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I’m starting to wonder about my new neighbors

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I’m really starting to wonder what’s up with our new neighbors. They’ve owned the house next door to us for close to 6 months now and they still haven’t moved in.

If they were doing constant renovations I could understand why they haven’t moved in yet, but they only seem to come to the house lately every three weeks or so and only for few hours.

When they first got the keys to the house they started rewiring the house. The house has or had old Knob and Tube wiring and he’s ever so slowly replacing it with up to date wiring … but 6 months? Whiles he’s been doing that, she’s been stripping the paint off the molding in each room and the front door.

From the look of things I think they’ve punched holes and done work in pretty much each room of the house … so even if they did want to move in their house is in no way ready to move in. LOL

Maybe they’re feeling a little in over their heads? I mean, when they first bought the house they were coming by to work on the house every weekend – All day Saturday and Sunday. However, like I said above now they’re only coming by once every three weeks or so for a few hours.

I’m actually starting to wonder if they’re really going to move in or if they’re starting to think of their house as an income property. I sure hope they don’t rent it out. We’ve had it with living beside renters!

Anyway, they did come by earlier today for a couple of hours and they had something with them that looked like I don’t know … one of those commercial pumps. I have no idea what they’d be using that for, but that’s what it looked like. Gee I hope they aren’t about to tear out the plumbing or pipes and the pump is for the flooding they’re expecting. LOL

What would you think if you had new neighbors that barely came to their new house in the 6 months that they owned it? I think it’s kind of strange.

Steps to clearer skin

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Yesterday I told you about how my skin has been suddenly breaking out in blemishes. It’s been happening for at least a month, maybe longer.

I’ve been wracking my brain trying to figure out why I’m suddenly having a skin problem when I’ve never really had an issue before and the only logical reason I can come up with is that it must be either hormonal acne or a side effect of my new medication.

I figure it’s one of the two. Either way … as of last night I started a new skin care regime. Every week I’m going to do a deep skin cleaning, and each day I’ll use gentle but thorough cleansing products on my skin and follow them up with moisturizers.

I drink lots of water and eat fairly healthy so I don’t think there’s much I can change diet wise that will help. Any other suggestions?

What a great view

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Earlier today I wrote a post on my other blog about how I was enjoying some eye candy just outside my house.

It was kind of funny to be able to see some great looking guys working just outside my door. They happened to be putting in an interlocking brick walkway for my neighbors and let me tell you – they worked hard – all day!

The only turn off was that one of them, or at least only one that I noticed happened to have acne on chest so that wasn’t so nice. But hey … it was a hot summer and working out side and sweating probably isn’t the best for the skin so I’ll give the guy a break. He still had a nice face.

Do you ever have people working out side your home? Construction workers or perhaps some people putting a new roof on your neighbors house?

Tingly fresh skin

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I’m having a night in – it seems. My husband is out of town tonight. Well – he should be home any minute, but who knows.

To keep myself occupied, and to take care of my skin I decided to give myself an at home facial. I gave myself a facial massage, and then I followed it up with a facial mask for 15 minutes.

Ah – that feels good. My skin is tingly and fresh. Oh and squeaky clean. Then, to top things off I followed my facial up with a good moisturizer. Now as I wait for my husband to get home I’m reading about wrinkle creams and treatments. If you want you can learn more by reading this site too.

Now if my husband ever gets here we can watch Glee! I hope he’s not too tired when he gets home.

Problem skin?

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I can’t believe that I’m starting to have skin problems at my age.

I’ve always had very clear skin, except the occasional blemish around the time of my period of course. However, even then it would usually only be one or two small spots on my face that I think only I really noticed. Nothing bad.

Now I seem to be having more break outs. They’re still not bad bad – but you know, you get to a certain age and you expect to say good bye to skin problems – not start having more of them.

I think that I’m going to have to start looking around and do a little research on the best acne products for my skin type and then experiment a little bit to see what works.

For the women out there … Did you find that once you hit your late 30’s or early 40’s that your skin suddenly had blemishes again?

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