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AChildOfBoredom
01-05-2021, 12:05 PM
I started this program where artists can trade a piece for a stay in one of the AirBnB's I manage.
It took a little time ( setting expectations ect. and answering questions ) so I am working on a more formal agreement for it put online.
I like that idea.
carmen_b
01-05-2021, 12:07 PM
^ It's been a great project. I have hosted a photographer and a painter so far.
It does take me some time .
That is why I need the more formal " this is the program " spiel put up online .
The photographer was really smooth .
The first painter guy wanted to switch the days and I had to be like " No we are not doing that . I held them for you and already hired my cleaners " . So I had to kind of *press* him to make the trade easy v.s. it just being easy and I'd like more smoothness going forward. He did bring this very beautiful landscape down . I liked it too much to hang in the rental and stole it ! Ha.
carmen_b
01-05-2021, 12:10 PM
I'll just take a painting from Mr. Hottie v.s. getting a full dick report from one of my single friends lol.
AChildOfBoredom
01-05-2021, 12:26 PM
The people who owned the house before me took out the water heater and put in a tankless one, so they turned the room which had the water heater on the side of the garage into a tiny guest space, and it has a little bathroom where you could literally do everything at once, and they would Airbnb it, which I haven’t done, though I’ve used it as a guest room. When I first moved here, I had no furniture, and figured I’d buy an air mattress until I could get something better. My one roommate talked to his parents and they let him take the bed he had when he was younger and living with them, which was just a twin bed that was framed on three sides. S I have that and a small dresser I’d picked up at a yard sale in it, and a little 14” tv. And the girl in group care seems more interested in that one than in the room S and her girlfriend are in until they move out next month. Which, I don’t know… I understand the privacy appeals to her and she really doesn’t have much as far as personal possessions go, so it would be a good fit for her. At the same time, it just seems a bit isolationist to me, though that was the point of them doing that for Airbnb.
carmen_b
01-05-2021, 12:29 PM
^ Just give the little separate space to whoever is the best fit for more privacy I think.
carmen_b
01-05-2021, 01:11 PM
I'm assuming there isn't enough space for everyone in the main house and also guests paying nightly for AirBnB spot ?
AChildOfBoredom
01-05-2021, 04:53 PM
On the upper level, I have the master bedroom and the Irish woman has her own room. There is a bonus room above the garage, but it would take some remodeling to make it into a suitable bedroom. On the lower level, S and her girlfriend share a room and my sister shares a room with the Amish girl. There’s one other room which could be used as a bedroom for one, and that was my plan before the latter two told me they didn’t want separate rooms. I never thought about putting anyone permanently in the room attached to the garage, mostly because the area immediately next to it was often used as rehearsal space, and there’s also an air compressor nearby, because I have power tools and use them. The basement has no windows, so I wouldn’t put a bedroom there… perhaps a dungeon, but not a bedroom. That’s also where my pole and general workout space is.
It’s a pretty sizable house… much more than I’d have gone for if I lived alone.
indiegirl
01-05-2021, 06:43 PM
Apparently Kanye and Kim Kardashian are in marriage counseling. I see Kim divorcing him. She got her act together/stable/owns businesses and he is a rollercoaster ride in comparison. Totally random thought haha.
carmen_b
01-05-2021, 06:51 PM
^ Could you IMAGINE trying to reason with him hahahah ?
charlie61
01-05-2021, 06:59 PM
Apparently Kanye and Kim Kardashian are in marriage counseling. I see Kim divorcing him. She got her act together/stable/owns businesses and he is a rollercoaster ride in comparison. Totally random thought haha.
I can't imagine how much pressure celebrities must experience to stay together, what with how public those breakups are, impact to children, potential division of assets...
