#MicroblogMondays: Annoying things & small pleasures

Annoying things: 

• Gallstones acting up again.
• Lousy sleep for the past few nights (see above).  :p  :(  
• Our new neighbour across the hall (whom we have yet to meet) playing hip-hop music... just loud enough to be annoying...!!  Grrrrr....  (She did it a couple of days in a row but it's been quiet again lately... knocking wood...!)  
• Went into the local outlet for our telecomm services provider recently to check into an issue dh was having with his cellphone and to see whether he needed a new one. (He didn't -- it was an Android system issue -- which, curiously, was not affecting my phone -- exact same model, acquired at the same time as dh's. Go figure...) There were four people in the store behind the counter... one on the phone, one disappeared into the back room and two behind the closest desk talking to each other. We were the only customers there.  We stood there for almost five minutes without anyone acknowledging our presence -- not even a glance or a "Hi, we'll be with you in just a minute."  NOT IMPRESSED. 
• (There are just two main service providers in Canada -- and they're both awful, in terms of both cost and service. Canadians' cellphone bills are among the highest in the world.) 

Small pleasures: 

• BIL calling us on his cellphone to come downstairs -- then driving up to our building's front door with Little Great Nephew in his seat in the back -- sound asleep! BIL was going to wake him up but we told him no, and just feasted our eyes on him. :)  
• Visiting Little Great-Nephew at BIL's later that evening (now awake, lol). I pulled down my mask for a moment to show him my face and said, "Hi (LGN), it's Aunt Loribeth... you know me!"  And LGN gave me a brief little royal nod of his head, as if to say, "Yes, I know you... you may stay."  BIL saw it too and started laughing. Made my day.  :)  
• Reading "The Thursday Murder Club" by Richard Osman (recommended to me by Mel, among others). Review to come when I'm finished (which should be soon). Just a whole lot of fun. :) 
• Spring weather last week that was mild enough to leave the balcony door open for most of the day, several days in a row. Ahhhhh!! 
• (Annoying thing: the neighbour sitting on HER balcony and yakking nonstop on her cellphone all afternoon...!) 

You can find more of this week's #MicroblogMondays posts here.