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.

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?