Genoveve
01-05-2021, 07:30 PM
They were my favorite celebrity couple, I'm sad. Actually I think they were my only celebrity couple. :crying:
AChildOfBoredom
01-05-2021, 09:03 PM
In a conversation I’m wishing now that I’d never had and especially wish I hadn’t followed up on, the Irish woman was giving me a bit of hassle over the fact that I don’t own or use sex toys. I just go about it the old-fashioned way. In the course of that conversation, she said I was being prudish about it and people were even buying sex toys for their dogs, which I thought was absolute bullshit, but of course I let Google be the final word on that, and…
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71J16uS2b9L._AC_SL1206_.jpg
I was doing just fine not knowing that.
indiegirl
01-05-2021, 10:02 PM
Fuck I want a fish tank so bad STILL. I'm trying to be zen but in a modern zen look. Nothing too hippie in the house. *SIGH*...haven't really committed because pets are a lot to care of. I'm window shopping online. ROAR.
LoveyDovey
01-05-2021, 10:50 PM
On one of my walks, I encountered this beautiful fluffy cat and at first I nearly tripped over it because it was dark and I didn't see it. I bent down and apologized to the cat,who was very sweet and affectionate. Every time I stood up to continue walking, it kept running up beside me and plopping down if front of my feet. It was so adorable! This cat just loved attention! It had no collar and I was tempted to take him home, but it was such a pretty cat I figured he had to belong to somebody. If I see that cat again, I may ask the neighbors if it's someone's pet. I wanted to take him home so bad, but not sure what the deal is on having a cat in my house. I'd have to talk with the landlord first. I would llove to have him as my cat friend. So freakin adorable.
indiegirl
01-05-2021, 11:06 PM
On one of my walks, I encountered this beautiful fluffy cat and at first I nearly tripped over it because it was dark and I didn't see it. I bent down and apologized to the cat,who was very sweet and affectionate. Every time I stood up to continue walking, it kept running up beside me and plopping down if front of my feet. It was so adorable! This cat just loved attention! It had no collar and I was tempted to take him home, but it was such a pretty cat I figured he had to belong to somebody. If I see that cat again, I may ask the neighbors if it's someone's pet. I wanted to take him home so bad, but not sure what the deal is on having a cat in my house. I'd have to talk with the landlord first. I would llove to have him as my cat friend. So freakin adorable.
Some people have an indoor/outdoor cat. Saw one cat with a collar saying "I am loved" or something along the lines of not taking the cat or to a shelter. One of mine was an in/outdoor cat (by his own choice) in the way past who would roam around/sleep in the bushes/under a car and come home for food/water. Maybe a good idea is to put some sorta necklace/collar on the cat and have a note attached with your phone number saying "is this your cat?" with your phone number included. Waiting it out and no response...it's yours! lol
Had 8-9 cute cats but after having dogs I'm like "there's no turnin' back now." Cats are much easier though.
LoveyDovey
01-05-2021, 11:20 PM
That's a good idea, as I don't want to steal anyone's cat. I just want to know if he has an owner. He was so damn cute!
lilylilylily
01-06-2021, 01:21 PM
I'm apt hunting and a place I went to see is a very short drive away from my old club. I'm thinking if I got the apt and if it ever reopens I would work maybe 1 day a month at the club lol.
Omg I just checked on google maps and my old club is marked "permanently closed" wow
AChildOfBoredom
01-06-2021, 01:26 PM
I think I just got hustled by the sales girl at Verizon. Maybe. I keep an Otterbox Defender case on my phone because I work in environments which aren’t good for delicate electronic devices, and this one got to the point where it was no longer holding up. So I figured I’d stop in at Verizon to see if there was a chance they had another one for ,y phone before I sought it on Amazon or EBay. So I explain this to her, she asks what model of phone I have, and the first words out of her mouth when I told her were, “Oh, my” then she kinda glanced awkwardly at the floor. In the course of what followed, I ended up leaving the store with an iPhone 12 Pro. So I’m a little torn between feeling it needed to be done and feeling like this 20 y/o managed to hustle me.
carmen_b
01-06-2021, 01:28 PM
^ Damn. Too bad you can't get a finders fee out of her at various strip clubs hahahaha.
AChildOfBoredom
01-06-2021, 01:34 PM
I know. I feel kinda bad because I actually thought, “maybe she should be a stripper” amd even kinda started undressing her with my eyes to try figuring out how she’d stack up.
I really don’t think it was necessary for the others in the store to examine my phone like they’d found some ancient artifacts, though. Especially after the sale was already made.
