  And I don't wanna cook tonight, or help with
    homework, or log in and do DEC work, or worry about where to live after
    August, or pay bills, or take calls from people who want to sell me
    stuff or from AT&T who knows that I already use them
    but-is-everything-ok-why-aren't-you-using-our-calling-card-sorry-to-call-
    while-you're-chopping-garlic-do-you-realize-we-can-place-your-local-calls-
    too-yes-I-understand-when-is-a-good-time-to-call-back.
    
    ARGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...
    
    Is this reality?  My space-time continuum has gotten way too spacie.
    
    The-clone-formerly-known-as-tony.
    

    When the phone companies call, I tell them that "kathleen kenyon" works
    nights and isn't home.. this is her roomate, you can reach her after
    2pm...  they get the answering machine during the day, and after a
    while they stop leaving messages (-;
    
    My grumble for the day!  My car did the "check engine light" thing
    again on the way into work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    I called the dealership and I have an appointment on Monday....
    
    gggrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    

	If your car is anything like mine, it's a vacuum leak. Lift the
hood and listen for a whistling sound.  If you can isolate it to a vacuum
hose, it's probably at a joint.  You may be able to self-repair by
shortening the hose and re-connecting.

					--D

>    I may take you up on that when I have to move the washer and dryer and
>    refrigerator... I'm **hopefully** going to be selling these items to
>    the next tenant...

	I think the Singles_Chat community should get together and buy
Kathleen's appliance from her.  Then we can store them in a convenient
place and we'll have a rotating set of spare appliances that can be 
swapped in after CJ visits your house.  The old one's get repaired and go
back to the warehouse.  We just have to make sure that CJ's visits are
spaced such that that there's time to repair the "spares" in between.

				;-) ;-) ;-)

					--Doug

    	I too have a washer for sale - that could be the spare spare :-)
    
    joyce

         Katleen maybe your engine is lonely?? Just take a peek under the 
    hood and say hi :-)
         Mine used to do that under uphill acceleration.. In my case it
    turned out to be a bad tank of gas causing too much pinging.. Good
    luck timing couldn't be worse for you though...
    
    bb

    Doug, I'm liking that!  That made me laugh. 
    
    The funniest part, I'm supposed to help Kathleen pack tomorrow.
    Perhaps I shouldn't go over until *after* the appliances are 
    sold and gone :-).
    
    						cj *->