Sigh … is it spring yet?
I kind of wrote myself dry before the holidays. I kept looking at the blog during January and discovered I didn’t have a single thing to contribute.
How odd was that? Part of it was the unrelenting cold and snow. I was sitting at my computer about 4 weeks ago and looked out the window. It was snowing and I thought, I’m going to go to bed and not come out until spring. I actually went back to bed that day. No, I haven’t been there everyday since. Mentally maybe, but not physically. The weather finally broke, and it feels downright spring-like. I know it won’t last, but once you get that whiff of warmer weather, hope returns.
Now don’t worry about me getting overly optimistic, or anything so foolish. I have a tick list of things that have been annoying the living hell out of me and will write about them in due course. The list?
- The damned Charmine Bears – redux
- The unmitigated greed that has driven the economy into the ground
- Short term memories about past economic fiascos
- Migraines
- The F&*cking dogs that bark ALL THE ^&%ing time down the hall and upstairs
- Irresponsible dog owners that don’t stoop and scoop after their precious bowser drops a large one on the sidewalk. What? You think it vanishes just because there is snow on the ground?
- One woman’s contribution to gross overpopulation
- Stupid criminals
- More mutterings and mumblings on the economy – hey it’s an easy target
… and many more thoughts that I’m just too lazy to write down. Oh so many annoyances, so little time to rant.
Right now I’m going to go and hide somewhere. The fine folks that own my apartment building are repairing the plumbing yet again. Not sure why but that always means drills, jackhammers (or a reasonable facsimile of one), banging and thumping. After 5 hours I’m now in desperate need of peace and quiet. Add on top of the noise, the usual barking from 2 sets of dogs. On the upside, the jackhammering that took place between 2am and 5am everyday (including Saturday) leading up to Christmas (across the road) has stopped until March. Sweet blissful silence at night. AND the drilling, hammering etc on our building to repair a major crack in the outer wall was completed before Christmas. That means 2 things, no more jackhammers against our wall and NO FLOODING this spring. Yuppers, we had flooding here on the 20th floor. Not a pretty site.
Well, that’s all for today. Be back in a day or two.
We promise we’ll always be cleaning up after Zouzou, our cute little French Bulldog.