- If it's not COVID-19 keeping us inside our condo, it's the heat & humidity -- and if it's not THAT, it's the ongoing (still!!) construction noise & dust/dirt blowing around behind our building. Even just being able to have our balcony door open makes SUCH a difference in feeling less cooped up, but heat/humidity & noise/dust often preclude that lately... :(
- Being stuck at home today, COVID notwithstanding: they are power-washing our underground parking garage (done at least annually), and all cars had to be out of the garage by 9 a.m. Presumably a lot of people would be at work during the day, but of course a lot more people are working at home because of COVID right now, plus it's summer, so a lot of people are taking holidays. And our building has a lot of retired residents too. There are something like 140 parking spots in the garage, and only about 30 spots in visitor parking (which we are not allowed to use other than this one day a year). The overflow has to go on the side streets in the neighbourhood behind us (which is where dh parked our car this morning). The job is supposed to be done by 5 p.m., but never is, and it's always a sh**show when people start returning home in the evening, can't access the garage and abandon their cars in the laneway (and block it)(which of course they are not supposed to do...!).
- Political posts (and comments!) on social media (from American, Canadian AND UK friends/relatives!). :p (And I fear there will be more, with a U.S. election coming up this fall, and possibly a Canadian federal one too...!)
- Reminders in my Facebook memories of the fun we were having this time last year, and other summers past. Sigh...
- An overflowing/backlogged email inbox. I subscribe to a lot of (okay, way too many) newsletters/news summaries from newspapers and other media outlets/journalists, and I have great ambitions/delusions that I'm going to get around to reading them all... someday...
Small pleasures:
- New photos of Great-Nephew on social media.
- (Annoying thing: two weeks since we last saw him...)
- Wonderful wood oven pizza for takeout dinner on Saturday night (and leftovers for today's lunch!).
- Watching dh rediscover his reading mojo and tear through one Daniel Silva novel after another...!
- Getting my own reading mojo back (7 books read this month -- so far!! -- and still a week more to go...!).
- (Annoying thing: hence the overflowing email inbox -- and blog reader -- and magazine pile... seems like I can keep up with reading one or two of these things, but rarely three and never all four!)
- Admiring my sparkling clean glassed-in shower cubicle...
- (...after the annoying task of scrubbing it clean...!).
You can find more of this week's #MicroblogMondays posts here.
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ReplyDelete* Dh got a form in the mail to submit his name for possible jury duty!
* The fire alarm has gone off about four times in the past hour! It starts & then suddenly stops (it stopped before we could even collect our things & head for the stairs the first time) -- no people gathering outside, and no fire trucks are showing up -- so I suspect either the power washing crew has triggered it, or they are testing the alarms, which they were supposed to do LAST Monday (we never heard a peep that day). It wouldn't be so bad, but they are so LOUD!! I may have to stuff some cotton in my ears if this keeps up, lol.
Oh nooooo! It's a bad bad day! This heat and humidity is killing me slowly. I can't wait for the cooler weather that's supposed to come this week! That parking garage situation is annoying for sure, and definitely the political mess. Also the memories...I don't get those from Facebook so much, but my Google Photos keep wanting to show me past Augusts and I say NO NO NO NO! Don't want to see. So sorry most things have been annoying, some days are totally like that. May it be cooler and have less annoying cars everywhere!
ReplyDeleteI complain about our summers, but at least they're not so hot or humid that we can't go out and enjoy fresh air.
ReplyDeleteThat's a frustrating list of annoying things. But glad you've had small pleasures - they're what keep us going. My reading mojo has disappeared again. Now I know where it went! lol
Funny, I just discovered Daniel Silva this summer! His books are highly enjoyable. Right now, I'm reading everything Elin Hilderbrand has written. Because I want to virtually live in Nantucket where the food is good, the beach is beautiful and the problems are very, very minor. Mostly I want to NOT live in California right now, where the fires are raging around us and the air is not fit to breathe. We also can't open any windows or doors, and it sucks. UGH.
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