Celebrate Good Times

Well, we are movin' on up.  To the East Side.

Sarah and I officially will be leaving our rat nest to the Holladay region at the end of November.  Our end of lease will be up and we could not be any more glad.  There has been very little quiet and peaceful enjoyment of out current abode.  Our new place is not quite a deluxe apartment in the sky but we can't wait to be over and done with Travis James Lane.  It is quite funny that only weeks ago, Sarah and I were bracing ourselves to spend a few more months here at this place.  We have been searching for new place since September and had abandoned search after thinking about having to move during both the holiday season and other stressful events that were going on in our life.  We can now leave knowing that we have done everything in our power to make the best to maintain the peace and it is not our fault that we are moving.  So I will bid farewell to our dismal den. Let me start off with talking about the things I will not miss about our place.  Then I can finish with a more positive note talking about what I will miss.
I will not miss the heat or air conditioning being turned off at night.  This was one of the first problems that we encountered.  Our Landlords for some unexplained reason feel the need to shut off the heat and air conditioning  at promptly 10 ever night.  The air whether hot or cold doesn't kick back on until 6:30 or 7 o'clock the next morning.  It doesn't take a genius to know that this in the long run is going to cost more money than just keeping the temperature at a constant temperature.  Luckily we do not have to stay very long in the unbearable heat the issues forth from the overburdened heater.  All I have to say is thank you little space heater/fan.  You have been a god send and never die again like you did that sweltering night in September. 

I will not miss that demonic Buster.  I can't tell how many times I have prayed for your death.  I am not a violent person and I am definitely a dog lover.  This plague needs to be silenced.  We have said that this was a problem but if fell on deaf ears and brought more problems than it was worth.  Every day we are greated to this menace as we sneak in and out of our house by his bark.  We have had to keep our windows and blinds closed for fear that the dog will go on a barking tirade that lasts hours. It seriously goes on to long too far when you hear the strain in the dogs bark and the owner has not even come out to tell him to shut up.  When he does come out, it is just to reinforce the behavior by saying everything is alright.  What an idiot.   And the dog is not to blame because it doesn't know any better and it is constantly being told that what it is doing is alright.
I will not miss the Harpy, Olympic Runner, and Starer that live upstairs.  We never hear a rest to the madness.  There is such a cacophany of sounds that pierce our ears every single day.  It is sad that we can count on two hands the number of days that we have not had to deal with blood pressure raising, MI inducing noise.  Is it sad when we pray that their vehicle is not in the driveway when we come home from work?  Just so we can get an hour of peace?  Good bye shrill screams, reverberating yowls, and endless blubbering.   Au revoir marathon runs from one end of the house to the other.  Adios, weird eyes with no sense to get out of the way of a car in motion.
Lastly, I will not miss the amount of time that Sarah and I have had to talk each other down from our nervous breakdowns caused by the whole situation.   We are on a rotation system that really needs to stop.  If I am not irate then she is.   It has been a very long year and I am just very glad that an end is in sight.

Now for the things that I will miss.
Goodbye tree full of birds that greets us every morning.  I just wish that we didn't have to sneak past you so that the dogs don't hear us.  (I forgot to mention that the owners solution to calming Buster's bark was to get another dog).   You birds are awesome and you can come visit our yard at our new house any time.
Goodbye mini vacations to escape our prison.  They have been quite fun.
Goodbye the veins protruding from Sarah's head.  She is extra cute when she is mad.  She also gets incredibly funny and witty.
That is about it. 
Holladay and Holidays hear we come.