I need to vent..i’ve moved on from being annoyed to being amused. haha. who uses a jack hammer in the morning??
I woke up this morning..still exhausted. so my wonderful husband said he would make a deal with me. i change the dirty diaper and he’ll let me sleep for an unlimited amount of time. deal. (his hatred of changing diapers..works to my advantage at times.) So as i’m changing our sweet little sophia on our bed…i hear a loud beeping noise. oh must be a delivery truck. thats fine. i can handle a beeping delivery truck. it will only last so long. i could fall asleep through that……..
but i was wrong..there was a worse noise to come. sudddenly a jack hammer goes off. loud. two houses down. my husband immediately finds it funny and intriguing. he runs over to the window to check it out. city water guys are doing some work. all i can say is seriously?? seriously a jack hammer?? first of all you need to know our street is very quiet. (besides the dogs.) we barely get cars coming down that don’t belong on the street. the hubby chuckles and as he takes sophia from me tells me to imagine the noise as waves..crashing on the beach…. seriously? haha.
i ended up falling asleep though. i was THAT tired. so tired i could sleep through a jack hamer two houses down.
on a more positive note….sophia lovessss the pot roast carrots. one thing about this girl is she does not like vegetables. i try and sneak them in and she finds them. she is so talented that she actually can swallow everything except the vegetable itself which she spits out..everywhere. but the carrots are working!!
as i’m posting this..ben, my husband, is trying to teach her how to clean up. she is going around the room picking up the napkins she shredded. thats better than how he taught her to slap boys. it’s funny now.. …but it will be a very bad thing when the other mothers come up to me complaining that my sweet sophia slapped their little boys. haha. i don’t know why i’m laughing. it’s the tired histeria.
***ben took sophia out so i could shower. yay…just went to turn the water on…….nothing. i hate jack hammers.***
Christina Yep
October 18, 2009 at 4:14 amOh I hear you! We live in a gorgeous downtown Chicago loft high above train tracks…most of the time you dont even notice the trains that pass through night and day. At around 5:30am the commuter trains start to make noise, but even the one toot that signals they’re pulling up to the stop near us is too discreet to really notice. At around 6:30am, however, the real showdown begins. I’m not sure what possesses some conductors, whether they just need to make their presence known out of vanity, if they have some vendetta against cozy, sleeping families, or if in their minds everyone deserves to be awakened miserably at that time because they themselves have to be up. Most drivers toot once – softly and discreetly! – coming up to the stop next door. But you will get 2 or 3 drivers that will toot on cue every 3 seconds for about a whole minute. And then try nursing a confused and no longer sleepy baby who has pulled off in terror 5 or 6 times as her peaceful breakfast has been so rudely interrupted. Man, I have wanted to kick some showy conductor butt. Whatever the case, I guess I too should revert my frustration to gratitude to my Hero Husband who, like yours, let’s me sleep after a long night catering to a hungry sweetie. LOVE my man.
Chrissy
October 18, 2009 at 10:01 amNatalie, this reminds me of my post here: http://teenyweenytonini.blogspot.com/2009/04/woody-woodpecker.html