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They’re going to sell!

August 17, 2007 by Tricia

Yesterday I awoke to the sound of tapping on my bedroom wall.

It was the neighbors.

As the day passed I don’t think there was a wall adjoining our house that was tapped,banged or hammered.

What on earth were the neighbors doing?

Chris happened to see our neighbor outside when he walked to the corner store in the early evening and he found out that they’d spent the day doing minor repairs to their home. We’d already figured as much, but it was nice to confirm the source of all the tap tap tapping.

Their real estate agent had given them a list of suggestions for repairs.

So yeeaaaaahhhhh it looks like the neighbors will soon be putting their house up on the market!

I’m not surprised that they had at least some minor repairs to do. Since they moved in five and half years ago they’d never done a thing to the house and I think it was badly in need of repairs. I’m sure there’s more that they haven’t got to yet and might not do.

Believe it or not the constant tapping throughout the day was no where near as irritating as the loud guitar, tuba or karaoke that we’re subject to from time to time. In fact the tapping didn’t even really bother me at all. Perhaps that’s just because I knew it might mean that our Karaoke neighbors would soon be moving on.





Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Home Renovation, Moving or Organizing, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: bedroom, Chris, constant, guitar, home, house, house repairs, irritating, karaoke, karaoke neighbors, moving, neighbor, Real Estate, repairs, selling house, tapping, tuba

Where would you live?

August 17, 2007 by Tricia

Are you in the home that you plan on living in for the majority of your life or do you think you’ll move a few times before you settle into a home for a long period of time?

When we first got this house I thought we’d be here for a long time, but with all that we’ve gone through with our neighbors I know that I want to move at some point and when we buy a new house it will not be semi detached. I’m sorry, but I’m not interested in hearing what my neighbors are up to.

Actually just the other day I was thinking about how I’ve been making a fairly good living via the internet. If I keep this up and continue to make enough to pay the bills well … I could live just about anywhere. I could buy a home in Europe or move to Australia, or I could get a home in the mountains in British Columbia or I could check out Wilmington NC real estate and live by the sea, or I could move to a Caribbean island.

You see what I mean? I could live just about anywhere as long as I had internet access.

Where would you live if you could live anywhere?

Filed Under: Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Moving or Organizing, Recreation Tagged With: Australia, bills, Europe, home, house, interest, Internet, live anywhere, mean, neighbor, neighbors, Real Estate, time

Hiccups and nausea don’t mix!

August 17, 2007 by Tricia

OMG I’ve got the hiccups and they won’t stop! Hiccups really hurt when you’ve got inflamed messed up insides. On top of that I think I’ve got the flu and I’m nauseated.

Have you ever had the hiccups when you’re nauseated?

I don’t believe that I have before so this is a first and I’m not liking it one bit.

I have a feeling that this won’t end well …

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease Tagged With: bad situation, flu, Hiccups, hurt, inflamed, messed up insides, mix, nausea, nauseated

Chaos in the office!

August 17, 2007 by Tricia

I was just speaking to my brother. The one that lives here in the Toronto area. He’s one of the senior employees at his workplace and they are renovating and revamping the whole office and their computer systems and software. By this I mean everything from new computer systems to the financial consolidation software they use, to the chairs they sit in.

Unfortunately for my brother, instead of closing down the office for a few days or moving the employees to an area that’s already been finished or that hasn’t been worked on they are trying to make them work in among the chaos.

He’s not able to get anything done so he decided to call me and see how things were going over here. We’re going to be having our big family reunion at the end of the month too so he wanted to square up a few details.

Poor guy. What else is he going to get done at work today – nothing! Hopefully they finish up his office over the weekend.

Filed Under: Family, Home and Lifestyle, Moving or Organizing, Toronto Tagged With: brother, Canada, chaos, computer, employee, Family, financial, moving, new, renovating, Software, system, Toronto, weekend, work

Weird sounds from our computer speakers

August 17, 2007 by Tricia

I think I’ve got to move somethings further away from my desktop computer. It’s really strange. If I happen to turn our cellphone on or off when I’m within a few feet from our computer our the computer speakers make a weird do do do boop boop noise. It’s kind of an alien sound.

The speakers have power going to them, but I always have them turned off because I hate it when I hit a website with autoplay music or video so I only turn the speakers on when I really want to hear something. I can only imagine what kind of sound the speakers would make when I turn the cell phone on if the volume was turned on!

I think they need better EMI Shielding or something. I have no idea why the cell phone and speakers interact that way.

The other strange thing that happens is the infrared controller on our desktop computer (it has a remote but I almost never use it) flashes on and off when we use the cable remote for our TV. As in when we are changing channels on the TV. Weird eh?

Does your computer do anything strange when you’re cell phone or other electronics are near it?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Television, Web and Technology Tagged With: alien, autoplay music, cable, cell phone, cellphone and speakers, computer, desktop, electronics, EMI shielding, interference, noise, play, sound, sound from speakers, strange, TV, Video

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