Good luck, Suede!

augh... so sorry Nirvana.

I sincerely hope the obstruction is removed and he's healthy soon.

Mum.
As usual.

No idea what this shit-fit is about.

She came up to get a book - which is hindsight is not a good thing as it means she isn't watching TV. It might be that Dad is watching something she isn't interested in, which is very selfish of him. But she seemed fine - I asked her about an email I sent her and she replied with interest.

Then there was slap bang wallop downstairs, slamming doors. I heard Dad say, "I'll do it! I do it after [inaudible]"

Mum, "I'LL DO IT! Like I do everything in this fucking place! Funny how I am the only person who noticed it! Everyone else walking right past it!"

I haven't ignored anything that needed doing. It might be something along the lines of catsick or poo? No - Dad would never suggest a delay on that. So I'm baffled. Just staying out of it, even if I have been implicated.

It doesn't seem to have reached storm out proportions. But another wrong word from Dad might get her there. I certainly expect her to come upstairs and shut herself in their room to "read". AKA stew and brood.

Oh - just remembered they are house-sitting as of tomorrow. So she can't go off to punish Dad - she'd never let the clients down that way. Wow - no wonder she's fuming.

Good luck Suede!

The air conditioning doesn't work.

The mower I bought used doesn't start and the grass is 8" tall.

I'm going to lose the house to foreclosure.

And I have a bad headache.

fucking forclosure. my current boogeyman. aaauuuugh.

The word foreclosure is very scary. I'm sorry to hear that more than one person here is facing it. :(

Shit UT and Big V, that's truly horrible :(

Talk to your lender. Everything I've read says the lender does not want to take back a home.

damn - the shit just keeps piling up for dwellars.

Wishing each of you the best

Well I got the mower started.

Misery, Misery go away
The Cellarites don't want to play!

Hey Nirvana, thanks and all. But I'd just as soon see your name on the happy today thread, ok?

J gave me Advil for the headache and it worked.

Shouldn't that be in the happy thread UT? ;)

I'm really sorry about your house. Is there nothing you can do?

There are options but you have fewer options when you have no identifiable income (a starter business is a bad idea if you want to keep a mortgage), I don't know what will really go down at this point. I've been in this situation for a long time now and I'm so dead tired of panic, despair, money arguments, etc. It's been a long hard slog and not at all worth it. This is just a goddamn house and I should have gotten rid of it after the divorce.

Sometimes selling up is a better idea that's for sure. Renting for a time till you get financial again wouldn't be a bad idea would it?

Yes and it would be nice for J to reduce her hour commute. We will see what happens.

Best of luck, and once you make a decision all will go smoothly and you'll feel a lot better once it's behind you.

Probably better to sell than to loose, like Ali said.

Suede's vet bill, worth every penny, but damn ouch! :neutral:

Yeah, well whatever you do, don't buy a suit from that vet. (s)he sews for shit.

Are there any tax breaks for people who have investment property in the US?

Just first property, there is a mortgage deduction on tax and it's been a huge help in the past.

:lol: I thought the same thing!

Should I be laffin in the upsetting thread?

You've got to laugh if you don't want to cry

Hows the dog Nirv?

That Nirv has a lot of dog.

Just to keep everything in the same thread I'll make the update here for those who have been following my friend's progress.

The mighty CWB has left his body.

While I'm sad he is gone I'm glad his suffering is over and his wife can begin to build a new life for her and their daughter.

That's very sad news lookout. I'm sorry for your loss. xx

UPDATE:
Suede is in a crate in my kitchen bunged to another crate next to Victor with a blanket in between because Suede likes to move his crate across the floor using his wedge-like head while growling at Victor when he is in his crate. Just a hunch but I think he is pretty much on the mend. ;)

Sorry lookout. I read some of the blog and it is truly, truly a gut-wrenching thing.

I hope he is at peace and pray for his family to find it as well.

Ah, sorry Lookout.

He was an absolute one of a kind. There were three of us that have been together since we were 2. CWB had a pretty abrasive personality but a heart of gold. Probably 20 years ago while defending him in conversation I stated that he was an asshole, but he's our asshole. After all this time I still can't come up with a more appropriate description for his place in our crew.

I miss him a lot, but he has left me 35 years of great memories. Can't ask for more from a friend.

:comfort: .

Sorry to hear of the loss lookout

Sorry to hear, lookout. That was a beautiful tribute website.

I agree, really beautiful. So sorry for your loss Lookout. Am thinking of you and your friend's family.

I have just returned from "Kroger-ing" (grocery shopping, for our BBC buddies)

I feel as though I have been butt-f*cked in the mouth.

$166.56 - I'll have to make it last allllll month.

Day-um.

Nor could he.

re: "our asshole". Enjoy.

Sepp bloody Blatter is making me REALLY CROSS.

Oh blah blah blah "I am the Captain of the ship" blah blah blah "difficult waters"!
Yes. You were the Captain when the crew were taking bungs!
You didn't know your crew were corrupt, apparently.
Well if you didn't, you're a lousy Captain.
And if you did, you're a liar and a cheat and a lousy Captain.

Do you see?

Having to elect a man because he is the only man standing is not an act of support. You are a despot and the closed world of FIFA is a joke. You don't even understand the word "crisis"? Tcha.
That's why you delivered your speech in French, when the international language of football is English.

