we have new neighbors living above us right now. which, i mean… shit. there were two chicks who lived upstairs when we moved in back in september and they ended up having a falling out with one another. enter parties and people and music and NOISE, and then a fallout that led to one of them moving out and then the other realizing she couldn’t afford rent on her own. so they both moved out.

DRAMA!

the upstairs was empty for all of… i dunno… 6-7 weeks. we just went about our business, assessing our life and the current upheaval that the three of us are undergoing. time passes and then we start to hear noise upstairs.

cleaning noises. carpeting being installed. painters. and each of these crews decided to appropriately come and set up shop at the exact time that my kid naps… or at least did nap. because for the week that shit was going on upstairs to prep the space for the new tenants, my kid didn’t nap.

so two dudes moved in. with a dog. a lab mix. on the second floor of an old ass home that has zero insulation, single pane windows, and paper thin walls. oh and ps, the dog loses his shit when his owner goes to work. he (the dog) has already attacked the mini blinds on the glass doors and dug up the newly installed carpet. (i don’t so much care about that part because that’s my landlord’s problem, but i mention it because i have been the blessed individual who has had to listen to that shit going on above my head). oh, and the dog owner is a waiter and works from about noon til 2 am, which is super fun when he comes home and the dog is all HEY OWNER I’VE MISSED YOU ALL DAY LONG, WATCH ME DO THE HAPPY DANCE ALL AROUND THE HOUSE! I DON’T CARE THAT IT’S 2 AM, I’VE BEEN NEGLECTED ALL DAY! CHA CHA CHA!

so for the last week + we have been dealing with a shitty amount of sleep.

(and yes, the landlord is aware of all of this, but i’m not even going to talk about him because the title of this post is not “woman-hating asshole.”)

there’s a kid in jackson’s class who is doing this reverse-bullying bullying thing that is getting on my nerves. apparently the kid likes my kid, so he’s doing irritating and odd things in order to get my kid’s attention. like tying so many knots in my kid’s sneakers that we were almost late to school this morning because i was de-knotting jackson’s shoes.

“jackson, how did your shoes get all knotted? did you do this?”

“no, ****** did it. he was mad at me.”

“………………ok.”

he has come home and started playing more aggressively with some of his toys, using language that paul and i are not ok with (says the mom blogger who titles her post “shit”), and all the while, telling us about this other child.

it should be noted that the issue is being addressed at his school and i am very confident in jackson’s teacher who is more than capable of getting to the bottom of things like this.

what i can’t seem to wrap my brain around is that this shit is happening when my kid is just weeks away from turning 4 years old. isn’t he a little young for this kind of school drama and issues to pop up? i guess i just didn’t see myself dealing with school kid issues, bullying (is this even bullying? i dunno.) and shit like this until he was AT LEAST in kindergarten.

(please note heavy sarcasm because even kindergarten sounds early for this stuff)

i guess it’s good that i’m starting over with another kid here in 8 short weeks. i’m just going to put her in an unpopable bubble. a sound-proofed unpopable bubble.

otherwise, i fear she will grow and leave the nest and become one of the final 4 sisterwives slutting it up on ‘the bachelor’ in the hopes of gaining the attention of a schmuck-mo who desperately needs a haircut.