Dear Upstairs Neighbor,
What the flip is going on up there? Lately, I've been hearing a noise I can't really describe coming from your apartment. It's a noise like a lead pipe being banged against the side of a bathtub, combined with the sound of sloshing water, combined with the sound of a shower curtain sliding open. What is that? And before you say "It's my shower, stupid", please keep in mind that it is the sound of metal on porcelain and the sheer volume that baffles me. It makes me think that there is no way it could simply be your shower. Please keep this in mind while you consider your answer.
Also, do you have a loud, heavy-footed cat living up there with you? If not, I think there is a family of obese, yet spry, squirrels living in my ceiling. Something excitable and heavy is having a good time above me. Please, please, let it be your cat.
One more thing, and then I'll let you get back to...well, whatever it is that you're doing to make that noise. I like Halloween as much as the next person. I even put out a small pumpkin to show my enthusiasm for the season. But you, Neighbor, have decorated to a new level. It's as if your great, great, great grandfather founded Halloween, and the enthusiasm is part of your heritage. Actually, it looks as though the seasonal section of Jo-Ann Fabric has been re-located to your front window. Ten window clings? Great! Fifty-eight window clings? Yikes. Fifty-eight window clings, fake spider webs, tiny pumpkin lights and little Kleenex ghosts? Mental illness.
Well, Neighbor, I hope you're well. We'll meet in the hallway someday soon, I'm sure. You may be you'll be dressed as a warlock or Harry Potter or a flying monkey. Maybe we can continue this discussion in person at that time.
Sincerely,
Your Downstairs Neighbor
Monday, October 26, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Bee Kind
Today, at work, I leaned in to smell a big bunch of lilies one of the patients had received, then went about my business.
A few minutes and several work-related activities later, I was talking to a co-worker. Mid-sentence, he looked up at me and said, "You have something on your face...It might be food."
I wiped my upper lip and saw a massive amount of yellow powder on my hand. I went to the bathroom and it was everywhere! I had been walking around with effing lily pollen all over my nose and face. The worst part is that pollen tends to stain skin, so my chin, cheeks and nose had a yellowish hue for the rest of the day, despite my efforts with soapy paper towels, antiseptic wipes and rubbing alcohol.
Sigh...
In other news, I found a microwave in the alley--and it works! And Chris is coming on November 5th! Things are falling together nicely.
Hope you're having a good week so far!
xo
A few minutes and several work-related activities later, I was talking to a co-worker. Mid-sentence, he looked up at me and said, "You have something on your face...It might be food."
I wiped my upper lip and saw a massive amount of yellow powder on my hand. I went to the bathroom and it was everywhere! I had been walking around with effing lily pollen all over my nose and face. The worst part is that pollen tends to stain skin, so my chin, cheeks and nose had a yellowish hue for the rest of the day, despite my efforts with soapy paper towels, antiseptic wipes and rubbing alcohol.
Sigh...
In other news, I found a microwave in the alley--and it works! And Chris is coming on November 5th! Things are falling together nicely.
Hope you're having a good week so far!
xo
Saturday, October 17, 2009
It All Started With...
Hey! It's a beautiful Saturday morning and I have a whole day of nothing ahead of me, which is awesome. In fact, I've had 2 full days of nothing so far, and it's been amazing. Although I do love my job, after 9 shifts in a row, it was time for a little break. OK, I say that I have nothing to do today, but I really have a million things I could/should be doing. I just...I just don't want to.
Yesterday was Alison's 3rd annual Chili Party, which was great. It was the perfect, chilly, drizzly autumn day for wearing sweaters, eating warm food and drinking wine with some friends. Before that, Melissa came over for lunch at the new apartment and a walk around Lake Harriet. It feels great to see everyone again and be able to hang out with them whenever--a luxury I missed while I was away, definitely!
