January 6, 2008
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Sleepless in New Mexico
For a blissful four months, no one has lived in the apartment adjacent to mine. When I first moved in, there was a couple with two dogs who chose to "walk" these animals at 4 every morning, and by "walk" I mean that they hung their leashes on the doorknob and the animals were free to do their business, bark, whine, and scratch to be let back in just outside my bedroom window (which is right beside our entry door.)
New Neighbors moved in last night. They have THREE small children. (In a 2 bedroom apartment) and they put all three of the babies in the room with which my room shares a wall. This morning at 2, ALL THREE of the kids woke up crying. One got them started the chorus and the other two joined in.
There's nothing like a tribe of shrieking banshees at 2 AM to make sleeping difficult.
I really have to move. Into some place with 1) better insulation. 2) more space between me and the neighbors. 3) three bedrooms.
If this situation continues, I'm going to be sleeping on Tucker's bottom bunk. And a retreat to that little cave of a place is not what I have in mind at all for my bold new 2008 life of adventure and stuff.
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Um yeah, perhaps that is the mission for 2008?
Find a new place to hang your hat & shiny things!
*envisions you stapling pink panther insulation to your common wall*
I can relate. We live in a two bedroom condo. Our building has 8 units. These units are fine for small families or two people, and certainly not three young children. We had a family that lived beneath us for awhile. They were certainly not aware of anyone else. They would be noisy, slamming doors, getting up EARLY Sunday mornings and making all sorts of racket. I felt sorry for the kids (three boys) because there is no yard to speak of here so no place for them to play. Now they are gone...
Two words: ear plugs.
That would drive me insane! I feel so bad for you!
Apartment living is the pits when you have noisy neighbors. I got really sick of the college boys upstairs at my last apartment. Best wishes for you to find something bigger, quieter, and affordable.
even when my banshee was of the screaming age, i wouldn't've been able to stand hearing it from next door, too.
some people just don't realize there are other people in the world besides themselves. my daughter's learned that the hard way being in college campus apartment housing the past three years.
and i'm laughing now at nfp's vision of pink insulation.
I know the feeling the woman next door screams at her kids 24-7 and the new neighbors upstairs have a little girl thats either running and laughing or crying. the laughing we like the crying gets old after a half hour or so. our bedroom shares a wall with the living room of the next door neighbor so the sleep problem sounds real familiar.
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