The Complaining and Bitching Thread

Ok, you win.

 

After a few weeks of living in a place with carpets for the first time since, oh, childhood, all I can think is: Why? What's the point?

I miss wood flooring.

 

You'll see the point in another month.

 

Not with a suite below us. So there.

The point here, really, is as a noise dampener.

But still. Those of you with houses...get slippers or something.

 

I like having carpet. After living with splintered antique floors for 4ish years, it's nice.

I wish I could've slept in. Nope. Not happening.

 

Give me parquet flooring: low maint and virtually indestructible. Repairs and eventual refinishing can come easily enough. As for carpet, I dislike having to be extra careful not to get it dirty. I hear phantom voices of my mother yelling at my siblings and I about the carpet now that I have my own.

Drop some jam on the parquet? No probs. Drop some on the carpet? Well, shit.

Oh, and pets.

 

I don't know about carpets because someone hasn't invited me over to see them.

 

There isn't much of them to see at the moment. We've only really unpacked our kitchen and half of our bathroom stuff. I'd invite you over, but I'm afraid you might trip over something.

Maybe when it's safer.

Besides, I thought I was coming over to play Magic with you guys.

 

We have carpet in our bedroom and down the hall to the bathroom. Not cold on the tootsies. It's a grayish color called "steel violet" and is dark enough that it doesn't really show dirt. The bath is tile but with a carpet runner in it to keep the feet warm. Tile in the kitchen and cork in the dining room and living room.

 

Today I'm pissed off at everybody.
Including the Universe & Myself.


**and I need a better angry icon too, dammit...

 

Two straight weeks of having to stream the Oregon game online, in non-HD.

/1st world problems

 

Kinda wanted to chew out this guy on the bus. He basically said that all Mexicans are too lazy to learn English and we should require the TOEFL for people to stay in our country. For one, my family wouldn't be here with those kind of requirements. Two, pretty sure this guy is the stereotypical ugly American when abroad.

 

I'm between desks right now, as we sold my temp desk (dining table) and I'm waiting for the delivery of my replacement desk.

In the meantime, I have this awkward setup built with unpacked boxes. I feel like Hagrid sitting at a workstation meant for muggles.

 

So I get offered to free tickets to the Bears game this week.

I'll be out of town on a hunting trip.

Boo, why can't it be some other time?