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ing burb and looked across the street at a charming colonial the neighbor s house and we both looked at muriel s house the one with the for sale sign that has been there longer than we ve lived in the neighborhood it showed well but said cookie at that price it should have sold said ann but said ann s daughter beth as she wrangled her two year old none of us was going to say it out loud but muriel s house suffers from the one unforgivable sin that keeps it from selling it s not dainty fresh actually i ll say it the house isn t clean oh it has gorgeous rooms and a well laid out kitchen but it is not clean and that is hard to get over it smells of cat urine the grout in the bathrooms is speckled with mold and the stainless steel sink in the bar and kitchen is dull and smells bad there is mold in the refrigerator gaskets and the dishwasher according to a cousin in real estate said when you open it smells strong until it gets a deep clean or comes down in price significantly it s going to molder on the market said my cousin we ve been friends for years but muriel thinks it s fine that it just hasn t found the right buyers but it s not even getting any showings that i can tell as we know in the past 12 years cookie has bought a number of homes as we moved here and there and tried to find the best fit for us so being pushed through the buying and selling cycle 4 times in the last 14 years i have this observation people if you are selling a home declutter and then clean the damn house and i just don t mean tidy it up i mean you have to go full on joan crawford clean hire a professional house cleaning company and spend the money to make your soon to be former home as clean as either joan crawford or at least faye dunaway playing joan crawford would want oh how we like to cringe at the idea but trust cookie no one wants to live with your dirt when you list a home it stops being your home and it becomes a commodity it becomes the house of someone new and different than you and they aren t paying for your dirt seriously you could have two identical houses one priced at 450k and the other at 500k and if the clean one is 500k its going to sell before the 450k house will so what should you have cleaned glad you asked 1 the whole house should be vacuumed not just dusted floors baseboards door tops built in drawers and cabinets under the sofa chairs and sofas 2 all the woodwork should be washed with murphy s oil soap why because it smells clean so door frames window frames and any nooks and crannies on the other baseboards too 3 widows washed inside is a must outside if you can 4 rake the flower beds sweep the outdoor walks and place new welcome mats at doorways the garage should be swept out or power washed if possible 5 blinds and drapes vacuum and then dry wipe the blinds they shouldn t be fuzzy up close 5 clean the things you would never think to clean door knobs and light switches think about this no one in your house washes and dries their hands before touching these surfaces oils and grime build up so do bacteria and viruses buyers shouldn t be able to read on off on a light switch because caked on dirt is making the letters easier to read grime on surfaces like this is not charm and patina it s caked on dirt 6 radiators especially if they are open vanes and once your house is this clean it s easier to keep up with it through the showings and the house inspection you of course get bonus points for painting in dingy rooms you get mega points if you have a forced air hvac system and get the ducts cleaned out special caution if you have cats that is a big negative to a large number of people because they are allergic so have the hvac system cleaned after you vacate the premises trust me that promise will make you golden in the eyes of the buyers why cat urine and dander are allergens and they re sticky even if you don t think it s anything it s good practice to clean up after your pet you don t have to live like this all the time but you should take precautions when selling to make sure that the sold sign goes up and the transaction finalizes leaving a clean house behond builds confidence in new owners call it good joan crawford karma or whatever but a happy buyer is everything for peace of mind an unclean house only attracts gossip you want a buyer trust cookie at july 06 2025 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels buying and selling clean your damn house what would joan crawford say monday june 30 2025 stop needling me cookie gets allergy shots because those 12 years in baltimore really did a number on me i had a great allergist in baltimore with fantastic office assistants after moving to cleveland i had a heck of a time finding an allergist who was accepting new patients when i found one we needed to start the series of shots from the basement weekly and build me back up to monthly if you get them you appreciate someone who knows how to give them done the right way its a tiny needle and the shot is subcutaneous and the shot isn t painful while the contents of the shot could interact with your body s immune response to the allergen the idea is to slowly introduce a controlled amount to build up the body s tolerance to the allergen and thus keeping it from a histamine freakout that causes the watery eyes the snot the sneezing and the coughing to give the shot and make sure it doesn t go into the muscle they pinch the skin on the back of the arm lifting from the muscle and then give you the injection if it lands in the muscle then either they used the wrong needle or they drove it deep a well given allergy shot is practically unfelt and while there may be a wee bit of discomfort afterward it goes away but when the tech fucks it up watch out its a painful shot that will be a painful injection site well two weeks ago i went in and got a tech that i had never seen before dressed in scrubs a lab coat and a surgical cap all of which is a bit much she called me in barked an order at me for name and date of birth which she insisted i tell her in front of stangers and the hollared at me through the hall while she pulled shot tray all of which was off normally it s all done one on one without broadcasting to everybody then she comes in swabs my arms in the wrong place for the shots grabs my arm pinches tightly and then drives the needle deep into my arm i yelped because it hurt like hell then she told me that it hurt because you tensed up then she repeats the process only this time i can feel the needle being withdrawn and the back of my arm develops these massive welts i ask for some hydrocortisone cream to soothe everything back down and she looks at me rolls her eyes and then scrubs cream into my arms now here s the thing when they are done correctly subcutaneously there is minor discomfort for a couple hours but four days in my arms still hurt like a motherfucker and i still had welts it was so bad i called the doctor and asked if it hurt because the shots didn t go well or what so i went back in week later for my last weekly shot and damn it i draw the exact same tech only this time and verily gunning for me i provided her with the information even though she barked it from the hall and when she came in with the shots i asked her which one was the cats allergen is in all she had to do was look at the sheet and tell me left or right instead she says whatever arm it was in last