My 9-month-old dachshund has been barking at nothing for over an hour and will not let up. What could be wrong? My anxiety levels can't be helping.

meglet · 2012-02-07T19:16:04.635982+00:00

Thanks, friend.

meglet · 1 day

I believe the article mentioned a few aspects; I'll look for more evidence of tackiness.

meglet · 1 day

It's 12:41 a.m. And I have maaaajor cravings. But my husband thinks it's insane to do anything in the kitchen after ten p.m. I'm not even ALLOWED in there because I'm on meds the make me extremely unpredictable, if not exactly sleepwalking, and I've left huge bizarre messes in there overnight; like pouring a bowl of cereal and them dumping it on the floor and just going back to bed, not remembering it in the morning, or smoking up the house with weird ass "stir fry", or giving myself second-degree burns down my leg by spilling a pot of boiling water on myself trying to make ronies at 4 am. The rule makes good sense, and if he hears me in there, he'll call from wherever he is "You're not allowed in there! What are you doing?" As long as I'm in-and-out grabbing some canned iced tea (nothing I have to pour) then it's ok.

I must be a joy to live with. Thank goodness he loves me forever and isn't just a roommate.

brewer61 · 1 day

One more thought: the kitchen doesn't have to be awkward there in the middle. You can practically make it a whole other casual living space, the heart of the house. A regular counter on the kitchen side with an attached raised dining counter lined with barstools facing into the kitchen, for easy conversation between cooks and guests, a tv mounted from the ceiling, visible from the barstools and for the cooks . . . It could wind up being the place people naturally congregate when friends are over. That's some definite potential. Plus lots of under-counter storage, room for laying out hors d'ouvres, adding a second sink, built-in chopping block, or kegerator or under-counter mini fridge, ice maker, and liquor cabinet...

Also, built-in shelves look nice, though the somewhat tie you to a layout. But at least a built-in little workstation off the kitchen, for the family laptop, calendar, important papers, filed mail, phone, etc, is handy and doesn't require a whole home office room. I also suggest making the backstop of the kitchen, other than the part behind the stove and sink, all whiteboard, for notes, grocery list, or the recipe you're working on. Definitely hang one on your fridge or pantry. Or consider painting the cabinets in (magnetic?) chalkboard paint. And if you have kids, even paint the lower two or three feet of the den wall, or under the dining bar, or if you like to leave messages to yourself or SO, an entire wall or even just a door, with chalkboard. I like a house that's easily personalized, functional, and adaptable to your changing needs and creative drive.

brewer61 · 1 day

Of course, you do want to maximize views. How about a winding staircase or open staircase so you could have floor-to-ceiling windows with the staircase barely blocking most of the view? That is, if I'm oriented right. In which case, why have the master bath on the back wall? I'd go bedroom at the back, to bath, to walk in closet, instead of bath to bedroom to closet. Also, a window in the closet will make it seem bigger. And a line of very short windows along the top of the kitchen wall, for more natural light, might look nice. Or along every exterior wall not facing front. (it'd make the front look kinda odd.)

Can you add a small 3rd story patio? Just a bird's nest, reached through a circular or pull-down staircase and trap door in the master bedroom? Just enough room up there for a sitting area and a few potted plants? Nice way to have a glass of wine a really really enjoy the view.

brewer61 · 1 day

First thoughts:

get rid of that white tile and nasty carpet, replace with some pretty, durable flooring and area rugs
- get some color on those walls!
- really good window treatments can make a so-so room look amazing, and I mean curtains, not just balances (as pictured in one photo)
- I like the B layout, the not moving the stairs option because a) the fireplace is better incorporated to your living room layout and b) it seems more open

But on that floor plan, where are the stairs right now anyway?

Question: what is that back room on the first floor, and what does the rectangle in it represent?

I'm not good at interpreting floor plans other than the kind they show you at apartments and condos.

Could you do a video walkthrough?

meglet · 1 day

Flair Granted. But I thought I set it so users could add their own flair. I still can't figure out where I messed up or missed something, /:

Hey, whenever you watch any of the Trilogy, or, as my friends and I like to do every few years, do you find an undeniable craving for good homestyle Italian food afterwards?

