I think the full sized bed would still work if it weren’t so darned SOFT! It’s like sleeping in a hammock with another person. Since we’re upgrading, we thought we might as well get a queen size bed in case we get a dog, or if we ever have kids who want to snuggle, etc. There’s NO room to spare in the double!
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We couponed up hard and went to Bed Bath and Beyond for some 400 TC Wamsutta cotton sheets. They’re not as nice as the ones I had for the full bed because my mother gave me some extremely nice percale LL Bean sheets years ago, but they’re extremely good for the price.
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You needn’t rely on your career center to get teaching jobs, though they helped me tremendously with my resume! I found my job through google. You can send out a bunch of CVs to charter schools—they routinely accept recent college grads with no teaching experience, despite what they say in their “experience” category.…
AHHH are you me? I poured my blood, sweat, and tears (actually) into getting the old lead paint off my brass bed. OK, paint, not patina, but omg. It was a struggle. We had to resort to aircraft-quality paint thinner and HOLY HELL did it burn coming off. Thanks! I am determined to find a way to keep this freaking…
You’re dependent on your parents but you won’t be if you get into TFA or if you get a regular teaching job. That said, you seem to know that TFA isn’t great. I would suggest getting a teaching job, since you’re open to it, in a charter school or something. Charter schools are also problematic, but I went this route…
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Haha! I wish! Our living room isn’t big enough for that even if we did away with the sofa—it’d take up half of the entire room! And there, I am sure, my partner would have some objections.
I use the tub of CeraVe moisturizer. It is the best daily moisturizer, and also nice before bed. Esp if you’re going to bed—just goop it on there. I goop it on during the day, too, and then when I get to the office or campus or coffee shop or wherever, I pat my face down with a napkin, TP, or a paper towel to…
Do things that are actually kind of fun and thrilling alone: go read a book in a bar, go to the movies alone, spend way too much time browsing in a store, get on a dating app even if you don’t go on any dates, make plans to see friends and follow through, listen to all the music you like that your partner didn’t, cook…
Ah, I thought I read somewhere that she deleted those specific posts in 2016, before she took down the whole blog, but maybe not. At any rate, Merkle was firmly anti-Trump from 2016 on.
Ah, I love this comment! Thank you. That makes sense, as a transitional object. I’ve also moved around a lot, and lugged it nearly everywhere—it was my one big piece of furniture that stayed with me constantly, since it came apart so easily.
Maybe! But we have no storage options in our tiny apartment. A lot will depend on if it fits into my car (a big if!).
The Marvelous Mrs Maisel is PERFECT television. I adored it. I made the mistake of watching it when it was only a pilot, months before it came out, and it was torture to wait for the full season!
Thank God. I mentioned taking the bed frame with us when we go to my parents’ house for Christmas (since they could store it in their garage) and he laughed like I was joking. Not joking, my love.
Along the lines of the other commenters, really follow the fantasy through. Think through getting together, ruining your marriages, having unbearable awkwardness at work, and getting to the point where the attraction isn’t even there anymore.
It usually doesn’t work out, frand, which you seem to know. But if you’re not ready to break up, you needn’t. Sometimes it’s easiest to schedule a talk a month out—put a date and a time in both of your calendars—and Skype or call specifically to talk about if you want to keep dating long distance. If you do want to,…
I definitely get black coffee from Starbucks if I’m too lazy to walk to Peet’s, which is most days. I would much rather my beans were a wee bit burnt than that weakly bitter taste that haunts “good” coffee. Idk what it is: I know it’s not supposed to be right, but some people like to burn the shit out of their…
Do you hate the wider area you live in or just the extremely local area? (Could you move with Mr Cpt keeping the job?)