meet my neighbors

I have met her…and called her a few times. Managing to stay moderately civil but that’s enough. But the neighbors whom I’ve wanted to meet are now friends and just fabulous. I’ve run over to stay with their daughters on short notice. Their girls made my five year old feel welcome on the bus on her first day of kindergarten. They are a lovely, lovely family and I feel blessed to call them friends.

I know some of them … but I would like to formally meet all of them and then establish a deeper relationship with them all.

OK well I have been wanting to do this….however it wasn’t the way I had planned.

Long day with the kids and totally exhusted {as usual}. Off to bed at the early hour of 2am. Then I hear yelling outside – actually thought the kids didn’t turn off the TV. Then realize its the guys living on the end. GREAT! and they are drunk {even better} SO now its 4am and I decide to go out and say something because I am beyond tired. SO I go outside and ask him to please keep it down. Well he is screaming and yelling at someone ON THE PHONE !! SO again I say can you take your conversation inside its 4am. he turns around and says ohhh sorry. I said thats fine but you have woken up my baby – HE SAYS THATS COOL!! I thought I would going to jump off the front porch and strangle him !! needless to say I will have a few choice words for him when he is sober !

i am planning on staying here for the next two years… at least i should know their names…

!!!

i offered to help carry his groceries.
but he said he had it.
(maybe he thought i looked suspicious lol ?)
we park next to each other

it’s nice.

but i will be moving in about a week CRAZY !

bitter sweet
bitter sweet

(actually it’s more like “sweet sweet” and that’s what makes it bitter… that both are sweet but i cannot have both santa barbara & LA.)

Gotta buy a house first.

I’ve never been one to get cozy with neighbors and have them over for tea. We’ve lived here for six months and can barely remember the name of the neighbors who watch our cat when we go on vacation. But tonight presented an unique opportunity to get to know six neighbors when we locked ourselves out of our apartment.

We just got back from Brazil this afternoon and when we went to check the mailbox this evening, I forgot to put the key back on the keyring. Ahhhh!!!

A woman and her daughter were going to her sister-in-law’s two doors down and we asked her if she could call the maintenance man for us (they never answer within the hour). While the five of us are trying to figure out what to do, a new neighbor from upstairs is walking the different floors for exercise and quickly joins our crusade around the apartment complex trying to find a good number to call or the actual apartment the maint guy lives in.

We failed in finding an operable number but did find the “alleged” apartment – only after knocking on 12-13 other apartment doors. Yet he still wasn’t answering his door.

After about an hour of aggravating wait and helping the newest neighbors directly across the hall with groceries, I got fed up and figured if others can break in to homes using a credit card – SO CAN WE! And I was right … I found a card about the size of a credit card in my car and my boyfriend managed to shimmy it open.

So all-in-all in a little over an hour, we found out how unsafe our door is, saved ourselves $50 it would cost to have maint let us in, found out maint is still incredibly unreliable, but – most importantly – met some amazing folks that happen to live right down the hall.

Moral of the story? Get out there and say “hello” – you don’t know when you may need their help!

Sometimes being social pays off. All of the neighbors we’ve met have been wonderful.

I moved to a new town 2 1/2 years ago and I don’t really know any of my neighborhood. I went to boarding highschool, then last year I was living in Boston for College. Back up at my house I still don’t know my neighbors, but at this point, I don’t know how to go about meeting them. It sounds pretty silly, but my folks/me have been living here a while now and it would seem pretty awkward to just introduce myself. How should I go about meeting people?

Also, how would you “re-introduce” yourself to your next-door neighbors? I met them when I moved in, but haven’t really spoken to them since. I really want to try and form a friendship, but I don’t want to be awkward.

I live in a six-plex so I have have a few people to meet. I have met the man downstairs who helped me move my mattress in my apartment. I have also met the man across the hall and the man upstairs. Maybe I should change my goal to “know my neighbors” because meeting them once really isn’t enough. Anyways, I still have two more to meet. I was thinking of inviting them all up for dinner one night, but is that weird? Would anyone come, or would I be the crazy lady on the second floor?