Bagelsmom's Profile

when i finished grad school and found myself broke and unemployed, it was summertime and very hot. I had no air conditioner. i would sit in a cold bath, and on top of my mini ironing board placed upside down across the tub, write cover letters. this was pre-internet so while i didn't have to worry about my laptop getting wet, i did often smudge the newspaper.

I have made friends at each stage of my life. now in my early forty's I have friends from high school, college, grad school, and from almost every job I have had. What I mean by "friend" is someone I can call in an emergency, most I would be happy to leave my daughter with. That said, I do not have many friends and generally don't like people. that said, each new friendship came without effort. I was otherwise engaged in doing something I loved--working, learning etc.--and the "friends" came naturally. So, yes, it's possible to make new friends at any stage. just do things you love and the crowd will follow.

Hey--I live in Queens and LOVE it!

I second the suggestion of bringing someone along--someone that does not have to live there. they can look at a place objectively. I always want to feel the place and this makes me overlook things. like the fact that the former tenant had space heaters in all the rooms. so while I love the "feel" of the place, I freeze my a$% off each night.

if it's a small 2-3 family house, ask about all the spaces in the house and who has access to them. We almost signed a lease for a wonderful apartment until we learned that the landlord's collage age nephew from oversees occasionally came for visits and was allowed to stay in the basement (no, not the basement apartment, the basement). we could only imagine what this young man would be up to in a forgein country with no supervision (landlords did not live in building).

i love the wall, the color the new rug so much. I feel like the gallery wall of pictures competes with the wainscoting wall too much. i wonder if one large pic or a more messy version of a gallery wall would look better--it;s just too much geometry for me. but otherwise, fantabulous!

I SO WANT TO DO THIS! My landlord has given me permission to remove the doors but not the frame. I'm stumped. Can I add a tension curtain rod around the frame? adding to the complexity are the floor to celiing tiles so no drilling into the wall. My kid is outgrowing her bathtub and i need to get her in "the big tub" but the doors make half the tub inaccessable to me and therefore unsafe for my daughter (i can't reach her if she's onthe far end of the tub).

I like fabric.com. They ship pretty quickly, offer you a coupon after you place an order, have just started a points/rewards system and have their own version of 'pintrest' so you can keep track of what fabrics you like. sure, they don't have everything but what store ever does?

They recently sent me the wrong fabric--a different colorway. IMHO, an easy mistake to make. I called up and they sent out the correct fabric right away--I got it in two days at no cost to me and I got to keep the 'mistake' fabric.

i am a renter with a jetted tub. the landlord has given us "special" soap to clean the jets/tub but IT DOES NOT WORK. help!

i recently took my 18 month old daughter to a 2 year old's birthday party. as we were eating the cake we were like "what's that taste?" it was peanut butter! no one told us. thankfully we did not have peanut allergies but this is the other extreme. I hope we can all meet in the middle on this one.

Just to be clear: both upstairs AND downstairs neighbors should use rugs.