Oh goodness, such a cute boy. Thanks Redkitten. Needed a warm-fuzzy.
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lamh32
Cute kid.
I don’t have kids of my own, but I have a nephew, and it’s amazing how much cuter other people’s kids seem until you have to babysit.
My God, I love my sister, I love my nephew, but after one night of babysitting him for her, I told my sister, that my nephew makes we wanna sell my ovaries. That kid was a holy terror (he was 3 or 4). He’s 10 now, and much, much easier to babysit.
Oh me oh my that young boy is a thing of beauty! Look at the cheeks on him, at the dimples on his hand!
I had a 2 1/2 year old sitting on my lap at our block party, just settled in and comfy, and oh my but it did make me miss my own toddlers. They are delightful creatures.
Lookit Lookit, guess who is going to be out on the patio tomorrow morning at daybreak in her jammies, with camera, tea and tripod (and ciggies shaddup)?
OMG, these NYCers on Property Virgins who are moving to Boston, are SOOOO stuck on living in this particular suburb of B-town, that they are completely ignoring some really nice condos.
They want more sapce, but for the area they want to live, more space can actually add up to 35,000 for an addit’l 100 sq feet.
Of course Sandra told them they had to either choose space, or location. She showed them a place outside the location, and they are STILL bitchin’ about the location.
These people are idiots…no they are “entitled” idiots…!!
OMG, these idiots gave up a BEAUTIFUL apartment because it was 8 MINUTES from their original location.
Whatever.
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madmommy
Sweet mercy, when did he turn into such a big kid? The time just flies, it does. At least he’s still got the elbow dimples and wrist chub. And they’re always extrapluscute when they’re sleeping!
@lamh32: I actually saw a couple on this show the other day that astounded me. They were realistic about their budget, they understood that paint and such were things that can be changed, and didn’t seem to give a rip about granite counters and s/s appliances. It was so out of the ordinary I figure it must have slipped past the producers somehow.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate that. I am so excited for tomorrow morning.
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lamh32
Okay,
now the next 2 idiots the woman is a RN, the guy is a cook (not a sous chef, but a line cook), WTF!
And they are looking at buying a home. Ah rent an apartment ’til dude gets a more stable job!
They want a move in ready home, but they are only approved for ’bout $275,000, and their dream neighborhood’s mean prime $600,000!!!! These people are delusional.
Idiots
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robertdsc
Love SamKitten. A real doll. Thank you, RedKitten.
Being in moderation is like waiting outside the principal’s office. I know it’s ’cause I changed my handle, so I’m not complaining or anything. Just observing.
Rode 20 miles today, first day in the last 4 that wasn’t rain-soaked, so I really took advantage. Warm and dry the rest of the week which will not only make me happy, but my tomatoes and my flowers. They were in danger of drowning. 2 very large tomatoes so far.
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South of I-10
@Litlebritdifrnt: I just showed your pics to my daughter, who is currently fascinated with all things butterfly. She knew exactly what they were and wants to see the butterfly, so get out there and get busy! :)
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jwb
@Mark S.: Yes, and how the hell do these wingnuts think we are going to supply our troops in the Middle East without those NATO bases in Europe?
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Mike Kay
Let me be the first to denounce tomorrow’s speech by the President for not going far enough, for not being angry enough, for not showing enough emotion, for not nationalizing BP, for not waterboarding Tony Heyward, and for being a giveaway to the corporations.
LOL I feel the same as you. “oh dear there are no stainless steel appliances and there is no powder room on the ground floor, and the master suite is really small” you are two fucking people, if you need to sleep in a king size bed then there is something wrong with your relationship, why do you want to sleep so far away from your spouse? If you need a walk in closet the size of a small bedroom then guess what you have too many clothes! There are seven days in a week, you wear one outfit a day, wash them at the weekend, why do you need AN ENTIRE ROOM IN YOUR HOUSE FOR YOUR CLOTHES. You want to know why the BP is a wake up call? Cause people want too much stuff! It is fucking stuff people, it doesn’t matter, it is stuff, I learned during Hurricane Floyd and my house flooded that it is just STUFF, it does not matter. Jeez.
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Mike Kay
@Mark S.: you mean neo-cons. neo-cons and wingers are two entirely different animals. The neo-cons have no real interest in social and economic policy, and the wingers (the non-rapture types) have no real interest in Israel.
Rather than just downsizing their expectations, these idiots are going put up the money they have saved as nest eggs to get a “move in” ready home.
Dude is a cook. No head cook, not sous chef, a regular ole cook!!!!
They want a perfect house, but they don’t want to have to settle for fixing anything. I love Sandra’s line that are property virgins, so they are probably thinking of being in a house like they see in magazine, but that is not the reality of buying your first home for most people.
OMG, these NYCers on Property Virgins who are moving to Boston, are SOOOO stuck on living in this particular suburb of B-town, that they are completely ignoring some really nice condos…
Which suburb? If they’re shocked about prices after moving from NYC, they must be looking at some very nice condos!
(I’m guessing Brookline, because ‘walk-up’ usually means ‘pre-1960’… )
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Mike Kay
@Litlebritdifrnt: Yes, but let’s recognize tee vee focuses on the absurd for sake of dramedy. Producers screen applicates and pick the drama queens and nut jobs and trainwrecks (ie “Jersey Shore” and “real housewives of …”). Most people aren’t like the wack jobs on reality shows.