You smashed the English press for their treatment of FIFA and of you.
What was it you said?
FIFA was wounded, you were slapped?
Something like that.
They fucking deserved it.
Two representatives are now under investigation for taking bribes!
When you were Captain of the ship! You got slapped? You're lucky that's all you got mate.
If you were English I'd like to see the Queen haul you through Traitors' Gate for your twisty turny behaviour.

Oh but wait...
If you were English we might have had the World Cup here.
Rather than Qatar. Where under-investigation Mohamed bin Hammam comes from.
Which submitted the lowest ranking bid.
Where they've had to change the TIME OF YEAR it's held because of the heat - I mean fuck all the traditional schedules of European football.

Cunt.

There were a lot of things I had to google in the above post but it was totally worth it.

I feel smarter for knowing Sundae.

I also wouldn't want to piss her off. :D

Wow, and I was just mildly bummed that Coach Tressel resigned. :(

I heard a good idea though: Tressel as coach of the Cincinnati Bungles, I mean Bengals.

Well said Sundae - Its a travesty that the Wc is going to be help in that godforsaken hole of a cuntry (sp). I agree wholeheartedly!

Hey - cool!
I thought I would be just shouting for echoes airing a football (soccer) issue here.
Thanks for the responses.

I looked up Sepp Blatter on Google (UK) earlier.
One of the top drop down options was Sepp Blatter bell-end.
We Brits might not be as sophisticated as our continental cousins, but we certainly cut to the chase.

ha ha that is some funny right there. I had to look up bellend, but I loved the credulous wikipedia source for his bio and award.

Loving the hackers/ pranksters.

FIFA is in a shambolic state of corruption and incompetance, and Blatter has been in charge for over a decade (I think). Buck stops with him.

Great word that: bell-end.

While the AC repair guy was on his way ($600 bad fan motor), the dryer gave out (no heat likely bad element $400 replacement)

3% pay cut coming in July. Grrrr

Considering the adages "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us" and "We work just hard enough to keep from being fired and they pay us just enough to keep us from quitting"

How much less pretending does 3% come out to and how much easier will your day be?

Sorry to hear that. I don't think you could make 3% up in pens, pads, and paper clips.

Days will be no easier. Our case loads have gone dramatically up in the past year, with less time to finish the work due to mandatory furlough days (one per month). Now we will work our 40 hours and get paid less. I'm thinking of pretending my lunch hour is actually two.

That's the spirit!
"Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you!"

FIFA is a corrupt organization and should be disbanded along with international football. full stop.

Against the wall when the revolution comes:
FIFA
Bankers (not all, just some, especially those with houses I like)
MPs (as above, but two houses)
The FA

Oh, and Miquita Oliver. I just don't like her. Even if she has a cool Mum.
Actually, no. Her Mum can come round and cook for me and I'll let her daughter off.

The Marquis de Sade got his hated parents-in-law saved from the guillotine.
I can also show mercy.

Well, not Sepp Blatter.
But he's not related to me.
And he never tried to get me out of prison, unlike La Présidente (de Sade's mother-in-law).

de sade's mother-in-law got you out of prison??!

Ok, levity over, time for seriousnessesses..

I've mentioned before that my best friend J is in a relationship with one of my other best mates, Jan. He's the same age as me, and she's 10 years older than us. They split up briefly last year, but then got back together, but this time aren't living together as they effectively were before. J's back living in his house and Jan has her house.

Seems to be working well, they've both seemed much happier the past few months, like it's all just starting to come together properly. Both have had minor triumphs in their work, and have been really getting on with having a lovely life. Jan's health problems which have been severe seemed to be at an end. She has a kidney problem, but it's being managed. She had to have an op last year to remove ovarian cysts or something, and that all went well. After two years of constant health scares and problems (themselves coming on the back of a cancer scare, where she thought the cancer that she survived ten years ago had returned) the time seemed have come for blue skies and a little fun.

The last few times I've seen Jan the difference has been profound. It's like my mate is back. The energetic, optimistic, creative and funny mate who'd just got so bogged down in a health nightmare. was only commenting to J a few days ago how much better and more like her old self she is.

Jan's been feeling weird for the last two days. Pains in her head and neck, strange sensations of pressure. Yesterday she went to her doctors, and they sent her to the hospital suspecting she may have had a minor stroke. Initial CT scans showed nothing on the brain, but the lumbar puncture they did last night showed blood in her spine, so apparently she has had a minor stroke.

They've moved her now to Leeds hospital where there is neurosurgery department. They don't know if she has a further bleed, but she had another funny turn today and they seem quite worried.

Obviously J is worried sick. He's on his way home now from Leeds and is going to call at mine en route. Gonna roll a few smokes and down a couple of beers. Get his mind of it.

I'm really worried about this. Obviously I'm worried for Jan. And i feel a profound sense of the unfairness of life that she is having to go through yet another nightmare of hospitals and tests, fear and uncertainty. But I'm also worried for J. Worried on so many levels. Worried about what he may have to cope with in the near future.

I hope every thing works out for yer friend dana

This.

We count on a bit more money each year,in exchange for taking on more and more workload. Being denied a pittance isn't as bad as giving up some pittance.

yikes, Dana. I hope your pal gets some good news from the health front.

good vibes to you and her and J.