I wrote an article not long ago about settling on a name for the personality disorder that we spend our time here talking about. I suggested using “sociopath” as a general term for exploitative people. Many of us have taken to shortening this term to “spath.”
Well, a Lovefraud reader “Justdreamin” informs us that “spath” is taken. She saw it on a flower pot, and sent us the photos.
It turns out that “spath” is a shortened version of “spathiphyllum,” which is the botanical name for the peace lilly, a common houseplant.
We might have to come up with a new name. If I were a beautiful peace lily, I wouldn’t want to share a name with the nasty predators.
aussiegirl
EB –
At least you hsvern’t been EATEN by the bear! That’s what we were starting to worry about…. and not without cause, it would seem! When will you be right out and in at your new place?
ErinBrock
One….I think you responded just fine girl!!!!
At least you didin’t huck a wicker basket table at her OR FREEZE!!!!!!
I attempted to return 2 portable heaters, one that was making wierd noise and smelled…..so didn’t want either….that I purchased in December. They wouldn’t returne them becuase it was beyond 30 days. I gave them shit for not standing by their products…..and went into the store with my heaters to pick up some curtain rings.
As I purchased the rings…..the same sales hitler came over to the cashier and wispered to her……she didn’t buy BOTH of those heaters…..I looked up at her….like REALLY???? You just HAD MY RECEIPT!!! I said…….do you wish to see my receipt….and she said YES…..
I got my biatch on too……
I’ts not nice to be accused of stealing
Hens……yeah……stop those predictions NOW!!!!
I may have to dance with you on freak moon night from INSIDE!!!! Just know…..i’ll be there!
Oxy……earthquake damage at your place? What rock have I been under?
The move is slowing down……I did get an offer on the house, waiting for the counter to counter….
Been spending time over at the new place….getting organized. Hanging drapes, shelving, organizing closets…..hanging pics and my treasures.
I still got so much SHIT! I’ll need to do round two CL get rid of action.
How can one get rid of so much stuff…….and still have so much!
The one question I keep asking myself………Was it really such a good thing getting EVERYTHING in the divorce?
🙂
ErinBrock
Aussie~
I slowed the move down, because the mtg. lender requires you occupy the home in order to do a shortsale.
So……to play by the rules…..I’m occupying the mostly ’empty’
home.
BUT…..I may have an ‘out’ if they ever listened to the 911 tape and heard how terrified I must have sounded.
If I can come to an agreement with a buyer…..and in 90 days (or up to 8 months) the lender agrees on the purchase price….then it will close in 60 days.
OR…..at any given time they can slap a sale date on my door and the house will be sold at auction and i’m out in 15-30 days.
OR……in 2 weeks, if this offer doesn’t materialize….I can apply for a deed in Lieu of foreclosure.
It’s all a waiting game……a fucked up, life changing GAME!!!!!!
But yes I am okay……I’d still rather have the bear over the spath anyday!!!!
hens
Hey Hey Hey Erin Bee – I have missed ya girlie ~! Why didnt you just point your remote control at the bear and change him into Tom Cruise?……ha glad your OK…..
hens
On another thought – I dont remember the actual day/date my X left that last and final time, but I remember my clematis vine’s were just beginning to bloom, so it is officially three years now – oh well………..off to work.
Claudia
Donna, Thanks. We needed this comic relief! Sometimes I see a spath behind every bush too since the…spath.
Eva
Claudia, it happens the same to me. A spath! Spath, spath! Another one there!
One individual has even told me i’m a psychiatric case… 😀
I see spaths….
Eva
Aussiegirl,
if i find the plant i’ll give to my Laila. They’re resistant plants, aren’t they?…..
Ox Drover
Derar EB, Glad you are safe girl, but please don’t think that bear can’t BREAK INTO your house…they can. He got rewarded for breaking in once with food, so he is ALWAYS gonna keep coming back to find more….intermittent reward training at its best and they are smart like that. NEVER GIVE UP!
Yea, the natural gas drillers put two “injection wells” for waste water here in the area, drilled into a previously UNKNOWN FAULT and the earthquakes started…got one at 4.7 and FELT IT and got some cracks in the sheet rock and my bedroom door frame shifted a half inch so the latch wouldn’t catch in the hole. had to putty in the hole, and then re-drill it so the door would latch. A locked hollow core door ain’t much, but I do sleep with it closed and locked—and baby, I have more than a REMOTE CONTROL to point in the directions of noises. If that sucker had been at MY house, I’d have tossed enough “stuff” at him that I’d be at the taxidermy office this morning telling them how I wanted his hide mounted. Anyway, glad you are safe!!!!
Yea, having to “stay” at the house sounds like a pain in the butt, but part of it is the insurance…a house that is vacant for more than 30 days or unoccupied more than 30 days can’t be insured. I came up against that in my rental units so if I had one difficult to rent I tried to make sure I got a renter in there before the 30 days was up.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you that you make a GOOD sale and end up with some money out of it. Glad to have you back GF, WE MISS YOU WHEN YOU’RE GONE!!!!
skylar
One Step,
Serious way to draw your boundaries with that fake cop. Did you get the feeling she was a spath? (not the plant tiype).
I’m proud of you.
Next step: the loud neighbor. But wait til you job is over so you can focus your energies.