May project: things I’ve learned on my own

May 23, 2013

It’s day 23 of the blog every day in May. Today the prompt is things you’ve learned that school won’t teach you.

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(The flowers aren’t related to the post but Walker got me these when I got back on Sunday from Michigan. I should have taken a picture when I got home but this is them 4 days later.)

How to be comfortable with yourself. It’s taken me years to really get a good sense of who I am and I can say I pretty much have it figured out (but of course every once in a while I surprise myself).

That what I studied in school does not define my life or me. I have a bachelor’s in mathematics but I own an online shop and make jewelry for a living.

How hard growing up and making big girl decisions would be.

I’m sure if I sat here long enough I could think of way more because, lets be honest, school does not teach us all that much about life.

On a silly side note: I am heading to Malibu, CA today for a wedding with Walker. He likes to be at the airport at least 2 and a half hours early for DOMESTIC flights so I will be meeting him there an hour or so after he arrives. He is so silly. But also he doesn’t mind just hanging out at the airport and I’d rather be there for as little as possible.

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?