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Except that if you're going to relocate to work in the city, it actually makes more sense fiscally to live somewhere like Somerville or Cambridge, both of which are maximum 30 minutes away from downtown via the subway (or god forbid, bike).

I agree that MORE Boston locations would have been helpful, but I'd imagine they were trying to sample a broad spectrum, and the inclusion of Somerville wasn't disingenuous, and if Somerville is "close enough," so is Brookline, which if you live South of the river you basically consider Boston, anyway.

More people I know end up in suburbs like Arlington or Waltham, anyway, if they're not going to live in "the city" (Camberville, Brookline, etc. included).

Haters gonna hate. But seriously, haters are hating because they were never clever enough to do something like this, or they seriously lack imagination and are totes jealous of anyone with a bright future like this kid—even with all of the "flaws" people pointed out: THAT'S WHAT COLLEGE IS FOR, dummies, figuring things out, whether they're relationship things, career things, or even extra-curricular projects that help in the other two areas. Sorry that you're old and that some awesome kid is way cooler than you ever were. And please be less obvious, trolls. Bethyw is clearly just projecting because they never got any in college.

Many, many women are "two dress brides," and most of those dresses were simply shopping mistakes made early on in the wedding planning.

Yep, crochet - definitely cute.

The poster is a sold out Threadless print from here:

http://www.threadless.com/?from=dearsweetbriar

Although I think you can still buy the t-shirt.

Wow, people always have such amazing opinions about things that they don't know much of anything about...

The young family who worked with the architecture firm to have this addition made to their home was obviously happy with it - or they wouldn't have paid to have it done.

I've got to take a shower, now - everyone here got judging all over me.

We have two single girls living above us. One is quiet as a mouse when she walks around, although she suffers from the same door slamming affliction that affects her roommate, who must have club feet because we can hear her heels slam on the hardwood wherever she goes. After stomping around for 20 minutes in high heels, she'll take them off, throw them on the floor, then stomp around barefooted for 20 more minutes. Maybe she has a really inefficient room layout? Anyway, after 6AM shoe stomping became a problem, I went upstairs in pajamas, asking her very politely to please please just keep the heels off in the morning - Only in the morning. Please. Thanks. You would think that I asked her to smear dog crap on her forehead the way she looked at me but she did comply for two days. A note was plan B, but the note only worsened the problem, despite the fact that it took me an hour to write just to make sure it was a note I truly wouldn't mind receiving myself if the situation were reversed. She recently started dating someone - her soulmate, it seems, a loud obnoxious stompy guy who stands in the hallway laughing loudly and slams both doors on his way in and out. They should really get married. And move out.

They're not horrible people otherwise, which is why I don't understand why the foot stomping can't stop - it's not like we constantly bitch at them or anything, since I only asked twice. However, since that conversation two months ago, I admit to surrendering to the broom handle last night, and I "managed" to save hanging some photos on the walls until after 10PM once...but this girl is seriously driving me batsh*t insane. It's just unfortunate that there doesn't seem to be any reasoning with people - If asking is not effective the first time, then it's usually just because the other person is inconsiderate to begin with, so asking repeatedly rarely helps.

The outside door slamming is another problem, entirely, and is partially the landlord's fault, because the doors are in terrible shape - the wood is swollen every time there's a change in humidity, and they're impossible to close quietly unless you're hyper-conscious of it. So it sucks, but it's not necessarily because people are being assholes, which doesn't make it less annoying, but it makes it tolerable. Except the indoor doors, which slam because people are slamming them instead of shutting them. You know, why take the half a second to close the door when you can just slam it, right? It accompanies the stomping perfectly.

I'm just confused. Does it bother them equally when the third floor people slam the door/stomp? If it does, how and why are they not more conscientious? What IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE? Or maybe, truly...it doesn't bother them? It really does boggle my mind.

I used to live in a house with one porch light. The switch was in our 98 year old landlady's apartment. She always kept it off. Needless to say, coming home at 5:30 PM to a pitch black porch (I live in Boston) was never fun. It's a non-issue now in our new apartment building, but If I owned a home, I'd like to have a motion sensor-ed light (with a CFL bulb), because coming home to a dark house is so depressing, as is searching for keys in the dark (not to mention potentially unsafe!).

When we moved into our new apartment, we knew that the building's shared dryer was adjacent to our bedroom, but we also knew we'd eventually get used to the sound. Unfortunately, we forgot to account for stompy neighbors who think that slamming the door to the laundry area is A-okay, and that the machines will only work if you're LOUD about it. Then to leave the laundry room, they have to traipse past our bedroom window, and sometimes have phone conversations there while they wait for the cycle to finish. Oy vey. We've gotten used to the machine noises, but the people noises are driving us up the wall!

wow - as a knitter, i've actually really wanted one of these for a long time to block lace. must...have....!