Two and a half hours of yoga squashed by a sweet cake. But the yoga was great. As was the cake.

Question. Take your imaginations out for a moment if you please. Imagine you live in a basement apartment. You have a husband who has a boat in the backyard, with no complaint from the people who live upstairs. You have two children who are quite young. One, in fact, was just born in the past few months. You don't really like the people upstairs, as they make noise after seven in the evening and they should know you have children. You fight a lot with the male in your life - loudly. The people upstairs were, as you were, renters of the house. They now are the owners and are making a lot of changes to ensure the house is up to standards. In fact, they've got new windows and a new door to replace that which is rotting out. They've also bought an unpainted garbage box. They keep calling in regards to the crap under the deck to get you to point out what is yours. You figure that putting things in two piles without indicating which is the crap one is a good idea. You figure that your christmas tree and other things you've been meaning to throw out will indicate what one is yours. Especially if you include a number of tires that look good - there is a cost to get rid of them, so you've not bothered. Why not let those who talk after seven do that?

Anyway, these people from upstairs have called on another matter - they've bought a garbage box for you. They're getting rid of the old doghouse that's out in the back that the leasing company hasn't gotten rid of. But the garbage box is unpainted. They call one night, saying they'll paint it and then it can be used. You figure that it'll be fine to leave garbage in it anyway. The bag that's broken open with the fruit peels won't bother them when they go to paint, right? As long as they don't get paint on your boat, you're fine.

Ok, imagination off. That's the situation we're finding with our downstairs tenants. They're not fans of us. Which is fine - I don't care. However, we're trying to make it a better house for us all. And we did leave a day between the message that it was being painted and actually going to do it. Even if the garbage had already been put in, they could have taken it out and put it in the dog house - where there's garbage still, making me think they want us to take it to the dump when we rid the lawn of the doghouse. We don't know what do get rid of because there are two piles under the deck, both of which contain things that should be thrown out and things that could be good.

The box still isn't painted because it was late when I finished ours (which isn't totally done as I need to do the bottom). I know this. But they can still keep their garbage in the doghouse - we're going to wait until the box is painted to get rid of the doghouse. I just think it's rude to make someone else clean up your garbage. And they have a truck - if they have stuff to get rid of (like a christmas tree) they can!!!! Damnit.

Anyway, I just had to rant. Now, I shall do some pilates I think. Or call a friend. I got a mysterious note, and I'm wondering if it is her that wrote it. And Xena is a clip show - it's when Lucy Lawless was pregnant and doing fewer episodes. However, as they star they had to work around that.

I wish it was nice out. Then I'd paint. I love the colour. And then, there'd be no reason for ranting.

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