Going to my Brother's House

Yes, there is a cat related thing in here somewhere :)

My father is hell-bent on buying my brother Scott's house for me, whether I
like the house or not. So I asked Scott, can I come over and take some

jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt...

I thought he had decided not to do that?

jmcquown...

My dad is like a faucet. Turn it on or off, depending upon the day of the
week or the week of the month. Whatever :)

Monique Y. Mudama...

All I can say is, I could never deal with accepting that size of a
gift from my parents, because I know I would measure everything I ever
did after that in terms of "Well, they did this for me, so I really
should do that because it will make them happy." And it would make me
miserable.

photos? He said sure, how about Tuesday, July 4th? Okey doke.

Ostensibly this is so I can photograph the rooms and figure out where my

Jo Firey...

I know you love your father, and that he makes you nuts a lot of the time.
The sort of things you've said he does have to be hard on your brother too.
It can't be any picnic being his son.

The whole deal with the house has to be fraying Scott's last nerve too. Its
easier to be irritated with you than with your father. Difficult parents
can drive a wedge between siblings in the efforts to deal. Try you best not

Monique Y. Mudama...

Wise words.

Although I do think that at some point, you have to take
responsibility for your actions (ie, brother dearest shouldn't allow
himself to take out his parental frustrations on his sister). But
it's also good to have compassion for those who don't, and
understanding where they're coming from may make it easier to deal
with them.

to let that happen.

furniture will fit. Before I moved into this apartment I got my hands on a
diagram of the apartment, loaded it on the computer and positioned my
furniture via an architectural drawing program.

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)...

I usually do it with diagrams on graph paper and cut-out
rectangles representing the furniture. (Sort of like
playing with paper dolls.)

jmcquown...

LOL Or Color-Forms! Next you're going to make me do a flow-chart and
design a program using punch cards ;)

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)...

Whatever works! (It certainly saves a lot of the movers'
expensive time, if you can tell them exactly where each
piece of furniture goes.)

But I'll take along a little something, maybe some chips and white queso dip
or strawberries and little angel food short cakes with whipped cream. And
while he's gnoshing, I'll actually be trying to figure out where I can put
the litter box ;) I'll also be measuring how much I need to expand the
patio (I'm already certain I'll need to lay some forms and pour concrete to
expand it, it's a skimpy patio) in order to accomodate both my covered swing
and Persia's Kitty Walk so we can sit outside together. :D

Sam...

Good luck, Jill. Hope it goes well.

kraut...

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