The next decade....what's in store?

Moved....yeah.....but I'm looking again!

Well, there I was thinking that things were going to be just fine when I moved into my apartment last night.

Let me tell you what happened....

First of all, Friday night I slept in the hotel. Went to bed around 3:30am (work kept me up), then at 3:56am, got another call for some keys. So I started out the day later than I had planned.

Borrowed the hotel's van around noon, and just kept going all day. Went to get stuff from previous apartment, then clean that one, did supermarket and hardware/homeware store to get some stuff to help me settle in. I didn't even eat anything since breakfast at 10:30am! By the time I got done moving around the beds in one of the bedrooms, and sat to have a cup of tea, it was midnight.

By the time I got to bed it was about 1:45am. I cooled down the room with the AC while I showered (the shower heater contraption gave me an electrical shock!), snuggled into bed and fell asleep very quickly, not surprising after the hectic day I had.

Well, do you know, that at 7am this here Sunday, I awaken because I think I seemed to have left my TV on (was listening to one of the audio channels before I went to sleep). I hear music, VERY LOUD, so loud that it sounded as if I was having a party in my bedroom.

Nah nah nah nah nah. That cannot work. So off went the PJs and on went my shorts and T-shirt. I marched outside aiming to go next door, but spotted the neighbour on his patio reading.

Called out to him to tell him that the music is really loud, that I went to bed late and didn't expect to be up so early. His body language said to me that he heard what I said and that he was going to turn it down. He got up, used the remote to turn it down then asked me if it was ok. Nope. Then he said "but I can't even here it!". He must be deaf I tell you.

Anyway, I went back into the bed but I don't fall back asleep once I wake up, so that was it for me for sleep. Made my cuppa, and poured over the real estate pages in all four weekly papers. Made some calls, went on the road to check out a few places, but nothing yet.

I'll keep searching. Apart from the noise factor, which I really have no control over, there is the fact that the washing machine did not work when I tried it this morning, and the shower contraption is suspect. The latter two can be fixed I am sure, but I cannot predict when Mr Man Next Door is going to feel like playing music loudly at 7AM!

Posted by yamfoot at April 2, 2006 02:22 PM