In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Bummer... lots of rain today until early afternoon.
Why whenever they're wrong about it on the weekends this year does it seem that we get hit 10 times harder than they say we were? When I looked on Friday night it said it was incidental that we might have a little bit of rain for about an hour this morning. Now it's thunderstorms until the 1PM hour and at least 25% of rain the rest of the day.
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I want to get a futon for a couch.
I've got two of them now, and they're my only couches. Never going back to a regular couch again. It's SO easy to clean under and around.
If you plan on sleeping on it though, spring some extra cash for a good one. I thought I'd made a horrible mistake throwing out the L-shaped couch along with both of my other couches before giving my first futon a good week of sleep, and I was really hurting in between work shifts. My brother had an excellent one that he'd been trying to get me to take for over a year though and he brought it over and I sleep like a baby on it.
Going to keep the old one too for now though. It's the only thing in my small bedroom and it will be nice to put out in the porch when it's finished.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
My mom had one years ago and it was good. I had to get rid of it after my mom died.
I want something to sleep or nap on and I can stretch out on and get off my feet and legs completely to relax them. Also something for people who may come to visit me.
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Lazy Sunday here. More rain but I'm not going anywhere so that is okay. Put the tv on for some noise. Too quiet.
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Have to move things away from the heating units in case I have to use them.
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Yeah... I'm not a pro when it comes to what makes a good futon and what doesn't, Brenda, but really do try to do some research and get some reviews before you buy one. All I know is that there can be some huge differences between them, and I susptect that while the Sealy mattress on the good one that my brother gave me has something to do with it, it's also the makeup of the futon as well.
The cheap one I had was something I had picked off of the curb when my neighbors threw it away. It was an entirely metal frame that doesn't seem the most solid thing in the world, and the mattress was pretty thin. Both of these lead to a bit more "sagging" than my back needed and with the intense nightly physical work I did it just wasn't good enough and I would start my next day off with a little bit of tightness and soreness from the night before that I didn't get when I slept on the L-shaped couch.
The good one my brother gave me though has a Sealy mattress that is not only a tad thicker, but it's quite a bit heavier and harder to move. You can tell really easily that it's a much higher caliber of mattress. At the same time, the futon unit itself has no "wobble" to it once it was set up. Though the framing of the unit is metal, there are two sets of wooden slats, one for the "seat" and one for the "backrest" portion.
That does bring up the possible issue of it being a problem for somebody who wants to unfold the whole thing and really spread out though. I never did that with either of mine and only slept on the "seat" part. I can't imagine it being extremely comfortable if an individual used the entire thing as a bead to spread out on, because the cheap one probably would offer even less support at the "seam" while the much higher quality one would probably be really stiff and offer possibly too much support at the same "seam" when unfolded into "bed mode".
I'm not sure if you plan to make this an every-night bed for yourself like I use it for, or if we're just talking the occasional nap or not. The good one I have is probably just fine for an occasional nap, even unfolded, but be sure to really do your research if you're going to sleep on this thing everyday.
I'm probably the cheapest bastard you know, but if my brother hadn't given me one that gives me the sleep experience I need, I would have started to use my actual bed for now until I was able to find the right futon for my back and I know it would have cost a lot more than I was happy about spending. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Have to move things away from the heating units in case I have to use them.
One of the few things I haven't thrown out...
I've still got 4 electric heaters in here. No doubt more than I need, but one of them did break last year, so maybe having 5 of them in a house that doesn't yet have the most reliable furnace in the world isn't a case of hoarding and is just a smart decision.
I think you might be alright without them though. In all the years and the many different apartments I lived in, there was only one weekend I ever needed to use them. It was back when I lived with my brother on a weekend that my brother's future wife came up to stay with us and the entire heat system in the building had gone out. The new (terrible) management had just taken over the spring prior and did not answer any of the tenant's calls about it until they came back to the office on Monday. People were using electric ovens to heat their places. My brother went out and bought two portable electric heaters.
Here's hoping you don't need to even use them at your new place.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I just woke up about an hour ago. Damn. 2:00PM. Half my day gone already.
Really got a lot done at my friend's house this weekend, even though he was working with a hurt back from that joist at my house and I was working with a hurt shoulder from moving the furniture with my brother from early the prior week.
That drinking though... I'm not getting any less concerned about it. I made a point to tell him (while working at my house the second night) this week that I was happy to see him not drinking Icehouse, again saying it was the devil's brew that got a hold of me. I wish I hadn't said it. Subconsciously or not, he must not have liked that and he was drinking Icehouse both days this weekend at his house.
Yesterday, about an hour before it was going to get dark and we were about to wrap things up anyhow because it had started drizzling and the clouds were really looking bad, he fell off a ladder right next to me and almost pulled mine down too out of instinct to grab whatever you can get ahold of when you're falling. At least he had the wherewithal to throw out the putty knife and boxcutter he was using to scrape the worst of the windows we've worked on yet as he fell.
