Wow. :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: for those dealing with that.

I suck at meeting new people.

What does your DH say? Would he be willing to cart them to the meeting or wherever?

:lol: I love it. I'm not sure if I'd let them or not, but it's not weird at all. That's super cute and sounds like a great compromise between total house takeover and being the Mom of No. Mine have never asked me for those things, so I'm not sure what I'd say. I do let them use my tupperware to rinse paint brushes, and then scrub/wash and use as normal... :leaving: And we have dedicated bug-saving papers I find randomly, which look like trash (except they say "bug paper" on them). My middle is the catch and release expert. Mud stains in the bathroom , random muddy toys inside... :D Kids are messy; I'll have a sterile home when they're gone, and people who like sterile homes can come over then. ;) Plus I make a lot of messes trying to DIY, and I don't really ask DH's permission first (he doesn't travel or anything). Currently all our mess is mine.

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I failed to finish the paint job, so this next week's goals mirror the first. Finish the project, keep up with survival chores, pray I finish by Friday. I'm starting on the bathroom before finishing the kitchen because I took down the kids' shower curtain and now they can't shower until I replace it. Good motivation. :D The kitchen needs spackling, caulking, primer, and paint. Secondary goals are to put away all the Christmas stuff, and do our cleaning chores whenever we finish with painting. ETA: Finally put away 3 loads of laundry that were getting shifted around the house. I had the kids put away the Christmas stuff, so all I have to is the fragile ornaments and double check they did a decent job. Bathroom is primed!! Dinner is frozen bake-and-serve stuff, early bedtime for kids, and priming the kitchen for me (with oil-based stuff; ick).

One of mine does the finger thing, so you're not alone! Also not on the spectrum, and I did look at the "informant's questionnaire" once. I didn't like the informant bit and the questions just weren't my kid. Not at all. My kid is very intelligent, very willful, and very emotionally immature. The end. :) Anyway, I didn't work to have them break the habit when they were young, so now it's down to getting them to see a point to quitting, and beyond eventually meeting a SO they don't want to think poorly of them, the only thing that really grabs their attention is money, so I told them today they get a week to sort it out on their own. After that, I'm charging a quarter for every time I catch them. The other currency I could use is screen time, which I might. That might hurt worse, actually. /sigh. Just remember it really is just like nail biting, finger tapping, etc.--all those nervous habits nearly everyone has in some form or fashion. But I agree, some just need to be broken for sanitation and courtesy reasons. :D Also maybe try a replacement? Stress ball or something.

If she's socially connected to and active in this community, it's the healthiest place for her. It's also the best guarantee that people around her will have her back and be keeping an eye on her as she ages. That's about priceless imho. Sell the rental for as much as she can (i.e. flip it now), use the proceeds to pay down her current home, and hope medical troubles don't hit until her mortgage is paid off. ETA: AND it's the perfect house to age in, so definitely stay unless the mortgage is really cost prohibitive.

Bamboo sheets. :thumbup:

Prayers and :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:

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That text conversation has a comma splice in it.

:lol: Where is this water gotten from, I wonder; you'd have to own the rights to the waterway to remove, bottle and sell the water, right? It seems like a fad that will either fail or get shut down pretty quickly.

But they'll remember it forever. :001_wub: :001_wub: :001_wub:

Wait so I'm confused. Is this raw water fad simply water without the additives that treatment plants use, or straight up unfiltered and untreated water from...wherever? And why not just buy a reverse osmosis filter for your sink? :confused1:

But raw sounds so much more marketable. :D Do you purify yours, though? Or do you not drink it? ETA: or does rain water not need purifying? You can I grew up on tap, right?

My house is a wreck because most of my time and energy is going into scraping wallpaper glue and recovering, and feeding people in the meantime. Projects mean that the only things that get done are survival tasks--food, dirty laundry, dishes, showers--until the project is over. Thankfully I'll only have had to cook two nights this week. The kids do their own laundry for the most part, and I've been delegating dishes. I'm about to vacuum up my mess in the kitchen (the project room), and will hit the dirtiest parts of the house while I'm at it (mostly it's dog hair in the living room). That's it until the kitchen and bathroom are painted, whenever that happens to be. I was hoping by the end of tomorrow, but I wasn't anticipating the ordeal that wallpaper removal is. :D

Thanks for the heads up!

This is what I do.

Many years!

I avoid genres that might have that sort of stuff in it out of natural preference. IOW, the genres that tend to have that stuff in them don't appeal to me, and the ones that do don't tend to have those things in them. But if I ran across something that bothered me, I'd either put the book down or skip the section. Knowing it's there and forcing myself to read it are two different things. And in all likelihood, knowing it's there is enough to read the rest of the book with comprehension; I'm probably not missing key plot points. FTR preferred genres are sci-fi/fantasy and classics and nonfiction. :D

I think they primed the walls before papering, at least. Some of the wall underneath is glossier than other areas, which is where all the glue is being annoyingly stubborn.

I have to say, I don't think I'd not buy a house because of wallpaper, but it would really give me pause and possibly be factored into the negotiations.

:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: Annie and Patty. Y'all win. :D I'm not a fan of DIF, either. I think it works well, but I'm wondering if I'm sensitive to it. Or sensitive to harsh chemicals in general. I ran out to get some because the Chomp wasn't getting off that stubborn layer of glue. Sprayed the DIF from a mister (oops). Felt funny. Switched to a roller tray because directions duh. But each proper application (foams when rolled, no spray) has left a weird taste in the back of my mouth. Ick. So much for a magic bullet.

And apparently for good measure, you're supposed to use oil based primer, which is not the primer I bought.