i feel like posting today - talk to me
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Knickers
My house doesn't have a banister.
And it's never winter enough here to require seasonal underwear.
I feel I am depriving unexpected visitors. Of course, I don't have many of those either.
Must be the underwear. Or maybe the lack of underwear. Although I'd really think that lack of underwear would be MORE likely to attract unexpected visitors.
I'm just doing it all wrong.
My house doesn't have a banister.
And it's never winter enough here to require seasonal underwear.
I feel I am depriving unexpected visitors. Of course, I don't have many of those either.
Must be the underwear. Or maybe the lack of underwear. Although I'd really think that lack of underwear would be MORE likely to attract unexpected visitors.
I'm just doing it all wrong.
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Eh
Can't do that. Mortgage and all that stuff. Furniture. I like my furniture but I don't like moving it.
Or maybe I just need to change HOW I move.
I'll think about that one.
Can't do that. Mortgage and all that stuff. Furniture. I like my furniture but I don't like moving it.
Or maybe I just need to change HOW I move.
I'll think about that one.
Andreina
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honestly, winters get phucking cold here and you don't want to mess with flimsy frilly g-strings while waiting for 20min on the tramway (which is running every 20-25min, instead of every 3-5min, because all the streets are blocked by stupid drivers who still have their summer tyres on their cars, although it's winter...).... anyway, where was i? flimsy, frilly things... yes... i mean... no.... no thank you in winter. i like my thermal underwear in winter.
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Underwear
I don't wear frilly stuff either. It itches. Underwear, in my world, is to stand between me and anything I don't really want rubbing up against me.
Which doesn't sound right, but it's more or less what I meant.
I have some winter underwear. I bought it when I went to Colorado in February a few years ago. It's silk and it's long and it was very nice to have, and now it sits in a drawer.
There are no trams around here. No busses, trains or trollies either. If you don't have a car, you walk, and if you walk, you take your life in your hands. And the biggest obstacle we face is sweating through the underwear and sticking to the car seat. All bad.
I don't wear frilly stuff either. It itches. Underwear, in my world, is to stand between me and anything I don't really want rubbing up against me.
Which doesn't sound right, but it's more or less what I meant.
I have some winter underwear. I bought it when I went to Colorado in February a few years ago. It's silk and it's long and it was very nice to have, and now it sits in a drawer.
There are no trams around here. No busses, trains or trollies either. If you don't have a car, you walk, and if you walk, you take your life in your hands. And the biggest obstacle we face is sweating through the underwear and sticking to the car seat. All bad.
Andreina
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i like living in a country where you don't depend on private transport. here we have super public transport (monthly ticket is about $40) and a very good nightbus service, which starts immediately when the last bus, tram or underground has gone "to bed" (i always imagine tramway and buses going to bed and having a good nights sleep,...). the nightbuses run throughout the night every 30min, which rocks. 
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Not Quite Suburbia
Where I live now, the area is just getting into heavy development. 15 years ago, it was all orange groves, cattle ranches, horse ranches and assorted farms, so there wasn't much call for mass transit, 12 years ago, where my house is now, there was an orange grove. There are still some of the old groves within a mile of the house, and cattle within 10 miles. A little further on, the land has never been farmed and is still fairly wild (bears and such hang around) It's kind of strange. I've traveled only a little in Europe (which was strictly in the Netherlands) but even the "country" seemed more civilized.
Of course, there isn't a lot of public transportation in this area anywhere. Too many people retire here and don't want to pay the tax support. They like their land yachts.
Where I live now, the area is just getting into heavy development. 15 years ago, it was all orange groves, cattle ranches, horse ranches and assorted farms, so there wasn't much call for mass transit, 12 years ago, where my house is now, there was an orange grove. There are still some of the old groves within a mile of the house, and cattle within 10 miles. A little further on, the land has never been farmed and is still fairly wild (bears and such hang around) It's kind of strange. I've traveled only a little in Europe (which was strictly in the Netherlands) but even the "country" seemed more civilized.
Of course, there isn't a lot of public transportation in this area anywhere. Too many people retire here and don't want to pay the tax support. They like their land yachts.
Andreina
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this is one thing at always amazed me about the united states: the masses of cars. i'm 25 and i don't have a driving license because frankly i don't need it. maybe I'll give it a go in summer, but i'd only drive when visiting my parents (they live in the countryside, but still from where they live it a 10min walk to the trainstation, so i don't really need). i think i'd freak out if i'd have to take the care to get around. i'm just the type of person who likes to sit in the tramway in the morning and slowly wake up on the 15min trip to work.
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Driving it
I've woken up while driving into work more times than I'm comfortable relating. In most of the US, and especially in areas like this, kids start jonsing for the learner's permit when they are 15, and usually have their licenses by 16 (I was an oddball because I waited until I was over 17).
Especially around here, everything is so spread out, even the public transport there is isn't terribly good. There isn't really a "center" of town where everything is. I live just off a major highway, which used to be the highspeed tourist route into central Florida, but now is just a really wide artery road, with stoplights, intersections, side roads, and shopping "centers" all along it. I live on the edge of one town, and if I drive about 5 minutes and cross that highway, I am in the "downtown" area of another town (it's actually closer).
Very weird, even for the US.
When I visited England, I loved being able to get on a train or a bus to get everywhere. Of course, the bus drivers scared me plenty -- never sit in the front of a bus!
I've woken up while driving into work more times than I'm comfortable relating. In most of the US, and especially in areas like this, kids start jonsing for the learner's permit when they are 15, and usually have their licenses by 16 (I was an oddball because I waited until I was over 17).
Especially around here, everything is so spread out, even the public transport there is isn't terribly good. There isn't really a "center" of town where everything is. I live just off a major highway, which used to be the highspeed tourist route into central Florida, but now is just a really wide artery road, with stoplights, intersections, side roads, and shopping "centers" all along it. I live on the edge of one town, and if I drive about 5 minutes and cross that highway, I am in the "downtown" area of another town (it's actually closer).
Very weird, even for the US.
When I visited England, I loved being able to get on a train or a bus to get everywhere. Of course, the bus drivers scared me plenty -- never sit in the front of a bus!
