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I’m not getting any sleep

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Sigh … It’s the weekend and you’d think that a person would be able to sleep in if they wanted to, wouldn’t you? Not around here … not if you’re me.

My neighbors toddler has been making a ton of noise next door since February. I don’t think I’ve had more than about three hours sleep a night since sometime in February. Believe me it’s really taking a toll on me. I mean, I have chronic pain and Crohn’s disease and no arthritis in my knee (who knows it might be Rheumatoid arthritis I still have to find out) so I should be getting a minimum of 8 hours sleep, not a scant three hours!

My problem, is that the kid starts crying or screaming at anywhere from 5 am to 6 am and then she bangs around the house next door (which is attached to our house as we live in a semi detached) yelling and thumping her feet all morning. Then, just when she’s going to go down for a nap at about 1 pm she often starts screaming at the top of her head and runs around their house slamming doors! Of course I can hear every scream and every word and feel all the vibrations from her running around and slamming the doors. It’s AWFUL! Everything that goes on in the morning is repeated throughout the day sometimes up until Midnight. This kids parents don’t even seem to have her on a regular bed time schedule.

We’ve talked to them about all the noise and they simply don’t seem to realize how noisy their kid is. Either that or they are totally deaf. They have tried to get her to be quieter, but in the last two weeks it’s gotten a lot noisier again. Now that the weather is nice I wish they’d just take their little girl out for a good portion of the day and tire her out. There’s a fantastic preschool playground that she could play in now that it’s summer time and I’d bet she’d sleep better at night if she burned off some energy.

Sigh … Maybe they’ll go for a two week vacation this summer and I’ll get some normal sleep while they’re gone. That might be the only way I’ll get some sleep if their little girl doesn’t stop making so much noise.





I might be looking for a new web host

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I’ve been starting to think about moving my sites to a new webhost. I don’t really want to move, but over the last few months my sites have had a few CPU memory overuse errors that have resulted in my sites being shut down for a few hours and causing me to scramble to try to figure out what wordpress plugin might be causing the problem or what else might be the cause. It’s a pain.

The only saving grace is that with the company that I currently host with they only shut down the affected domain … not every single domain that I own in my account like other companies that I’ve hosted with in the past. That’s helpful.

It might simply be time for me to upgrade my hosting to VPS or to dedicated hosting. I can do that with my current host but in the mean time, while I’ve been holding my breath and crossing my fingers that no more problems occur .. I’ve reading things like this bluehost review so that I can have a new webhost picked out if I do decide I need to move my websites. You know, just in case I need to do it quickly.

Does anyone have some webhosting suggestions?

My new cellphone is here – Nokia N8

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I finally got a new cellphone! The last time I got a new cellphone was in 2006 and that was from a marketing company so I was more than a little overdue for a new phone.

It’s a Nokia N8 and so far it seems to be pretty nice. It’s fully loaded with all kinds of things including and FM radio and a 12 megapixel Camera and Camcorder and maps. I’m still discovering everything about it as I’ve only had the phone since Monday. The only other phone that I really considered was the htc incredible s virgin but the Nokia N8 won out, likely because of the camera capabilities seeing as I’m a photographer.

I tested out the camera earlier today and it works very nicely. I’m still getting used to since I’m so used to my much larger “real” camera, but I think I’ll have fun comparing the picture quality between my 8 mpg Camera and my new Cellphone.

The Foo Fighters Documentary

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Why am I always distracted when I’m trying to work on the computer? My husband is watching TV and he happens to be watching The Foo Fighters: Back and Forth and of course, since I really like the band and I’m watching the show more that I am working on the computer. Not good, not good at all. LOL

Oh well.

Now Dave Grohl is talking about when Kurt Cobain met Courtney Love and how they got into drugs and stuff. Too bad they never tried going to naltrexone acamprosate campral treatment centers maybe Kurt would still be alive. Of course maybe the Foo Fighters wouldn’t have been created if Kurt was still around.

I guess I’d better get back to splitting my time watching tv and trying to work at the same time.

My husband starts his holiday next week

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My husband is going to be on holiday for the last two weeks of June. We didn’t plan any big vacation though … we don’t have a lot of spare money and just a week after he returns to work he has a one week temporary layoff and then another one in August.

If we were rolling in dough four weeks off would be great .. but uhm … no, that’s not the way it works.

Anyway … sometime during Chris’ holiday I want to have a little get together, maybe a barbecue with friends. I was looking at this party invitation site and I came across all kinds of invitations, I even found Seafood Boil Invitations. I won’t be having a Sea Food boil since well .. sea food is kind of expensive and I’m also deadly allergic to it, but we’ll do something interesting.

I don’t know what we’ll do for the rest of the holiday, probably get things done around the house and then find some interesting things to do in the Toronto area. Good things for us that there’s lots to do in Toronto, especially at this time of year!

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