Pit of my day... couldn't think of anything to make for dinner. (First world problem. ) Peak of my day... remembered that when I last made stuffed shells I put a casserole dish of them in the freezer. Dinner solved!! :happydance: They are in the oven and the salad is made.
Pit :... another extremely stormy day, winds around 70mph.. and lots of trees down. It's wheelie bin emptying day today so when everyone's bins were emptied and returned back on the pavement this morning, it was like a row of Dominos had been knocked over, every single one was lying flat on it's back having been blown over.. except our..we have a large privet hedge and it protested ours from the wind a bit... we've also got intermittent rain as well... . The house next door to me is a rental, and the tenants who've been there for 6 years are moving out.. overall they've been really good neighbours.. so I'm a little concerned about who we might get next, praying for good ones...and not noisy people.. Peak : yesterday the PVC threshold bar by my back door split a little..dunno how but it did, so today hubs has pulled it up, and fitted a whole lovely bright white new one...
That's a big concern for us for the next apartment we rent. We had neighbor noise problems in Colorado, North Carolina and here. Funny, but we really thought we'd lose the noise problems when we bought our house in Colorado. That didn't happen! Both neighbor dogs barking in the backyard in the middle of the night and two large woods owls sitting on the roof of the house behind ours, "hooting" at 3AM. We were lucky, we were able to take care of both problems.
Pit: Finding someone next month to transport our boat to Colorado in May. Getting a "moving quote" from a moving company and I know, without a doubt, my wife isn't going to like the cost of moving our stuff to Colorado. She has got rid of some things, but still has some pretty heavy plastic storage bins and boxes of things. Then, we have to get four new tires for our boat trailer and have brakes checked out. Tires are way to old to have boat taken that far. Peak: Had a descent day last Sunday on our 18th Wedding Anniversary. Wow, I've never done anything for 18 straight years!
Yes you need to check out who your neighbours will be before you decide on the next apartment Cody... We have a house and garden, so no problems of neighbours above or below, but as you say , we've still had problems over the years with barking dogs, and noisy students, etc... the ones who are moving out were pretty good, no kids and a well behaved dog..but they did tens to have loud parties until 2am in the garden on weekdays which we had to put a stop to..as both of us had to be up for work at 5am, but they were shift workers so they could start there parties late and not get up until late.. The tenant before that was a retired University lecturer, and artist, he was fab.. but before that we had all sorts of problems with transient tenants...mainly students whose rich parents were paying for them to share a home rather that live in halls at the local university.. ..they felt they could act any way they wanted night and day...
Problem is...….a person can't check out to see who lives in surrounding apartments. To a point, that could be "discrimination" when asking about who lives in the complex. A manager will say very little-to-nothing at all about who lives in the complex. Basically, the only way to make sure people about getting a decently quiet apartment, is to rent an apartment in a 55+/Senior Complex. But, then again, if any of the tenants have family/grandkids over, that guarantee can be gone. The area around our building is really, really quiet. Darn near unbelievably quiet. On some warm nights, some residents will go out on their patio, sit and talk...…….not even giving it a thought how much their voices are traveling, because it is so quiet. We have one neighbor, in the building that faces our bedroom, that have done this "talking" at 1:30AM and have woke me up. By 1:30AM, both of us have been in bed and asleep for a few hours. I'm no longer a "night owl" like I was before I met my wife. Anyway, I have to get my high-beam flashlight, go out on our patio, shine the light at their patio and politely ask them to keep the talking down. They are young adults in their 20's or early 30's and I'm sure they want to say to me "this complex isn't a Senior Citizen one."
Pit: Bad pain started last night and I was almost unable to move. Don't know why, but I must have done something that triggered it. I took ibuprofen and acetaminophen to get me through the night, and added muscle relaxant to the mix this morning. I always have some pain, but this was the most I have had in over a year. Peak: The pain is finally easing if I don't move much.
Oooh I hate when that happens, it takes your breath away not only with the pain but with the suddenness , or the increase for no apparent reason... Pleased to hear you had muscle relaxants in the house to match the PK's.. and that the pain is finally easing..let's hope it goes as quick as it came..
I think that neighbors might be an ongoing problem with an apartment complex, maybe more so than with houses, although where we live, people moving in and out every few months (usually being evicted !) seems to be the norm of things. Even if a person rents an apartment with quiet neighbors, they might move and the next tenants not be as good, like you are concerned with in the house next to you, @Holly Saunders . I think that a person’s chances are better if you lived in a senior housing apartment, because they would probably tend to be quieter overall than younger working people who are more active. Hoping that your back starts getting better again soon, @Don Alaska . I have had those kinds of spasms happen with my back, where it just seizes up and then you cannot move at all without terrible pain, and it is something that can strike without warning, and I dread that it might happen. Even when I was younger, it would happen to me, and sometimes, it was simply that I had moved wrong, and not that I had done anything to damage my back. I remember one time, I just bent over to pick up something off the floor, and the next thing, I had collapsed on the floor and could not move, and it was days before I could do anything except crawl from the bed to the bathroom and back.
@Yvonne Smith, that's the problem we have here...…...we live in a "working class" city. Our apartment, of 10 years now, is a single level called a "bungalow" type. There are only four of these in the complex and each is attached to the end of buildings. The only thing we ever hear above us is small limbs, from trees next to us, falling on our roof. Jacksonville is, without a doubt, a "working class" type city and the streets/freeways definitely show that. The city is full of the "young working class" and the city is advertised as such. The main problem we seem to have always encounter is how noisy upstairs or across-the-hall neighbors can be. Really seems like absolutely no consideration for neighbors, when it comes to making noise. "You don't like it, move out" we've had an upstairs neighbor tell us. Management can't do much when it's heavy walking or kids playing above you. I don't mind a "pet friendly" apartment complex, but when it starts sounding like a dog kennel, with all of the barking, just what can be done? Who's got the money to keep moving around until the best apartment can be found?
Yesterday was a Pit from the git go. Nothing serious , but a continuing all day long of things going wrong. But we laughed at how things just kept going wrong. For instance we went to IHop about 11:30. We ordered and waited- abd waited and waited for almost an hour. People were leaving who were there before us. So cut to the brunt of it... The chef never came back from lunch...the power had been out during the night because of the storm..plus they were short handed. ...we left also. So it was things of that nature that just made the day irritating.But we got through it all.
Just to flip the coin a little.. my daughter has had the day from hell... All Pit.... She's feeling very poorly and has an extremely sore throat..she's just exhausted working long days and never a day off.. and lately one of her staff has been off, so she's had to double up her work.. then she had to take an aggressive guest dog to be PTS today.. on behalf of the owner The latter always upsets her regardless of how often she's had to step in on the owners' behalf, but for all of their benefits she has to be professional and stoical .. so today already feeling poorly, feeling upset about the dog, on her return from the vet surgery, a tree fell on the roof of her new van and dented all the one side... She'd just had about as much as she could take today!!