I have my orders, I will obey. I am so excited it is silly. I am hoping I get out there early enough tomorrow, I have had many a time when I wake up and let the dogs out and they have already hatched. This is why I am watching them so closely, usually I can guess when they are going to hatch and I think this one is tomorrow morning. However, if it decides to hatch at 5.30 and I get out there at 6am I am going to be very annoyed. I have to admit the first time I watched one hatch (and photographed it) I was giddy with excitement. I was shaking so bad it is amazing that I actually got the shots. Those shots by the way are here (you have to hit reverse order cause photobucket for some reason would not allow me to upload them in the right order).
Now the RN & the cook, are looking at building a home. So Sandra tells them, that the model homes are NOT what their budget will allow. She also told them that the model homes will have all the bells and whistles that the basic model won’t have! And these idiots are oohing and ahhing all over the place.
I’m just really bothered by these two. At least, with the NYCer, they “seemed” to both have stable jobs, and were not completely unaware that their “only one neighborhood, conditon” was limiting their choices of good condos/homes.
This RN and cook dude, are young (24) and so obviously get their ideal home choices from MTV Cribs or VH1 fabulous life.
I’ve been following your blog and enjoying it immensely.
Ah those glorious toddler years – handsome guy, RedKitten.
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geg6
SamKitten is too adorable for words. Made my day.
My only good news is that my John fed me my first handful of fresh raspberries picked seconds before for breakfast yesterday. They were luscious. We are going to have a bumper crop of everything, but especially berries, this year. Awesome.
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South of I-10
@Litlebritdifrnt: She found a chrysalis on the ground in the spring attached to a leaf on the ground. Something had gone wrong, it was not going to open, that was clear from looking at it, but I didn’t have the heart to tell her. She was so excited to see the butterfly. We put it in a shoe box outside, and she put some leaves and flowers in the box. I moved some of it around after she went to bed, and told her in the morning it had hatched. We planted a ton of wildflower seeds this year, and have been enjoying the butterflies.
Alright. A watched comment never gets out of moderation. When I’m finally out of moderation there are like 4 comments from me, each one more profound than the other. Bawahaaaaha!
I’ll check back later.
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SIA
@Litlebritdifrnt: Those are beautiful photos. I love the dragonfly.
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South of I-10
@RedKitten: He is absolutely adorable. Little South starts 1st grade in the fall – where does the time go?
It is hard when things go wrong, your heart aches. I have watched many a dragonfly half hatch from a niad and it hurts. Mother nature is hard on us sometimes. Other times she shines.
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cathaireverywhere
such a cutie!!
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dmsilev
@lamh32: I’m looking at condos now, and my operating budget is on the order of half of that.
And one of the ones I’m considering is indeed a 3rd story unit in a walk-up.
dms
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lamh32
Okay, flipping the switch,
Couldn’t watch anymore of HGTV. Now I’m watching “I’m Gonna Get You Sucka” on IFC of all channels. Just wondering why I don’t have this movie on DVDI’m Gonna Get You Sucka: Cramps Scene
For anyone who likes the parody films of the Wayans, this is one of Keenan’s first, and best I would say.
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dmsilev
@Litlebritdifrnt: LOL. One of the units I looked at in my seemingly endless search is a two-bedroom condo, occupied by one person. She, at some point, converted the second bedroom into a closet. Just filled with clothes. As I described it to someone, “the closet had a closet”.
I’ll admit dms, I’m just too lazy I guess. I’ve stayed in more than my fair share of 2nd or 3rd story apartments, and I just don’t like having to walk up and down the stairs with groceries, furniture and the like.
Plus, I’m single, so 9 times out of 10, I’m the only one carrying the groceries from car to apartment.
My current apartment is a 1 bedroom, 1 bath, with an attached garage…and I love it. I love it so much, I don’t know what I’m gonna do when my lease is up, and my rent undoubtedly goes up (I rented the apartment at a move-in special that docked $250 – 300 off the rent). I’m seriously contemplating just pony-ing up on the increased rent. I can afford it, but still…
Okay, this thread is WAY too nice and positive with the cute baby and all, so I’m going to post ranty job shit.
Was not so much in the mood to spend 2? 3? hours writing very detailed, very polite replies to some random programmer who sent in a totally incomprehensible support request, couldn’t or wouldn’t provide any relevant information, couldn’t or wouldn’t compose a valid sentence in English (clearly a native speaker, just a very hasty/confused one), and kept getting madder and madder at how I was wasting his time and how I didn’t know anything about anything(*), before he finally stomped off with not one but three flourishes of “I’m going to take my business elsewhere because you refuse to provide any support!!!” [paraphrase] and “The customer is always right!” [direct quote] (which he sent by private email, rather than to the developer forum where they would’ve looked much funnier amid the pages of support we’ve provided). And yet that’s what I did today.
I keep being amazed at how many professional people in this computer-persuading field (using “field” loosely; he seems to be a one-man shop whose “business” may or may not exist) are total fucking idiots, as well as total fucking assholes, with neither the sense nor the social graces that God gave a moo-cow. Why I would expect this to be any different than any other field, I don’t know. I’m just easily amazed, full of childlike wonder (if a child were old and cranky).
(* Also, all our open-source example code is terrible, he can tell by looking at it, it’s full of horrible flaws that he won’t deign to explain. But – he forgot to mention – he’s not using it anyway, because of a different problem that he forgot to mention and doesn’t want any help with. So he’s using some other person’s code to talk to our server, and he was apparently asking us to solve a problem he had with that other person’s code. I think. I’m still not sure. My inability to figure this out was more proof of how incompetent I am. How he suffered!)
