sugaree - so glad your baby is getting better
tinafea - so glad your brother was strong enough to make it home (what a wonderful and special photo BTW)
seoulmate - where in hell do you find these gems, cos I want to marry them and have their babies - I do!
Ok, just a quick update on my RL shit :
Things are getting worserer, not betterer. For the last few weeks one of my neighbours (who is NOT part of our landslip claim) decided to go ahead with the re-building of his garage and the development of 3 houses on the back of his property, which is only feet away from my fence line. Our local Council had only just found out about our landslip and was still 'processing' the info and our Geo Tech reports. They had already approved this guys resource consents for the build and the building consent for his garage,
BUT the building consents for his houses were merely days away from being approved and picked up by him.
Enter the bulldozer for the garage dig out and I freaked. My already damaged, unstable house was shaking every which way, so I rang council and shitty stuff went from there. The result is that this guy has got permission for his garage and is building that most days. I have nicknamed it "The Great Wall of China". The problem is that it is being done directly over the live landslip which travels through his property and on into mine and my neighbours.
Anyways, cut a long story short - #nastybastard neighbour and his family are now blaming me entirely because his housing project has been entirely put on hold with an abatement notice from the council.
Apparently this is ALL my fault and I am being made to pay.
Think concrete mixers with rocks being left to run for 6-8 hours outside your back door - OR - when other neighbours complain then a a radio tuned to a Chinese station is shoved up hard against MY fence line and buffered so impact is minimal to other folk, but fucking invades every room in my house (but in particular my office) from 8.30am till 6.00pm day after day. Often, since they are working at another building site, they just put it on and fuck off for the day. Many, many, many very angry altercations have been happening in the last few weeks not only from me, but a couple of other of my 'friendly' neighbours as well. Several fistfights have been very close.
We've rung noise control multiple times, the police twice. The police cannot do anything because I cannot PROVE that there is malice and intent. Noise control can't act, because the noise is not in excess of their guidelines (think roaring party at 3.00am kinda thing).
I already have 'done' things that I normally would not do out of sheer frustration - think garden hose through the fence onto the radio :-[
Three days ago whilst hanging out my washing, I thought ewwwwwww what is that smell *gags* I originally thought it was all the newly turned, bulldozed earth, but as I followed the 'smell' I realised that a compost bin had been placed hard up against my fence, but just outta sight - the lid is pulled to one side, has a big stick in it for 'stirring' and is 2/3rds full of rotting stinking, fishy water.
Having taken that on board, a couple of hours later (after a few hours of peace from the slightly off the station, tinny Chinese radio station, they came home and put the radio on again full in my face.
At that point I kinda FRITZED!!!!!
So, I went outside and asked the neighbour politely with please and thank yous (and who now no longer acknowledges that I exist) if he would turn the radio down - please.
I don't exist - right!
So I say, OK - if you want to annoy me, then I will annoy you... said I, I am gonna throw my cigarette butts over the fence (yes I am 12 at this stage and I know it pisses them off). I got ignored yet again, so I did just that - tossed em over. And golly gosh the response..... well lets go and fill huge buckets of water up and throw them DIRECTLY at my back door which I was standing in at the time and is only feet away from the fence. Let's do this twice shall we. It stopped instantly when he knew I was FILMING it the second time!
I am not sleeping, thinking, eating, functioning properly anymore... and wants valium right now.
Thank you for letting me vent Atopia