The neighbour on one side of us got her whole front yard and stoop ripped out and redone. Finally after three weeks, it was quiet again while I was trying to work in my home office. For two days. Today the neighbour on the other side is getting their driveway redone so it’s chaos again. I could deal with the demolition noise if it wasn’t for the constant “beep beep beep” while they’re backing up.
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I work in the basement and actually had to vacate when we had contractors working on the back of the house last year.
Also we have a stairway and door to my office which is great except when a contractor knocks on it and I panic from surprise.
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Someone my wife knows let her know that someone was having an estate sale to get rid of a house packed full of fabric, yarn, and a life of sewing supplies and equipment. Great.
She packed the car up for a 2 hour drive and got there at 10:30, the sale opening at 10:00.
When she got there, there was next to nothing left because the daughter had started to let people in at 8:00.
I absolutely hate the people who showed up at 8:00, and I despise the daughter for having caved to their pressure because they’ll just do it again.
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Karens probably harassed the daughter.
You know the type.
One of the nearby houses is already lighting off fireworks with ones that make a really big boom. I’m on call right now, so I can’t wear earplugs while sleeping.
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That started around the end of June here. It will go until the middle of July at least. Thankfully the nightly trains and Uncle Sam have trained me to be able to pop in and out of sleep.
They’ve been going off here too. My poor cats run under the bed when they go off. Last night there were even fireworks going off in this:
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Yet another example of why meetings that are suddenly called without prior announcement are never a good thing.
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An update to what I last said. Yes, the meeting wasn’t good news back then, but I’m starting to see there were problems under the surface that we will no longer have to deal with. Should be a net positive.
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It’s no secret that Google tracks what you do when you use Chrome or their search engine and uses that to determine what ads you will see. I’m beginning to think they’re taunting me.
I am repeatedly seeing ads for Hickory Farms. There’s one item they sell that I can’t get locally until they open their seasonal stores or kiosks in malls. They haven’t done that yet in my area, but I keep getting the same ads for Hickory Farms.
Counting the days until they do…
Spending 2 hours in the dentist chair to get a tooth ground down and a temporary crown. Then, 2 hours later, the damn thing just pops off. Call them back and they can’t do anything until the next day.
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I so want to click “Cancel” and give a response of “Kindly provide an agenda for this meeting” when it next happens…
Also boredroom meetings where you’re just a bored wallpaper flower… I hate such meetings.
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Fell down the basement stairs (okay, only the last two, so it could have been worse) and my big toe sort of folded under itself. Miraculously it’s not broken but it’s now purple and throbbing. (Get your minds out of the gutter, you animals!)
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That looks like it really hurts.
It’s not too bad unless I forget about it and step the wrong way. 
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There are tens or hundreds of thousands of people in this country that have it worse than I do. I know that and I remind myself of it every so often. But it does get really tiring to keep getting to the point where I think I’m going to get ahead of my finances only to have new, fairly big expenses occur. It feels a lot like I’m being told over and over again I’m stupid for getting my hopes up.
Case in point #1. I get notified about a bonus I’ll get from work. Cool. Put that against my existing debts. Nope. Now it goes to the deductible and a rental because someone did a smash and grab on my car. The idiot probably got $5 of value from what they took, if that. Maybe 50 cents, to be realistic.
Case in point #2. I figure I’ll tag-team doing my taxes early with the bonus to make a bigger dent in my debts. Nope. Now the tax refund goes to the higher deductible for prescriptions from my new insurance. I have to check to see when I’ll hit the out of pocket maximum for the year.
I know two things I can cut back on that will help in the short term, and both of them will have a long-term effects I was trying to avoid.
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