Coolidge Corner. That’s a neighborhood in Brookline (I grew up not too far from there). Not exactly the cheapest neighborhood in the Boston area.
dms
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SIA
@South of I-10: How did you plant the wildflower seeds? Were they the ones that came from the bags? I never have had those come up at all.
On the plus side, we had the first green beans from the garden tonight. It might be my imagination, but it seems when I ingest home grown, organic veggies my body perks up and wants “more! more!”. My theory is the food chain is so corrupted and barren when I get real food the cells recognize it. Or something.
Yep, that was it. That’s what Sandra was trying to tell them. Either they had to give up location or space. The NYCer’s choose to give up space, and budget.
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dmsilev
@lamh32: Groceries, I can manage. I tend to walk to the grocery story (advantage of living in a compact neighborhood), so I don’t tend to buy more than what will fit in a backpack plus a couple of shopping bags.
Furniture, well that’s what either a bunch of friends or professional movers are for…
Yeah your body will recognize real food, and thank you for it. My DH has gone from 220lbs to 170, his goal is 160lbs his combat weight in the marines, the last time I saw him with this body was in 1991 when I married him. Whoot!
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SIA
@Litlebritdifrnt: OK please tell me how he did that. And are you eating only home-grown food?
BTW may I use the orange lily photograph as a screen saver? It’s fine if not.
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dmsilev
@MikeJ: Yep. JFK’s birthplace is only a few blocks away from Coolidge Corner, and Teddy was very very popular for many years.
It’s part of Barney Franks’ district, which should give people some idea of the general political leanings of the area.
dms
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demo woman
@RedKitten: Sam is adorable. In only two months he’ll be a year and you’ll be able to sit back with a glass of wine and remember his birth. We should have an internet party and post some of the best comments from that time.
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Betsy
@lamh32:
Oh my god, that hurts to read. What MORONS. There are so many fabulous neighborhoods in Boston that, while still pricey, are much cheaper than Coolidge Corners.
I can only forgive them if I tell myself that since they’re moving here from NYC, they probably don’t know that. But that’s why they should rent for a year and learn the area.
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Betsy
And oh yeah, SamKitten!! Squee!!!
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South of I-10
@SIA: It was a bag of all kinds of different seeds, it came from the nursery at the front of my neighborhood. They get all of their plants locally, which is why I buy from them. I think they put this bag together themselves. They are growing like crazy, cause it is all stuff that can deal with the heat here.
you are two fucking people, if you need to sleep in a king size bed then there is something wrong with your relationship, why do you want to sleep so far away from your spouse?
I’m a short chick who has a habit of marrying or getting jiggy with guys well over 6 feet tall. (Hey short guys, don’t take it personally. Every single unrequited crush I’ve ever had has been on guys 5’6″ or shorter. It’s you guys who are rejecting me, after all, while it’s the tall ones who give me a chance.)
But a few years ago, I was astonished to find that queen size beds are not just wider, they’re longer, which makes tall guys way more comfy and less grouchy. I’d love to have a double bed again — my tiny “master” bedroom in my tiny townhouse would be so much easier to re-arrange — but until the short guys start chasing me back, I’m sticking with what I have.
(But king size beds? Yeah, unless you’ve got one or more really thrashy sleepers, that’s just overkill.)
but until the short guys start chasing me back, I’m sticking with what I have.
LOL,
You make me laugh CM.
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demimondian
@Litlebritdifrnt: For what it is worth, FDDD and I sleep in a king sized bed. No, it’s not that it isn’t wonderful to wake up entangled with your spouse, but, rather that she finds being kicked by her partner in the middle of the night unpleasant. Having found during vacations that the extra width reduces that experience, we decided to shift over to a wider and longer California King.
Are you trying to make my computer shut down from cute overload?
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SiubhanDuinne
@RedKitten: Nothing I can add to the chorus of Ooohs and Aaahs except:
Oooh!
Aaah!
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ms badger
@ellaesther: With bebe #1, we called those “rubber wand wrists”. I was convinced that she was malformed.
Then she turned orange. (Profound love for all bebe food with carotene: squash, carrots et al). People would come up to us in the grocery store and ask if she was jaundiced. No, no, jaundice is yellow, dammit. And she was ORANGE.
Hah, that would be Coolidge Corner in Brookline, which is basically the Boston equivalent of Upper Manhattan. (Brookline is technically not-Boston but that’s an artifact of history — it’s almost completely enclosed by the city proper. Not a coincidence that ‘gerrymandering’ is named after Massachusetts Senator Elbridge Gerry!) It’s right on the Green Line, in a “hipster” area with a prime mix of professors, medical staffers, and ethnic enclaves. Basically the people you’re talking about want to live in Boston’s Greenwich Village on a Queens (or Hoboken) budget… Not. Going. To. End. Well.
@ms badger: Ah bebe #1! I worried because our bebe #1’s toenails were not growing as quickly as his fingernails. One has no idea what to worry about, some days, with bebe #1!
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Steeplejack
Gotta put in a word for The Good Guys (9:00 p.m. Mondays on Fox, rerun this Friday). Kind of a loopy cop show with Colin Hanks as a by-the-book straight arrow and Bradley Whitford as his older partner, a guy who’s trapped in some ’80s time warp with a porn ‘stache and a Trans Am. Pretty funny so far. Promo here.
