chesneycat

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Nope. I think not.

Or maybe they're not. Maybe it's just me.
( The WOES of wohnung-searching, or, house-hunt-hell )

Sympathy, please? Or a WAAAAAAAHMBULANCE? I need one or the other right now.

Allow me to draw your attention to the BBC news website's reader's comments section for the UK's earthquake today, in particular this little gem:

EDWARD PALUSINSKI - RUGBY, WARWICKSHIRE
I live in Rugby and the tremor was quite severe. It was about the same as the Dudley quake in 2002 which was 5 on the Richter scale. I cannot understand why Dr Brian Baptie, of the BGS, said: "An earthquake of this size, of magnitude five or thereabouts, will occur roughly every 10 to 20 years in the UK" when the last one was only six years ago.

*sigh*

Sounds like someone thinks that 'roughly every ten to twenty years' is synonymous with 'appears on schedule with a better punctuality than British Rail ever managed'.  Here's a quick clue-by-four. You don't decide what a scientific average is on the basis of two datapoints, not if you're going to use it for anything meaningful.

Anyway, Jez was woken up by the quake as it rattled our freestanding mirror along the bedroom wall. And we're both bloody glad that we had the unsupported chimney-breast supported for the first time in god knows how many years just last month.  If we hadn't... well, there'd probably have been two cases of people pinned beneath fallen stacks.

Apparently, most 2 bed+living room German apartments don't come with a fitted kitchen.  As I'm in no way ready to purchase a new kitchen for a flat I may not be staying in long-term, this is kind of a bummer.

So, I'm now looking at 1 bed apartments as well as 1.5-2.5 bed places... some of them are actually over the 70m^2 [Where the hell is superscript, by the way?] size, and might be okay.  Plus, there's more of them towards Rohrbach, which I think might be one of the best locations for me to live, alongside Kirchheim, Weststadt, and Neuenheim.  I like Ziegelhausen a lot, but it's probably too damn far away.

On the way into work today I stopped off at Boots to pick up some aspirin and a replacement batch of Sumatriptan in the form of the over-the-counter-with-the-pharmacist's-permission Imigran Recovery. It's exactly the same drug as I normally take, a little more expensive than a prescription, but getting it from Boots is easier than making a doctors appointment first.

Or so I thought...

Of course, they give you a questionnaire first, and (also of course) I answer it honestly.  Yes, I'm trying to get pregnant, and currently taking drugs that mess with my hormones.  No, of course I wouldn't take it if I did get lucky again (as unlikely as that is before August at the earliest), and yes, I'd know several days before I was even late.  No, I'm definitely not pregnant right now, because the last one is still bleeding its way out of me.  Can I have my drugs please?  Yes? Thanks!

And then I look at the packet and realise that I've gone through all that for two measly pills. 

Two.

I think I've learned a valuable lesson here... and I'll be going in to the doctors later this week to pick up a prescription, so I can at least stock up on my triptans properly.  I need to have enough so that I can spread them between my person, my workplace, and homes in two different countries.  Two pills doesn't really cut it.

What the heck is wrong with the back of the bathroom door?  I've just glossed both sides of that, both sides of the study door, and the outside of the spare bedroom door... and they all look fine except for the inside of the bathroom.  Streaks, blotches... WTF?  And then I go and lean my arm on it, JUST when I've finished cleaning myself up.

Aaargh!

Mostly clean, I've just started running myself a bubble bath.  I need it, because I've just randomly burst into tears over something totally inconsequential.  And so I go back and what do I find?  I hadn't put the plug in.

*bangs head on wall*

*starts afresh*

I think I'm getting back into bed after my bath.  Who knows what'll happen if I stay up?



Pants.  I'm going to have to add more sealant around the bath to the layer I put on at the weekend and all.

Checking in on your old pregnancy buddy group to see how they're getting on?  Did you really think that was a good idea?

You idiot.