In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Wow, a bus ride to do laundry. THAT would put a kink in anyone's day.
Luckily for me laundry now no longer includes bus rides. Laundry room in apartment building.
But I did get in my half hour to hour walk and I did take my umbrella. Though I didn't need to use it.
So glad for you that's in the past. Altho thinking about your former landlady still makes me grit my teeth.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#STAYTHEFUCKHOME
It was a walk down hill to the bus stop and on the bus then when my laundry was finished, the bus back and walking up hill to get to that dump. It was more than a kink.
S'alright SIG. I think about her too much and it makes me grit my teeth.
I had to use a laundromat for a year when I had an apartment with no access to a washer/dryer. I even had a car to do it, and it sucked so hard.
I remember my friends telling me how much nicer my next apartment was, but honestly the only thing I really cared about was having a washer/dryer in the building.
Years later, I made the mistake of moving into a REALLY nice apartment. It was the nicest and newest apartment I ever lived in. But instead of having a single washer/dryer in one building with 6 units where I might not be able to do it when I wanted to, there was an entire building on the campus that had a ton of them with no wait, but the building was not connected to mine. Not so bad during the spring/summer when I moved in, but really sucked in the Chicago winters. You also had to pay per use on them instead of it just being free with the rent like the old one was. As soon as the lease was up I was out of there.
I know full well how nice it is to be able to do your laundry without bundling up and going outside to do it. I can only imagine how much worse it would be to have to walk a load there and back or take a bus.
It wouldn't surprise me if you look back on your old place and think that your new laundry situation was a bigger upgrade than not having to deal with the old hag anymore.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I'm still SO happy for you, that you are where you are!
I know everyone else was counting the various blessings, so I'll add mine. For me I still think the best ones are being warm and dry.
Warm and dry are the biggest blessings for me but everything else is just gravy.
I remember when I got the call to come and see this apartment. The manager asked me a couple of questions like the mirror in the hallway which I said could stay. Then as we were leaving, she said, "This place is yours and no one can take it away from you."
I've never had anyone tell me something like that before.
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Jack, too true.
Everything about this place is an upgrade.
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Email from the place where I got my hearing aides. They are closing their offices for now. I'm not bothering with the things anyways as I need new ones next year.
Out for my walk in a bit. Later peeps.
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Oh my gosh! DOUBLE congratulations!
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Back from my walk and seen all I can see for today. Just enjoying my lunch right now. I was out about an hour.
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Oh my gosh! DOUBLE congratulations!
Yeah, that was something to be sure.
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Hey Brenda - out of curiosity - what's going on over by Vancouver-way? Is your area doing stay-at-home? Did it close all non-essential businesses, forbid gatherings, and so forth?
ETA: I did try to look it up, but all I got were 2-week out-of-date articles. I know you mentioned dine-in restaurants are closed, and malls were empty, but if you posted anything else, I missed it. 
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Hey Brenda - out of curiosity - what's going on over by Vancouver-way? Is your area doing stay-at-home? Did it close all non-essential businesses, forbid gatherings, and so forth?
ETA: I did try to look it up, but all I got were 2-week out-of-date articles. I know you mentioned dine-in restaurants are closed, and malls were empty, but if you posted anything else, I missed it.
No worries Kiki. Yes, all large gatherings banned and everyone is doing the stay-at-home. All none essential businesses are closed. No hair dressers, barber shops and the like. The pier that was destroyed out in White Rock 2 winters ago is closed. Park playgrounds closed. Schools closed. Community centres, swimming pools, ice rinks. All sporting events not happening. Doctors office closed and walk in clinics are doing only by appointments if they deem it necessary that you come in.
So yeah most of my province is on lock down.
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