Might take up the slack while Chuck is away.
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ms badger
@ellaesther: Bebes are lots of work, but the end result (now 23 and 20) are really worth all the work. I do miss when they were little. All the problems could be solved – wet, hungry, tired, dry. It’s a little bit more complicated now. But, we loves ’em still.
Squeeeeeee! SamKitten is no longer a baby, but still so cute! I remember when we were all hanging out waiting eagerly for the news of his birth. We got worried; we held our breaths; we whooped in glee once he was born. Ah, good times.
@Hob: Oh man. I hope you’re home with a glass of something strong in your hand. I can’t imagine how many times you wanted to tell the guy to suck it.
@lamh32: See, it would drive me batshitcrazy to watch that because I would want to smack someone upside the head. I know these shows like to book the crazies, but I personally don’t care to see that watch of trainwreck.
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MikeJ
@Matt: Appropriate that the “cult of Palin” teaser at the bottom remains.
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Matt
@MikeJ: At one point all the links led to Tea Party stories. Now they just lead to the front page.
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Gozer
Posting during vacation (um…yeah), but the wife and I have fallen in love with Burlington, VT and Portland, ME. She finds Portland kind of dreary weather-wise, but we’re both enamored with Burlington (btw, is it VT state law to own a Subaru?)
On to Syracuse, NY tomorrow.
And Sammy is a cute little nugget. Makes me feel all paternal like.
seriously i don’t think expansion is over by a long shot…i’ve seen through this with the big east, boston college went from;
dammit, they can’t get away with this, this is a travesty!, to guess what y’all , we are joining the travesty….
@asiangrrlMN: Thanks, yes, glasses and other refreshments are helping.
Partway through the day I also remembered to cc some of the email madness to a couple of other colleagues for “advice”, but really just to share the suffering and provide some backup in case the guy decided to complain about me. One of them then tried to help, and made it worse. Eventually one of the managers couldn’t take it any more and came staggering across the room to tell me and the others, “OK, please, please no one reply to that guy’s last email! OK?!”
Anyway! Now I am all like, HEY WOW CUTE BABY! YAY!
@Hob: Glad that imbibing helped refresh your wilting internal strength so that now you, too, can coo over the cute bebbe. Re: The customer from hell. OK, I know it’s not funny to you, but I had to snort at your manager pleading with you guys to basically ignore a customer. Sounds like good advice!
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vaux-rien
Well the Brookline prices are due mostly to the schools, so it’s more the Carroll Gardens than… no actually that doesn’t map well to New York at all. We have pockets of gentrification around certain elementary schools but Brookline is a whole system.
I’d say it’s worth it, although it was a lot cheaper when I grew up there and they still had Home Ec , Drama, Industrial Arts, etc. But for good school districts there’s Brookline and Newton and Brookline is closer and has Booksmith. The rich, hip and childless should probably stick with Cambridge.
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Zuzu's Petals
Adorable baby!
So what is the deal with those big-head cow toys? My grandbaby had the same one at that age and just loved going to sleep hugging it. Can’t tell you how many pics had a big-head cow toy peeping from under the blankie.
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canuckistani
That is one cute kid. That picture really gets the happy toddler memories going.
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R-Jud
Awwwww, he’s so cute. His future bride is in the next room moaning about her teeth at the moment.
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Keith G
Oh goodness, such a cute boy. Thanks Redkitten. Needed a warm-fuzzy.
lamh32
Cute kid.
I don’t have kids of my own, but I have a nephew, and it’s amazing how much cuter other people’s kids seem until you have to babysit.
My God, I love my sister, I love my nephew, but after one night of babysitting him for her, I told my sister, that my nephew makes we wanna sell my ovaries. That kid was a holy terror (he was 3 or 4). He’s 10 now, and much, much easier to babysit.
WereBear
Oh, RedKitten, he’s such a doll!
@lamh32: Oh, yeah. By comparison, puppies are much easier, and kittens are a piece of cake.
lamh32
I’m watching Property Virgins, and I just wondering, is $450, 000 normal for a “condo” apartment.
Also, maybe I’m too lazy, but I sure as heck wouldn’t want to live in a 3 story “walk-up” on the 3rd floor!!!
EDIT: Naw, I’m just lazy!
EDIT: 450,000 not 45, 000
General Egali Tarian Stuck
Look at those biceps. Sam is going to be a bruiser, but no doubt a sweet hearted one.
Comrade Mary
OMG. Not a baby any more. Still adorable.
Ahasuerus
What an adorable face!
Oh, and the kid’s kind of cute, too.
/grin
ellaesther
Oh me oh my that young boy is a thing of beauty! Look at the cheeks on him, at the dimples on his hand!
I had a 2 1/2 year old sitting on my lap at our block party, just settled in and comfy, and oh my but it did make me miss my own toddlers. They are delightful creatures.
Litlebritdifrnt
Lookit Lookit, guess who is going to be out on the patio tomorrow morning at daybreak in her jammies, with camera, tea and tripod (and ciggies shaddup)?
http://crittersbybritty.blogstream.com/
middlewest
Ugh, nevermind I shouldn’t ruin the cute kid thread with inane observations.
Mark S.
Man, he’s grown a lot!
