remind me why i am the rude neighbor

well i did get a new calling. i am now the 2nd counselor in the young women presidency. lucky me. there aren't that many youth in our ward, so it shouldn't be too hard to get to know them. i sort of know 2 already because they were in my sunday school class. i can't remember names though. i need to work on that. i am nervous and excited and wondering how i can possibly be a leader/example to this young women. i don't think they like me yet. i say this because i had my first activity last wednesday and no one wanted to ride in my jeep with me down to salt lake. we went to the joseph smith movie and also kinda toured the conference center. the new president had to tell one of the girls that she had to ride with me because there was just no room in the other cars. only 1 girl came with me. hopefully it will get better.
i am excited that next week is thanksgiving. i really am hoping the weather stays good so we can go down to la verkin. i miss my family. i need my family. things are not quite what i was thinking my married life would be. most of it is me in my own head that i can't get away from and just get over myself. my poor husband. and oh how i love him.
i really just have to vent now because i was so mad yesterday evening. i got home from work just before 2pm. i took rei rei out for a walk. we were gone for about 2 hours. we came back and she got a bath. then i showered cause i had a client at 6pm. well, it didn't take quite as long to give rei rei a bath and i don't really like super long showers so i was all ready by 5:15 ish. i didn't have to leave for another 15 minutes. i decided to start playing the piano a bit since i haven't really been able to. not even 10 minutes later there is a knock on my door.
it is the manager. she got a call from our neighbor that i was pounding on the piano and that my dog was barking. i told her that i was playing up until she knocked on the door. she didn't hear it. and rei rei doesn't bark unless someone is outside our door and raising his/her voice. i was here with rei rei and she wasn't barking at all. the manager said that the complaint about barking was actually friday night. we were home then too and she was not barking.
i talked with the manager and she actually apologized to me about the complaint. she says that everyone else says we are polite and respectful and have no complaints against us or our dog. it is just the black lady upstairs and her husband. technically the manager can't tell us who complained, but i asked if it came from upstairs and she said yes. i then asked the manager if she could find out when a good time for me to play that i won't have pounding on the floor from upstairs. she said she will talk to them again and find out.
i also said that if complaints were going to be made that we had some as well about the upstairs people. every morning i wake up at 3 and 4 am because they are stomping around. not just walking on old floors, they are stomping. it wakes rei rei up. it wakes me up. and it wakes zach up. every morning. there was in fact one morning at 3 am that i woke to her screaming. i just about called the cops. in fact, i really wish now that i would have.
if i can't play my piano at 3 and 4 pm then they shouldn't be allowed to stomp and turn the tv up loud at 3 and 4 am. bottom line. i can't figure out why she hates us. we didn't do a dang thing to her. she has just had it in for us. oh, she will be nice to our faces, if it is only me that she sees. if she sees me with my dog, she is rude. if she sees zach, she is rude. if she sees us all together, she is rude. now remind me how i am the rude and bad neighbor?
so today i got off work a bit early and was home about 12:30 pm. i started playing my piano. 2 minutes later i hear the tv upstairs blaring down into my apartment. i keep playing. she turned it louder. i stopped playing about 2pm and took rei rei out for a walk. we got home about 4pm. and now it is 4:22 pm and she is stomping around upstairs. if i were to start playing the piano.... i bet you $100.00 that she will call the manager and start pounding on the floor and turn her tv up. i am half tempted to go upstairs and confront her face to face, but she is just going to get loud and then "that dog will attack me" is her claim.
rei rei doesn't like her. the reason being that she was yelling at zach one day about parking. rei rei won't take to anyone attacking her family. she is a guard dog. extremely protective of her family. it is in the boxer blood and in the labrador blood. the neighbor was yelling at zach and rei rei saw it as an attack. now you tell me... why can my dog not defend us? is she just supposed to not bark and let zach or i get injured? rei rei could sense that this neighbor is/was no good and she wouldn't stand for it.
and tell my why my dog can't bark at you if you are out in front of our window yelling about something? if you hang around outside in a place that normal people don't hang out, my dog has every right to bark and alert us to your presence. in fact, this stupid neighbor said it herself that she was glad we have a dog and that she is such a protective guard dog. it was only a week or so after we got rei rei that the neighbor pulled up in her car while i was taking rei rei out to potty. rei rei started growling at her when she got out of her car and the neighbor said that she felt better knowing that we have a dog being right next to the main door.
ok, i think i am done with the venting until something else happens. i think i will take a poll from the rest of the neighbors and see if zach and i are really as bad as she claims we are. then i think i will take it to her and just tell her straight up that she choose to live here knowing that it is an apartment complex. there are noises you will always here. you just have to accept that.

is it really november?...

wow the time is really flying past. not a whole lot has been happening with us. zach has been trying to get full time at best buy but keeps getting beat by the same guy for one stupid little thing. i am still waiting for my piece of paper to make my schooling all official like. then i can really hit the job searching hard. rei rei is getting big. she is still learning lots and drives us crazy sometimes with her very high boxador energy. we love her and have been blessed to have her in our lives.
thanksgiving is coming fast and we are still hoping to get things set in for where we are adventuring to. i hope the weather stays good enough to drive down to la verkin. but if not, we will have turkey with mike & debbie. they have been gracious enough to open their home to us since brooke & chris decided to make a family together.
zach has been released from everything but the young men's. and i have been released from everything but sunday school teacher. tomorrow that all might change. our bishop pulled us in last week and i am getting a new calling. can't say just yet. but i'll be busy and that will be that.
i am not sure yet what christmas is going to entail, but i have been asked to sing in sacrament meeting on sunday the 26th. i almost want to ask if i can change that date because most likely, if we can arrange it, i would like to be with family. since our family is all mostly out of state, we won't be here.
anyway, we have been taking things day at a time and that is us. not much going on, but still a fair amount. oh, we didn't have a single trick-or-treater....forcing zach and me to eat all our candy. oh the weight that comes with being married.... i know i have put on a few 10 lbs or so. zach says he has put on about 20, but i can't see where... and we have to take rei rei out on walks so we are getting exercise.... maybe it is all muscle weight :) ha ha ha... i'll just keep telling myself that.