SnuffleUffleGrass
01-06-2021, 01:40 PM
Apparently Kanye and Kim Kardashian are in marriage counseling. I see Kim divorcing him. She got her act together/stable/owns businesses and he is a rollercoaster ride in comparison. Totally random thought haha.
She should have divorced him years ago. & I say this as a fan of Kanye's music.
carmen_b
01-06-2021, 03:21 PM
Aw. He agitated me. Haha. I offered a trade within 40 days ( anything further out goes to paying customers ). Maybe I didn't explain it well ( hence the need for formal write up ) but he wrote through the link and the reservations person ( virtual assistant ) is like " I don't know what you are talking about " . Yeah dude, because I said to text ME to get the dates booked AFTER viewing the openings.
Yikes.
He basically did the entire thing wrong.
1. Tried to book further out than I said.
2. Wrote through the booking link.
3. Didn't check dates first using the link.
No. No. NO. !
See that's the problem. No that he was a handful I'm de-incentivized to offer this . I'll prob give the project a 30 day break.
I'll just take a painting from Mr. Hottie v.s. getting a full dick report from one of my single friends lol.
Genoveve
01-06-2021, 05:03 PM
I think I just got hustled by the sales girl at Verizon. Maybe. I keep an Otterbox Defender case on my phone because I work in environments which aren’t good for delicate electronic devices, and this one got to the point where it was no longer holding up. So I figured I’d stop in at Verizon to see if there was a chance they had another one for ,y phone before I sought it on Amazon or EBay. So I explain this to her, she asks what model of phone I have, and the first words out of her mouth when I told her were, “Oh, my” then she kinda glanced awkwardly at the floor. In the course of what followed, I ended up leaving the store with an iPhone 12 Pro. So I’m a little torn between feeling it needed to be done and feeling like this 20 y/o managed to hustle me.
Reminds me of an incident with my 1999 Pontiac which I had for years; I would use a cassette adapter to play music in it and when the cassette player eventually broke I went to Radioshack to get a new system installed and when the guy working there found out that I had been using a cassette adapter all that time he was horrified. Like he actually seemed sad and scared LOL, I saw the emotion wash over his face and he said "We have to fix that." really seriously.
Aurora_Sunset
01-06-2021, 05:34 PM
There is this one TV screen way in the back of the Amazon warehouse, not even sure what they do back there but I can see from my area, that literally just plays a random, SUPER basic animation of a stick figure or a cartoon animal or something dancing. Like the type of animation you'd see in the 90s. On loop. That's all it does. I have no idea why this exists.
It always makes me think of a scene from an apocalypse movie where you see some big structure that represents what humanity used to be (a warehouse) but it's abandoned and trashed - but then there's one creepy, unsettling TV still playing some random shit to make it even more haunting.
AChildOfBoredom
01-06-2021, 06:31 PM
Reminds me of an incident with my 1999 Pontiac which I had for years; I would use a cassette adapter to play music in it and when the cassette player eventually broke I went to Radioshack to get a new system installed and when the guy working there found out that I had been using a cassette adapter all that time he was horrified. Like he actually seemed sad and scared LOL, I saw the emotion wash over his face and he said "We have to fix that." really seriously.
Or when my roommate was here for Thanksgiving and clearing out things that he had stored at his parents’ house. When we went to pick up some of the things he had earmarked for S and her girlfriend for when they get their own place, he had a Discman laying on top of a box. S’s girlfriend didn’t even know what it was.
I don’t think mine was that bad. But you could tell they were making fun of me in a backhanded way. “My mom had one of these when I was, like, 10”, etc. Granted, it was a little old, but I wouldn’t expect an iPhone 3 to invoke that much of a reaction?
lurkingtitties
01-06-2021, 06:54 PM
iPhone 3 lol wow!!!! I can see how that would elicit a reaction from a 20 year old especially...your phone is probably almost as old as her!!!
But hey no judgment, I have an iPhone 7 that I’ve had for 3 years and no plans to replace it. They’re too damn expensive to be out buying the newest version just because.
carmen_b
01-06-2021, 07:30 PM
A 3 is admittedly pretty hardcore haha!
I glossed over that part!
Genoveve
01-06-2021, 09:12 PM
But hey no judgment, I have an iPhone 7 that I’ve had for 3 years and no plans to replace it. They’re too damn expensive to be out buying the newest version just because.
