The Daily Peeve / Rant

[Klunick]

Almost 2 years ago, we did a total revamp on our house. New paint, new carpets, new furniture, etc. At the time we had older cats so I didn't worry so much about them scratching up the furniture. Fast forward to May 2020 and both cats died within months of each other and two new kittens joined our household. Knowing how kittens are, I bought clear furniture protectors for the corners of our loveseat as that seemed the most likely "favorite scratching post" for the kittens. They worked like a charm. Fast forward to yesterday when I saw our female cat "stretching" on the front corner of the loveseat. I yelled at her and she ended up getting her claw stuck. I bent down to help and noticed that there was damage to that area so apparently I missed a spot to add the protectors. Wasn't really noticeable unless you are on the floor and looking at it up close. I still had more protectors so I put one on that corner to reduce further damage. Stupid cats!!!

[iris lilies]

It is a wonder that we can have anything nice with pets! But I do love my dogs and put up with a great deal of dog damage. The aforementioned pink rug is the first real rug we’ve had in nearly 3 decades, mainly because we had a house full of dogs and some would pee on the rugs. Our current guy does not do that.

[catherine]

It is a wonder that we can have anything nice with pets! But I do love my dogs and put up with a great deal of dog damage. The aforementioned pink rug is the first real rug we’ve had in nearly 3 decades, mainly because we had a house full of dogs and some would pee on the rugs. Our current guy does not do that.

I remember once buying a black cloth IKEA sofa for our family room. We had a yellow lab mix at the time, and it was horrible with all that yellow dander constantly covering that black cloth--of course if it had been leather or vinyl, I could have brushed it off, but that canvas-type fabric made it so hard to brush the fur and dander off!!

So when we ultimately got another dog--a black one--everything I bought for the house was black. Even the floors were a dark wood. I told people that my design inspirations were always my dogs.

[Klunick]

It is a wonder that we can have anything nice with pets! But I do love my dogs and put up with a great deal of dog damage. The aforementioned pink rug is the first real rug we’ve had in nearly 3 decades, mainly because we had a house full of dogs and some would pee on the rugs. Our current guy does not do that.

I am a dog person too but these two cats have won my heart (mainly because they love me more than my husband ). I was under the impression that the corner of my box spring for my bed was their designated "shred" spot which I was fine with because the comforter hides it. I also have a 6-7 foot cat tree in the living room with plenty of scratching posts as well as a small one downstairs. Gracie (the cat) hid her devious antics well. (I only blame Gracie for any damage or badness because my sweet boy Boone would never do such a thing).

[happystuff]

I enjoy all the colors - in someone else's house. Lol. And why is it the old wood floors look good in his house but just "old" in mine?? Lol.

[Teacher Terry]

I L, I have seen your living room before and love it! The other house you posted was way too cluttered and all the patterns with the colors all combined to make me feel unsettled. Yours is warm and inviting. I love green and pink. I use them as accents. In the condo my accent walls are subtle because the space is small. Except for my bedroom where the pink is bright but it’s only one wall and my fabric gray headboard is big and takes up much of that wall.

[iris lilies]

I’m in the midst of drafting new bylaws for my neighborhood organization because our existing set of bylaws is dense, wordy, convoluted, and frankly at times not followed anyway. This is an organization that brings in $100,000 a year, mot some rinky dink hobby group.

I only joined the board a few years ago because it was my sense that it was in deep Doo Doo and I know they weren’t following the bylaws to elect officers.When I got onto the board they didn’t even know who they had elected and to which positions. I thought I was done with it, having served on the board multiple times in multiple positions decades ago but the chaos was painful to watch.

Everyone is well intentioned and competent on this Board, I do want to make that clear.

But during Covid our procedures broke down to where we were spending money without a proper board vote. Well now we’re meeting in person and we’re still playing email games called “ hey I’ve got this idea can I spend $1000 on it? “And some people respond “sure a great idea. “ But a few emails are not the super majority formal vote required in Bylaws to spend this kind of money outside of membership approval.

And now we want to hire fire eaters for a party with an emergency appropriation of $550 where the legal liability falls on my organization.

Oh hell no.

[iris lilies]

I am a dog person too but these two cats have won my heart (mainly because they love me more than my husband ). I was under the impression that the corner of my box spring for my bed was their designated "shred" spot which I was fine with because the comforter hides it. I also have a 6-7 foot cat tree in the living room with plenty of scratching posts as well as a small one downstairs. Gracie (the cat) hid her devious antics well. (I only blame Gracie for any damage or badness because my sweet boy Boone would never do such a thing).

I have had too many dogs in the past decades but I’m really a cat person. At the moment our lives are Uber simple, we have one well behaved dog and zero cats. This dog is probably not going to be compatible with other dogs and that makes me sad because I do miss my foster dogs.

[Teacher Terry]

I love both dogs and cats but have gotten so allergic to cats that it means a trip to the ER. I am also getting more allergic to dogs so have to be very careful about which breed I get and my allergist said 2 is my absolute limit. My allergies got worse every year with Noki and the last year I needed my asthma rescue inhaler daily.

[Klunick]

Ugh! My new boss is so freaking egotistical that he thinks that things (even the most mundane) that have been done by us for decades can no longer be done without his approval and signature. He has to have his hands in everything. I wish he would just let us do our jobs!!!! He also made a comment to a co-worker that he can hear our conversations from his office. Umm.. ok. So what?