He's got a pretty bad limp from it, but having busted my own ankle bad many years ago I'm happy to see that he's not swelling like mine did.
I was pretty tired after a long weekend, but he talked me into taking me out for a bite at that bar we had gone to for burgers the first night we worked together. I'm kind of glad that he did, because I met an ex-girlfriend up there with her boyfriend. It was kind of cool catching up with somebody that I haven't seen in probably 15 years. I'd be lying if I'm not quite enjoying to start meeting up with people that I haven't seen in so many years and really starting to get the feeling that despite all of my bad decisions and horrible lifestyle for so many years, I'm really aging a lot better than everybody else is. If it weren't for my teeth issue, I probably look 10 years younger than most everybody else does these days.
Back on topic though, he had a few more beers at the bar (which I drove to and from his house to get to), and he bought them a shot and one of them bought another round at some point too.
Before we left to work, I believe it was on Saturday, I was bullshitting with his fiancee for about 10 minutes about stuff and I had asked if she saw the pictures of the work we've done on my porch and said my friend was working miracles. Id told her about how when I found out how bad the problem really had been I had also just found out the layoff was coming and I had been freaking out about everything and how part of me just wanted to dump the house for cash for whatever somebody might buy it for and just move away and start life over.
She said the same thing to, although she did say "well I know why I'm staying here" and pointed upstairs to where my friend was. But I can tell that she's not very happy overall with their situation. I don't know how much the drinking has to do with it, but I'm sure it's not helping. They're both at the age where it's kind of do-or-die if you want to have any kids, and they don't have any yet.
I dunno. I wish I could help with the drinking part, but like anything else I don't think you really can do much. My brother and his wife are unhealthily overweight and they both know it but don't do anything about it. Both they and my friend have a hoarding problem but don't do anything about it. Everybody's diets are shit, but they don't do anything about it. I know I wouldn't have taken anyone seriously who was giving me shit about my drinking or eating or hoarding problems either, and I had to just wake up one day and say I've had enough of this shit.
Maybe I'm still here in 2019 so I can start helping other people I care about?
Nah... I d
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Hey Brenda
This is just some advice I got from my really smart sister re "really do try to do some research and get some reviews before you buy one". Check the negative ratings and the reasons why. What she said (and it seems true) is that when things fail or are bad out of the box, they tend to be bad in the same way. For example, I recently bought a percolator. When I was looking at them , there was one brand where the negative reviews said: (several) shoddy construction / (more than one - goes along with shoddy construction) handle broke off after minimal use / (several - goes along with shoddy construction) cheap and thin / (several) not stainless steel as stated ... and so forth. I didn't buy it!
As for the 'star' ratings, I personally have found that the averages don't tell the whole story. Check to make sure the most recent ratings don't show a big decrement from the average. Quality can change over time. And I take the 3 star rating, divide the percentage by two, and add the 2 and 1 star percentages. The half average plus below should total no more than 10% if it's a credible product.
I had a futon way back in the day. As part of my decades-long desire to not use plastics / synthetics, I got one filled with cotton batting. Not only was it not particularly soft - it was downright hard! - it was HEAVY !! What a chore. And that's when I was young and fit and reasonably pain free.
And finally, try to get a fitted sheet or 2 to cover it with even for everyday use, even if only to keep the dust off. The covering you get for the futon - even if removable - will be large and heavy. It's not something you would want to wash to keep it clean, even if it was washable (and furthermore, they don't pre-shrink it so you'd risk shrinking it in the washer, dryer, or both).
Anyway, that's the sum total of my experience. I hope it helps!
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Have to move things away from the heating units in case I have to use them.
One of the few things I haven't thrown out...
I've still got 4 electric heaters in here. No doubt more than I need, but one of them did break last year, so maybe having 5 of them in a house that doesn't yet have the most reliable furnace in the world isn't a case of hoarding and is just a smart decision.
I think you might be alright without them though. In all the years and the many different apartments I lived in, there was only one weekend I ever needed to use them. It was back when I lived with my brother on a weekend that my brother's future wife came up to stay with us and the entire heat system in the building had gone out. The new (terrible) management had just taken over the spring prior and did not answer any of the tenant's calls about it until they came back to the office on Monday. People were using electric ovens to heat their places. My brother went out and bought two portable electric heaters.
Here's hoping you don't need to even use them at your new place.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I have 1 portable heater that someone gave me for Christmas a couple of years ago. But I meant the heating that comes with the apartment.
I hope I won't need to turn on the heat but I need to have stuff moved away from them if I do.
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Hey Kiki,
The futon that my mom had was a good one. But I would have to get one that is lighter so I can move it around myself. The one my mom had was wooden and I will be looking at something metal and a little smaller.
Just have to get someone to drive me out to IKEA to get one.
As to the other thing, this apartment comes with heat that I can control. I just have a few things in front of the elements and I have to move them in case I have to turn the heat on.
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