Category Archives: About me

May project: apartment living

May 22, 2013

It’s day 22 of the blog every day in May challenge. Today the prompt is: Rant about something. Get up on your soapbox and tell us how you really feel.

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I have been looking forward to this one for some time. I am always ranting about things and sometimes Walker gets a little sick of hearing about the same thing. So today I will rant to you since I have a good reason to (it’s the prompt today!).

Apartment living, specifically neighbors, is driving me completely nuts! I have had it with hearing my neighbors noises! I don’t want to know when you’re going to the bathroom, or getting ready for bed, or taking a shower, or cooking lunch. My situation is especially troublesome for 3 reasons.

1. We live in an old apartment complex with wood floors-which by the way are pretty but don’t help to hide anything!
2. I work from home and guess what?! So do my neighbors, or at least they are home all day every day.
3. They don’t seem to have a single carpet because I can hear EVERYTHING-in fact I just heard one of them sneeze-I’m being totally serious.

I suppose it doesn’t help that I like silence and therefore don’t play music or anything to help hide the noises, but really a sneeze? Also being the ever conscientious person that I am I don’t want to make an excess noises that someones else might be bothered by. One day I kept trying to move to different rooms in my apartment and I seriously felt like I was being followed but from above instead of behind. Oy!

I told Walker there is no way I’m living in an apartment any longer unless the walls and floors are completely sounds proof, which in this city might be hard to come by. By day it makes me an angry person and by night, well more of the same. It isn’t good for my mental health.

Is lack of proper insulation driving you mad?



May project: keeping friendships alive

May 20, 2013

Today is day 20 of the blog every day in May challenge! The prompt today is: Get real. Share something you’re struggling with right now.

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Something that has been on my mind lately and I guess you could consider a struggle is how to keep friendships going when I’m not around. I guess it’s been coming up for me more and more especially now that I’m way off in Seattle away from all the close friends I’ve made in Michigan and now Texas. I know not all friendships can last but I’m talking about the friends you’ve had along the way you could never imagine not being friends with one day. But then life happens and you move away, they move away, you talk less and less and it almost seems weird to talk versus weird not to talk and you wonder when that happened. So much time has passed that you wonder how you could ever catch up and maybe it’s just easier to let it go.

I’ve never been one of those people who just had a group of friends that have been friends forever. Walker does. He has a bunch of friends still from high school and college and they all keep in touch. I’m envious sometimes. I still have a few friends here and there that we can go some time without talking but when we get together it’s like time has stood still and we catch right back up where we left off. But mostly I have what I would call used to be friends. We used to be friends in high school. We used to be friends in college. We used to be friends after college. We used to be friends.

Is that just how it is? Are we friends with people for a certain amount of time and then it’s just time to move on? I don’t know. What I do know though is that for now, since I’m the one struggling with this, maybe I have to be the one to pick up the phone and say hello.