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Neighbors disturbing my sleep?

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I haven’t been sleeping very well for the last few weeks. I’m not really sure why, but I pretty much feel like I’ve barely slept at all.

Anyway … The other day, I think it was Wednesday, I was finally sleeping. Since I’m on medical leave I decided to stay in bed and turned off my alarm so I could catch up on my sleep. Well that didn’t work out. At about 8 am I was awakened by sounds next door that sounded like my neighbors were moving furniture around. As it turned out it wasn’t my immediate next door neighbors (the adjoined house) it was the neighbor on the other side of us, the ones doing all the renovations that were making noise.

I guess the guy hired a professional plumber and the plumber was at the house starting to work and he was drilling concrete in the basement. It made our whole house rattle and shake! So much for my sleep! I stayed in bed and kept trying to sleep, but it didn’t work out.

I was mad. I sooooooo needed to sleep.

Perhaps Karma came to visit that afternoon … why? Well .. later that day the plumbers truck wouldn’t start and it looked like he had to call a tow truck – I didn’t recognize the company but it even said they’d do rv repairs which is unusual around here. So … anyway … I have no idea if the plumber finished his work or not, as he appeared distracted once his truck broke down. Maybe he’ll be back sometime in the next week or so to disturb my sleep.

Thinking of changing car insurance companies

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Last August we bought a new, well a new used car, and as a result our monthly insurance payments changed with our insurance company. I guess that’s natural since the car changed …

However, given that our old car and our new used car were similar cars – four door sedans, small cars – nothing flashy – I figured that the insurance rates would be pretty much the same. Well, I figured wrong. The new cars insurance rate is quite a bit more than the old cars and I really don’t think it should be. In fact, our insurance company told us that our insurance would be going down in January when the contract renewed but that doesn’t really reflect in the paperwork they just sent us … so I’m seriously thinking of contacting this place for a cheap car insurance quote and looking into changing car insurance companies.

Does anyone know of any good, respectable yet inexpensive car insurance companies in the Toronto area?

My neighbors have to be the slowest at renovating their home

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Our next door neighbors are remodeling their home. The only problem is that they’re doing the work themselves and they only come by once a week or even only once every two weeks to work on the house. At this rate their house will be done in about two years!

Surprisingly at least one of the neighbors was next door working on the house all day today, from early morning until about 9 pm in the evening. They hadn’t come by since last week and they rarely come by during the week – especially not during the day during the week so it was surprising to hear them working on the house today.

It was so cold today too. Whatever they’re doing inside the house must be toxic because they keep opening the windows – all of them! With it being so cold and the windows being open I can only imagine how big their gas bill is going to be!

They must be redoing the bathroom. I was talking to them about their plans and they told me about how they’re going to put in a really nice shower and new cabinets and maybe even a Robern Medicine cabinet. It sounds like it will be nice when it’s done.

Have you ever had neighbors that slowly renovated next door to you?

Shopping for a Laptop computer

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My husband and I will be doing a lot of shopping around this weekend. Yes, I’ve just decided that it’s going to be a comparison shopping weekend.

I was just saying on my main blog that I’m pretty sure that I need to get a new Laptop. The problem is that I don’t know what I want to get. By this I mean I don’t know what brand I want to buy nor do I know whether I want a pc or a Mac. I’ve never had a Mac, but I’ve been toying with the idea of buying a Mac for years now .. so now might be the time to get one.

The only other problem is that we’re perpetually short on money … I think we need an easy personal loan or maybe we should buy some lottery tickets! Yes .. that’s an idea!

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