Until I got my XR I always had late model phones(and now my XR is late model again). I'm not a gadgets person so I could care less about spending extra to have the newest doodads and my iphones last for foreverrrrrrrrrr anyway. I always hear people talking about conspiracy theories involving Apple purposely making people's iphones malfunction once new ones come out so everyone is forced to upgrade......not over here. And that's with extremely heavy usage and dropping them all the time. I will pretty much have the same phone until I eventually crack the screen and then I use that as an excuse to finally upgrade.
Or when my roommate was here for Thanksgiving and clearing out things that he had stored at his parents’ house. When we went to pick up some of the things he had earmarked for S and her girlfriend for when they get their own place, he had a Discman laying on top of a box. S’s girlfriend didn’t even know what it was.
My nephew had a homework assignment where he had to identify objects in an illustration in his workbook, there was a picture of one of these kinds of phones drawn from head on:
https://www.cdw.com/product/Cortelco-Retro-Ash-Push-Button-Wall-Phone/3240680?cm_cat=google&cm_ite=3240680&cm_pla=NA-NA-Cortelco_IT&cm_ven=acquirgy&ef_id=Cj0KCQiA3NX_BRDQARIsALA3fIKaopjllkrBA5dc0LcO sduc6F5u5AHecLyz_DH2pfPgms_XKaFl7PoaAij3EALw_wcB:G :s&gclid=Cj0KCQiA3NX_BRDQARIsALA3fIKaopjllkrBA5dc0LcO sduc6F5u5AHecLyz_DH2pfPgms_XKaFl7PoaAij3EALw_wcB&s_kwcid=AL!4223!3!359091494613!!!g!713008504072!!2 050094291!78194548691
He misidentified it as a shirt LOL.
indiegirl
01-06-2021, 11:01 PM
Good grief....I watched one of my favorite homemade cooking channels from China on youtube and (sorry) what happened with this video? I dunno....I have a thing against someone cooking pigs feet or anything feet related for consumption ( she put one of the feet as a centerpiece) on the middle of the plate. Remember going to a bridal shower seeing a whole pig with it's face there and everything losing my appetite. I wanna pretend I'm not eating an animals foot. Grody. Kinda like seeing the eyeball on a dead fish in the market. Please cut the head off I wanna pretend this was never living. LOLL. Or trying to be all into the asian foods and shopping at asian markets in Irvine. Got cooked fish and I kept thinking....this thing has an eyeball intact staring at me hahaha.
I'm down for anything but eyeballs, feet, brain, or testicle animal meat. I've also seen cow tongue or lips sold no thanks. That's my limit LOL!
I love the Chinese street food market youtube videos from "The Food Ranger" though.
AChildOfBoredom
01-07-2021, 03:28 AM
iPhone 3 lol wow!!!! I can see how that would elicit a reaction from a 20 year old especially...your phone is probably almost as old as her!!!
But hey no judgment, I have an iPhone 7 that I’ve had for 3 years and no plans to replace it. They’re too damn expensive to be out buying the newest version just because.
At the time, I really couldn’t justify spending the money on a 4S (which was the most recent one at the time), so the 3 was much cheaper. I was going to upgrade to the 8 or the X a while back, because a lot of apps couldn’t be run on the phone I had, but then I ended up getting an iPad Mini, so I just ran my apps on that.
carmen_b
01-07-2021, 09:12 AM
Indie : funny you say that !!
I love Japanese ramen !
I watch a show and has no idea how many bones / animal parts go into it !
One chefs had a head in there ! Omg
I took a brief ramen break then I pretend now I haven’t watched that !!
I made my own broth once with chicken bones and grossed myself out.
:/
indiegirl
01-07-2021, 10:27 AM
Indie : funny you say that !!
I love Japanese ramen !
I watch a show and has no idea how many bones / animal parts go into it !
One chefs had a head in there ! Omg
I took a brief ramen break then I pretend now I haven’t watched that !!
I made my own broth once with chicken bones and grossed myself out.
