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Newly renovated = won't be ready for you to move in when your lease starts. And in fact most of the things being done won't be ever done.

The first picture isn't really a before - they have already started pulling out stuff. And the second picture isn't a true after - I'd like to see it after a season of growth.

That said, what they've hired Tacoma Urban Gardener (I went to look at the linked website and they've changed their name and have a new website!) to do is really nice. And if you look at their before and after pictures, they have an updated picture of the garden three years in.
http://www.urbangardenerllc.com/services.html

So. Yeah.

I actually like sleeping on the other side of the bed once in a while. I find I sleep quite well there.

Can one of you guys go downstairs and listen to the noise? Is it really that bad? Can you have one of them come upstairs and walk around while the other listens downstairs?

Find out what the noise ordinances are for your city/town. If you are not breaking those rules, then there is no problem.

Let them know that they can communicate with the landlord if they want. Stop communicating with them. Block their texts.

I had a downstairs neighbor who I catered to for about a year until she complained to another neighbor about how noisy we were during a period of time when we were out of town. She was upset that we walked in our apartment (shoeless, quietly) after 9pm. She'd pull out her broom and bang on the ceiling at 9:03pm. We didn't have loud music, we put felt pads on all our moveable furniture, no shoes in the apartment, in bed by 11pm and up at 7am. We couldn't put down carpets for allergy reasons. She didn't have small children (which would have made some of her behaviour understandable).

Let it be noted that I live in NYC. Not a quiet place.
If all else fails, give your neighbors a white noise machine (cheap box fan works just fiiiiiine).

Good luck.

I have a giant pile of papers on the floor in the living room. Some of these need to go into files, some need to be shredded and some just need to go into the recycling bin.

We don't own a shredder, so the shred pile needs to be brought to my mother-in-law's place. She lives nearby and we visit her almost every weekend to do stuff around the house and just to say hi, so I just need to remember the bring the pile with me. I've forgotten for so long that I no longer know which pile is the shred pile!

I already have some paperwhites on the coffee table. Sitting here with my feet up (and the cat on my knees) enjoying them. I should probably think about getting going on the floors!

Happy Friday, everyone!

My kitchen has been smitten - we've tried the leek fritters (delicious) and the dill slaw (pretty darn good, but that's a lot of slaw!). I got the Ottolenghi 'Jerusalem' book for my mom, so I might have access to that. I also got a slow cooker book that I haven't done a test run on yet.

Business card holders.

I've got a manually igniting gas oven that heats unevenly here in NYC. I just throw stuff in there and hope it turns out. You can also rotate things partway through baking to help with uneven temperatures. The altitude issue, however, I know nothing about.

Would you consider buying a toaster oven? They're not as big as an actual oven, but I've definitely baked in them more than a few times.

Things I needed in grad school: gift certificates for Chinese take out when I got home late at night and was too exhausted to cook, an iPod preloaded with music to listen to while spending late nights in lab, a reason to go outside and see the sunshine, ...