Holiday Cookies and Cars

Oh Blogger, how I've missed you. I've been so busy lately, I find those days of marathon FFXII playing are few and very far between. School has kept me busy as has work. Also with the Holidays I find myself doing more and more family stuff. Well, really more stuff with my sister, which is always enjoyable but I just don't seem to have the time to fit it all in anymore. I do fit it in but my down time is severely lacking. If I'm not making a billion cookies, or babysitting the baby, I'm finishing up my Christmas shopping, or at least trying. Then I have to fit in work and school work, oh and I can't forget the household chores I have to do to keep up with this place. For one person I sure do make a mess. I'm gonna blame the cats for this one, I'm sure they are having crazy house parties while I'm gone. The idea of a social life is exhausting to me, being that I'm only running on 4 hours a night as is. This current trend has bent a few people out of shape but I just keep telling them and me, it will all be worth it one day. It will, right?

So that being said, or typed as the case may be, by the end of the night, when I finally get home around 10pm lately, I'm just a tad on the crabby side. So tonight I get home around 10pm and find that the neighbors on both sides of me have been slowly but surely inching their way into my parking space. We are suppose to have two parking spaces in front of our houses. Until recently I never had to test that theory because I've only had one car. I understand, not everyone is good at parallel parking. I'm not the best but many many nights spent in Chicago have helped me to become a fairly good one. Anywho, I get home tonight and find I can't fit my car into the little half a space my neighbors have left me. I had been parking the Stealth at my sisters until yesterday so tonight was the first night I had both cars here. I think I'm a fairly reasonable person. I don't tend to be overly pissy or bitchy. Some would even say I can be laid back and level headed. But there was no way I was going to be able to fit my BRAND NEW car in the space they left me. I didn't realize how far up I had to park the Stealth because the people to the left of me had been parking up close, so when the people on the right decided that it was okay to park two vans and leave a good 4 feet between them, taking up at least half of one of my spaces, I was perturbed to say the least, fucking pissed to say the most. Where is decency these days? I mean really, that would be like me putting my grill on their deck because I didn't have the room on mine. Why is their lack of parking skills suddenly my problem? It's not and I went over and told them. I would have been nicer if this was the first time I had to talk to them about parking but this is the third time. They have only been here for a month and already I don't think I like them much. There should be plenty of room for parking if people learned how to fucking park. I don't like having to inch my way in and out of my own space because they can't park and now I have this fear of having both my cars here because that gives them that much less room to park, meaning much more of a chance for them to hit my new car. Now that would send me over the edge. This is the first brand new, no one has ever owned but me car I've ever had. The thought of the parking challenged neighbors hitting it freaks me out. I don't get stressed too easily but that stress' me out. It's all shiny, new, clean smelling, I don't even smoke in it and if you know me, you know how much I smoke. I've already washed it 4 times and I've only had a week.

The people who lived here before me had spray painted lines on the sidewalk that showed their parking area. When I first saw that I thought they had to be completely anal and slightly nuts, but now I can appreciate the simplicity and logic in it. Maybe that makes me a tad anal but I don;t care, I pay my lot fee same as everyone else, so shouldn't I be able to have the same rights? I'm not asking for special rights just the same basic ones that my neighbors have and that's the piece of mind in knowing I can park both my cars in my parking spaces. Is that really asking too much?