SuperBee's Profile

I live on Miami Beach, on the water, and have a great cross-breeze. I refuse to live without my air conditioner.

During the winter I can go a month without turning it on. But between now-ish to late November, I will happily run the a/c, 24/7, and I will happily pay triple my winter electric bill to Florida Power & Light.

I'd rather be dry, cool, and happy, than sweaty, suicidal, and "green." Summer in Miami (including the Beach) is effing miserable. I'm on the top floor with a Northwestern exposure, and Biscayne bay reflecting the sun into my place, and it can can get up to 90 degrees, with the shades drawn in three hours. The doors warp, everything stinks and sticks, and like someone else said, mold starts to grow.

No. Thanks.

Oh, but I had always wanted to steal a map from the trains, for what it's worth.

I have it on good authority that my Local Plumbing Inspector not only reads Apartment Therapy, but scours the site to look for plumbing violations possibly committed in pictures on the site.

@ mjr - If I could have afforded to buy on Belle Island, I'd bypass the three-extra block walk to the Beach, by jumping off the seawall into the Bay as a tradeoff. ; ) As it is, I bike to the beach all the time turning a 20-minute walk down Lincoln, to an exciting 5-minute pedestrian dodge session.

@ Cliokitty - You guys have an occasional barking dog in that building (I go to acupuncture there!) that I want to b-b-gun out of its misery. That said, I don't think I'd live here unless I lived on the Beach... I love living here, except when the characters make prolonged noise in my place when I'm dying of a hangover... speaking of, get ready for the Marathon this weekend! People start banging on pots and pans and cheering the runners at 17th and Purdy at like 6:30 a.m...

I usually live in a hellhole until the threat of someone coming over becomes imminent.

Then, I spend an hour and a half shoving things in closets and wiping down surfaces and stacking papers and receipts and clearing off clothes and running the effing Scooba, all while sweating profusely. By the time the person comes over, and my place is glowing, I'm too exhausted from my mini-binge, to want them there anymore... and I'm resenting the pile of unfolded laundry hiding in the closet.

I'm also guilty of one or two other things listed above.

TBP - Srsly? Awww. You know how I write!

Brewer Patriot is correct: the Containers are also a good time. Once I watched a naked chick pour Elmer's Glue all over herself at the Containers - It was "performance art."

And I'll echo Cindy re: Art Miami... it was my least favorite (besides Red Dot) but it is the biggest satellite fair, so there's probably something you'll like at Art Miami - there were a couple pieces there last year I fell in love with - and it had the best VIP section.

WANT.

Wonderfully done! Good going in the Gables!

This place is amazing. I wanted to live in the store. Also phenomenal and in Baltimore is Oakenshawe in Hampden (which is also...not cheap.)