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If you want something leave a message we’ll get back to you!

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Arghhhhhhhhhhhh!

Since Wednesday our phone keeps ringing and ringing and ringing!

Chris is off work this week and his coworker keeps calling. This guy must have called from work or from his cell phone at least 20 times. Did he leave a message each time? No. He finally left a message earlier today asking Chris to call him back regarding the work schedule for next week.

This guy is always calling in sick or trying to make deals with Chris to trade shifts. Actually he even managed to talk my husband into changing his permanent schedule! My husband, when he started in the OR attendant job last December was supposed to work Tuesday to Friday. Now ever since this guy got hired they’ve alternated the schedule so sometimes Chris has a Monday off and on alternate weeks he’s got a Tuesday off.

This guy has even called our home at 5 in the morning to tell Chris he’s sick and that he’ll have to do his shift never bothering to call in sick at work. Chris even has more seniority. It’s just nuts what Chris has let this guy get away. Yes it’s Chris’ fault. There’s no doubt about that.

So now we’ve got this guy ruining Chris’ holiday by calling all the time. If he wants something why doesn’t he just leave a proper message with his request?

Chris and I are purposely not answering his calls ’cause we figure that it’s either some schedule switch or that he might even have wanted to Chris to work on one of his holiday days. No, the guy can think we aren’t home and haven’t been home all week.

This is the problem with being too nice.

We often go out of our way to do something nice for people. Sometimes putting ourselves out while trying to make someone happy and you know what? People rarely appreciate it. It’s like a ticket for taking advantage of us in the future when ever they want something else.

It’s our own fault, but I’d rather be kind to others than nasty.





The clean out begins

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My neighbors are serious. If the tapping and repairs going on weren’t enough of a message that they mean to sell their home successfully the pile of discarded items outside there house should be enough to convince me.

I just looked outside and they’ve been cleaning out their home. There’s old rolled up carpeting, a few blinds, what looks like a painting or a photo frame, an old couch and a few bags of garbage.

Gee I hope they’re going to cart that stuff to the dump on their own because this past Tuesday was Garbage day and garbage is only picked up twice a month in our area of Toronto. They’d better not be planning on leaving that pile on the boulevard grass for the next week and a half.

Oh now a wooden chair has joined the pile. Hmmm if anyone needs some used furniture I might have a deal for you.

They’re going to sell!

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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.

Chaos in the office!

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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.

The kindness of Strangers

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A couple of days ago I wrote a post on my blog “My World“. The post was about my husband wanting to go to the Rick Wakeman concert (ie the band YES) at the Danforth Music Hall. The concert is this Sunday, and tickets were expensive so he delayed purchasing a ticket and for all we know the tickets are now sold out.

This is the second time that I’ve written about a concert my husband wanted to go to, and it’s the second time that someone has come along and offered tickets to the event. Unbelievable.

There are a lot of bad things about the internet, but then there are good things like what happened after I wrote my post. A man who happened to have a spare ticket wrote to me and offered the ticket to my husband – for free. He read on my blog that we’d both been sick on and off and this was his way of paying it forward.

Chris talked with the man on the phone earlier today and the two hit it off. They’ll meet before the concert for a drink and then go to the concert together.

Now I’d better find a way to keep paying it forward so good thing will keep happening to us. 😉 Maybe I’ll donate to a good cause or a school like this one here, or randomly find someone posting about something that I’ll be able to help with like our kind stranger just did for my husband.

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