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I’m a bad bad person

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The house next door to use is for sale. The semi-detached … really attached house I mean.

Am I a bad person to make noise in my house when I hear a really noisy crowd of people go through the house next door? Am I?

Seriously. The other day when I wasn’t feeling well I was asleep on the couch and I was rudely awoken when the realtor or the people he/she was showing the house next door to started talking loudly at the top of his voice. I mean – he was so loud he woke me up out of a deep sleep!

In fear of the loud talker being a potential home buyer, I got up off the couch and started walking around my home – loudly. You know, walking on my heels. Thump, thump thump up and down the stairs. I also closed a few doors noisily, coughed a bit and turned the TV up a bit.

Nothing too terrible or was it?

All I was doing was trying to show the potential home buyer that if someone makes really loud noises in either home it can be heard.

You know, as much as I complain about our current karaoke neighbors they aren’t that bad. Unless their son is jumping on the couch or playing a really loud video game (sound up high, probably when parents aren’t home) we don’t hear them that much. I mean, we can’t hear normal conversations or anything. It’s just when they start playing their musical instruments – tuba? electric guitar, start singing gawd awful karaoke or have a party (with fellow karaoke buddies) that we really hear them.

But if a loud talker moves in … someone that we’ll be able to hear all the time, every day? Ahhhh! I swear we’ll have to move.

The person that was either showing or viewing the house the other day was sooooo loud!

So. Am I bad for making some noise of my own?





Should I go to the all weekend long party?

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I was just saying in my last post how busy I’ve been this week and how I think I made myself get sick since I over did things. Well, you’d think after the week that I had I might get to relax a bit this weekend? Doesn’t look that way.

This weekend a good friend of ours is holding a surprise birthday party for my sister in law. Not only that, this friend of ours took my sister in law and her husband on a cruise to the Bahamas last weekend too! That was also a surprise. Nice eh?

These parties are a taxing event in themselves. Our friend goes all out. I’m sure she’s got an eight course meal planned, lots of booze and to top things off they have a hot tub so I’m sure it will end with everyone in the hot tub.

Speaking of going all out. Last summer our friend had a 10th wedding anniversary party for my sister in law. She deep fried a turkey, cooked a ham, served seafood and invited guests from all over North America. I’m sure she’s already planning the renewing of their vows, perhaps one of those beach weddings or something!

I’m not sure I’m up for the party. It’s out of town so we’d have to stay over night either at our friends or my parent in laws (also stressful!). I might just try to bow out gracefully. Hey, I need to be healthy by the time we hit Vegas next week right?

If I was feeling better I don’t think I’d mind going away for two days, but the way things are for me right now I think I’ll be putting my trip in jeopardy if I go to this party.

Maybe Chris can bring me a doggy bag?

What a week!

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Wow. I can’t believe I went 6 days without writing in my blog. Blogs I should say – there’s several I haven’t done any writing in all week! I don’t think I’ve ever gone that long without writing!

Sorry! Life just got in the way.

During the first part of the week I was shopping and preparing for our trip to Las Vegas next week. Then, probably because I’ve been a lot more active lately I crashed!

I’ve been so sick from about Tuesday evening onward that I’ve barely been able to do a thing. Ain’t Crohn’s fun? Of course, this means that when I go to Vegas I’ll probably crash again while I’m there or right after I come back.

If you’re going to be at Blogworld or P0stiecon and you meet up with my husband and I, don’t let me overdo things, ok? Honestly. I can be really hyper and sometimes I need to just be told to sit down and take a break. You’ll be doing me a favor if you help make me rest. LOL Also, I’m a huge klutz so making me take it easy might save me from personal injury. Seriously!

Speaking of personal injury. The other day I was standing on the couch to pull our dark curtains shut. We’d run out of Halloween candy and shutting those dark curtains helps make our house look like no one’s home. Shhhh. Well, as I stood on the couch and stretched to reach the top of the curtain where it had become stuck I heard a pop in my right ankle. I didn’t think too much of it at the time, but a few hours later my inner ankle, heel and the lower part of my calf started hurting.

I must have stretched or torn something because I’m still limping around the house a few days later! I think I really need to get me some whole life insurance or something … or wrap myself in bubble wrap as I once said I was going to do every time I went out!

I really am a class A klutz.

Puffy due to new meds!

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I didn’t say anything about this, but a few weeks ago when I saw one of my doctors they finally decided to try me on prednisone for my Crohns.

So far it doesn’t seem to have helped my symptoms or my pain. What it has done though it make me puffy! Geez …I’m traveling out of the country in two weeks. Everyone wants to look their best while on vacation and here I am starting to look like a puff ball thanks to my medication! I almost feel like going out and buying some diet pills. I won’t – but it’s frustrating!

When I feel up to it I get on the elliptical machine we bought a couple of weeks ago. I still haven’t used it enough to build up much endurance though. It’s really hard when you don’t feel well all the time! I certainly hope the steroids begin to work the way they should as I’d love to feel a little bit better!

Leaky basements!

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Shortly after Chris came home from work this evening we got a call from our neighbor across the street. Well her son called us actually. Her husband died two weeks ago and at first we thought that something might have happened to her as well when her son called!

Luckily he was just calling because he’d been a great son and he’d purchased his mother a new LCD TV. Trouble was he couldn’t get it into the house by himself and he needed Chris to give him a hand. No problem at all.

These poor people. A day or two after our neighbors husband died we had a crazy rainstorm that I guess ended up causing a pipe to overflow or burst in their basement! Her whole basement was water damaged!

Every day since then I’ve seen plumbers and contractors going in and out of her house. Chris says they’re breaking up all the cement in the finished basement so that they can put in a whole new cement base or foundation! Huge job obviously! They have one section partitioned just for their tool storage for this big job.

I guess the only good thing about this happening to our neighbor is that she’s probably been kept busy over the last two weeks. I’m sure she’s grieving and sometimes keeping busy is the best medicine.

I’m so happy that our basement has never shown any signs of leakage! When I was looking for a house to buy I must have looked at 50 houses over a months time. April of all months! However it turns out that rainy April was a good time to look at houses. Almost all the houses that I looked at had leaks in their basements! In fact, this house was the only one that I looked at that had a dry basement. Obviously it was a good buy!

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