In other news, no one could’ve predicted that wingnuts would be calling for the US to get out of NATO in the wake of the flotilla incident.
lamh32
OMG, these NYCers on Property Virgins who are moving to Boston, are SOOOO stuck on living in this particular suburb of B-town, that they are completely ignoring some really nice condos.
They want more sapce, but for the area they want to live, more space can actually add up to 35,000 for an addit’l 100 sq feet.
Of course Sandra told them they had to either choose space, or location. She showed them a place outside the location, and they are STILL bitchin’ about the location.
These people are idiots…no they are “entitled” idiots…!!
Elizabelle
SamKitten is a beautiful child.
TaMara (formerly Bad Horse's Filly)
That is one adorable little boy. If this is how they grow them in Canada, maybe defecting isn’t such a bad idea.
And yeah, I’ve decided it’s stupid to have a pseudonym here when we link each week to a blog with my real name. BHF no more.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
@Litlebritdifrnt: You are a terrific nature photographer litlebrit!
lamh32
@lamh32:
OMG, these idiots gave up a BEAUTIFUL apartment because it was 8 MINUTES from their original location.
Whatever.
madmommy
Sweet mercy, when did he turn into such a big kid? The time just flies, it does. At least he’s still got the elbow dimples and wrist chub. And they’re always extrapluscute when they’re sleeping!
@lamh32: I actually saw a couple on this show the other day that astounded me. They were realistic about their budget, they understood that paint and such were things that can be changed, and didn’t seem to give a rip about granite counters and s/s appliances. It was so out of the ordinary I figure it must have slipped past the producers somehow.
TaMara (formerly Bad Horse's Filly)
@Litlebritdifrnt: Great pix. Can’t wait to see the butterflies.
p.s. in moderation so I couldn’t edit my first comment – to add, if Canada would have me.
Violet
SamKitten is such a gorgeous boy. So sweet.
Litlebritdifrnt
@General Egali Tarian Stuck:
Thank you so much, I really appreciate that. I am so excited for tomorrow morning.
lamh32
Okay,
now the next 2 idiots the woman is a RN, the guy is a cook (not a sous chef, but a line cook), WTF!
And they are looking at buying a home. Ah rent an apartment ’til dude gets a more stable job!
They want a move in ready home, but they are only approved for ’bout $275,000, and their dream neighborhood’s mean prime $600,000!!!! These people are delusional.
Idiots
robertdsc
Love SamKitten. A real doll. Thank you, RedKitten.
QuaintIrene
Oh, man. “Lips like two red rose buds…”
TaMara (formerly Bad Horse's Filly)
Being in moderation is like waiting outside the principal’s office. I know it’s ’cause I changed my handle, so I’m not complaining or anything. Just observing.
Rode 20 miles today, first day in the last 4 that wasn’t rain-soaked, so I really took advantage. Warm and dry the rest of the week which will not only make me happy, but my tomatoes and my flowers. They were in danger of drowning. 2 very large tomatoes so far.
South of I-10
@Litlebritdifrnt: I just showed your pics to my daughter, who is currently fascinated with all things butterfly. She knew exactly what they were and wants to see the butterfly, so get out there and get busy! :)
jwb
@Mark S.: Yes, and how the hell do these wingnuts think we are going to supply our troops in the Middle East without those NATO bases in Europe?
Mike Kay
Let me be the first to denounce tomorrow’s speech by the President for not going far enough, for not being angry enough, for not showing enough emotion, for not nationalizing BP, for not waterboarding Tony Heyward, and for being a giveaway to the corporations.
WereBear
@lamh32: Sensible people make for lousy television.
Litlebritdifrnt
@lamh32:
LOL I feel the same as you. “oh dear there are no stainless steel appliances and there is no powder room on the ground floor, and the master suite is really small” you are two fucking people, if you need to sleep in a king size bed then there is something wrong with your relationship, why do you want to sleep so far away from your spouse? If you need a walk in closet the size of a small bedroom then guess what you have too many clothes! There are seven days in a week, you wear one outfit a day, wash them at the weekend, why do you need AN ENTIRE ROOM IN YOUR HOUSE FOR YOUR CLOTHES. You want to know why the BP is a wake up call? Cause people want too much stuff! It is fucking stuff people, it doesn’t matter, it is stuff, I learned during Hurricane Floyd and my house flooded that it is just STUFF, it does not matter. Jeez.
Mike Kay
@Mark S.: you mean neo-cons. neo-cons and wingers are two entirely different animals. The neo-cons have no real interest in social and economic policy, and the wingers (the non-rapture types) have no real interest in Israel.
TaMara (formerly Bad Horse's Filly)
@Mike Kay: This.
Music to hang out in moderation to.
lamh32
Okay so the RN & the cook,
Rather than just downsizing their expectations, these idiots are going put up the money they have saved as nest eggs to get a “move in” ready home.
Dude is a cook. No head cook, not sous chef, a regular ole cook!!!!
They want a perfect house, but they don’t want to have to settle for fixing anything. I love Sandra’s line that are property virgins, so they are probably thinking of being in a house like they see in magazine, but that is not the reality of buying your first home for most people.
I can’t believe people really do this.
Anne Laurie
@lamh32:
Which suburb? If they’re shocked about prices after moving from NYC, they must be looking at some very nice condos!
(I’m guessing Brookline, because ‘walk-up’ usually means ‘pre-1960’… )
Mike Kay
@Litlebritdifrnt: Yes, but let’s recognize tee vee focuses on the absurd for sake of dramedy. Producers screen applicates and pick the drama queens and nut jobs and trainwrecks (ie “Jersey Shore” and “real housewives of …”). Most people aren’t like the wack jobs on reality shows.