week it s in the opposite arm this week i said i understand that but i don t remember which arm it was last week because both shots were terribly painful she looks at me i don t mean she looked at me she looked through me and said because you tensed up and then she sets everything down storms out and i hear her tell someone else she can t work with me so another tech who has been there forever comes in gives both shots and asks what went on i asked her to close the door and we talked i explained that i don t like being barked at for being a patient i said that the injections the week before hurt because they went too deep and that i had called the doctor to tell him that but i also said that in the hundreds of these shots i have had since 2013 there have been three sets given to me by people who didn t seem to care what my experience was and that i didn t want that tech giving me another shot again she listened and asked so what do you think caused this and i simply said that the tech and i don t seem to be able to work together and that i think it would be best for her and for me if we didn t have to encounter one another and said she could make that happen frankly i do not want to encounter her at all she didn t respect me as a patient in a procedure and i don t need that no one does i don t wish her any ill will we just shouldn t work together anyway i am happy to report that i had no problem with the shot sites later on friday or over the weekend so we ll see what happens in three weeks at june 30 2025 10 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels allergies not a love match shots tuesday june 24 2025 summer is winding down 1970s tv guide ad artwork for late late early late show showing of joan crawford s female on the beach one of the best summer campy movies of all time well here it is towards the end of june and in cookie s book we re on the downside summer yes i know it just began but cookie loves that time of year when each day is a wee bit longer than the last but now each day is a wee bit shorter than the one before it leading up to that dreaded month that cookie can bearly function through november ugh and let s face it in ten days or so summer merchandise will start going on sale in stores as the fall merchandise and back to school sale promotions kick into gear and before you know it the autumn leaves need to be raked but enough about my problems not nearly enough but you get the idea as for shaker heights it is at once divine and on the other hand damning the divine is it suits me rather well there are no struggles here the trash gets picked up the recycling gets picked up and stores are mostly handy one bonus is that i never realized what a traffic light hell cleveland heights university heights and south euclid are instead of an hour the drive to get my allergy shots is 15 minutes from shaker to landerwood the downside of this is that if it weren t for the husband cookie would be very lonely it s hard being a man who is this old moving someone a new place and meeting people and making new friends oh you can make friends but there are a lot of people who want to use you for what they can get out of you i found that out the hard way the other hard thing is that so many of the people here are people i knew from grade school they smile they are pleasant but i have always been neither fish nor foul to them so i am still not one of them because i was never one of them in the first place remember cookie was always a bit of an outlier one foot in one world and another foot someplace else so i went down to columbus for a few days to like my wounds and be around people who like being around me it was restorative so here we are i am grateful for the experience but i am still pining for home i ll get by i always do at june 24 2025 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels haven t found my people not fitting in shaker sunday may 4 2025 it s been a rainy cold month and its only may 4th forgive my absence april was such a cold damp and dreary month that most of us in the land felt it was november may thus far hasn t turned up anything better mother nature is certainly behaving like she has the pip and is exuding all the warmth and chariableness of brittle thin lipped uptight spinster at a performance of oh calcutta so the first week of may is more like an add on to april we hope things will turn around at the end of this week the cookie s continue to nest in our new house and we are finding more and more surprises we have ordered new storm windows and screens new storm doors when the porch door is added we ll be able to actually walk out of the back porch into the back yard a pleasant surprise was that our knarled dogwood turned into a japanese maple when i saw what these were selling for i had a moment of elation a tiny one is about 350 ours is at least medium reaching about 10 feet in height i just returned from my annual trip into the genealogy world the convention and annual meeting aren t the draw they used to be i go any more to see friends go out to dinner and partake in game nights this year we played a new game dead grandma the premise is this grandma is dead and everyone around the table are her beloved heirs cards are dealt with dollar amounts and actions that can be played on others to start you place one card down to bid on one of grandma s most cherished possessions like her handbag full of melted sticky butterscotch drops and then you play to win by stiffing the other people if you win the hand you keep the card the first player to win three cards the same color or one card each of three colors we also played crack list and another game but honestly that name escapes me it was kind of like 25 000 pyramid but with a 60 second time limit a merry time was had by all my sessions included genealogical dna deciphering olde tyme scripts how to search for women in court records when all you have is a married surname structuring files and indexing as you can see cookie leads an interesting life the only angst and i capitalize it i have experienced all week is due to politics and the potential loss of our freedoms in our country i am sick with worry so i have been focusing on what i can do which is getting through each day and cheering any victories as they come at may 04 2025 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels dreay dreay dearie genealogy holding on for dear life that man wednesday april 2 2025 messy flowers and batching it well hello april when i was very young and i heard the old april showers bring may flowers i thought it was about people my mother knew members of the showers family and members of the flowers family so i thought it was some woman named april who was bringing her friend may over sweetie said my mother no it s an expression it rains in april and all that rain gets flowers ready to bloom in may ok that made sense but if we went to my grandmother s she had a bingo friend bessie flowers and for the longest time i thought he name was messy flowers of course i never said that to her face back then children referred to adults as mr mrs or miss what can i say sometimes i ain t right then or now anyway the husband has traveled back to his employer s divisional hq to train another worker bee so he can shift to a different desk covering a different part of the country so the boys and i have been batching it kevin is old but our poor rocky has aged the most in...