Annoying Neighbors

I know I promised an update, but it is more pressing matter for me to vent about one of my stupid neighbors. Not sure if I mentioned it, but we have been working hard on our yard to make it a nice place. We roto-tilled, trenched, put in sprinklers and seeded the front yard. The little grass sprouts make me excited every time I see them.

Anyway, I was out in the back adjusting the sprinklers and they were spraying on the fence. All of the sudden my neighbor says, "I'm not going to put up with your sprinklers spraying into my yard." I responded that I was adjusting them right then and had no intention of having them spray on the fence.

My husband heard her harassing me and came over to ask her what the problem was. She then went into this long tirade about how we are the worst neighbors, and how my husband is always yelling at me (completely false), and then goes on and on about how she is going to take us to court to force us to have our tree removed from the backyard. By the way, our 2 backyards back up to each other so she wouldn't ever had to deal with us if she didn't want to.

This woman is completely crazy. It seems like we can never work in our backyard without her harassing us. I told her repeatedly that if we couldn't have a civil conversation that we should stop talking. She would not shut up, so I finally stopped adjusting the sprinklers and turned off the water. I will have to do it sometime when she is not around.

Actually, I think I will go over and talk to her about minding her own freaking business. That will have to wait until I'm not so mad though.

Sorry that I haven't been around lately. I will post soon. There are a few things to tell you about, like my new job.

Trying to Be Better

The subject of this post has been rolling around in my head for a while now. It has taken me a while to figure out exactly how I was feeling and what I wanted to say. In short I have decided to try to let go of some of my bitterness.

I think every lady who has or is dealing with infertility can relate to the fact that when they hear that someone is pregnant you focus on your own pain instead of being happy for them. (I'm sure that this actually extends to anything in life that we can't have that other people do have.) I know I personally roll my eyes and think of how sickening their happiness is. I know this is pure jealousy on my part. I can say that my one saving grace on this subject is that I am still geniunely excited for my friends who are able to get pregnant. In my case it seems to be people that I'm not close to that I can't stand being around when they're pregnant.

This bitterness is slowly poisoning me and I need to get rid of it. Any baby is truly a miracle and just because I can't have one doesn't mean no one else can be happy when they are able to have a baby. I'm going to strive to have my first reaction to a pregnancy annoucement be excitement.