Bumps in the night - a noisy house MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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My house mostly says “You live in an apartment building”, as if I didn’t know.

No, not noise from the neighbors; prewar construction (thick plaster walls) and a selective landlord take care of most of that. I hear from neighboring dogs more than I hear from neighboring people. Now that windows are being closed for the onset of winter, people noises are pretty much confined to occasional footsteps in the hall, water moving in the pipes, and, almost daily around dinner, the BEEP BEEP BEEP pause BEEP BEEP BEEP from the apartments of young twits who haven’t yet learned that a smoke alarm is NOT a kitchen timer.

(I once got the complete drama from the apartment just above me: BEEP BEEP BEEP running footsteps BEEP BEEP heavy dragging noise BEEP BEEP BEEP creak of furniture being climbed on BEEP silence.)

Luckily someone replaced some smoke alarm’s battery, so the erratic Chirp! we’ve been hearing for several days has finally stopped. Until some other battery starts to die.

Now that the nights are getting cold, the house is also saying “The heat is on!” The distant muffled roar of the furnace blower, the ping and creak and bang of expanding pipes, all promise another winter of Not Freezing. Having experienced the alternative in a third-floor walkup many years back, I’m happy with that.

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Surprise I don’t blame ya. I’d be full of grrrr myself.

I gotta say, leftovers though it was, dindin was yum. I have peas, butterbeans and okra cookin’ for tomorrow’s dindin just cause it’s easier to heat ‘em up tomorrow while chikin fried steak is cookin’. I foresee baked sweet N.O.T. as a perfect side.

ryobserver that puts me in mind of an apartment I lived in many years ago. It was an old house that had been divided into apartments and had big furnace floor vents. My upstairs neighbor (a good friend) and I figured out we could talk to each other through the vents. Thus we would “haunt” each other with weird noises. :smiley: Ah Youth!

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for no particular reason, I am blue. I’m going to crawl under the covers now.

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Feel better Rosie!

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I named my ex-dog Sweet Pea; he’s still named that but he don’t live with me no more. I miss him more than I miss my ex-wife.

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This place is surprisingly quiet for an apartment building. About the only thing I hear sometimes is the guy upstairs attempting to play the guitar. I say attempting because I think he’s only capable of three notes over and over and over and over and over…

Boyfriend is away on business and I’m bored/lonely. So I baked. Lasagna and Parmesan cheese buttermilk bread.

Hugs to all!

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My house was built in 1929, IIRC, so it has some natural creakiness about it. Most of the noise, though, is from the furnace/AC. It’s not terribly loud, but seems louder becauseit’s a small house.

Heh. I like the sound of your trip to WalMart, Ashes, :D.

Cheer up, rosie! (That’s an order!)

Way tired today - not enough sleep last night. So I guess I should try getting to sleep earlier tonight. Like now.

Hugs all.

GT

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Most of the noise in my apartment is Gordie barking, or the upstairs dog, Jack the slightly smaller Jack Russell running amok. That, and the main drain for all three stories runs through my bathroom wall(you can tell when the folks in 307 have had burritos the night before.)

{{{{{rosie}}}}}

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Hoping for some much needed rest, I decided to retire to the King’s Chamber early. Laying in the frigid blackness, as I’m sprawled supine, I begin to hear, faintly at first, then growing slowly and subtly more intense with each passing minute, a cacophony of faint creaks and clicks drifting through space from parts unknown. Now, my two boys are sleeping the sleep of the innocent and my wife is watching smut on the TV downstairs. I don’t have any pets except for some outdoor-only cats, and they’re usually quiet unless they decide to fight in which case it sounds like feline armageddon on my back porch. I’ve been considering the purchase of a pnumatic locomotive horn to attach to the window boxes. Might shut them up or get me arrested or both but that’s ok because I don’t like cat fights but I like cats.

So my once quiet, peaceful bedroom, my sanctuary from the ravishes of an insane world, has been violated. By what demons I know not, for they lurk, invisible to my mortal self, in the blackness that was once a place of peace. A swirling, invisible symphony of auditory minutae is, apparently, my new nocturnal companion.

Wish me the best on my new journey.

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Windy here!

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You can’t be blue. You’re rosie!

I hope you’re feeling better soon. You’re very special to us mummpers!

Off to irk for me. Blurf.

Bri2k

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Blurf.