Mark S.
The Big 12 (now with ten members) lives to fight another day.
Litlebritdifrnt
@South of I-10:
I have my orders, I will obey. I am so excited it is silly. I am hoping I get out there early enough tomorrow, I have had many a time when I wake up and let the dogs out and they have already hatched. This is why I am watching them so closely, usually I can guess when they are going to hatch and I think this one is tomorrow morning. However, if it decides to hatch at 5.30 and I get out there at 6am I am going to be very annoyed. I have to admit the first time I watched one hatch (and photographed it) I was giddy with excitement. I was shaking so bad it is amazing that I actually got the shots. Those shots by the way are here (you have to hit reverse order cause photobucket for some reason would not allow me to upload them in the right order).
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v641/MsNick40/Butterfly%20Birth/?albumview=slideshow
RedKitten
Yep, he’s definitely growing fast. 10 months old today!
And yes, Property Virgins pisses me off too. People bitching about the paint colours…I mean, seriously? Seriously?
lamh32
@Anne Laurie:
I think it was Coolidge something or other.
Now the RN & the cook, are looking at building a home. So Sandra tells them, that the model homes are NOT what their budget will allow. She also told them that the model homes will have all the bells and whistles that the basic model won’t have! And these idiots are oohing and ahhing all over the place.
I’m just really bothered by these two. At least, with the NYCer, they “seemed” to both have stable jobs, and were not completely unaware that their “only one neighborhood, conditon” was limiting their choices of good condos/homes.
This RN and cook dude, are young (24) and so obviously get their ideal home choices from MTV Cribs or VH1 fabulous life.
HRA
@Litlebritdifrnt:
I’ve been following your blog and enjoying it immensely.
Ah those glorious toddler years – handsome guy, RedKitten.
geg6
SamKitten is too adorable for words. Made my day.
My only good news is that my John fed me my first handful of fresh raspberries picked seconds before for breakfast yesterday. They were luscious. We are going to have a bumper crop of everything, but especially berries, this year. Awesome.
South of I-10
@Litlebritdifrnt: She found a chrysalis on the ground in the spring attached to a leaf on the ground. Something had gone wrong, it was not going to open, that was clear from looking at it, but I didn’t have the heart to tell her. She was so excited to see the butterfly. We put it in a shoe box outside, and she put some leaves and flowers in the box. I moved some of it around after she went to bed, and told her in the morning it had hatched. We planted a ton of wildflower seeds this year, and have been enjoying the butterflies.
TaMara (formerly Bad Horse's Filly)
Alright. A watched comment never gets out of moderation. When I’m finally out of moderation there are like 4 comments from me, each one more profound than the other. Bawahaaaaha!
I’ll check back later.
SIA
@Litlebritdifrnt: Those are beautiful photos. I love the dragonfly.
South of I-10
@RedKitten: He is absolutely adorable. Little South starts 1st grade in the fall – where does the time go?
Litlebritdifrnt
@South of I-10:
It is hard when things go wrong, your heart aches. I have watched many a dragonfly half hatch from a niad and it hurts. Mother nature is hard on us sometimes. Other times she shines.
cathaireverywhere
such a cutie!!
dmsilev
@lamh32: I’m looking at condos now, and my operating budget is on the order of half of that.
And one of the ones I’m considering is indeed a 3rd story unit in a walk-up.
dms
lamh32
Okay, flipping the switch,
Couldn’t watch anymore of HGTV. Now I’m watching “I’m Gonna Get You Sucka” on IFC of all channels. Just wondering why I don’t have this movie on DVDI’m Gonna Get You Sucka: Cramps Scene
For anyone who likes the parody films of the Wayans, this is one of Keenan’s first, and best I would say.
dmsilev
@Litlebritdifrnt: LOL. One of the units I looked at in my seemingly endless search is a two-bedroom condo, occupied by one person. She, at some point, converted the second bedroom into a closet. Just filled with clothes. As I described it to someone, “the closet had a closet”.
dms
lamh32
@dmsilev:
I’ll admit dms, I’m just too lazy I guess. I’ve stayed in more than my fair share of 2nd or 3rd story apartments, and I just don’t like having to walk up and down the stairs with groceries, furniture and the like.
Plus, I’m single, so 9 times out of 10, I’m the only one carrying the groceries from car to apartment.
My current apartment is a 1 bedroom, 1 bath, with an attached garage…and I love it. I love it so much, I don’t know what I’m gonna do when my lease is up, and my rent undoubtedly goes up (I rented the apartment at a move-in special that docked $250 – 300 off the rent). I’m seriously contemplating just pony-ing up on the increased rent. I can afford it, but still…
Hob
Okay, this thread is WAY too nice and positive with the cute baby and all, so I’m going to post ranty job shit.
Was not so much in the mood to spend 2? 3? hours writing very detailed, very polite replies to some random programmer who sent in a totally incomprehensible support request, couldn’t or wouldn’t provide any relevant information, couldn’t or wouldn’t compose a valid sentence in English (clearly a native speaker, just a very hasty/confused one), and kept getting madder and madder at how I was wasting his time and how I didn’t know anything about anything(*), before he finally stomped off with not one but three flourishes of “I’m going to take my business elsewhere because you refuse to provide any support!!!” [paraphrase] and “The customer is always right!” [direct quote] (which he sent by private email, rather than to the developer forum where they would’ve looked much funnier amid the pages of support we’ve provided). And yet that’s what I did today.
