And then followed up with tradie neighbour about the rest of the work needed. He’s replied that he’s injured and can’t do it for at least three or four weeks, but that if that doesn’t rule him out, he’s keen. So I will hold fire on that piece of work, but feel good about having followed up anyway.
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Same. It took me more time to find the letter in the haphazard pile of mail than filling it out.
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So you guys got something in the mail from the census? I thought it was going to be online this time.
Yes, it is an online form… you should have received a notice in the mail that included the census website and your individual ID to use as a sign in. My form (and a reminder I got a few weeks later) said that it was required to respond by April 1, so if you haven’t received anything, I’m not sure. There might be more info on the census website though, it’s https://my2020census.gov/. If you “start the questionnaire”, there is an option to click if you don’t have an ID, so maybe that is the route to go. 
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Thanks. Haven’t gotten anything, probably because we don’t have US mail service at home.
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That would do it!
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Added an extra rail to a window in my loungeroom and now have blockout curtains up, heating/cooling situation is much improved.
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I’m committing to calling an oven repair company today.
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I’ve got to set up a new 403B account, so I’m reporting it here for some accountability. This is exactly the kind of thing I hate doing, so I need help sticking to it until it’s done.
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This post was six hours ago - how did you go?
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Here and checking in on you. Treats when you are done!
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Uhhh, uhh wow. You guys are good. I haven’t started! I meant like in the next week. First I had to tell my children the bad news about the condo and console them. Then I had to make people food. Then I did some reading for my class. Then I took my son over to his cousin’s. Came home and found Husband so despondent that I had to make him a cocktail. And now I’m trying to get back to my classwork. I have responses due tonight so no more distractions!
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Yeah, I was gonna check on you in a month or two. 
Sorry about the condo.
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Thanks. I’m disappointed, but my two sensitive artists types are downright devastated. 
I’m all ready to go out and look at other places but reading the room, yeah, too soon.
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It’s also possible you might hear from them again. I know when I was buying it came down to two choices, made an offer on place A which I marginally preferred, they rejected (in favor of another offer, per realtor), I moved on to make an offer on place B that was accepted. And about a week later I got a ‘Uh, well, maybe we can come to some kind of agreement’ message from the realtor for place A. Real estate shenanigans…I get the impression I was supposed to have come back with a better offer rather than walking away which hadn’t actually occurred to me at the time because I’d given them the offer I was willing to make 
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Yep, I agree that something like that might happen. Because I still find no offers at all for 70 days and then suddenly there are three offers the same day and one is over asking? When it’s already priced much higher than its competitors. Hmmmm…
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I agree it’s fishy. I liked Smacky’s idea of countering with an offer $1 higher, but choosing not to counteroffer at all might just make it easier to make a clean break with the place and get your family on board with looking for another place.
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I frequently put off getting in touch with my parents. [Sorry, this got long.] There is NO good reason. They’re wonderful, supportive, no-pressure, easygoing people, especially as my brother and I got into our teens and beyond (so basically the last 2+ decades). Super fortunate. They’re 100% on board with covid precautions so that’s not an excuse either.
I think some of it stems from a childhood rule they had about speaking in our native language after we immigrated to the US when I was 5. Unfortunately my vocabulary stayed stuck at around age 5 so I find it hard to express myself. My brother was born in the US, but due to personality or circumstance (he was 6 yrs younger, and spent a few summers as a preteen with favorite aunt/uncle back in country of origin while I was in the US ticking off the American Dream) is probably more fluent than me. He’s closer to them than I am – I think they had more free time to parent him (my dad had 3 days off a year while I was living at home, which became multiple long weekends after I moved out); and he also needed a bit more support transitioning to adulting.
Obviously they’re over that rule; they text and email us in English, and they happily converse with their friends and both my brother’s and my partners in English too. My mom has spent the last 10+ years in an English-speaking career. But I still feel stuck.
I need/want to unpack this before they’re too old and I have regrets. I just texted my dad back about a socially distanced visit. We can talk about the garden and the baby and some financial things and they will bring a cooler full of homemade frozen food and maybe repeating that often will be a good step.
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Posted some returns I’d been meaning to get to.
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I will work on Kiddo’s insurance bullshit.
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