<p>Awesome news re post-OP pass, DTE!
I’ll let you know about that normal life thing if I ever find one 
Fingers crossed on the house for RM’s D.</p>
<p>NM, kudos on the grad. Lake house sounds lovely. Funny story about lake houses and normal lives from a pedicure last night, which I will relate though in your case it doesn’t apply :)</p>
<p>So, week was hell and I worked respectively 17 hrs Tues, 16 Wed, 14 on Thursday, then “normal” day Friday, by which time I was fried. However, the guys were launching TWO new and complicated sites on deadline Fri., one on someone else’s server that was a mess, so they were cranky as hell and working quite late and I didn’t want to be anywhere near them. I had been in the downtown studio with my associate producer all day.</p>
<p>I called to see if the guys wanted me to bring tem dinner to the hone production studio (they’d worked straight through lunch) and mch said “you might want to stay away until the ugly part is over” so I knocked off an went for a pedicure.</p>
<p>While “drying” there was a woman with a gorgeous, huge diamond that the other women were talking about. She had said it took her h 35 years to figure it out, but he’d finally gotten her a good one She then revealed she’d been marred to him 44 years, (she looked quite young for this) etc. which begat a convo about marriage.</p>
<p>She revealed that they worked together, husband having joined the company she’d started a decade or so ago, which prompted another woman to confess she worked with her h and hated it until she got him to retire this year and have her son take over the business. They notice I’m chuckling at all of this, so I reveal that that reason I was there was because I too work with my h…and was warned to not taunt the geeks tonight…so by this time, we’re marveling at the odds of 3 of us out of four at the drying unit being married to our business partners.</p>
<p>So woman #1 pipes up that how she copes is she makes her husband take Tuesdays off so she has a day of not bickering and that the best thing she ever did was to buy a Lake house. She sends him off to the Lake house on Fridays to get some alone time, then joins him Sunday…then Monday night he goes back to the Lake house for his day off. And this, she claims, is HOW one can be happily married for 44 years to someone you work with :)</p>
<p>They of course teased me about having to rent a whole second studio in prime downtown real estate as my own coping strategy…and I realized there was some truth to that I enjoy catching up with mch on te two days I’m away from the home studio and it re energized me.</p>
<p>So last night during some float therapy in the pool, I’m telling mch about this, and ask him (teasing) if we should have bought a lake house instead. He points out that THIS IS our lake house, for all intents and purposes, (it is on the river) and that what we’ve really done is brought our work to the “lake house” instead of saving it as a retreat, so downtown is now my retreat Kinda true!</p>
<p>At any rate, I got a huge chuckle out of the fact that three women-who-work-with-their-men were all off having pedicures instead of going home early on a Friday night. And now I’m teasing mch that he better be good or we’re going to get him a Lake house to get him out of my hair :)</p>
The original owners told me they were told their pool couldn’t be built, in this case because of the terrace, footprint, hill etc. But they found a different builder who pulled it off using French drains, a drain system around the circumference, a pump underneath the deep end, some earth moving, a retaining wall, etc. etc.</p>