Comments on Lorraine Sommerfeld - Blog: Crabbyapplesauceface

I wish I still had my heat gun. I had one years ag...

2010-08-16T11:58:47.268-04:00

I wish I still had my heat gun. I had one years ago, but they said it was illegal or some such nonsense.

That said, after a move I couldn't find it anyway. But it was so much fun!

You're right - maybe I'll find one to mooch, and give it a shot.

Oh, and nice crack about the hair dryer;)

have you tried a heat gun on the carpet? A real on...

2010-08-16T11:54:54.100-04:00

have you tried a heat gun on the carpet? A real one, not a hair dryer.

I now have four bathrooms in my house, three of th...

2010-08-12T09:33:34.777-04:00

I now have four bathrooms in my house, three of them with showers and two of those are really, really old and need to be renovated. I looked at those inserts thinking that the one day thing would be great and I don't need anything fancy, just something to keep the water in the tub and out of the walls. Not happening. Too expensive and just don't look that good.
On another rant note, I got poison ivy two weeks ago, in my front yard! Had no idea and it wasn't until days later when I was itchy beyond belief and my bug bites (so I thought) started to blister and then new spots began to emerge on my face and arms and feet that I went to the clinic and was diagnosed with it. This is the first time I have been noted as being allergic to anything. This is absolutely awful, I haven't slept a full night in over two weeks and every morning is like Christmas as I wake up and go investigate what new spots have shown up overnight.
You want to talk about crusty? My teenagers are keeping a really wide berth and actually went ahead and did some laundry and cleaned the bathrooms after a single request. I don't think I've snapped but am so close.
The only place for full relief is the swimming pool. I tried the bath but since tubs are made for kids and not adults it is impossible to submerge your entire body. My next bathroom I'm buying the biggest, deepest tub I can get so that someday I can have a real bath.....or maybe I should just go get a hot tub. How much more hydro would that cost me?

I haven't been able to "find anything dow...

2010-08-12T09:10:41.591-04:00

I haven't been able to "find anything down low" for years. The reception is always so... um... fuzzy down there. At this point I'd be happy with any channel that was clear.

"We will never check your credit rating" really means "run as far away as possible."

Nice rant.. sounds like your having my kinda day.....

2010-08-12T00:44:34.631-04:00

Nice rant.. sounds like your having my kinda day..

I have to fix my leaky basement..

Take a deep breath... $14.000 Bones..yup read right 14 thousand dollars...

Oh and Lorraine, by the way, no matter how hard you try to change your hydro bill.. you are paying those huge rates because of industry.

If you actually sat down and figured it out.. to actually run your house should only run about 30 bucks...

sigh....

rant....

rave...

Don't forget to say a special prayer for the D...

2010-08-11T20:55:51.248-04:00

Don't forget to say a special prayer for the Dalton gang at Queens Park while you fork over that extra 8% in taxes for your cable, hydro, gas etc.
A perfect rant!

Better start learning to hold your breath cuz as soon as they figure out how to administer it you'll be paying a tax on that too!

BTW: It's power down day and I have my a/c cranked and all my fans running. Why don't they have power down day to the spring/fall when we can do without heat/air conditioning?

Lovely rant.Mercer would approve. I always liked S...

2010-08-11T19:43:44.190-04:00

Lovely rant.Mercer would approve. I always liked Schneider, the janitor in Valerie's first show. He looked like a low rent version of Victor from Young and Restless. I picture Victor acting as Schnieder sometimes and have hysterical fits of laughter picturing him coming on to Valerie or planning to eliminate his rivals in the handyman trade.Crazy but no one has locked me up...yet.

I completely agree with your take on the one day r...

2010-08-11T19:32:31.405-04:00

I completely agree with your take on the one day rip off company. We also only have one bathroom and are in the same boat as far as getting it done in one day.

We had a company rep stop by our house last fall ... he acted like he was doing us a HUGE favour just by showing up. Told us it would be in the low $3000's and told us he didn't really care one way or the other whether we agreed with the price. Apparently they have so many customers lining up to fork over the dough for this company's services that this "rep" is very secure in his belief that if you don't sign on the dotted line the next guy will.

We figured that if the sales rep did such a lousy job getting our order, the installers probably couldn't care less either. (Not to mention future repairs and/or problems.)

We got new windows instead. Not a solution to the bathroom remodel, but I love my new windows!

This probably isn't a good time to mention my ...

2010-08-11T17:18:28.394-04:00

This probably isn't a good time to mention my empty nest, is it?

Sorry about the bleach spray. But I really do love that shit... and I've ruined a few articles of clothing using it too.