Daily reconstruction commences…

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**Woody **- you’re so poetical! I know what you mean about catfights - one place we lived, we were treated to one on our roof - *that *was a restful night… :rolleyes:

ryobserver - ah yes - chirping alarms. I had one of those in a hotel once, and it just happened to be a hotel room with reeeeeeeeeeally tall ceilings and no spare batteries. The night manager had to send a maintenance guy out to get a battery and a ladder so he could change it out. Naturally, this happened on a night that I was exhausted and really wanted to get to sleep early because I had an early flight the next day… I don’t miss work-related trips at all!

**doggio **- definitely TMI about the neighbors and their plumbing. ick :stuck_out_tongue:

Last night, I was treated to a new noise. I ran the self-clean cycle on my oven because it was pretty gross. It ended at 9 minutes after midnight. Guess how I know - g’wan, guess! Yep, for some unknown reason, GE decided the damned stove needed to beep when it finished cleaning itself. And it kept on beeping in case you didn’t hear the first few hundred times. Criminy, even my dryer only beeps 3 times before giving up on alerting me!

Anyway, I was staggering, bleary-eyed, to the kitchen so I could hit the “Off” button. Naturally, the cycle finished when I was in REM sleep, and it took long enough to realize what was going on and deal with it that I was wide awake once I staggered back to bed. Dammit. And of course my spousal unit and canine unit both contributed to my far-too-early awakening this morning. I was going to go back to bed, but it just didn’t seem worth it for a couple of hours, especially knowing that I’d have at least one cat annoying me before he curled up and snoozed. So here I be.

And on top of all of that, I looked in the oven this morning - the self-clean feature sucks. I’m still going to have to get in there and scrub a few spots. Gotta say, I’m not all that impressed with my GE appliances. Apart from the oven, the fridge motor randomly makes weird noises, the water-thru-the-door has frozen again, so no water, and the top rack of the dishwasher is almost rusted away at one point. These are all only about 7 years old, and these problems surfaced within the first 2 years. Never again, GE…

We got a little surprise on FCD’s FB last night - a photo of our daughter holding a newborn! Her friend not only delivered about 2 weeks early, but the midwife didn’t make it, so one of her customers (the friend runs a daycare in her home) delivered the baby. And it happens that the customer is an engineer who works for my husband (works, being a loose term, as she apparently shows up at the office when she feels like it, but that’s another story.) Anyway, yay for new babies, especially when they’re not mine. :smiley: I’m going to make a quick baby afghan.

No idea what I’m going to do in class today - probably another big planter, because I need a few more big ones so I can get rid of my crappy plastic ones. And maybe another big bowl, just because…

Happy Tuesday!

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 48 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 82 for the day. My “bump in the night” noise, i.e., the attic exhaust fan is runnin’. ‘Tis the only noise in da cave. Since there’s no need for ac or heat to be runnin’, I can really hear it. Then again, the nice thing about weather like this is no need for ac or heat. This makes Jawja Power sad. :smiley:

Woody what a poetic way to say there be noises in the house.

Now I need more caffiene and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, alas, irk purtification must commence. Le Sigh.

Happy Tuesday Y’all!

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Morning, I’m up, caffeinated, and off to irk. Hockey night in Carolina tonight. :slight_smile:

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You peoples keep talking about ‘cold weather.’ I happen to know it is ninety degrees outside and the air conditioner is going full blast. You’re all funnin’ me ain’t ya? That wouldn’t be nice to someone who’s been too sick to even drink water. Stupid Wal Mart, they gave me the epazootic, I just know it.

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Wishing you the best. You sure do write purty.

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Happy Toooooosday!

Lancia - I love your writing style. Sounds like (heh!) you need a white noise machine, or a ceiling fan.

I whitened my teeth last night! Sleeping with those trays is kinda weird, and I kept waking up to a drool soaked pillow. :eek: I have to do it every two days for two weeks. I have a tender spot on an upper gum, but not too bad. I’ll have glow-in-the-dark teeth in no time! :slight_smile:

Verrrryyy slow here at work. Several of us are getting worried that they might just dissolve our Houston-based department, and have all our work done in Aberdeen, Scotland. I think I’ll start polishing my resume, and start schmoozing other department heads to see what is available.

Off to surf elsewhere…

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Well, now I know what happens when I take Xanax…

Years ago - as a teenager, really - I wrote rambling stuff like this all the time. Years of depression had, I assumed, milked away whatever writing talent I had.

So, I guess if y’all check the MMP some morning and find some long, rambling pointless story by yours truly, then you know it had been a bad day.