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must...keep...jealousy...in...check...

Brain......exploding........

Goodbye.... cruel.... world...................

Thanks all,

I just ordered one this morning. I knew i could count on you guys to know where i could get this!

For the record, I did search locally for this, first. Tried most of the places mentioned. None of them had it in the right size :-( or they were way out of my price range!

Keep up the great work all!

Colin

It's posts like this that make me love AT all the more...

That said i have 2 large boxes under the bed & 3 bins in the basement of stashed stuff that I will go thru 'once the friends have left' .... Plus if my roommates knew the amount of stuff i hide in their room when they are out of town & I have friends over it would get ugly....

side note; bathtubs & ovens make great emergency stash spots - just be sure to remove whatever you have stashed there BEFORE you attempt to use the space for its intended purpose.

Selena, you can clean your apartment in a cinch but one little thing out of place and it looks like hell all over again !!!

I am SOOO loving this thread!!!

Things i identify with/confess to so far:
1: scheduling parties to force myself to clean up - am having 1 tomorrow night so this evening will be my cleaning frenzy.
2: stacking clothes waiting to into the closet on the bed - both sweaters and clean laundry etc (when its warm laundry it feels like i have company )
3: leaving laundry sitting for days until completing it - The washer & dryer are in the basement so i will often leave loads in either or both when heading out & forget that its there for days - and then have to re-wash everything to make it fresh again and then get around to folding the dry stuff.
4: leaving cups EVERYWHERE - although I am not as bad as an ex who used to leave coffee mugs in the garden wherever he went, only to be found days/weeks later with stuff crawled in them and more stuff growing out of them.
5: stacks of mail. I hate opening bills etc and will throw then to the side to be opened 'later' I recently cleared out 5 moving boxes of bills etc - the shredder almost had a meltdown.
6: PROJECTS! i have fabric, thread, pins, foam stuffing, wood scraps & various other bits and pieces of half-done projects scattered around the house - I have gotten better at organizing but still could use a few days of purging to get it all sorted out.

Luckily I have a roommate who is ANAL about keeping the main parts of the house SPOTLESS so that keeps me in line in the common areas - my room however...

I am in the midst of making a bunch of new pillows with a variety of high end fabrics - DAMN YOU MOOD!!! - was going to buy a whole bunch of muslin to make the pillow inserts - now am going to use all the old t-shirts that i had set aside for Housing Works!
Thanks for the inspiration!

Mine is a non-cooking related disaster... I had 30 of my nearest & dearest friends in my apartment for a post Thanksgiving gathering when the plumbing decides to go awry and get back up. Not only did it get backed up but it started to bubble up into the shower. As its a walk-in shower, the liquid rolled out into the rest of the bathroom. The 'water' got to be about 2" deep (unimpeeded by the assortment of towels thrown down to try & mop up as much a possible) when my landlord /roommate returned from a month away.
He is such a sweetheart that he didn't bat an eye at the 30 strangers roaming his house he just dove in took care of the problem (which turned out not to be my fault as the whole street was similarly afflicted - a blockage in a main sewer line) and then went to his other house at the shore for the next few days to recover.

way too cold & barren for my tastes... that being said can anybody tell me where to get the 2 wooden side chairs in the living room - LOVE Them ...