#250

I’m generally enjoying being locked down with my housemate but she can dominate communal spaces a bit at weekends (she turns the sofa into a second bed on Sat/Sun mornings, complete with spare duvet, which is very annoying if i would like to sit in there), can be a bit pushy - the quiz for friend’s bday isn’t something i was keen to do but she was really pushing me on it - and her singing is driving me nuts (it’s not terrible, but it’s VERY piercing and loud and a bit nasal for my personal liking)

but at least i have someone to watch tv with and who makes dinner sometimes

HB by the way!

#251

i’m gonna say they’re “artfully crumpled” and there’s nothing you can do to stop me

#252

thanks very much Lopes! :beer: :clinking_glasses: :wine_glass: :cocktail: :tumbler_glass: :beers: :champagne:

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#253

need

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#254

i should say that i don’t want to sit in there often enough for it to be a thing, but sometimes i think ‘it would be nice to sit in the lounge’ and then she’s there sprawled across the whole thing.

better than when it was her (now ex) bf, i.e. our live-out landlord, doing the same thing on a daily basis last spring though

#255

I’m quite glad I live alone and am blessed to have my own flat. I’m trying to imagine how much worse this would be if I lived in my box room with housemates and no living room like when I first moved to ldn.

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#256

My housemate at uni basically turned the living room into his bedroom for some inexplicable reason. I never went in there, apart from one time when he was out, and there were ashtrays knocked over and just left on the floor with the accompanying cig butts and ash, multiple pizza boxes. A disgrace.

#257

Have you talked to her about the bed-sofa and the singing?
Bed sofa is just obviously selfish when you share a house, she can cocoon herself in a duvet but should leave space for you to sit down too, or invite you under the duvet with her, imo.

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#258

i’m definitely a living room sprawler (no duvet though) and think it probably was annoying in my last flat, where we were friends but only relatively recent ones :confused:

currently live with someone i’ve known since we were 10 though so i feel she’ll happily tell me to move my shit if i’m getting in her way lol (also she leaves egg shells and avocado skins on the counter so she has zero legs to stand on)

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#260

Get

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#261

Swaps

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#262

oh christ. not good. housemate says that being in her bedroom much is triggering as she was made to stay in her room a lot as a kid, so spends virtually all her time in there but it rarely gets too unclean - a few glasses/spoons/bowls but that’s about it (we can’t leave much around with an opportunistic dog ready to cause havoc :sleepy: ).

i don’t really mind as i loved spending time in my room as a kid, although as soon as she goes away i basically live in the lounge and thrive on leaving takeaway leftovers out because there’s no dog to pounce on them :smiley:

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#264

Reckon the perfect set up right now would be to live alone but have someone pop over for an hour or two several times a week

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#265

I was asleep before Fleabag even finished last night. Half 9 at the latest.

#266

impossible

#267

Will a bike ride help me eliminate the cobwebs?

  • Yes it’ll do you good and the weather is nice
  • No your blood is 90% alcohol you will die

0 voters

#269

:weary::weary:

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#270

Not yet, no. I think she does the bed sofa because she has to get the dog out - who whines if she’s left alone - but wants to catch up on sleep, so the bed sofa is like a way of doing both. a condition of me moving in was that i wouldn’t have anything to do with looking after the dog, which was fine with her original plan (her ex encouraged her to get the dog back from living overseas so they could ‘co-parent’ it) but then that all went to shit when they broke up, so she’s entirely responsible for it - while it’s not really my problem, I do feel a bit bad and like I should just let her have this :confused: but i don’t think it would be an issue to just ask her to budge up every now and then

not sure how to approach the singing though. she is very proud of her singing and wants to perform at a local bar after lockdown with all of our friendship group coming along to watch, so it’s clearly quite important to her. really not sure what the approach is there esp as she has some mild hearing loss (although it’s not bad enough to excuse it being as loud as it is) :grimacing:

#271

thanks kermo! :tada: :balloon:

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#272

Happy happy birthday @Icarus-Smicarus

Hope you have a lovely sunny day :cake::cake::balloon::balloon::clinking_glasses::clinking_glasses::beers:

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