queenofthe1ring's Journal: Update, including neighbor info

Well, I guess chronological order is usually best.

Thursday around noonish, I hear upstairs neighbor throwing a huge fit with screaming, swearing, loud crashing/thumping, and complete with death threat to unknown person(s). Police notified, office notified. Police come and talk to him for about 20 minutes, but leave. Office does not give a rats ass, however does tell me that a different apartment is available.

Friday morning, leave with husband for doctor's appointment to see that my car was involved with a hit-and-run during the night. Go for craptacular doctors visit in which they screw just about everything up and are stuck there for 2 hours. Doctor unhelpfully tells me I need to see 2 different specialists, have a test for something she doesn't believe that I have, and need to take anti-anxiety pills because I had a total meltdown in her office on account of the shitty day I was already having. Oh, and I have high blood pressure. Big surprise, right?

Come back to apartment, contact police about car. Officer takes pictures, measurements, and runs my DL. No points, no priors. Go me. Unfortunately after he inspects all the other cars in the parking lot, he determines that none of those present looks like a likely candidate. Call insurance, get sent to repair shop. Get estimate for $2000 worth of body damage, and some minor structural damage to the door that they think they can just hammer back into shape.

Decide to take the other apartment. Begin shitty process of packing and looking for moving helpers. Very happy we made this decision though, based on what comes next.

Saturday evening neighbor goes for the superloud music again. Call cops. When officer arrives the music is still playing. Hear neighbor screaming at him. Then suddenly there was a several minute long scuffle with much pounding and yelling, sounding like they fought their way down the stairs. Neighbor is escorted away in handcuffs. It looked like every on-duty officer in the city was in our parking lot. Scariest experience of my life.

He came back to his apartment roughly 12 hours later, but I think it was just to get some belongings, because (with a prayer) it is remaining quiet since then.

This morning was filled with unhelpful phone calls about my car. Although we do think we have found out who did it, have to wait until tomorrow for the officer we made the original report, since he was not on duty today. Insurance is being frustrating, I guess I should not be surprised. Have to take car in for an estimate (again) because the repairman did not take pictures the first time and would not submit anything to the insurance without an assignment for repair from them. I'm not going to get any repairs done until I get the police report, because I don't want the insurance to be able to back out on me and stick me with a huge bill, when I'm not sure I want to have everything repaired to "good as new" condition when I'm mostly concerned about just the rusting.

I feel like I am taking this all rather well, considering I have not had to be hospitalized yet. Just standing here with my broken umbrella, waiting for the pouring to stop.

Wow.

[pythorlh]

I thought I was the only person with luck that bad. My friends listen to me talk about my life just to make them feel better about their own. (Who am I kidding? I haven't spoken to my one remainging friend in a month...)

My condolences. I hope that things work out, and get much better from here.

Merry Christmas!

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[queenofthe1ring]

My whole family is unlucky, we call it the "1ring curse". So I'm quite anxious at this point to head back to the social security office, and have 1ring removed from my name entirely in an attempt to rid myself of the curse. I guess I'm just superstitious, but it really doesn't look good.

All through highschool my life story was a source of amusement for my friends as well. Most of them stopped talking to me in college because they could not believe that my misfortune was anything other than my negati

Bad situation...

[johndiii]

But you seem to have done about the best that you can to deal with it.

As far as the doctor goes, it sounds like they're shooting in the dark. There is some useful advice linked in my journal entry from last week [slashdot.org]. The anxiety medication is treating symptoms, so it's not really going to be of long-term help. And many psychoactive drugs tend to lose their effect over time as you build up a tolerance. You either have to remove the causes of your anxiety, or change how you handle them. You've always shown a

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[queenofthe1ring]

Well, my response got rather rantish, so I'm starting over.

The annoying thing about the doctor I went to see, was that she basically didn't do any doctoring herself. And when she said she was going to make my specialist appointments for me, she wasn't kidding, because she already did that without even asking me what day I would prefer. Apparently telling her "whatever" to get her to stop hen-pecking me was not the right thing to do. I think I will be looking for a new doctor soon.

Going to look i

Good Change.

[Oculus Habent]

Even though the move is a hassle, I think (hope? maybe both.) it will be good getting away from the neighbor.

I hope the car is a brief distraction, and soon resolved.

All-in-all, feel better, stay with it, and keep in touch.

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[queenofthe1ring]

Getting away from the neighbor is now my primary concern. Because I don't think he'll be very happy when he comes back. And I certainly don't want to be in the same building with him anymore. The office ladies actually had the gall to suggest we move into an apartment that was opening on the same floor as him (which would require us to pass by his door every time we went in or out). I cannot believe they would suggest that.

Well, now that I know what I need to do to settle things on the insurance en

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[queenofthe1ring]

Thanks for the comment. Will probably be doing a post moving update sometime next week.

Here's hoping that luck changes, eh?

Me too!

Haha, how many times have we had this exchange? Things have to get better eventually, I mean, just statistically speaking. Hopefully I won't be too jaded to notice when it happens. Past few days have been killer for my stress levels. Next week should be better though.

Ps: have an appointment with GI specialist tomorrow. What should I be expecting for a first

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[queenofthe1ring]

Thanks for the GI info. My appointment ended up not really being today. Thank goodness I called the office this morning, otherwise I would have shown up and have the doctor not even be there! It's not even until Jan 23. (This is what happens when I'm the only one who is not told anything about my appointments!)

Anyways, I wanted to thank you for your good thoughts, because something good did happen today. The police officer on my car case called husband and told him that the truck driver we suspect

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Thanks!

NaNoWriMo went well! I didn't quite make it to the 50k mark, but I did pass 45k, so I'm really proud of myself. I think I sort of finished the book I started out working on, and sort of started it's sequel. I think. I was supposed to spend this month editing everything for consistency, but I have not even looked at it. Bad queen!

I made myself a little certificate to hang above my desk, because I think I did a good job, even though the website won't recognize it. I'm actually surprised

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Sheesh.

[Some Woman]

You just do not have good luck with living arrangements.

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[queenofthe1ring]

I know, it's getting to be really ridiculous. Hopefully the next one will be better. At least we will be on the top floor in it, so we don't have to worry about upstairs neighbors. Can't wait to have a house though.