:/
There's this mexican mart I go to when I need beef liver/kidney for the dogs that normal markets don't have... I've walked through a few times when they randomly supply the full head of a goat/lamb and just stopped staring like "WTF is this place running here?!" You're selling lamb brain too? BAHAHA omg it's so terrifying when they supply it.
LoveyDovey
01-07-2021, 10:33 AM
So still no word from boyfriend. He'd better have a decent excuse for why he isn't communicating. I feel like I am being ghosted. I did nothing to deserve it. I am vascillatung between being worried about him & saying "fuck this guy." Do you see now why I am not happy with how this is going? I deserve so much better.
So over it.
carmen_b
01-07-2021, 10:41 AM
^ Indie : That said I truly do believe in using the whole animal.
Chefs who can get creative with unique cuts / uses are the most highly skilled in my opinion.
I wish I wasn't so nauseated seeing animal parts because it's probably a clue I should go heavier vegetarian.
I just don't like limitations with food ( other than training myself not to eat too much ).
carmen_b
01-07-2021, 10:42 AM
Omg. It's been like 10 days or something ?
If he just moved on and didn't say anything that is beyond cowardly . Some people are spineless cowards though. Did you contact friend and family and tell them you are worried ? It's like a 95 - 99 % chance that is what happened. Spineless ! Unless he is in the hospital with severe injuries ( at which point I'd assume friend and family would reach you ).
So still no word from boyfriend. He'd better have a decent excuse for why he isn't communicating. I feel like I am being ghosted. I did nothing to deserve it. I am vascillatung between being worried about him & saying "fuck this guy." Do you see now why I am not happy with how this is going? I deserve so much better.
So over it.
Genoveve
01-07-2021, 02:48 PM
Omg. It's been like 10 days or something ?
If he just moved on and didn't say anything that is beyond cowardly . Some people are spineless cowards though. Did you contact friend and family and tell them you are worried ? It's like a 95 - 99 % chance that is what happened. Spineless ! Unless he is in the hospital with severe injuries ( at which point I'd assume friend and family would reach you ).
I agree I’d be worried that something might have happened, can’t you text him and be like ‘If you don’t respond to this and let me know that you’re okay I’m doing a wellness check/contacting your family/whatever.’ Then if he responds saying he’s fine, never talk to him again.
carmen_b
01-07-2021, 04:35 PM
^ It's so harsh but it could be something not " on your radar " somehow like he thought he was justified because of " XYZ " to ignore you, ugh.
Nothing you can think of ? Like a relationship talk where you couldn't see eye to eye on something or anything else " big " going on with you guys? You said you were moving . Is that move away from him ?
LoveyDovey
01-07-2021, 06:15 PM
The day before he told me he missed me and he wanted me, and that he'd call me the next day to firm up plans to meet.
Net day came, Nothing.
I texted him Happy New Year a few days later. No reply.
AChildOfBoredom
01-07-2021, 07:14 PM
A friend of mine met her husband through a singles club, so she’s been pushing me to give it a try. I caved and went to an interview, which was a panel of four of their members. So they’re asking me these questions, interspersed with their spiel about it, and I’m just not feeling it at all.
I tell them I’m not looking for dating.
“Oh, that’s fine… you can come just to make friends and meet new people”.
If it’s not about dating, why are members who get married pushed out, then? And I already have friends.
So then they show me the calendar of e ents for January and February, and there’s nothing on it which piques my interest. So I tell them I really don’t think their “social club” is a good fit for me and that I’d show myself to the door, and I just up promptly and left. About an hour later, I got a call from a woman (one of the four who interviewed me) to ask if I’d be willing to go to one of their events with her as a guest. Seriously? I get that they’re trying to avoid their singles club from turning into a sausage fest, but that’s not my fucking problem.
JGB2009
01-08-2021, 09:08 AM
The day before he told me he missed me and he wanted me, and that he'd call me the next day to firm up plans to meet.
Net day came, Nothing.
I texted him Happy New Year a few days later. No reply.
I would call to see if his phone is on and if the phone is on I might give one more text. If he don't respond after that then I feel like you did all you could do. Hopefully he is ok and hopefully you find out what happened.
LoveyDovey
01-08-2021, 09:47 AM
I would call to see if his phone is on and if the phone is on I might give one more text. If he don't respond after that then I feel like you did all you could do. Hopefully he is ok and hopefully you find out what happened.