I keep being amazed at how many professional people in this computer-persuading field (using “field” loosely; he seems to be a one-man shop whose “business” may or may not exist) are total fucking idiots, as well as total fucking assholes, with neither the sense nor the social graces that God gave a moo-cow. Why I would expect this to be any different than any other field, I don’t know. I’m just easily amazed, full of childlike wonder (if a child were old and cranky).
(* Also, all our open-source example code is terrible, he can tell by looking at it, it’s full of horrible flaws that he won’t deign to explain. But – he forgot to mention – he’s not using it anyway, because of a different problem that he forgot to mention and doesn’t want any help with. So he’s using some other person’s code to talk to our server, and he was apparently asking us to solve a problem he had with that other person’s code. I think. I’m still not sure. My inability to figure this out was more proof of how incompetent I am. How he suffered!)
dmsilev
@lamh32:
Coolidge Corner. That’s a neighborhood in Brookline (I grew up not too far from there). Not exactly the cheapest neighborhood in the Boston area.
dms
SIA
@South of I-10: How did you plant the wildflower seeds? Were they the ones that came from the bags? I never have had those come up at all.
On the plus side, we had the first green beans from the garden tonight. It might be my imagination, but it seems when I ingest home grown, organic veggies my body perks up and wants “more! more!”. My theory is the food chain is so corrupted and barren when I get real food the cells recognize it. Or something.
lamh32
@dmsilev:
Yep, that was it. That’s what Sandra was trying to tell them. Either they had to give up location or space. The NYCer’s choose to give up space, and budget.
dmsilev
@lamh32: Groceries, I can manage. I tend to walk to the grocery story (advantage of living in a compact neighborhood), so I don’t tend to buy more than what will fit in a backpack plus a couple of shopping bags.
Furniture, well that’s what either a bunch of friends or professional movers are for…
dms
lamh32
Another I’m Gonna Get You Sucka fav:
How much for one rib
Love how he takes out a role of $100 bills after trying to haggle for one rib.
MikeJ
@dmsilev: Kennedy country, isn’t it?
Litlebritdifrnt
@SIA:
Yeah your body will recognize real food, and thank you for it. My DH has gone from 220lbs to 170, his goal is 160lbs his combat weight in the marines, the last time I saw him with this body was in 1991 when I married him. Whoot!
SIA
@Litlebritdifrnt: OK please tell me how he did that. And are you eating only home-grown food?
BTW may I use the orange lily photograph as a screen saver? It’s fine if not.
dmsilev
@MikeJ: Yep. JFK’s birthplace is only a few blocks away from Coolidge Corner, and Teddy was very very popular for many years.
It’s part of Barney Franks’ district, which should give people some idea of the general political leanings of the area.
dms
demo woman
@RedKitten: Sam is adorable. In only two months he’ll be a year and you’ll be able to sit back with a glass of wine and remember his birth. We should have an internet party and post some of the best comments from that time.
Betsy
@lamh32:
Oh my god, that hurts to read. What MORONS. There are so many fabulous neighborhoods in Boston that, while still pricey, are much cheaper than Coolidge Corners.
I can only forgive them if I tell myself that since they’re moving here from NYC, they probably don’t know that. But that’s why they should rent for a year and learn the area.
Betsy
And oh yeah, SamKitten!! Squee!!!
South of I-10
@SIA: It was a bag of all kinds of different seeds, it came from the nursery at the front of my neighborhood. They get all of their plants locally, which is why I buy from them. I think they put this bag together themselves. They are growing like crazy, cause it is all stuff that can deal with the heat here.
Comrade Mary
@Litlebritdifrnt:
I’m a short chick who has a habit of marrying or getting jiggy with guys well over 6 feet tall. (Hey short guys, don’t take it personally. Every single unrequited crush I’ve ever had has been on guys 5’6″ or shorter. It’s you guys who are rejecting me, after all, while it’s the tall ones who give me a chance.)
But a few years ago, I was astonished to find that queen size beds are not just wider, they’re longer, which makes tall guys way more comfy and less grouchy. I’d love to have a double bed again — my tiny “master” bedroom in my tiny townhouse would be so much easier to re-arrange — but until the short guys start chasing me back, I’m sticking with what I have.
(But king size beds? Yeah, unless you’ve got one or more really thrashy sleepers, that’s just overkill.)
MikeJ
@dmsilev:
That’s what I was thinking of. I knew he grew up in Brookline.
Svensker
What an adorable child. The warm sweetness is just melt worthy. Sigh. Hold him close, RK, he’ll be 6’2″ and smelly in no time at all.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
@Comrade Mary:
LOL,
You make me laugh CM.
demimondian
@Litlebritdifrnt: For what it is worth, FDDD and I sleep in a king sized bed. No, it’s not that it isn’t wonderful to wake up entangled with your spouse, but, rather that she finds being kicked by her partner in the middle of the night unpleasant. Having found during vacations that the extra width reduces that experience, we decided to shift over to a wider and longer California King.
Linda Featheringill
Sooooooooooo biiiiiiiiiiggggg!
[aren’t they sweet when they are asleep?] :-)
YellowJournalism
Are you trying to make my computer shut down from cute overload?
