Hi everyone! I hope you’re all doing well! Today is blog post seven in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you’d like to check out the list of topics for 2024 and take part, you can find them here, and if you want to read about how others have responded to today’s topic, you can do so here.
What’s New in My Life Lately
2023 was such a hectic year. I had health issues up the wazoo, I lost a couple of family members, and I worked like a horse. Hopefully, 2024 will be full of things like work and less of the other stuff.
The newest thing in my life is that my husband, nephew and I have decided to move.
We live in a two-bedroom flat presently, which feels increasingly smaller as my nephew grows and accumulates more stuff. All of that, coupled with some issues we have been having with neighbours, caused us to have a deep think about how we want to live in the future.
Currently, our living situation is a bit stressful. Since our downstairs neighbours moved in two and a half years ago, we’ve had issues with them playing loud music all the time – sometimes through the night – and we can smell their weed coming through the cracks in the floor and walls. Now, I am all for the legalisation of weed and people being able to live freely so long as they’re not harming anyone – but I don’t want to have to live with the smell attaching itself to all of our furniture and clothes. It’s not like it smells of strawberries, and it’s so intense that people who come over often think it’s us.
We have spoken to them about it, and when we complained to the local council who owns our flat, they intervened, and the guy downstairs went on a rampage, smashing their flat up… as you do.
Since then, things have been calm-ish. The music is still loud, though lower than before, and the smell is still getting in, though mostly only in the bathroom. Eventually, we decided we’d be happier elsewhere, though we’re not in any rush.
I never thought I’d move from my flat, actually. You often hear people talk about knowing when a place feels like home when they first enter, and our flat was like that. However, life is short, and I can’t spend it being stressed and anxious every day. It’ll be a fresh new start and one I’m looking forward to, although with a small amount of trepidation.
Anyway, that’s what is new in my life lately. I think I’ve droned on for quite long enough, so I’ll leave it there! I look forward to reading about what’s new for all of you!
As always, thanks for stopping by!
Until next time,
George
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Categories: life, Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge
GEORGE L THOMAS 
Good luck with your move!
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Thanks, Lydia! 🙂🙂
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Having a bad neighbor can discolor every day. I wish you great good fortune in finding a place you like even better than your current apartment and a smooth and easy move (though moves by nature are stressful — I have found that a useful slogan for such difficulties is “What’s hard to endure is sweet to recall”).
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Thank you! I appreciate that! 🙂
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Best of luck with your move. Our youngest daughter had the same problem with their next door neighbor…they shared a wall + vents and she’s VERY allergic to smoke of any kind. They ended up buying a smallish house and are much happier.
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Aw, thank you, Judy. I’m glad to hear that your daughter is in a happier place! 🙂
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Neighbors can make or break where you live. I’ve had my share of bad ones (occasionally dangerously bad). Your flat is just four walls… home is you and your family. You’ll find another four walls to share with your husband and nephew again, and hopefully it’ll be much, much better. Best of luck!
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Aw, thanks, Marianne! That’s such a good point. I didn’t realise how much I needed to hear that until just now. You’re so right. They’re just walls. 🙂🙂
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Eww, I hate the smell of marijuana. Good luck with the move!
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Everybody deserves to live somewhere where they can relax. If your neighbor is making living in your flat stressful, you’re 100% right to move elsewhere. I wish you all the best of luck in making that transition, and I hope it takes a great weight off your mind once it happens.
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Thanks, Michael. 🙂
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I too add my best wishes on home hunting and moving! Smell is such a basic thing – that alone would drive me forth. I think that would bother me worse than the loud music. But I can also understand the need for space. Moving is always a great time to sort through one’s accumulated material goods and shake off things that are there purely through inertia rather than continued usefulness (or joy, in Marie Kondo’s words).
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