Longing for Poo Palace

Living with the 'rents is slowly but surely becoming a living hell. See Exhibits a-j:

a) Citations from the laundry police for washing towels with clothes, for not pulling t-shirts out to line dry, for attempting to wash too small a load, and for using too much detergent.

b) Forced to watch a special on molecular physics instead of "So you think you can dance."

c) Am forced to eat vegetables at every meal.

d) While scavenging for deoderant, found something that I NEVER. EVER. needed to know about.

e) Am sleeping in cat hair.

f) Did I mention that my parents live in a garbage house and there aren't any clear surfaces?

g) They ran out of gin.

h) They ran out of wine.

i) Got chastised for using the "wrong" pair of scissors.

j) Referneces to pop culture and WB celebrities are met with blank stares.

I think you get the gist. I know you are smarting with outrage and injustice like I am.

My fecal-scented house is looking better and better. The plumber comes tomorrow, and if he can't fix it right away, I think I'll have to just live without running water...Laura Ingalls Wilder did it, right?

Sponge

Living with the 'rents for a few days until the plumber can come fix my pipe (ifyaknowwhaddimsayin!). I could get used to this! Why did I move out again?? I'm getting free, delicious meals, iced tea whenever my heart could desire, and shopping in the attic and the basement for unique relics. I get free laundry, treats from the bakery, and access to thousands of books, as well as the daily paper. I'm also in a way better location, and much closer to most of my friends. Being leisurely at home is awesome!

Leisure should not smell like poo

If I were a rich woman of leisure, do you think that I would have to deal with a crappy (pun intended) sewerpipe that has backed up in my basement for the umpteenth time, which has raised a stench that is so foul, I have been smoked out of my own house by the smell of my feces??? Do you?? If I were rich and leisurely, I would have "people" to not only deal with those problems, but who would also write the checks for them. I may have the acutal time to deal with, but I think I will add a new principle to the FWOL concept: a main reason to aspire to being leisurely is to have people to take care of your problems!