SiubhanDuinne
@RedKitten: Nothing I can add to the chorus of Ooohs and Aaahs except:
Oooh!
Aaah!
ms badger
@ellaesther: With bebe #1, we called those “rubber wand wrists”. I was convinced that she was malformed.
Then she turned orange. (Profound love for all bebe food with carotene: squash, carrots et al). People would come up to us in the grocery store and ask if she was jaundiced. No, no, jaundice is yellow, dammit. And she was ORANGE.
Matt
I’m sure this is probably old news by now but if you go to and enter the Konami code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Enter) you get a surprise.
Matt
That should read if you go to newsweek.com…
I’m not sure what happened.
Anne Laurie
@lamh32:
Hah, that would be Coolidge Corner in Brookline, which is basically the Boston equivalent of Upper Manhattan. (Brookline is technically not-Boston but that’s an artifact of history — it’s almost completely enclosed by the city proper. Not a coincidence that ‘gerrymandering’ is named after Massachusetts Senator Elbridge Gerry!) It’s right on the Green Line, in a “hipster” area with a prime mix of professors, medical staffers, and ethnic enclaves. Basically the people you’re talking about want to live in Boston’s Greenwich Village on a Queens (or Hoboken) budget… Not. Going. To. End. Well.
ellaesther
@ms badger: Ah bebe #1! I worried because our bebe #1’s toenails were not growing as quickly as his fingernails. One has no idea what to worry about, some days, with bebe #1!
Steeplejack
Gotta put in a word for The Good Guys (9:00 p.m. Mondays on Fox, rerun this Friday). Kind of a loopy cop show with Colin Hanks as a by-the-book straight arrow and Bradley Whitford as his older partner, a guy who’s trapped in some ’80s time warp with a porn ‘stache and a Trans Am. Pretty funny so far. Promo here.
Might take up the slack while Chuck is away.
ms badger
@ellaesther: Bebes are lots of work, but the end result (now 23 and 20) are really worth all the work. I do miss when they were little. All the problems could be solved – wet, hungry, tired, dry. It’s a little bit more complicated now. But, we loves ’em still.
asiangrrlMN
Squeeeeeee! SamKitten is no longer a baby, but still so cute! I remember when we were all hanging out waiting eagerly for the news of his birth. We got worried; we held our breaths; we whooped in glee once he was born. Ah, good times.
@Hob: Oh man. I hope you’re home with a glass of something strong in your hand. I can’t imagine how many times you wanted to tell the guy to suck it.
@lamh32: See, it would drive me batshitcrazy to watch that because I would want to smack someone upside the head. I know these shows like to book the crazies, but I personally don’t care to see that watch of trainwreck.
MikeJ
@Matt: Appropriate that the “cult of Palin” teaser at the bottom remains.
Matt
@MikeJ: At one point all the links led to Tea Party stories. Now they just lead to the front page.
Gozer
Posting during vacation (um…yeah), but the wife and I have fallen in love with Burlington, VT and Portland, ME. She finds Portland kind of dreary weather-wise, but we’re both enamored with Burlington (btw, is it VT state law to own a Subaru?)
On to Syracuse, NY tomorrow.
And Sammy is a cute little nugget. Makes me feel all paternal like.
Ash Can
What a little sweetie! :)
fucen tarmal
@Mark S.:
the big ten has 12 schools
the big 12 has 10.
won’t somebody think of the children?
seriously i don’t think expansion is over by a long shot…i’ve seen through this with the big east, boston college went from;
dammit, they can’t get away with this, this is a travesty!, to guess what y’all , we are joining the travesty….
Hob
@asiangrrlMN: Thanks, yes, glasses and other refreshments are helping.
Partway through the day I also remembered to cc some of the email madness to a couple of other colleagues for “advice”, but really just to share the suffering and provide some backup in case the guy decided to complain about me. One of them then tried to help, and made it worse. Eventually one of the managers couldn’t take it any more and came staggering across the room to tell me and the others, “OK, please, please no one reply to that guy’s last email! OK?!”
Anyway! Now I am all like, HEY WOW CUTE BABY! YAY!
– hob +3 +~?
TooManyJens
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Because it’s summer and he’s a damn space heater, that’s why.
(We don’t actually have a king size bed. Not yet, anyway.)
asiangrrlMN
@Hob: Glad that imbibing helped refresh your wilting internal strength so that now you, too, can coo over the cute bebbe. Re: The customer from hell. OK, I know it’s not funny to you, but I had to snort at your manager pleading with you guys to basically ignore a customer. Sounds like good advice!
vaux-rien
Well the Brookline prices are due mostly to the schools, so it’s more the Carroll Gardens than… no actually that doesn’t map well to New York at all. We have pockets of gentrification around certain elementary schools but Brookline is a whole system.
I’d say it’s worth it, although it was a lot cheaper when I grew up there and they still had Home Ec , Drama, Industrial Arts, etc. But for good school districts there’s Brookline and Newton and Brookline is closer and has Booksmith. The rich, hip and childless should probably stick with Cambridge.
Zuzu's Petals
Adorable baby!
So what is the deal with those big-head cow toys? My grandbaby had the same one at that age and just loved going to sleep hugging it. Can’t tell you how many pics had a big-head cow toy peeping from under the blankie.
canuckistani
That is one cute kid. That picture really gets the happy toddler memories going.
R-Jud
Awwwww, he’s so cute. His future bride is in the next room moaning about her teeth at the moment.