In Houston I like Fred's Italian Corner: teeny, classic black-and-white table cloths, lit by candles in old chianti bottles, place shaped like a slice of pizza inside, purely coincidentally. That OR Buon Appetito, in a former house, with soft core porn inexplicably decorating the men's and ladies' rooms, completely out of character for the rest of the decor!

I miss Pino's, high class Italian, closed after being a beloved 30+ year Houston institution. Minestrone in chicken stock!

But the best is the old Castagnola branch of the family tree's homemade spaghetti and meatballs. Takes all day and lots of labor-intensive work, but ohhh the payoff.

I married an Italian, but quite by accident, not because I love the food! Mostly because I like the last name. JK.

I went off on a tangent, yikes.

meglet · 1 day

Try again now? I found one more place I had to check "user can edit".

meglet · 1 day

Well now THAT I'm not sure what to do about..back to tinkering..

meglet · 1 day

Ah, that was easy! Got it done! Thanks for the suggestion.

meglet · 1 day

Oh, I didn't know you could do that. I've only seen "request flair" before. I'll have to figure out how to do that, unless you could tell me. I'm more about content than the StyleSheet, etc, side. I'll be needing a Mod who can handle that end...

beeaxemurderer · 2 days

"Not allowed" is different from it being "your prom" unless you're a senior, at least where I come from. Anybody could come as a date, but the senior class spent 4 years making money for their prom and senior gift, so it's definitely theirs. It's sickening what we spent on ours. As far as "formals" go, we had:

Prom (Hosted by the senior class)(Only school-affiliated function, everything else was privately sponsored & hosted)
Senior Girls' (hosted by participating senior girls)
Junior Girls' (same as senior girls', 3 tickets for two allotted to each sponsoring girl)($300 to sponsor)
Bumrush (Sponsored & hosted by the guys)
Cotillion (Separate exclusive elitist organization but every female from my school was automatically invited)(included a choice few other schools & their wealthiest girls)(basically Junior-Junior League, with a formal)

In my memory it feels like there were formals all the time. Though "formal" is a loose term, as everything but Prom and Cotillion were more like themed costume parties. My Junior Girls, was "Material Girls" and Senior Girls was "A Night at the Oscars" which was actually really formal...

Oh, I'm just glad to be done with all that.

Texas Tuxes = sooo tacky.

Edit: at 5 a year, I guess we did have these shindigs all the time, wether you hosted, got asked, or got a ticket from a host.

beeaxemurderer · 2 days

Good point.

hiddensalvage · 3 days

Is that paper mâché? I wanna try that. But sitting down must be hard...or maybe it's wide enough for one to sit and it just surrounds you like a, um, protective shield.

beeaxemurderer · 3 days

Woody went to a school for the learning disabled (where my mom taught him) as a teen. And his father is a convicted murderer. I feel for the guy.

After those two trivia tidbits..

If you were a young celebrity, and had the chance to bang a willing girl on her prom night (National Lose Your Virginity Night), somehow I think it should be understood by both parties that it is clearly a one-time thing.

Did he give her an STD? Get her pregnant? Than really, what should she have expected, a new loving boyfriend after putting out immediately. . . . Perhaps she used him for his celebrity status.

Mutually beneficial transaction, perhaps.

beeaxemurderer · 3 days

How?

TheSucculentCactus · 3 days

We in Texas have a little 24-hour place called Whataburger. That there looks like Whataburger.

For classier, sit-down-be-served-by-waitresses, we have a diner called House of Pies, shush is packed from around 1am to 4 am. It, too, serves all day, but only once I have I ever been inside it in daylight, to pick up a pie.

House of Pies has a random crowd, from teens after a formal, to college kids, to goths, to gays, to firemen, to gays, to actors from The Alley Theater studying lines, to my best friend's dad getting coffe with his date.

Once, as I passed his booth on my way out, I told a guy I loved his shirt (black muscle shirt with silver outline of the NYC skyline, and glitter). Next thing I know, just as I'm closing my driver's side door, a hend reaches in and pulls the door back open, (Ahhhhhh! Nightmare kidnapper!) . . . and it's the shirt guy, literally offering me the shirt off his back! I couldn't bring myself to take it; now I wish I had.

I love House of Pies.

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