Man, now that I think about it, if I swapped some genders around I could totally have the plot of a Harlequin romance with all this drama.

(I'm a terrible person.)

I lived beneath a family in SF that I swear moved all their furniture EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. After I moved out I swore I'd never live below anyone ever again. And then I had a couple of recently graduated frat boys living below me in Greensboro and I swore I'd never live above anyone ever again. Actually the boys were sweet and did cut down on their late night midweek partying after I got on their case about it.

Anyway I'm very lucky here with the thick stone walls and a quiet single lady (and occasionally barky dog) on one side and noone on the other for now. My neighbor moved out because he got married and his wife didn't want to live there. This was last summer and just this week guys have been working on it getting it ready to sell, I guess. They totally cleaned out his stupid overgrown yard and now I can see backing out of our parking pad! And I'm less scared about rats lurking. But I'm worried about new people moving in! What if they are loud?!

They could have children! Who laugh!

At reasonable hours of the day!

Go Giants! Gotta love a safety to start off the festivities.

Also, the Indianapolis Children's Choir sounded great! One of our friend's daughters sings in that choir but wasn't part of today's ensemble.

Kickoff is supposed to be at 6:30 EST, but I'm pretty sure the festivities started broadcasting sometime this past week.

man, your dry wit cracks my shit up.

I have always lived on top of 2 story apartments. The thing that carries UP is yelling. One apartment I had my landlord and his wife screaming at each other downstairs (although that was mostly because they were old and cranky and deaf) and the couple next store screaming at each other as well (and they were pretty mean to each other). I cannot express to you how much I hate yelling, especially that crazy, scary out of contrlo yelling, whch is what my neighbors did.

LOUD LAUGHING CHILDREN!!! THE HORROR!!!!

Actually I worry that we are loud but that my neighbors currently aren't home enough to notice.

Oh god, at my current building I've had three different tenants above or below me who slept during the day and stayed up all night making noise.

At least the current guy below me actually has become quieter at night after I asked.

That's one of the things that I love about living so far out in the desert. We actually are kind of noisy, annoying neighbors. We have a dog, we have kids over who stay late, we do recording and mixing which are often noisy. Our yard is messy with yard tools. We shoot archery in the backyard. But there's literally no one around to mind, so we can do it with aplomb.