Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff

[silverfox]

First world upper middle class thing:

I cannot wait for our carpets to be replaced with vinyl plank. (As soon as Saturday or as late as the global supply chain issues.) I bought a new pet hair removal thingie on a whim and I swiped it across an arms length section of carpet I HAD JUST VACUUMED YESTERDAY. The amount of hair it picked up made me want to throw up.

Once these new floors are in the hair won't be able to camouflage in the carpet any more. It will be at the mercy of my swiffer and vacuum. I WILL BE THE MASTER OF HAIR IN MY HOME.

[Derp]

@silverfox said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

First world upper middle class thing:

I cannot wait for our carpets to be replaced with vinyl plank. (As soon as Saturday or as late as the global supply chain issues.) I bought a new pet hair removal thingie on a whim and I swiped it across an arms length section of carpet I HAD JUST VACUUMED YESTERDAY. The amount of hair it picked up made me want to throw up.

Once these new floors are in the hair won't be able to camouflage in the carpet any more. It will be at the mercy of my swiffer and vacuum. I WILL BE THE MASTER OF HAIR IN MY HOME.

As someone with all hard floors and pets:

You will miss that carpet soon. Carpet keeps the hair all trapped in easy to vacuum spots.

Without carpet hair won’t just be on your carpet, it will be on your literally everything.

Good luck!

[silverfox]

@derp

We already have the hard floors downstairs and I prefer it like woah.

[faraday]

@derp said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

You will miss that carpet soon. Carpet keeps the hair all trapped in easy to vacuum spots.

YMMV. We went from a house with carpet to a house with hardwood and the dog hair is way easier to manage on hardwood. Yeah it kinda whooshes around everywhere because it's loose, but that also makes it easier to see and vacuum up. Getting it out of the carpet with a regular sweeper was nigh impossible.

[TNP]

But cat litter travels over hardwood floors MUCH more easily than it does on carpet.

[Ganymede]

@tnp said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

But cat litter travels over hardwood floors MUCH more easily than it does on carpet.

I have to sweep up every day. Sometimes twice.

Still better than having to use a spotbot when the fuckers throw up shit they shouldn't have eaten in the first place.

[GreenFlashlight]

I'd rather blot the carpet than be constantly chasing cat hair tumbleweeds with a broom, but that's my personal preference. I don't know why barf is less gross to me than clumps of hair gliding across the floor.

[silverfox]

Def YMMV - I MUCH prefer to see the cat litter and know that I am getting it up.

I also don't use a broom any more. I have a hardwood vacuum and a swiffer.

Knowing my space is clean is my #1 priority over any extra effort it causes me. This was not always the case!! But this ringworm outbreak had completely changed my priorities.

[Ganymede]

@greenflashlight said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

I'd rather blot the carpet than be constantly chasing cat hair tumbleweeds with a broom, but that's my personal preference.

I have two short hairs, so that doesn't seem to be an issue.

Otherwise, I have two kids who seek my approval and will do what I say, no matter how futile.

Furry tumbleweeds provide hours of amusement for me.

[Macha]

I was promised a 'fresh inspection', from the regional manager of the chain shithole I went to.

I showed up today, and the first thing he brings up, is the tie rod. Like.. the guy at the counter. My car is still in the lot.

I'm over this shit. I called my DOT buddy and he read the guy the riot act.

they're telling me it's the OTHER SIDE tie rod, now. (Still just one, it apparently swapped sides.)

And the light they said was out, was now in a different place than what I was told before. So like.. wtfever

[silverfox]

Our floors are (mostly, order error = job on pause till more parts in) in and it looks AMAZING.

Now I want to rip up the floors downstairs and replace them so everything matches!

[Too Old For This]

NGL... my apartment complex has some apartments that have all vinyl "wood" flooring... and I have been tempted af to ask the management if there's any possibility of taking the increase in rent to have the flooring put in, even just in the living room/hallway. I have two senior cats... one of them has a tendency to try and eat bugs (then promptly throw them up along with whatever else is in his stomach), and the other cannot seem to groom herself (which leads to horrendous excess shedding no matter how much I brush her omg where does this short-haired cat get all this FUR from?!)... and those vinyl floors would be a GODSEND in keeping things clean.

[silverfox]

@too-old-for-this

It doesn't feel like wood in the least but gdi, it feels CLEAN. I vacuumed after the guys left (I have different clean standards than most guys, example, my husband didn't notice all the dust...) and knew it was ALL UP.

My Calypso and Kiva were able to go upstairs for the first time in months and I knew they weren't tracking ringworm fibers back down with them.

[Macha]

So, that no taking any pain relievers at all for a month? Yeah. Yesterday, the head pain was so bad, I called the on call, and begged to be allowed to take anything for it. Got denied, because my appt is on Friday.

So I explained I can't work my full shifts at work in this pain, etc. She said she'd write me a note. I explained I only needed to be able to leave early if the pain got too bad. ...she wrote it taking me out completely. And work won't LET me work, even partial hours, without a revised note.

So I called the Neuro office, asking for a revised note, this morning. Still waiting for a call back. I can't afford to not work for FOUR DAYS. I am freaking out.

[Smile]

When things in your personal life make it hard to do literally anything. Even the things you were so excited about before. I have the meds, the support but it's just hard to get through things you feel you can't control. It'll get better with time but now it just feels like the walls are closing in and I can't do anything.

[Alamias]

Even when you expect it, rejection from a job application still fucking hurts.

[Misadventure]

Pro-tip: use the protection thingie that comes with your kitchen mandolin.

Or you lose your amateur tips.

[silverfox]

@misadventure

Having seen husband chop tip of his thumb off and still lack feeling 10+ years later - can confirm.

[GreenFlashlight]

@misadventure I recently bought come cut-resistant kitchen gloves. They haven't saved my life but I know they've saved me some scars.

[Misadventure]

@greenflashlight Thats my plan! Did you go for the low end, mid range or cinematic level of glove?

(Yes, this is adulting.)