And speaking of seeing people...Chris is going to be here soon! I figure within the next 3 weeks, he will be here with me and things will be right in the world for a little while. He had his last day of work last Sunday and is now waiting patiently in Montrose, Scotland. Meanwhile, I am waiting impatiently here in Minneapolis. Be. Here. Now.
On the list of things to (maybe) do today: get a dresser(!), go grocery shopping, watch more Big Bang Theory.
Hope you're having a good weekend.
xo
Yesterday was Alison's 3rd annual Chili Party, which was great. It was the perfect, chilly, drizzly autumn day for wearing sweaters, eating warm food and drinking wine with some friends. Before that, Melissa came over for lunch at the new apartment and a walk around Lake Harriet. It feels great to see everyone again and be able to hang out with them whenever--a luxury I missed while I was away, definitely!
And speaking of seeing people...Chris is going to be here soon! I figure within the next 3 weeks, he will be here with me and things will be right in the world for a little while. He had his last day of work last Sunday and is now waiting patiently in Montrose, Scotland. Meanwhile, I am waiting impatiently here in Minneapolis. Be. Here. Now.
On the list of things to (maybe) do today: get a dresser(!), go grocery shopping, watch more Big Bang Theory.
Hope you're having a good weekend.
xo
Saturday, October 10, 2009
(Insert Jeopardy theme song here)
So, I woke up this morning to find that winter had arrived, unannounced and uninvited. It was the first time since I've been back that I've even thought about winter. But, apparently, it's here...and how!
It's been awhile since I wrote, hasn't it? A lot has changed, of course. Most of my furniture has been moved in. I still need to get my 'real' bed--it's not that sleeping on a futon mattress on the floor isn't a treat, it's just that I long for a day when I won't wake up with bruised ribs from the concrete floor a mere 4 inches underneath me.
Work is still crazy (literally! Ha!) but great--I feel like I won the job lottery here. Somehow, it worked out for me to get back into a job I would do for free (I mean, if I won the real lottery...) and I have the chance to be with people I genuinely like a respect for 8 hours a day. It's pretty great.
I have also started a mental paper chain in order to count down the days until Chris gets here. Every time I get anything for the apartment, I think of him, and how great it will be to have him around again, and especially during the holidays! Although we made turkey last November, this will be his first real, American Thanksgiving...but wait, now that I think of that, it means he will be meeting ALL of my family members. I hadn't planned on that happening until our wedding reception in April--and by that time, it would have been too late for him to get scared and run away. Hmm, maybe I need to rethink this whole 'Thanksgiving with the family' thing.
Alright, I hope you're enjoying the snow. Since most Minnesotan drivers tend to forget how to drive in the winter (and may or may not be wearing mittens while driving), be extra careful on the roads! Yikes!
xo
It's been awhile since I wrote, hasn't it? A lot has changed, of course. Most of my furniture has been moved in. I still need to get my 'real' bed--it's not that sleeping on a futon mattress on the floor isn't a treat, it's just that I long for a day when I won't wake up with bruised ribs from the concrete floor a mere 4 inches underneath me.
Work is still crazy (literally! Ha!) but great--I feel like I won the job lottery here. Somehow, it worked out for me to get back into a job I would do for free (I mean, if I won the real lottery...) and I have the chance to be with people I genuinely like a respect for 8 hours a day. It's pretty great.
I have also started a mental paper chain in order to count down the days until Chris gets here. Every time I get anything for the apartment, I think of him, and how great it will be to have him around again, and especially during the holidays! Although we made turkey last November, this will be his first real, American Thanksgiving...but wait, now that I think of that, it means he will be meeting ALL of my family members. I hadn't planned on that happening until our wedding reception in April--and by that time, it would have been too late for him to get scared and run away. Hmm, maybe I need to rethink this whole 'Thanksgiving with the family' thing.
Alright, I hope you're enjoying the snow. Since most Minnesotan drivers tend to forget how to drive in the winter (and may or may not be wearing mittens while driving), be extra careful on the roads! Yikes!
xo
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