Ray's House of Love Vol III

So glad the hot tub is still working. And deliciously warm and steamy! I missed you guys, but a lot's been happening in my life, so I haven't had time for R&R.

It's good to see familiar faces again: Kommena and Maryn (to whom I'll always be grateful for wonderful advice and sympathy at a deep and dark moment in my life a few years ago).

And it's good to meet up with Lillian, whom I have a lot of fun with on the games forum.

And Daniel is also familiar.

We've got builders in the flat this week, so life is very complicated. One minute I have to toilet, the next moment I have a toilet but no hot water. Tomorrow I've been told I'll have no floor!!

Mouse - living in the moment (though in chaos).

Mouse! :Hi: Hang in there! Sounds like a rough go of things at the moment but it won’t last forever.

Thanks, Lillian. No, things are good. Busy but good. 2016 was very stressful, though it had some moentous days. 2017 was much better. More peaceful and productive. Let's see what 2018 brings.

Maryn said:

I was a dutiful homeowner and shoveled us out when it was 1 degree out, wind chill 25 below zero. I was okay, but I was glad Mr. Maryn was there to do half.

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We've been lucky so far, hardly any snow to speak of. South Carolina got more snow than we have all winter.

We've just been sub-zero for a few weeks.

Snow would be almost preferable.

Maryn, I can’t tell you how many times that’s happened to me. You’d think with my terrible memory I’d remember to write stuff down but I don’t. Who knows how many amazing stories are now lost. Or crappy stories, maybe.

oneblindmouse said:

Thanks, Lillian. No, things are good. Busy but good. 2016 was very stressful, though it had some moentous days. 2017 was much better. More peaceful and productive. Let's see what 2018 brings.

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Wishing you all the best for 2018. I’m looking for some improvement over last year, for sure.

Have a great week guys! *turns off the hot tub, covers it*

Meet you all back here on Sunday, right? See you then!

Please tell me you didn’t fart in the hot tub. I just got it up and running again.

Yeah, we got snow yesterday and it actually stuck. It was one for the record books. Southern Georgia should NEVER have snow like this. And today it's now ice. Ugh.

That scenario sounds awesome. I haven't been in an actual hot tub in years and it was indoors. Not nearly as peaceful sounding.

Oh, fun! I like house-hunting. Now, moving I don’t love nearly as much. I moved 14 times in 16 years, but have been in my current home three and a half years. I told myself I’d never move again, but that may not be the case after all. *sigh*

Might be worth it to get a hot tub and a wood burning stove, though.

Oh, that's awesome!

I need to find an apartment for my son to move into. Sadly, he's NOT good with money and apartment hunting isn't nearly as enjoyable as house hunting.

But I need my craft room back ASAP. lol

Oh, I've been there.

Many years ago, after husband #1 and I had just gotten married, he told me his friend needed to spend a night or two on the couch. Two nights turned into four. The next day, the guy's girlfriend showed up. No one asked me if he could stay and he didn't ask if she could stay. I was SO MAD. We didn't have a spare room, we lived in a one-room apartment. They took over my living room (and the only place outside of the bedroom I could go to relax in the house. Then my husband informed me the friend and his girlfriend would be staying a week. Then it was a month. They didn't help with rent or pay for any food. I finally told husband #1 either he kicked them out or I was leaving and he said, "I won't ask my friends to leave". So I packed my bags and drove to my parents house (four hours away) and when he realized he couldn't pay rent on the apartment and feed his friends without my income, he kicked them out and begged me back home. I said no and found an apartment of my own. This is where I messed up, however...he moved out of the old apartment and I let him move in with me in the new apartment, trying to save our marriage. Which didn't work.

That was a looooong time ago. I was young (only 20), and learned a good lesson from the experience. Don't let friends stay at your house to 'help them out'. Ever. That marriage only lasted 2 and a half years and it's easy to see why. haha.

Hmmm...I think you have an idea here. Isn't there a movie out about this right now? Mother, with Jennifer Lawrence? She moves into a new house with her husband and he keeps inviting people to stay there, until the whole place is crawling with guests. I haven't seen it so I don't know how it ends, but my guess is at least one or two people end up dead.

You could always have the woman leave in the end, like I did. Might be a better ending than murder. Or she could murder them and leave, having made sure she doesn't get caught (somehow). I dunno. That's not my genre.

I knew a couple (about 30 years ago) who let the husband's friend move in "temporarily" when he had problems. He also found him a job at the company he worked for. Long story short: several months later the wife left the husband for the friend.

Oh, my. That’s quite the twist.