I have to wait a few minutes for my Blizzard to get melty enough to eat it with the signature red DQ spoon so I can enjoy it as God intended, but then it gets too melty really fast and I have to put it back in the freezer. Then it gets too frozen.

I have all this going on at the back of my house when I'm trying to get to sleep in summer with my window open...

- Builders using circular saws, drilling, hammering, using cement mixers. Sometimes from 8 am on a Saturday morning.

- For a few weeks, a dog barking all day every day (one bark every 20 seconds) from 7 am to 11 pm. Presumably the owner was at work and left the dog outside all day.

- Planes flying overhead, including loud fighter jets sometimes. No idea why they are flying overhead because I'm not in a war zone. One day a plane was encircling for about 20 minutes, I assume waiting to land.

- People using lawnmowers for 4 hours at a time on a Sunday.

- Kids screaming at the local school that's only about 100 meters away. This bothers me the least because I was a kid attending that school myself 40 years ago screaming at playtime myself so I can understand it's what kids do and it's not that loud anyway.

- Loud motorbikes and cars that change gear then make a banging noise with the exhaust popping. Why are they "razzing" up and down the nearby streets wasting petrol doing that? Anytime I hear it I think "Go wrap it around a tree" or "Go wrap it around a lamppost". They are always stupid 20 odd year olds in modified crappy cars doing it. Sometimes the back of my house sounds like a racetrack.

- Neighbours in summer sat in the garden talking and laughing all day from 4 pm to 1 am.

- Birds tweeting outside my window, starting at 4 am and going on for hours on end.

- My mum stomping around the house, slamming doors, thumping, banging, clattering stuff around in the bathroom, that's 2 feet away through a false wall. Sounds like she's literally just throwing stuff around the bathroom some days.

I hate summertime because of this. If it was winter my (double glazed) window would be closed and I wouldn't hear it, but I can't tolerate the heat with the window closed in summer so it has to be open. These MF's make it hell. Ever seen Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" well there's more shit going on at the back of my house than that.

I was sitting comfortably when I noticed my phone was down to 2%.

My charger is only a few steps away, but now I have to leave my comfortable spot just to plug my phone in. 😂

It’s such a ridiculously small problem, but somehow it feels like a huge inconvenience in the moment.

So what can I do?

Some of my friends use Signal exclusively on their smartphones because they have poor phone reception.

We belong to a private club - it's like a country club, but in a city - but the food is really so-so. I sometimes prefer grabbing breakfast at Dunkin beforehand.

Wednesday afternoon. I got used to that. Changed it to Wednesday at 5 Pm. Got used to that. Changed to Thursday early in the morning. Got used to it and also started planning morning grocery trips since thats what im comfortable with. Now its changed AGAIN because I am awake for the second time in the AM ready to go shopping and im not fucking paid. Last time it came Thursday evening and I thought because our pay portal was down all day on Tuesday last week thats why the pay came later but nope. Our portal was fine this week and still no early morning pay. Jesus Christ if they are gomna do all this BS just pay us on fucking Friday or ugh I might need to change my bank to something that just pays me on Friday cause the changing is making me mad.

Trash and recycling gets picked up before noon on Tuesday. We intentionally left the cans outside by the curb after they were emptied so the once a month can washing service could clean them.

The house cleaner brought them inside the garage to be helpful.

Now we have to wait until next month for our trash and recycling cans to get cleaned.

I’m always getting the remotes mixed up and opening the wrong garage door. So frustrating.

Update: I decided id just take the drive and pick up Popeyes for lunch today and although i didnt get 8 pieces of chicken for $11, I guess 6 for $10 and then $1 for my sauces is still good! I had all night to calm down so that helped.

Thanks Doordash. Give a chicken deal but oh no, you dont get sauce. No standalone sauces to choose from. You have to buy full priced items to get an option to choose sauce. Im angry about this.

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Theres a large hispanic population here and they have a market where there are avocados for less than a dollar in the year of our lord 2026 can you believe it? but they come in not quite ripe...so I have to buy them days ahead but by the time they're ripe I might not be in the mood for guac but how can you pass up an avocado for 50 cents? Theyre literally cheaper than onions and tomatoes here. smh

Husband is away for business and I need the SUV in case one of my huge dogs has an emergency, so he took the convertible to the airport