It's a Friendly Neighbourhood...not really

It's a different sort of day. This morning a full moon lingered, creating a lovely path of light across the water in the early light. Let us see what the day will hold....

Yesterday was odd enough in itself. I arrived home to find an old red suitcase and a bunch of junky boxes to be the new view from my kitchen window. We live in an odd old place where the kitchen window, along with the one next door the floor above (but not below) looks into a grey washed space, like a small vertical room with a skylight above. It provides a small degree of natural light and allows a space to vent your kitchen cooking smells (thus sharing them with any neighbor's who happen to have open windows as well)....We've joked about putting lawn chairs out there, but didn't even know if the floor was solid or not.

Well, it seems that our new neighbor's lack storage space and think we are trust worthy enough not to rifle through their storage boxes. I really feel like I'm slumming it sometimes, well, if it weren't for the exorbitant rent. The neighbor's have a frosted window and don't have to look at the boxes, but why do I want to look at their junk every time I wash dishes or cook? We have storage spaces the size of a horse stall (and similar in construction as well) in the dingy cavernous basement.

I can't wait to move.

Last week we left a note for the number one most annoying neighbour in the world who lives below us (unfortunately he owns half the building so no rules apply to him)- it read:

"Dear neighbour, Your dogs have been howling all evening. It is 11:15, we hope they go to sleep soon because we are."

My only regret is that there may now be only one dog, which I failed to notice until this week. What if the other one died? Am I insensitive? Hmmmm...think back to his girlfriend pounding on the door at 6pm while I was frantically getting ready for a dinner party...and put heels on...for about 2 minutes..."Do you mind not walking around so much, you sound like an elephant and we're trying to watch t.v." ...naaah.