An important phrase every child must know

[elfs]

Last night, Kouryou-chan learned a most important phrase. "It's not fair! I want to stay up like Yamaarashi!" Trying to explain to a three-and-a-half year-old that she needs more sleep than her sister, that it's only a half-hour difference, and that if I put them to bed at the same time they'll just talk and keep each other up, didn't work. Because it was so late and she was so tired, she managed to wind herself up into a big kicking and screaming tantrum that wouldn't stop.

Omaha made it home about twenty minutes into this and helped calm her down enough that we convinced her to go to sleep, but only by letting her fall asleep in her parent's bed, with me. By the time Omaha finally went to bed, I was asleep and so must have been Kouryou-chan because when I awoke later that evening, Kouryou-chan was already moved to her bed.

Yamaarashi-chan, in contrast, went to bed with a hug and a kiss and without a complaint.

About three in the morning, though, I get awakened by the sound of monsters. There's this horrible screeching, moaning sound going on out side my window. I live in a relatively quiet neighborhood, but there is an access road for the airport about a quarter mile from the house. The county was repaving it. The screaming came from a depaver, which tears up the old layers of road and roughens the surface, getting it ready for a new layer of asphalt. The windows are nicely soundproofed, though, and although the day had been a scorcher temperatures had fallen into the low 60's so closing them was not a problem.

Comments

Three AM?!?

[kenshardik]

That's outrageous!

Re: Three AM?!?

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

*I'd* certainly have words with the People In Charge on that one. I used to be able to sleep through semi trucks rattling by fifteen feet and a basement wall from my head, but not anymore.

Was it on 13 south, up the hill after Turback's where they were only doing the construction after 8pm? Or am I mis-remembering?

Re: Three AM?!?

[omahas.livejournal.com]

Was it on 13 south, up the hill after Turback's where they were only doing the construction after 8pm? Or am I mis-remembering?

It's not an access road, but it's used as an access road. It's Des Moines Memorial Dr, right at the point where it intersects with Normandy Rd, in Burien. Shortly south, it turns into 180th.

And yes, it was awful. I woke up and turned off the fan to close the window part way some time before Elf did, hoping that that would do it. He woke up a little while later (I was still half awake) and closed the window the rest of the way, then closed the bathroom window as well. Kids slept through the whole thing. Lucky them :/

Re: Three AM?!?

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

After we moved out of the hobbit hole previously referred to as 713, kenshardik moved in, but like a sensible person he didn't sleep in the bedroom that was fifteen feet and a bedroom wall from the state highway.

Nothing like having trucks full of gravel rattling by one's head at 2 am, bringing materials to the road construction going on farther down the road.

Re: Three AM?!?

[omahas.livejournal.com]

Ooh, be grateful you didn't live next to where we used to...a steel plant!

(Omaha, who must one up everyone in the No Night Sleep Because Of Noise department ;)

Re: Three AM?!?

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

Highways and airports for us. The hobbit hole was next to NYSR 13, which is really the only way out of town to the south. The next place, Denmark (apt. 2B), was about a mile from NYSR 13 on the other end of town, and about 1/2 miles from the airport. And directly underneath the runway. The house I grew up in is 3 blocks from I-290 and its accompanying train and subway tracks, AND under an approach to O-Hare. So, clearly, the house we bought had to be within blocks of I-494 and MNSR 77 (2 and 3, respectively), plus under the SW runway of MSP, which is just the other side of 77. And on a bus route.

If it weren't for the fibro making me a horribly light sleeper, I really wouldn't complain--I seem to need the occasional 747 vibrating the house to be happy and secure. Go figure.

Re: Three AM?!?

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

I myself am on Imipramine, which does help me sleep, most of the time. Luckily there are no flights after midnight. WRT the fibro, I'm actually in pretty good shape *most* of the time.

Re: Three AM?!?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

The Powers that Be had decided that inconveniencing the neighborhood at night was significantly less problematic inconveniencing the cargo trucks that service the backside of the airport in the daytime.

Re: Three AM?!?

[lisakit.livejournal.com]

Are there no noise laws for your area? You could refer to those if the not-sleeping goes on for too long.