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So, the road outside our house is being resurfaced today and tomorrow. I woke up at 7 (having got to bed late and slept badly) to the shrill beeping of a reversing truck outside my window, and since then it's been grinding and jackhammers and the very ground vibrating and steamrollers and all of that is like fingernails on the blackboard of my soul, only it's combined with this *other* annoying thing, in that when I woke up this morning I got the hiccups, and somehow managed to hiccup with my torso twisted completely wrong and I have pulled one of the connecting muscles on my ribcage.

So every time I breathe, it hurts, and sometimes I breathe wrong and the pain spikes and my breath catches and I have to rearrange and very very carefully consciously manage the next breath, and when I breathe consciously it tends to take me ages to be able to go back to breathing automatically, which is also very annoying.

I have a tension headache. It arrived early.

RARGH
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From:[personal profile] copracat
Date: May 25th, 2014 09:32 am (UTC)
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That is all exceptional aggravation.
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From:[personal profile] fred_mouse
Date: May 25th, 2014 02:22 pm (UTC)
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you have *all my sympathy* with the road works. Ours haven't been running on weekends (that I've noticed) or generally been that early (that I've noticed), but I've been caught over and over again trying to get between home and school, only to discover that a different section of the route was blocked of.

Joyously, I noticed that the 'roadworks' signs at the corner of our street are gone this morning. Here's hoping that yours are gone soon as well.
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From:[personal profile] susanreads
Date: May 26th, 2014 01:41 pm (UTC)
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The roadworks (gas pipe maintenance, I think) outside my place were supposed to be finished on Saturday. To nobody's surprise, they weren't. They resumed early this morning, but not that early. You have my sympathy. (Is there anywhere you can go that's quiet?)
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From:[personal profile] firefly21
Date: May 26th, 2014 11:59 pm (UTC)
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That sucks. How annoying!

I am amazed at how I have managed to reframe my annoyance at machines/noise to excitement for my boys (e.g. "Listen to that loud noise! That sounds exciting - I wonder what they're doing out there! Let's go and see! Ooo a digger!" etc), but I still hate constant loud noise.

You have my sympathy!
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