Last night we opened the windows to let fresh air in. The songs of crickets also invited themselves in, and I realized I hadn't heard them all summer long. How is that possible?
I had trouble falling asleep. My throat was scratchy, my thoughts were racing, and after a week of shitty, wakeful-Swee'pea nights, I was dreading the hours of wakefulness to come. But it was such a treat just to lie there and listen to the crickets.
Sometime in the middle of the night, a hard rain woke me up and I realized Swee'pea hadn't joined us yet - hurrah!!
Later still, a rumbling pulled me gently awake. Daylight was just peeking around the curtains, and I decided the morning birds aren't nearly as nice as night-time crickets. Then:
BANG BANG BANG
[silence]
BANG BANG BANG
OPEN THE FUCKING DOOOOOOR!!!
[silence]
BANG BANG BANG
OPEN THE FUCKING DOOORRR!!!
BANG BANG BANG
SMASH
[the musical notes of glass falling to concrete]
Ahh. I will SO not miss my next-door neighbours and their troubled kids who refuse to leave their adolescence behind.
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6 comments:
laughing, Sin. mostly because i thought "wow, Swee'pea's pronunciations are really improving!"...until i realized it wasn't him pounding on your door and swearing. ;)
hmmm, they sound like my old neighbours. do they, perchance, drive monster trucks? :)
Suddenly the sound of the morning birds chirping don't seem too bad.
"Swee'pea hadn't joined us yet - hurrah"
I, too, love that--waking at night to realize you're still in bed alone and get to sleep longer. Beauty.
Ya, I too thought for a moment that Swee'pea's speech had taken a remarkable developmental leap.
Yeah, I thought it was Swee'pea banging and swearing, too.
At our old house, we couldn't sleep with the windows open because we lived on such a busy street and it was constant steady loud disruptive traffic. I don't miss it the same way you're not going to miss your neighbours (amen!).
We had those kind of neighbors across the street, I was quite pleased when they moved out and some kindly mild mannered neighbors replaced them.
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