A Rant

I wanted to wait a few months to cool down before posting this, but I haven't cooled down. The day after we moved into our little utopia of a place, construction began. They dug up all four corners of the street about 4 times. They went around in a circle and dug up the ground, repaved and started over again. Then most of December was quiet. We thought we were clear. NO! We received noticed in the mail (which Jared translated via scanner and Google Translation) to find out that they were discontinuing our tram stop for A LONG TIME. Probably until August. Just before we go home. Luckily our bus still stops here for church. But, then the rains came, and of course it starts pouring just as I step out the door, and instead of just hopping on the tram across the street, I have to run all the way down the hill and get soaked. It gets worse. There are groceries I have to lug up the hill and then up 6 flights of stairs and my leg muscles are bulging (I bulk up easily.) That's not the end of it. First they would pave everything ever weekend and then jackhammer it up on Monday's, now it's jackhammer every morning....

.... at 6 A.M. Yup, only to take a 2 hour lunch break in the middle of the day. ARGH! They also sometimes do construction in the middle of the night. Yes we own ear plugs but that doesn't bring entire peace. Oh ya, they have now stuck a metal slab over a hole in the road (which used to be the sidewalk) and all night long we hear, KACHUNK every time a car goes over it. I came to the realization several years ago that when life gets perfect something comes along to screw it up, sometimes for months at a time.

Yes, we will be vacationing a lot this summer. If you want to come visit and sleep past 6 a.m., bring ear plugs.



This is what I wake up to every morning.