I don't know if I want to call or text him anymore. He already blew off when he was supposed to call me, and even aftervthat, I texted him twice to wish him a Happy New Year with no response. It's been over 2 weeks and if something happened to him I would've heard about it by now. Think it's time for me to walk away and let this go. He's too scared of me/a relationship BC of what his exes did to him. With all this fear he has, it's never going to get off the ground. I deserve to be loved and trusted. If he isn't going to trust me because of what someone else did to him, this isn't going to work out. And I deserve to be trusted too. I'm 47 years old and I just want to find a guy to give and receive love with. I'm not here to create drama or be a train wreck in someone's life. I'm too old for this shit. He's always asking me if I'm up to shady shit and I'm not. Not interested in yet another abusive relationship. I'm over it. Starting to think it's better to just be single. At least I don't have to deal with other people's drama then.
Sucks this isn't going to work out. He was hot and our chemistry was amazing too. But I'm not doing the time for some bitch's crime.
carmen_b
01-08-2021, 09:59 AM
^ It's a bummer but YOU'VE GOT THIS. It takes a true coward of epic proportions to just leave a woman hanging like that !! What a giant pussy. Pathetic.
I would be tempted to send the cops over and be like " I thought you were dead or injured " lol . How long were you together ?
LoveyDovey
01-08-2021, 11:33 AM
I know I've got this. I'm so over this. Guys do nothing but cause problems.
carmen_b
01-08-2021, 11:45 AM
^ I'm sorry he did that though ! Just because you are handling it well and seem thick skinned it doesn't mean it doesn't sting ! Ugh!
LoveyDovey
01-08-2021, 12:35 PM
^ I'm sorry he did that though ! Just because you are handling it well and seem thick skinned it doesn't mean it doesn't sting ! Ugh!
No, it hurts. Did nothing to deserve it. I'm really tired of trying anymore. I'm giving up on this and men in general. All guys do is bring drama into my life. I'm better off just building my own life independently.
Now I come to find out that his phone has been disconnected. Wtf?
I reached out to his best friend. Crickets.
This is fucking bizarre.
chanzep
01-08-2021, 05:02 PM
Wow he is terrible. Weird about his friends
yaya_cash
01-08-2021, 06:36 PM
I miss dressing up, engaging men and getting them to spend money. Now I'm just get dressed up for myself, without knowing where to go, or to get him to spend.
JGB2009
01-08-2021, 06:48 PM
I am about to be kind of petty tonight......
indiegirl
01-08-2021, 10:06 PM
In a conversation I’m wishing now that I’d never had and especially wish I hadn’t followed up on, the Irish woman was giving me a bit of hassle over the fact that I don’t own or use sex toys. I just go about it the old-fashioned way. In the course of that conversation, she said I was being prudish about it and people were even buying sex toys for their dogs, which I thought was absolute bullshit, but of course I let Google be the final word on that, and…
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71J16uS2b9L._AC_SL1206_.jpg
I was doing just fine not knowing that.
HAHAHA. I remember seeing those in the past online. My 1st dog used to nonstop hump a blanket. My dog ( before he was neutered) was going on a rampage humping dogs at the dog park and spraying urine to mark. So embarrassing explaining to other pet owners "he's scheduled to be neutered this week." I wanted to wait the full year until he was fully developed for neuter after research. Never had an issue like that since the neuter compared to before being neutered.
yaya_cash
01-09-2021, 11:35 AM
I think I just got hustled by the sales girl at Verizon. Maybe. I keep an Otterbox Defender case on my phone because I work in environments which aren’t good for delicate electronic devices, and this one got to the point where it was no longer holding up. So I figured I’d stop in at Verizon to see if there was a chance they had another one for ,y phone before I sought it on Amazon or EBay. So I explain this to her, she asks what model of phone I have, and the first words out of her mouth when I told her were, “Oh, my” then she kinda glanced awkwardly at the floor. In the course of what followed, I ended up leaving the store with an iPhone 12 Pro. So I’m a little torn between feeling it needed to be done and feeling like this 20 y/o managed to hustle me.
Girl. Bahahaaa